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  • #91
    Re: elegy

    Saturday, June 19, 2009
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    QUESTIONS IN SEARCH OF AN ANSWER
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    Chekhov: “If I cannot answer the most important questions, am I not fooling the reader?”
    Why do things exist?
    What is the meaning of life?
    Why did Socrates say, “The only thing I know is that I don't know”?
    If “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” are our dividers with us or against us?
    If our house collapses, who must be held responsible?
    If not our dividers, who?
    Who benefits from our divisions?
    What is the meaning of our genocide?
    If the Turks are bloodthirsty barbarians, why is it that it took us six hundred years to figure that out?
    How smart are we if we believe in the propaganda of our dividers?
    Why is it that for every Armenian who says one thing there will be another who will say the exact opposite?
    Why is it that a fully grown adult feels the need to repeat what he was taught as a child by his schoolteachers and parish priest?
    Why is it that “the cradle of civilization” has become the grave of common sense and decency?
    Why did Zarian say “Armenians survive by cannibalizing one another?”
    Why is it that we have many poets but not a single philosopher?
    Why is it that Armenian stories end with the words “Three golden apples fell from heaven”? Is that why we suffer from an advanced case of collective concussion?
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    • #92
      Re: elegy

      This is my favorite format. We need more people that ask why, because it takes courage to do so.Question is always more valuable then answers.Until we can ask why, we cannot even entertain why not.
      Thank you Ara for raising important questions.
      "All truth passes through three stages:
      First, it is ridiculed;
      Second, it is violently opposed; and
      Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

      Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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      • #93
        Re: elegy

        Originally posted by Gavur View Post
        This is my favorite format. We need more people that ask why, because it takes courage to do so.Question is always more valuable then answers.Until we can ask why, we cannot even entertain why not.
        Thank you Ara for raising important questions.
        I wake up every morning dragging my ass to work asking why

        I have asked myself many of the questions Ara has pointed out above. Much like the existence of our being, the answers are unknown.
        "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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        • #94
          Re: elegy

          Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
          I wake up every morning dragging my ass to work asking why

          I have asked myself many of the questions Ara has pointed out above. Much like the existence of our being, the answers are unknown.
          if the answers are unknown,
          why is it that so many charlatans
          pretend to have all the answers?
          and what's worse,
          they are believed.
          that makes it 2 more questions for you.

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          • #95
            Re: elegy

            Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
            if the answers are unknown,
            why is it that so many charlatans
            pretend to have all the answers?
            Just as it is said; because they are charlatans.

            Hay joghovurt ko miyag pergoutyune ko havakagan ouji mech e.

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            • #96
              Re: elegy

              Originally posted by Anoush View Post
              Just as it is said; because they are charlatans.

              Hay joghovurt ko miyag pergoutyune ko havakagan ouji mech e.
              i gather you know what happened to him.
              he was betrayed to the police by his fellow armenians.
              the same thing happened to Baronian in Istanbul.
              and Bakounts, and Zabel Yessayan, and Mahari, and i could go on.
              we glorify and support our charlatans,
              but we betray our writers to the police.
              which is why Raffi said: "Treason and betrayal are in our bloode."
              to which i can only say, Amen.
              Let us now pray,
              "Our Father, Who are in Heaven..."

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              • #97
                Re: elegy

                Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
                i gather you know what happened to him.
                he was betrayed to the police by his fellow armenians.
                the same thing happened to Baronian in Istanbul.
                and Bakounts, and Zabel Yessayan, and Mahari, and i could go on.
                we glorify and support our charlatans,
                but we betray our writers to the police.
                which is why Raffi said: "Treason and betrayal are in our bloode."
                to which i can only say, Amen.
                Let us now pray,
                "Our Father, Who are in Heaven..."
                Gees.... to Baronian, Bakounts, Zabel Yessayan and Mahari too? "Mexk e... irabes mexk e yev amot ayt jamanagva Hay azkayinneroun". Truly shame to the Armenian "elite" with sarcasm for the lot of them.

                Why is it that when a real treasure or never mind treasure; but a real quality Armenian individual comes along Armenians around him annihilate him or her just because he or she is quality. "Amot mer azkin, irabes amot". I know this from personal experiences (and not one experience but several experiences) from my life and I find it truly a shame. Though I know the answer which is extreme NOT mild, but extreme jealousy. And it is uncalled for if we truly love our nation and our people we must praise our quality individuals and of course our quality writers and not hurt them, demolish their ego/self esteem, yell at them or ban them. Yet they do it, time and time again.... It's very disheartening...
                Last edited by Anoush; 06-20-2009, 01:38 PM.

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                • #98
                  Re: elegy

                  Sunday, June 20, 2009
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                  TOURIST PRIDE
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                  “I am proud of my Armenian identity,” I am reminded by readers once in a while by way of questioning my own loyalty to the Homeland. We live in a world where everyone is brainwashed to be proud of his ethnic identity, even when we vote with our feet and choose to live on foreign soil and consider our homeland as “a nice place to visit.”
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                  JERMAG CHART
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                  Only the naïve and the blind believe because the Turks are not massacring us today we are not being exterminated. Who is doing the extermination? To put it differently: Who is at the source of our alienation? Who else but Turks, of course! What else is Armenianism if not Turcocentrism? Michael Arlen (Kouyoumdjian) saw this clearly when he warned his son to stay aware from Armenians because “they dwell too much on Armenian problems...distant repellent events...They are sweet people, but you can't let them too close. They end up boring you to death.”
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                  ROOSTERS
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                  The nice thing about our brand of politics is that when we do something right, no matter how insignificant, we behave like roosters who believe if it weren't for their vocalizing the sun wouldn't rise. But when we do something wrong, no matter how catastrophic, we blame it on others. A win-win situation if there ever was one.
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                  • #99
                    Re: elegy

                    Chekhov: “If I cannot answer the most important questions, am I not fooling the reader?”

                    Am I not fooling the reader, if I suggest there is not more than one way to interpret an answer?

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                    • #100
                      Re: elegy

                      Monday, June 21, 2009
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                      Supporting a corrupt regime has nothing to do with patriotism and everything to do with treason, betrayal, and cowardice. And the problem with political corruption is that as a rule it gets worse rather than better. It gets worse until it becomes unbearable. Which is what's happening in Iran today. And which is bound to happen in our own homeland sooner or later. And if our brothers and sisters in the Homeland never rise against the regime, we shall have no choice but to conclude that subservience has become such an integral part of our character as a nation that we no longer even take notice of it.
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                      If I am for revolution in Iran, why am I against our revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire? Two reasons: (one) they had a Plan B only for themselves, and (two) they relied on others. If you are David confronting Goliath, you'd better make damn sure (one) you are one of God's Chosen; (two) you are technologically more advanced than your adversary; and (three) you have developed the necessary skill to use your new equipment.
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                      The American, French, and Russian revolutions succeeded because the revolutionaries had the support of the majority. The majority of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, in addition to being a very tiny minority, lacked political awareness. I know because my father was one of them, and most of the Armenians in the ghetto where I grew up were refugees, spoke Turkish among themselves, and were illiterates who signed their name with an X.
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