notes and comments

[freakyfreaky]

Re: elegy

If Ara was a musician, this would be a requiem.
But he harmonizes with words, letters are his rhythm.
He is mourning.
The loss of another day.
Seize them.

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It is not the free thinking that gets you persecuted
it is the courage to fight to speak your thoughts freely that does.

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Human nature.

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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

Tuesday, June 22, 2009
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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It's an old trick familiar to all religious leaders: whenever they want to do the devil's work, they speak in the name of god.
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It took a world war to prove Hitler wrong; and it took the collapse of the Soviet Empire to prove Stalin wrong. It is the fate of an immovable object to meet an irresistible force.
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“There is corruption everywhere.” That's the kind of talk the corrupt love to hear; and they will call anyone who repeats that line a true patriot.
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A suicidal man should not brag about surviving still another attempted suicide.
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If it can happen to someone else, it can happen to me. Even if I am god's chosen, I am not the only one.
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Every Armenian should carry a sign with the warning: "Contradict me and make an enemy for life!"
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Two Armenians were having a quiet conversation. It can happen.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

Wednesday, June 23, 2009
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WHAT ABOUT US?
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“There is a lot that we don't know,” a friend tells me speaking of our past.
And whose fault is that, may I ask?
Ours or theirs for failing to share what they know?
We will never know everything.
Nobody ever does.
Does that mean we should withhold judgment or submit our intelligence to those who may not have enough of it themselves?
Who benefits from our ignorance?
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Most of my readers don't like me. That's because I hold a mirror up to them and they don't like what they see. They blame the mirror and they blame me for holding it up to them. They never blame themselves. That's the beauty of the blame-game. It allows you to paint yourself all white and the opposition all black.
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A regime with enemies will have enemies even among its own people.
A regime that speaks of exterminating the enemy will invariably start by killing its own people. Isn't that what's happening in Iran today?
And what about us?
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[Sako]

Re: elegy

Most of my readers don't like me.

Or maybe they, the readers, don't understand you, the writer. Not that it's a surprise.

[KanadaHye]

Re: elegy

Or maybe they, the readers, don't understand you, the writer. Not that it's a surprise.

On the contrary, reading Ara is like opening a jar full of Armenian fortune cookies.

"A regime with enemies will have enemies even among its own people."

"A regime that speaks of exterminating the enemy will invariably start by killing its own people. Isn't that what's happening in Iran today?"

And what about us?


"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control"

Just because the music doesn't sound intelligent doesn't mean the message isn't.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

Or maybe they, the readers, don't understand you, the writer. Not that it's a surprise.

i don't understand many things ... but i don't hate them.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

i don't understand chinese.
i don't hate the chinese.
i would love to speak chinese.

[Sako]

Re: elegy

i don't understand many things ... but i don't hate them.

Many, many don't hate you ... they actually try hard to understand you. And your response to many of them is either a) unrelated to their questions b) very short, at times unclear, and in certain cases, I'm sorry to say, pointless c) hard to understand again because you write in your special style (no offense) or d) neglection ... as in you ignore them altogether and just continue to post your entries ... jumping from one entire topic/discussion to some other completely different subject matter/discussion without finishing the previous one(s). So naturally, this may lead to people hating you, ignoring you, perhaps trying to not offend you, understanding you (I don't think there are many that do), or TRYING hard to understand you (I fall into this category)!

Bottom line is ... it's all natural ... which is the main problem because there is nothing wrong in any of this. If you wrote very clearly and truthfully, stating facts and much more in a proper way, and people started hating/dissing you...that wouldn't in certain respects be very natural or cool. But when you ignore people, almost never provide sufficient answers, write in a style that only few can completely understand, and just ride on without a care in the world when people are trying to understand you ... I find everything to be natural including hate and everything else.

And regarding opinions, please don't tell me that this is just about understanding/not understanding someone and hating/not hating them. In many of your posts, I read serious judgement calls which many might and don't agree with. When they talk about and express their views and you ignore them ... that's when they start getting pissed and ignoring you. So don't be surprised when things like that happen and please don't think that I'm trying really hard to offend you or something. I simply addressed your indirect question by providing you with a complete answer.

[Sako]

Re: elegy

i don't understand chinese.
i don't hate the chinese.
i would love to speak chinese.

I don't understand you.
I don't hate you.
I'm trying to understand you.
Your not trying to understand me)(or anyone else.

It's not about who hated you, who understood what, or anything else. It's how you treated the people that tried to understand you. It's how you talked to them.

You like to talk about experience I see. Well here's a little of my own.

I know so many people that talk very truthfully about many great subjects and I mean pure facts but many, many, many don't like them at all! Now why is that? Not because they were idiots ... not because they didn't have experience ... not because they WERE WRONG! ... but because they presented what they wanted to say in the wrong way. It's the same in the case of sites, blogs, books, posts, movies, songs, etc. That's all I was trying to tell you all this time. You say a lot of correct things but your writing style at times confuses people and makes them understand things you might've never had in mind. I used to be like that a long time ago as well. Few people sometimes couldn't understand me and I realized it wasn't because I was wrong...

[KanadaHye]

Re: elegy

I know so many people that talk very truthfully about many great subjects and I mean pure facts but many, many, many don't like them at all!

That's mainly because the truth hurts.