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  • Re: elegy

    WRITERS
    ********************
    The role of a writer in the life of our communities
    is somewhere below that of an unemployed janitor,
    with one difference: a janitor’s prospects are brighter.

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    • Re: elegy

      ON LEADERSHIP
      *******************************
      The most important function of leadership is
      to prove itself infallible even if the patient died.
      *
      When Toynbee said the only thing
      the Israeli leadership appears to have learned
      from the Holocaust was to behave like Nazis,
      the xxxs of the world united
      in accusing him of anti-Semitism.
      *
      And when Hanna Arendt,
      one of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century,
      said the xxxish leadership had been partly responsible
      for the Holocaust, xxxish pundits retaliated
      by reminding the world that
      as a teenager she had had a Nazi lover.
      *
      Moral of the story:
      Think twice before you step on a leader’s tail.
      *
      And now allow me to identify myself:
      My name is Baliozoghlu
      and I don’t carry Mt. Ararat in my heart.
      #

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      • Re: elegy

        Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
        ON LEADERSHIP
        *******************************
        The most important function of leadership is
        to prove itself infallible even if the patient died.
        *
        When Toynbee said the only thing
        the Israeli leadership appears to have learned
        from the Holocaust was to behave like Nazis,
        the xxxs of the world united
        in accusing him of anti-Semitism.
        *
        And when Hanna Arendt,
        one of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century,
        said the xxxish leadership had been partly responsible
        for the Holocaust, xxxish pundits retaliated
        by reminding the world that
        as a teenager she had had a Nazi lover.
        *
        Moral of the story:
        Think twice before you step on a leader’s tail.
        *
        And now allow me to identify myself:
        My name is Baliozoghlu
        and I don’t carry Mt. Ararat in my heart.
        #
        ------ and now allow me to identify myself ------
        Ara, are you being facetious when you say this or is "oglu" the actual suffix of your last name?

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        • Re: elegy

          This old thread again? yes the one man jerk-off thread.
          Ara is OK though.
          B0zkurt Hunter

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          • Re: elegy

            ON ARMENIAN ANTI-ARMENIANISM
            ****************************
            All our problems have solutions.
            If we pretend otherwise
            it’s because we have no use for them.
            What we want,
            what we need more than anything else is revenge.
            It’s understandable.
            What motivates a nation
            that has been degraded, abused, and slaughtered
            throughout most of its historic existence
            is not reason but thirst for blood.
            What drives us is not what’s good for us
            but what’s bad for our enemies --
            beginning with Armenians who disagree with us.
            If only because these Armenians,
            unlike our real enemies,
            are within reach, defenseless,
            and in no position to retaliate.
            #

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            • Re: elegy

              Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
              ON ARMENIAN ANTI-ARMENIANISM
              ****************************
              All our problems have solutions.
              If we pretend otherwise
              it’s because we have no use for them.
              What we want,
              what we need more than anything else is revenge.
              It’s understandable.
              What motivates a nation
              that has been degraded, abused, and slaughtered
              throughout most of its historic existence
              is not reason but thirst for blood.
              What drives us is not what’s good for us
              but what’s bad for our enemies --
              beginning with Armenians who disagree with us.
              If only because these Armenians,
              unlike our real enemies,
              are within reach, defenseless,
              and in no position to retaliate.
              #
              I disagree.
              To demand the TRUTH is (NOT) seeking revenge.
              To say we will never forget the evil conduct of the turc or kurd is not lusting for blood.
              To say those lands are ours is not being vengeful.
              To seek justice is --- NOT --- the same as seeking vengeance.
              Not at all.

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              • Re: elegy

                ON WARS
                & RELATED ATROCITIES
                ****************************************
                Wars become inevitable only when
                the countless factors that contributed to it
                are covered up and ignored.
                *
                ON OUR HISTORY
                *****************************
                Think of a blind David
                confronting an army of Goliaths with 20/20 vision.
                *
                MEMO I
                ********************
                If you say what must be said
                you will be misunderstood and rejected
                by readers with an agenda.
                *
                ON WRITING
                *******************
                Think of your reader’s time as more valuable than yours;
                and as editor be as ruthless as a Turk on the warpath.
                #

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                • Re: elegy

                  historic lands? whose historic land is america?

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                  • Re: elegy

                    CRITICS
                    *************************
                    My critics resent me
                    because I refuse to come to terms
                    with my own mediocrity.
                    But I suspect they resent me even more
                    for rejecting them as my role models.
                    *
                    What I know cannot be contradicted
                    by what you don’t know.
                    *
                    Beethoven to a critic:
                    “What I xxxx is better
                    than anything you have ever thought.”
                    #

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                    • Re: elegy

                      It’s easy to apologize after you step on someone’s foot. But how do you apologize for leading a million and a half innocent human beings to the slaughterhouse? That’s why neither their leadership nor ours will ever apologize to the people.

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