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  • leaders

    ON LEADERSHIP
    ********************************
    Our political leaders survive by assuming
    fools and cowards like us don’t deserve any better.
    Their self-esteem must be as sold and unshakable
    as Mt. Ararat.
    *
    We will never understand the deep unconscious ties
    that exist between the German people and Hitler.
    Remember, even Thomas Mann identified him as “a brother.”
    *
    Jean Guehenno on the German occupation of France:
    “How will we climb out of this shame and degradation?”
    I can’t think of a single Armenian writer
    capable of producing such a sentence.
    *
    Zarian on his contemporaries like Oshagan:
    “When they speak of Homeland,
    they mean Istanbul.”
    *
    Khachatur Abovian on Russians:
    “Blessed be the hour they set their blessed foot
    on our sacred soil.”
    *
    Ruben Zarian (no kin of Gostan) on Abovian:
    “He assigned a messianic role to the Russians.”
    *
    In the eyes of the world Putin may be
    no better than swine, but I have every reason to suspect
    in the eyes of our oligarchs, including the Catholics,
    Putin is what the Pope is to Catholics:
    not just a statesman of vision
    but a savior and the keeper of their power and money,
    #

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    • facts

      FACTS
      ********************
      Whenever I deal with someone
      who speaks in the name of an ideology
      or belief system
      – the most popular being self-interest –
      I immediately assume he is lying.
      Call it prejudice.
      Call it experience.
      I don’t care what you call it.
      I am just giving you the facts as I see them.
      *
      What is said, what is heard, and what is understood
      wouldn’t recognize one another if they ever met.
      *
      I have been wrong so many times
      that when accused of a transgression
      my first instinct is to plead guilty as charged
      even when I am as innocent
      as a freshly laid egg.
      *
      Michelet: “What is difficult is not to rise in the world
      but to remain oneself as one rises.”
      #

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      • Re: facts

        Fact: You start way too many threads and fill this forum with mainly junk.
        Hayastan or Bust.

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        • Re: facts

          Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
          Fact: You start way too many threads and fill this forum with mainly junk.
          Ara Baliozian is one of the greatest Armenian writers and thinkers of our age. But he seems more than happy to be challenged on points he raises

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          • god & country

            GOD AND COUNTRY
            *************************
            Until very recently in America
            “separate but equal” meant
            separate and unequal.
            *
            With us today patriotism means
            love of God and Country
            even if the regime
            is in the hands of godless traitors.
            *
            At the turn of the last century
            in the Ottoman Empire we were encouraged
            to hate the Sultan until it became apparent that
            those who overthrew him
            replaced oppression with massacre
            in the name of “progress.”
            *
            In politics, language is perverted
            to the point that it means the opposite
            of what it says.
            *
            Moral I: After shaking hands with a politician
            count your fingers.
            *
            Moral II: The real function of politics
            is to moronize the masses.
            *
            Moral III: God and Country form a sinister alliance
            and those who speak in its favor are godless swine.
            #

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            • Re: facts

              Originally posted by lampron View Post
              Ara Baliozian is one of the greatest Armenian writers and thinkers of our age. But he seems more than happy to be challenged on points he raises
              Wow. Quoting others qualifies one as a great writer/thinker? The bar has dropped through the floor.
              Hayastan or Bust.

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              • q/a

                Q/A
                ***********************
                Who took Muslims seriously in the 19th century?
                Things began to change when the world realized
                where there are Muslims
                there is oil.
                *
                Who takes Armenia
                (also known as Karastan) seriously?
                Not even Armenians.
                #

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                • denis donikian

                  Translations from
                  “GOD IS GREAT
                  (& I AM HIS VOICE)”
                  By DENIS DONIKIAN
                  *************************************************
                  Denis Donikian’s aphorisms have a poetic elusiveness
                  that is hard to capture in translation.
                  Keep that in mind, please, when you consider
                  the translations that follow.
                  *************************************************
                  *
                  “One God kills another
                  and man kills in the name
                  of the one that was slain.”
                  *
                  “When the son repeats the father,
                  what happens to the man?”
                  *
                  “At the end of life it is sleep that dies.”
                  *
                  “Naked we came into this world
                  and naked we shall leave it.”
                  *
                  “Heaven’s silence is its only answer.”
                  *
                  “Man is the agony of the world.”
                  *
                  “There is one appointment
                  that we can neither delay nor postpone:
                  the hour of our death.”
                  *
                  “That which is not written it is not lived,
                  and that which is written
                  it is not always lived.”
                  *
                  “Long-winded writers write too much
                  because they have nothing to say.”
                  *
                  “Intellectuals drown themselves
                  in a verbal sea.”
                  #

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                  • Re: denis donikian

                    Wow Ara those are great suggestions. The last two very much apply to you.
                    Hayastan or Bust.

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                    • justice

                      ON JUSTICE
                      ************************
                      You are unfairly treated?
                      You want to sue someone?
                      You go to a lawyer
                      and if the lawyer is honest,
                      he will tell you there is no such thing
                      as a court of justice,
                      only courts of law ,
                      and as everyone knows by now,
                      where lawyers enter justice exits.
                      So that it would be more accurate to speak
                      not of courts of law
                      but of courts of injustice.
                      *
                      Life, real life, life as it is lived,
                      is full of gray areas.
                      So much so that
                      to say “God is great!”
                      means the Devil is greater.
                      Because, no matter how hard I try,
                      I cannot reconcile the idea of a loving God
                      justifying the slaughter of innocent civilians.
                      *
                      The function of a jury, it has been said,
                      is not to decide which side is right
                      but which side has a better legal representation.
                      *
                      Theory is one thing, practice another,
                      and more often than not, the twain never meet.
                      #

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