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    FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
    **********************************
    In the months preceding the Genocide
    there was a great deal of intense dialogue
    between Armenian leaders,
    but as always with Armenians,
    the dialogue failed to produce a synthesis.
    *
    Dialogue Armenian style:
    two monologues that never cross.
    *
    Academics have mastered the art
    of expanding a sentence to a page,
    a page to a chapter,
    and a chapter to a book:
    a condition also known as verbal diarrhea.
    *
    Nothing comes more naturally to a man
    than to exaggerate his own importance.
    *
    Anyone who says Armenians are
    just about the smartest people on earth
    should be classified under
    just about the dumbest idiot on earth.
    #

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    • Re: comments

      I do not understand why mods allow this guy to open up a million threads and just post once in each.
      Hayastan or Bust.

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      • Re: comments

        Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
        FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
        **********************************
        In the months preceding the Genocide
        there was a great deal of intense dialogue
        between Armenian leaders,
        but as always with Armenians,
        the dialogue failed to produce a synthesis.
        *
        *
        There were apparently Armenian writers like Zarian and Zohrab who believed that a world war would bring disaster to Armenians because the Turks would use it as a cover for genocide

        And the smug 'revolutionaries' (who claimed Great Britain and France would stop the Turks, even though they hadn't in 1896) and ignored those warnings. For their incredible wisdom they are celebrated to this day by a political party (although this party behaves more like a banquet-organizing group than a party)

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        • insanity

          ON INSANITY
          ********************************
          “Not guilty by reason of insanity” and
          “not guilty by reason of belief system”
          might as well be synonymous statements.
          *
          The 11th Commandment:
          “Thou shalt reject all gods, messiahs, and prophets
          except your own.”
          *
          When it comes to the most important questions,
          someone else will be more than happy
          to answer them for you.
          *
          When it comes to certainties,
          I know that 1+1=2 and not 11.
          Beyond that your guess is as good as mine.
          *
          You want to understand your fellow Armenians?
          Think of a man who is committing suicide
          by cutting his own throat with a rusty knife.
          #

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          • experience

            Monday, February 09, 2015
            ******************************************
            SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE
            *******************************************
            War and massacre fall on us
            like thieves in the night
            only because there are too many
            who say “we never had it so good”
            and not enough who say
            “we are in deep xxxx.”
            *
            History does not repeat itself;
            it is reality that stays the same.
            Wars, massacres and man’s inhumanity to man
            are constants. We forget that at our own peril.
            *
            I write as I do because
            my own personal blunders happened
            when it didn’t even occur to me
            they were in the realm of possibilities.
            *
            I don’t stress the dark side of life.
            I observe reality.
            To the blind all things are sudden.
            *
            If you shake hands with the devil,
            don’t be surprised if you lose
            not only your hand
            but also your cojones.
            *
            We cannot change reality
            in the same way that we cannot avoid
            being born and dying.
            We may, however,
            on some very rare occasions,
            take evasive action.
            #

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            • Re: experience

              Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
              Monday, February 09, 2015
              ******************************************
              SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE
              *******************************************
              War and massacre fall on us
              like thieves in the night
              only because there are too many
              who say “we never had it so good”
              and not enough who say
              “we are in deep xxxx.”
              *
              If they have never had it so good, it could be that they are only thinking about themselves - enjoying the good life,
              and the fate of fellow Armenians is of little concern, even when they claim to be fiercely pro-Armenian (such as the case of many churchmen and party leaders/followers)

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              • critics

                CRITICS
                *************************
                To criticize Armenians
                is to victimize the victims all over again,
                I am told.
                All I can say in my defense is that
                I victimize no one.
                I reason.
                Why would I want to alienate
                my only source of income –
                namely, my readers?
                *
                I write as I do because the alternative
                is to recycle the propaganda line
                of defunct belief systems and ideologies
                or to spew anti-Turkish venom,
                which also means
                adopting Turcocentric ghazetajis
                as my role models – a fate worse than death.
                *
                To say the only thing my criticism does is
                to victimize Armenians all over again
                is to imply we are beyond criticism,
                which also means all our writers
                who have adopted a critical stance –
                from Khorenatsi to Zarian –
                have been on the wrong path,
                unlike our bosses, bishops, and benefactors
                whose sole concern is to serve God
                and the interests of the nation;
                and if you believe that
                you’ll believe anything!
                #

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                • for/against

                  FOR OR AGAINST
                  ****************************
                  When we speak of Armenians
                  we speak of shadows,
                  and when we speak of Armenia
                  we speak of a cadaver.
                  *
                  The lower we sink
                  the greater our need for flattery.
                  *
                  The very same people who are against
                  corrupting the young are for sending them to war
                  to kill and die in the name of God and Countfry.
                  *
                  You can’t say “Forget it!” to a traumatic experience.
                  *
                  Editors, publishers, agents:
                  they are the pimps of literature.
                  *
                  You have a better chance of being right
                  if you speak against your own interests.
                  #

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                  • Re: for/against

                    Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
                    FOR OR AGAINST
                    ****************************
                    *
                    You can’t say “Forget it!” to a traumatic experience.
                    *

                    #
                    a traumatic experience is an experience over which the victim had no control

                    it should be analyzed in order to learn from it, such that a similar hopeless situation is not repeated

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                    • Re: experience

                      GRUB FIRST
                      *********************
                      Intellectuals, academics, writers:
                      they tend to be more tolerant
                      of political and religious leaders
                      than of the competition.
                      Remember Ezra Pound on Hitler:
                      “a Jeanne d’Arc, a saint.”
                      *
                      “Sometimes you go too far,”
                      a reader tells ms.
                      Who is to decide how far is too far?
                      In the eyes of our 1% and their dupes
                      the fact that I am alive
                      is already too damn far.
                      *
                      Under a ruthless bloodthirsty dictator
                      an entire nation can go insane
                      as surely as a vulnerable, defenseless,
                      oversensitive vegetarian
                      surrounded by carnivores.
                      *
                      In a war both sides can’t be right
                      but both sides can be
                      and usually are dead wrong!
                      *
                      Status quo:
                      Morally defunct, militarily irrelevant.
                      #

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