notes and comments

[arabaliozian]

decline

DECLINE AND FALL
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A few years ago an Armenian real-estate developer
established an annual literary prize
but after three years he ran out of candidates.
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Truth: a step away from lies.
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A woman in the eyes of another woman
and the same woman in the eyes of a man
who loves her: if the two ever met,
would they recognize each other?
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When experts disagree
it’s because their selection of evidence
is never the same.
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My critics hate my honesty
more than I hate their dishonesty.
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Damaged egos are the biggest.
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[Haykakan]

Re: decline

Ara nobody hates your dishonesty but I do hate you starting one thread after another and filling it with garbage. I think you would do well if instead of making a million empty threads you would make Armenian fortune cookies. You would be doing the exact same thing you do here but you might make some money at to.

[arabaliozian]

as they see it

AS THEY SEE IT
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If you think of the 99% as sheep
and the 1% as wolves,
you may have a better understanding
of the human condition.
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When Hamlet said
“There is something rotten in the State of Denmark”
he was talking about the 1%.
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Gulbenkian was a smart operator.
All that chauvinist and Turcocentric crapola
of our propagandists had no effect on him.
He left 93% of his money to odars.
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Khachatur Abovian: “Men have many belief systems
but only one heart.”
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[bell-the-cat]

Re: decline

.... starting one thread after another .....

I agree that Ara starting a large number of threads is unwise.

All these similar posts should be put in a single thread, as they once were (I don't know why Ara decided to changed things). Almost none are true threads since few people respond to the initial post, the initial post is not really written to be responded to, and the Ara rarely if ever replies to any response posts anyway.

[lampron]

Re: decline

I agree that Ara starting a large number of threads is unwise.

All these similar posts should be put in a single thread, as they once were (I don't know why Ara decided to changed things). Almost none are true threads since few people respond to the initial post, the initial post is not really written to be responded to, and the Ara rarely if ever replies to any response posts anyway.

There are no forum rules on posting as one thread or as multiple threads

There are on the other hand forum rules against trolling which is what haykakan is doing

[Mher]

Re: decline

There are no forum rules on posting as one thread or as multiple threads

There are on the other hand forum rules against trolling which is what haykakan is doing

His complaint is valid. There is no reason why all of these threads shouldnt just be a continuation of a single one. The entire Armenian Talk section is now composed of these posts, relegating long time topics with a lot of activity into the backpages.

[arabaliozian]

fallacies

ON FALLACIES
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The most widespread fallacy
in the history of mankind:
If you have God and Country on your side,
you can’t go wrong.
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My guess is – and it is a guess
only in the sense that 99% of it is certainty –
the overwhelming majority of Turks and Armenians
are either half-Turks or half-Armenian.
In that sense, it would more accuate to say
what happened in 1915 was not genocide
but fratricide.
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Whoever said “Celibacy is hell on earth
but a bad marriage is worse,”
knew what he was saying.
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[arabaliozian]

enemies

ENEMY #1
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Our divisions are divisions of the brainwashed.
Eliminate brainwashing and we will have
no more divisions.
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Dupes are eminently brainwashable.
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We are a nation of triple victims:
victims of incompetence,
victims of corruption,
and victims of systematic conditioning
(i.e. brainwashing).
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To speak of wars and massacres
is to speak of dupes in action.
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We are not the smartest people on earth.
We are the dumbest.
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Whoever first told you Armenians are smart
is your #1 enemy.
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[arabaliozian]

as i see it

Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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AS I SEE IT
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My guess is victims of corruption and incompetence
outnumber victims of wars and massacres?
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Belief systems that develop a bureaucracy
become instruments of the devil.
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Smart is good but not the kind that assumes
you are an idiot.
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The ultimate aim of all power is to allow one
to get away with murder.
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[arabaliozian]

full of it

FULL OF IT
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We are so full of it that
we can’t tell an insult from a compliment.
“It takes seven xxxs to fool an Armenian”
has nothing to do with our collective IQ.
It’s a warning, like
“After you shake hands with an Armenian
count your fingers.”
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Never pretend to know what you don’t know.
Remember, ignorance is good for making friends.
All smart women know this.
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Women are smarter than men
because they negotiate from a position of strength
by pretending to be weak.
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Only idiots brag about how smart they are.
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On our intolerance of free speech:
we don’t need commissars to enforce it.
We do it ourselves.
We are born commissars,
and all in the name of the eternal snows of Mt. Ararat.
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