notes and comments

[arabaliozian]

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Friday, February 27, 2015
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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Being an Armenian writer
is an endless source of embarrassment to me;
which is why I feel on safer ground
when I identify myself as a retired church organist.
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Deceivers are full-time professionals
unlike dupes who never rise above the status
of part-time amateurs.
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The ideal dupe is he
who is brought up to believe
he is too smart to be duped.
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In all organized religions
liars and dupes outnumber the honest men.
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Because I was critical of Armenians
I was identified as a self-hating Armenian
by hateful Armenians who are as ubiquitous
as hateful Turks (most of whom are very probably
half-Armenian).
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[arabaliozian]

comments

NOTES / COMMENTS
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Where dividers enter,
the death of a thousand self-inflicted cuts follows.
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Passionate love is a disease that cures itself.
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No one understands another.
Understanding is based on fractions.
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The most dangerous form of denialism
is to say, think, or imply that we are not responsible
for our misfortunes.
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A blunder can be a useful learning experience.
We can either view the Genocide
as a formative experience
or as an aberration
with the power to turn us
into pillars of salt.
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[lampron]

Re: comments

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The most dangerous form of denialism
is to say, think, or imply that we are not responsible
for our misfortunes.
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Pre-1991, Armenians in the diaspora could be heard arguing, "who is better at defending us, the Soviet Union or the US"? Meaning, "who is better at fighting for us, because we want to get on with organizing the next banquet!"

[arabaliozian]

brothers

BROTHERS
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Men with labels –
be they American, Canadian, Greek, xxx,
German, Russian, Turk and Armenian –
are judged not by their best representatives
but by their worst.
In a civilized environment
there will be only human beings --
all of them descendants not only of two or three
but many tribes, nations, and races.
As for family trees:
it would be more accurate to speak
of family bushes, forests, and jungles.
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All men are brothers -- like Cain and Abel.
All wars are civil wars.
All murders are fratricides.
Homo sapiens does not exist.
Homo ignoramus – that’s different.
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[arabaliozian]

comments

AS I SEE IT
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Like most Armenian writers
I have been and continue to be
first and foremost an unemployed
and unemployable misfit,
and as such, an ideal target
for our wheeler-dealers.
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When I speak of
our bosses, bishops, and benefactors,
I speak from experience.
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Women who make themselves irresistible
tend to view all men as potential rapists.
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Promise and delivery
might as well be strangers to each other.
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[arabaliozian]

comment

If history teaches us anything it is this:
we can be wrong;
we can be wrong even when we are right;
we can be dead wrong even when
God and the Great Powers are on our side.
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[arabaliozian]

q/s

QUESTIONS
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Is being Armenian a curse or a blessing?
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If we could ask that question to our countless victims,
what would their answer be?
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Why did Abovian commit suicide?
If you read his biography
that’s not the question you will ask.
The question you will ask is:
Why did it take him so long to decide?
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Why did Gomidas take refuge in insanity?
Ditto.
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Great countries are not afraid of dissent –
that’s what makes them great.
Small countries are –
that’s what makes them small.
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A patriot is one who believes
if our problems are hidden,
they will have a better chance to solve themselves.
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A dedicated patriot is one who believes
our critics are our main problem.
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A dupe is one who is convinced
if so far we have failed to solve our problems
it’s because our critics have failed to come up
with the right verbal formula --
like abracadabra and hocus pocus –
and on the day they do
we will live happily ever after.
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[arabaliozian]

power

POWER
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Socrates knew all he needed to know
but pretended otherwise to disarm his enemies.
But his enemies were not disarmed.
No one can be as smart and as ruthless
as a man of power in defense of his power.
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Socrates knew many things.
Those whose ignorance he exposed
knew only one thing: power.
Socrates lost because he placed
the power of reason
above that of greed.
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Compared to our intellectuals –
from Abovian to Zarian –
our leaders might as well have been
Mongoloid retards.
And yet – the two saddest words
in the English language,
it has been said.
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Remember that next time you speak
with one of our bosses, bishops, and benefactors.
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As for Mt. Ararat and everything it stands for:
it might as well be a pile of xxxx.
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[lampron]

Re: power

POWER
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Compared to our intellectuals –
from Abovian to Zarian –
our leaders might as well have been
Mongoloid retards.
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As for Mt. Ararat and everything it stands for:
it might as well be a pile of xxxx.
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well party bosses and churchmen have a picture of Mt Ararat hanging from their living rooms

and they wrap themselves up in the Armenian flag a few times a year

What else do you want them to do?

Apparently "history" takes care of everything, so we have nothing to worry about!

[arabaliozian]

answers

ANSWERS
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How to recognize a phony messiah or prophet?
You can’t! – unless of course you are a dupe
or a man of faith.
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We can answer many questions
but not the most important ones.
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When a reader disagrees with me,
my first question is:
“What if I am wrong?”
If I were a tyrant I would say,
“Burn him at the stake!”
“Cut out his tongue!”
"Kill him!"
If I were a man of faith, I would think,
“Hell is his destination.”
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Search for the absurd and you will find it.
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The absurd is not hidden from us
and if you can’t see it,
it maybe because you are blind.
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It is not at all unusual for a man with 20/20 vision
to be not just blind but also stone deaf.
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If you don’t believe me, read a book by a historian –
any book by any historian.
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