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  • walls

    WALLS
    **************************
    To join a political party
    is to adopt the role of either dupe or deceiver.
    *
    There are no honorable men in politics
    and groups in general.
    *
    In all groups the interests of the group
    are placed above the interests of the individual.
    This may explain why,
    instead of exposing child molesters,
    bishops gave them a transfer to another parish.
    *
    Group thinking produces obvious fallacies
    such as “all religions are false except mine.”
    *
    The glue that holds groups together
    is a big lie.
    *
    The greatest enemies of religion
    are neither agnostics nor atheists
    but religious leaders.
    *
    We are born and raised in an environment
    with walls – race, nation, tribe, economic status,
    and so on. How many of these walls
    must we demolish in order to acquire the status
    of human beings?
    #

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    • as i see it

      AS I SEE IT
      *****************************
      Think of wars as a clash
      between imagination and reality.
      Wars are declared and fought by men
      who imagine themselves to be invincible.
      *
      All wars are defensive wars
      against past, present and future injustices.
      *
      I made my worst decisions
      and committed my most devastating blunders
      when it didn’t even occur to me to ask
      “What if I am wrong?”
      *
      Real lies play a much more important role
      in our lives than imaginary truths.
      *
      The only time we take our writers seriously
      is when we betray them to the authorities.
      *
      Superstition and ignorance
      are the two most important ingredients
      in all organized religions.
      *
      What do we know about life after death?
      Nothing!
      What do we know about paradise?
      Even less.
      #

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      • Re: as i see it

        .

        War is ( was ) a mechanism for population control.

        Unfortunately it has broken down which means population growth is out of control.

        This will impact the ability of earth to provide the resources to sustain our civilisation..

        The end result will be the destruction civilisation as we know it.

        .
        Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
        Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
        Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

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        • grub

          GRUB FIRST
          **************************
          Propaganda victimizes the people all over again.
          We are taught to brag about our genius for survival
          even as we experience two “white” genocides:
          assimilation in the Diaspora
          exodus in the Homeland.
          *
          The problem with speaking nonsense is that
          we project the image of idiots,
          and idiots are the ideal targets of cunning operators –
          cunning operators like our oligarchs in the Homeland
          and our bosses, bishops, and benefactors in the Diaspora.
          *
          As for our academics:
          I suspect they are smart enough to figure out
          what’s happening but they pretend otherwise
          because that’s their only way to make a living –
          “Grub first, then ethics.”
          Or, in the words of one of our academics,
          “My wife and children come first.”
          Who am I to speak against motherhood
          and shish-kebab?
          *
          My knowledge of our first genocide
          is based on hearsay.
          But my knowledge of our two present genocides
          is based on personal experience.
          *
          I live in the middle of nowhere
          and I write in English –
          unlike some of my friends
          who live in the shadow of Mt. Ararat
          and speak/write in their mother tongue.
          *
          I may not qualify as an Armenian
          but I have not yet been dehumanized enough
          to consider myself anything else but a human being.
          #

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          • bad math

            Monday, March 09, 2015
            *************************************
            BAD MATH
            ***********************
            If we count our victims of wars, massacres, and purges
            in the Ottoman Empire and the USSR
            plus Armenians who opted for exodus in the Homeland
            and assimilation in the Diaspora,
            can we really brag about our so-called genius for survival?
            *
            If we could have been not 10 million but 100 million,
            is not our “genius” for survival based on bad math?
            *
            My guess is the number of victims of organized crime
            and organized religions are about the same.
            This may suggest that bishops, imams, and rabbis
            are variations on a theme based on Don Corleone.
            *
            What we were taught to think as children
            rings more true than what we really think as adults.
            This may also suggest myths, legends, superstition,
            lies and propaganda play a much more important role
            in our lives than objective reality.
            #

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            • comments

              NOTES / COMMENTS
              ****************************************
              The rich do not deceive, brainwash,
              cheat and kill the poor;
              they hire the poor to do it for them.
              *
              Guilty or not guilty?
              An irrelevant question.
              We are all guilty of the capital offence
              of being born and we are all condemned
              to death.
              *
              Reality is unpredictable
              because our understanding of it is biased.
              If we had an objective understanding of history,
              the Genocide would appear to us
              not as a case of unprecedented cruelty and barbarism
              but as an inevitable fact of life.
              *
              We are disappointed whenever the universe
              fails to rearrange itself for us.
              #

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              • Re: comments

                Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
                NOTES / COMMENTS
                ****************************************

                *
                Guilty or not guilty?
                An irrelevant question.
                We are all guilty of the capital offence
                of being born and we are all condemned
                to death.
                *
                Nonsense
                We had not choice to be born or not.
                How can we be guilty of it.

                .
                Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
                Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
                Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

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                • reflections

                  CHEERFUL REFLECTIONS
                  *****************************************
                  So many people recycle propaganda
                  that Homo sapiens may be defined
                  as a subspecies of the parrot family.
                  *
                  Truth is a threat to everyone –
                  the wise as well as the foolish,
                  the weak as well as the strong,
                  Christ as well as Judas
                  and the Roman Empire.
                  *
                  What we know might as well be
                  an invisible dot in an ocean of ink.
                  *
                  We are like tightrope walkers
                  without a bamboo stick.
                  Our history has been and continues to be
                  a progress towards catastrophe.
                  *
                  From dupes and victims of Turks
                  to victims and dupes of our own leadership.
                  It you see progress there,
                  I must be blind.
                  #

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                  • comments & observations

                    SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE
                    ******************************************
                    All men are brothers?
                    I was born and raised in time of war.
                    Don’t talk to me about brotherhood.
                    *
                    The most unbelievable thing in the world?
                    The things a man will consent to do
                    in exchange of a regular salary.
                    *
                    A working definition of enemy:
                    Anyone who refuses to recycle
                    the propaganda line of the 1%.
                    *
                    There is a type of Armenian
                    – and I may qualify as one of them –
                    whose most important project in life
                    is to place the greatest possible distance
                    between himself and his fellow countrymen.
                    *
                    Happily married?
                    An oxymoron.
                    Happily resigned?
                    That’s different.
                    *
                    Men and women.
                    Women and men.
                    It will never work
                    because women don’t deliver
                    as much as they promise
                    and men are swine.
                    *
                    Depressing?
                    I don’t see why I should pretend to be cheerful
                    when I am not.
                    #

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                    • comments

                      NOTES / COMMENTS
                      ********************************
                      At all times and everywhere
                      brainwashed dupes outnumber those
                      who have mastered the art
                      of thinking for themselves.
                      *
                      There is a big difference between
                      god and the god of priests,
                      so much so that if the two ever met
                      they wouldn’t recognize each other.
                      *
                      The temptation to take oneself seriously
                      can be irresistible.
                      *
                      When I write for Armenians
                      I can never get rid of the suspicion
                      that I am wasting my time
                      and with every line I write
                      I make another enemy.
                      #

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