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  • Van Gogh

    ON VAN GOGH
    *****************************
    When he was alive they were unanimous
    in considering him a failure.
    He is now thought of as one of the greatest.
    So much for unanimity, majority rule and democracy.
    *
    ON ZARIAN
    ***********************
    According to his contemporaries
    he was rude, egocentric and arrogant.
    How humble, selfless, and considerate were we
    when at the turn of the last century
    we rose against the Ottoman Empire?
    *
    Ignorance and stupidity
    have played a central role
    in our collective misfortunes.
    We forget this obvious fact
    at our own peril.
    *
    People from the Middle East
    are notorious infighters.
    In the eyes of the world
    we have two major liabilities:
    (i) we are from the Middle East and
    (ii) we produce large quantities of stone
    but not a single drop of oil.
    *
    GUILTY AS CHARGED
    *********************************
    As an Armenian writers
    I can truly brag about the fact that
    I have done my utmost to insult and alienate
    all my possible sources of income.
    #

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    • Re: Van Gogh

      Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
      ON VAN GOGH
      *****************************
      When he was alive they were unanimous
      in considering him a failure.
      He is now thought of as one of the greatest.
      So much for unanimity, majority rule and democracy.
      *
      When Elvis priestly died his record sales shot even higher.

      I recall all commentators were saying it was a good carrier move !!!!!!!


      .
      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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      • literature

        ON LITERATURE
        ***************************
        Writers writing about other writers:
        that’s not literature.
        Literature is either about you
        or it’s about nothing.
        *
        ODARS
        *********************
        More often than not
        their interest in us
        begins and ends with our cuisine
        which may or may not be ours.
        *
        PLEADING IGNORANCE
        ********************************
        To say we had no way of knowing
        they would react by committing genocide
        is to ignore the fact that at one point
        we were so sure of our final victory
        that we went as far as challenging them
        to massacre us.
        *
        SOCIOLOGY
        *************************
        The more underdeveloped the nation
        the greater the role of myths, propaganda, and lies.
        *
        ON THE POSITIVE SIDE
        ***************************************
        We have fallen so low that the only way is up.
        And if you say I have an “attitude problem”
        may I remind you that the problems I am outlining
        existed long before I was born.
        #

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        • comments & observations

          IF I HAVE SAID THIS BEFORE…
          ***********************************************
          My guess is, a deeply religious person
          finds it extremely difficult, not to say impossible, to believe
          that the Good Lord may have as much interest in him
          as in a nameless peasant ten thousand miles away.
          *
          Our knowledge is limited,
          our ignorance without beginning and end,
          and our willingness to admit this on-existent.
          *
          After delivering a mildly critical lecture
          at an Armenian community center,
          an internationally respected writer once told ne,
          he noticed that some members of the audience
          went out of their way to ignore him
          and instead made a beeline for the local benefactor.
          If I have said this before, it bears repeating.
          #

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          • sins

            ORIGINAL SINS
            ****************************
            If man is guilty of committing one original sin,
            God is guilty of three:
            (i) when He planted the apple tree;
            (ii) when He created the woman; and
            (iii) when He issued instructions to the serpent.
            *
            Victory can be a dead end
            and defeat a new beginning.
            *
            If you love too much
            you will be disappointed on the wedding night.
            *
            I am too busy identifying and counting my enemies
            to love them.
            #

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            • comments & observations

              NOTES / COMMENTS
              *************************************
              The central concern of Turkish propaganda today
              is to convince Turks they have not been bastardized
              by their enemies – among others Kurds and Armenians.
              *
              To believe is a perpetual effort to suppress doubt.
              *
              Whoever said “God is dead” should have added
              “But He continues to rule.”
              *
              On the day after I discover the meaning of life
              I will have an experience that will contradict it.
              *
              Love is not the answer;
              love is the problem.
              *
              I have committed so many blunders
              that I am beginning to view death as a correction.
              #

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              • words

                WORDS
                *************************
                No one would lift a finger let alone die
                in the name of the Invisible, the Incomprehensible
                and the Unknowable, but call it God
                and behold the rivers of blood.
                It is as if the word God
                brought out the Devil in man.
                *
                I write in search of the right word
                which I may never find.
                *
                No territory was ever occupied peacefully
                except perhaps the Garden of Eden.
                Once upon a time every piece of real estate
                belonged to someone else.
                To speak of homeland is to utter nonsense.
                *
                Finish this sentence:
                “Scratch an Armenian and behold…”
                #

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                • religion

                  RELIGION
                  ************************
                  Somewhere along the line –
                  I am now talking about ancient history –
                  the 1% realized that
                  what the 99% needed was a drug like opium
                  that when consumed
                  will make them accept their degradation
                  as an inevitable fact of life.
                  *
                  As a Catholic I was brought up to believe
                  it is a mortal sin to criticize men of God,
                  unless of course they belonged to a rival gang,
                  like, say, Protestants who worshipped not God
                  but the Devil.
                  *
                  If you want to know more about human institutions
                  and collective enterprises in general,
                  read a book on the history of the Mafia.
                  #

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                  • Sisyphus

                    JE SUIS SISYPHUS
                    ************************************
                    At one point in their history
                    the French decided the only good king
                    is a headless king.
                    *
                    History must be a nightmare to the 1%.
                    *
                    In one of his poems Basho says
                    time has weight and when the weight
                    becomes unbearable, it crushes you.
                    *
                    At the end of his life
                    Tolstoy ran away not from home
                    or his wife but his past.
                    *
                    How to reconcile the poetry of Saroyan's prose
                    with the unpleasant prose of his life?
                    *
                    My memory isn’t what it used to be
                    but when it comes to nightmares
                    it’s 20/20.
                    *
                    The cookie I dip in my cup of tea
                    is full of arsenic.
                    #

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                    • perseverance

                      ON PERSEVERANCE
                      ******************************
                      It’s a good thing only
                      if you are on the right path.
                      On the wrong path it might as well be
                      the death of a thousand self-inflicted cuts
                      or a bad marriage.
                      *
                      ON THE 73 VIRGINS
                      **************************
                      What if they are old hags
                      with bad breath?
                      *
                      ON WASTE
                      **********************
                      If Planet Earth is the only one with life,
                      God must love waste.
                      *
                      POLITICS
                      **********************
                      If I live in peace with my neighbors
                      it’s probably because none of them is in politics.
                      *
                      ON PRIDE
                      *********************
                      As a boy I was so hungry for pride
                      that I even bragged about Akim Tamirof.
                      *
                      THAT WHICH WE SHARE
                      ******************************************
                      Both Armenians and Turks share one thing in common:
                      bad management.
                      *
                      Q/A
                      ***************
                      If you want to know more about the Vatican,
                      don’t ask the Pope and his small army of cardinals and bishops;
                      ask Galileo.
                      #

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