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  • reflections

    CHEERFUL REFLECTIONS
    **************************************
    99% of the time “I love you” means
    “I want to penetrate your body.”
    *
    As you may have gathered by now,
    I don’t have a very high opinion of my fellow men,
    beginning with myself.
    *
    The 1% are swine
    and 99% of what emanates from the 99%
    is crap.
    *
    You want to improve your style?
    Delete!
    The closer to silence you get the better.
    *
    I became middle-aged in my old age
    and I acquired wisdom when I became senile.
    *
    Nobody has ever said
    “It is your duty as a member of the human race
    to speak kindly of your species
    even when they behave like xxxx.”
    *
    The world cares about us
    as much as we care about
    Patagonians, Lithuanians, Zulus
    or, for that matter,
    fellow Armenians.
    #

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    • throne of blood

      THRONE OF BLOOD
      ************************************
      What do Ottoman tyranny and
      American capitalism share in common?
      One massacres indiscriminately
      and the other pretends it never happened.
      *
      In the dying days of the Ottoman Empire
      we had literary giants in Istanbul.
      What do we have today
      “in the land of the brave and the free?”
      A thousand academics who
      before writing a line ask themselves:
      “Am I offending anyone
      who may be a source of income
      in the near or distant future?”
      *
      What do sultans and benefactors
      share in common?
      They both sit on a throne of blood.
      *
      In the 19th century Raffi warned
      the Ottoman Empire
      was no place for Armenians.
      We know now,
      neither is “America the Beautiful!”
      #

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      • Re: throne of blood

        Not true. There is a place for Armenians in America, but it is hard when the top level government officials conspire with Turkey to deny the Armenian genocide. Obama lied, Bush lied, and ironically only Reagan recognized. They take Armenian money, then lie, cheat and betray Armenian Americans. But state by state the Turkish lobby is beginning to falter.

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        • Re: throne of blood

          The mainstream American media could publicize and re-print articles and images that appeared in the American press during 1915, but it prefers not to.
          If the American media did that, then no US government would be able to continue to deny the Armenian genocide

          Ara's point that in the Ottoman empire Armenian literature was alive but it has nearly died in the US and Canada (because everyone in the land of the brave and the free is encouraged to aim for a comfortable life) is a point worth reflecting

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          • less

            Sunday, April 26, 2015
            ******************************************
            LESS IS MORE
            ****************************
            If I have learned anything from life it is this:
            You cannot share your wisdom with someone
            who operates on the assumption
            he knows better,
            he is wiser,
            he has a higher IQ,
            he has more money,
            and he stands closer to the Almighty.
            *
            For most of our historic existence
            our identity was shaped by swine.
            Our most important project today
            is to reject as much of it as possible
            in order to be born again as human beings.
            *
            Remember Michael Arlen’s words
            to his half-Greek son
            (I quote from memory):
            “Armenians are nice folk
            but you will be better off
            to keep them at a safe distance.”
            *
            Arlen Sr. understood Armenians.
            Saroyan re-created them as harmless clowns.
            Armenians are not Saroyanesque!
            *
            As for our leadership:
            Like all leaders they speak with a forked tongue.
            They speak “united we stand,”
            but practice “divided we fall.”
            They exploit our complexes and contradictions
            as opposed to exposing them.
            With Armenians like these,
            who needs Turks?
            #

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            • Re: reflections

              Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
              CHEERFUL REFLECTIONS
              **************************************
              The world cares about us
              as much as we care about
              Patagonians, Lithuanians, Zulus
              or, for that matter,
              fellow Armenians.
              #
              especially Armenians

              In order of importance we care for Armenians last

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              • honesty

                ON HONESTY
                ************************
                No one has ever prospered
                by being honest.
                *
                IMMORTALITY
                ***************************
                The easiest way to achieve immortality
                is to insult someone who buys ink by the gallon
                or ball-point pens by the gross.
                *
                HISTORY
                ***********************
                Armenian history is not written
                but invented.
                *
                BENEFACTORS
                *********************
                The only thing I know about our benefactors
                is that one of them made his fortune
                during World War II and the other
                began his brilliant career
                as a bagman for the mafia.
                *
                ON BEING HUMAN
                ***************************
                After centuries of subservience to foreign swine,
                the question I ask myself is:
                Can we qualify as human beings?
                *
                REPARATIONS
                ***************************
                If the Turks ever pay reparations
                – and that’s a big “if” –
                99% of it will go to the 1%
                (lawyers, book-keepers, oligarchs).
                *
                SELF-ESTEEM
                ***********************
                My Catholic education has done
                incalculable damage to my self-esteem.
                To this day I cannot enjoy a baloney sandwich
                on Fridays.
                *
                LONGEVITY
                ***********************
                I have tried all the inexpensive vices
                like wine with the bouquet of gasoline,
                but none of the expensive ones.
                I owe my longevity to my income bracket.
                #

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                • whitman

                  WALT WHITMAN SPEAKS
                  ***************************************
                  Some of his lines are piercing in their precision,
                  as when he speaks of animals:
                  “They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
                  They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
                  They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
                  Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago...”
                  *
                  We need more Whitman in our lives
                  and fewer sermonizers and speechifiers
                  who rub salt in our wounds
                  and promise heaven which is even more inaccessible to them
                  than it is to the rest of us.
                  #

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                  • Tolstoy

                    TOLSTOY ON CHECHENS
                    ****************************************
                    “It was not hatred, for they did not regard those Russian dogs
                    as human beings, but it was repulsion, disgust and perplexity
                    at the senseless cruelty of these creatures
                    that the desire to exterminate them –
                    like the desire to exterminate rats, poisonous spiders, or wolves –
                    was as natural an instinct as that of self-preservation.”
                    *
                    I remember to have read somewhere that
                    the perpetrators of the Genocide in 1915 were not Turks
                    but descendants of these Chechens against whom
                    Russians had conducted a genocidal war for four decades
                    in the mountains of the Caucasus.
                    *
                    For more on this subject see
                    Leo Tolstoy, HADJI MURAD,
                    Lesley Blanch, THE SABRES OF PARADISE.
                    *
                    HADJI MURAD is a short work of fiction.
                    THE SABRES OF PARADISE is a much more detailed work
                    of historiography.
                    It is to be noted, in both works some of the central characters
                    are of Armenian descent.
                    #

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                    • onionheads

                      “ONIONHEADS”
                      ********************************
                      Pushkin called Armenians “cowards”
                      probably because they were not
                      as eager and willing to die
                      in defense of Mother Russia
                      as Onionheads for the simple reason
                      that Russia was not their Mother
                      but at best their Stepmother.
                      *
                      The unspoken aim of all nonentities
                      is to drag you down to their level.
                      Something similar could be said
                      of all men of faith.
                      *
                      The temptation to be seduced
                      by the logic of our own arguments
                      can be irresistible.
                      *
                      Love is important of course
                      but remember, after seven years
                      all other women will be more desirable.
                      #

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