notes and comments

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

Saturday, November 14, 2009
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Sooner or later all lies are exposed and replaced by other lies.
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Truth is not a noun but a verb – it consists in shedding lies.
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Ottomanism, Sovietism, Armenianism: the only difference between them is the number of dupes and hoodlums they control.
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Northrop Frye's explanation of deconstruction: “Rousseau wrote on the origin of language, but he was primarily interested in masturbation.”
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Eduardo Galeano: “Hunting xxxs has always been a European sport. Now the Palestinians, who never played it, are paying the bill.”
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Men need to believe in something, even if it is a lie that will enslave them.
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[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

Ara this worthless monologue of yours is truely the waisbasket of the internet. First you blame the palastinians for the situation they are in and now you quote Galeano who is saying palastinians are being unjustly punished for what the europeans did to the xxxs. Your arguments never did make much sence and now they completely contradict each other. Your going from really bad to simply horrid. Please stop making a fool of yourself and find a new hobby, i suggest fishing, its a lot of fun and you can catch your own food without annoying others.

[KanadaHye]

Re: elegy

Ara this worthless monologue of yours is truely the waisbasket of the internet. First you blame the palastinians for the situation they are in and now you quote Galeano who is saying palastinians are being unjustly punished for what the europeans did to the xxxs. Your arguments never did make much sence and now they completely contradict each other. Your going from really bad to simply horrid. Please stop making a fool of yourself and find a new hobby, i suggest fishing, its a lot of fun and you can catch your own food without annoying others.

Round and round we go, where we stop nobody knows

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

Ara this worthless monologue of yours is truely the waisbasket of the internet. First you blame the palastinians for the situation they are in and now you quote Galeano who is saying palastinians are being unjustly punished for what the europeans did to the xxxs. Your arguments never did make much sence and now they completely contradict each other. Your going from really bad to simply horrid. Please stop making a fool of yourself and find a new hobby, i suggest fishing, its a lot of fun and you can catch your own food without annoying others.

I support the israelis
and i feel sorry for the palestinians
because they are losers like armenians,
and like armenians
they refuse to learn from history --
one of the most important lessons being,
a house divided against itself cannot stand.
neither is a house corrupted --
or whose foundations are rotten.

[KanadaHye]

Re: elegy

I support the israelis
and i feel sorry for the palestinians
because they are losers like armenians,
and like armenians
they refuse to learn from history --
one of the most important lessons being,
a house divided against itself cannot stand.
neither is a house corrupted --
or whose foundations are rotten.

You support the Israelis because like most journalists, you don't have the testicular fortitude to stand up against them. Surely you can't agree with all their policies, not even the citizens of Israel do.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

Sunday, November 15, 2009
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When an American capitalist first heard the passage in the Scriptures that says a wealthy man cannot go to heaven in the same way that a camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, he hired a succession of theologians and demanded an explanation. Only one came up with the answer that pleased him which was this: The “Eye of a Needle” was the name of a narrow passage under a low bridge in Jerusalem. That theologian went home with a fat check in his pocket.
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I suspect if you were to ask one of our bishops to explain the line “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” he will say neither can a house with rotten foundations, and what could be more rotten than a heresy?
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Theologians are like lawyers, they will plead not guilty even if their client is a serial killer who may kill again.
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“The law is the law,” they say. So is the Word of God. But both cease to be what they claim to be if they are interpreted to mean the opposite of what they say.
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I enjoy reading pundits who are on my side. I enjoy even more reading pundits of the opposite side. But my very favorite pundits are liberals who turned conservative and vice versa.
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I don’t read to have my ego massaged or prejudices reinforced, but for the exactly opposite reason.
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Dostoevsky began his literary career as a liberal and became conservative. By contrast, Thomas Mann began as a conservative right-wing nationalist and ended as a left-wing cosmopolitan liberal. I enjoy reading both. I enjoy them even when they express views with which I am in complete disagreement.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

You support the Israelis because like most journalists, you don't have the testicular fortitude to stand up against them. Surely you can't agree with all their policies, not even the citizens of Israel do.

i do not accept the citizens of any country,
including Israel,
to dictate my sentiments and thoughts.
the two words i hate most are "Yes, sir!"

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

Monday, November 16, 2009
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What Romans did to their Christians,
Christians did to their heretics.
Religions and regimes may change,
but man stays the same
and the scum of the earth
always rises to the top.
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The people who do the most harm to mankind
are, as a rule, the least aware of it.
They may even think of themselves
as the best and the brightest,
or promoters of virtue,
or representatives of God on earth.
Kings, popes, imams:
we may be justified in calling them
certified moral morons.
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Something to remember and repeat:
Self-criticism is not unpatriotic.
Silencing critics is.
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It was Kant who said that very often
ignorance is nothing but
cowardice in the face of knowledge.
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When a chauvinist who recycles crap says:
“Criticism must be constructive!”
what he really means is:
“If recycling crap is good enough for me,
how dare you think otherwise?”
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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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I am grateful to all charlatans who,
with their example, taught me the value of honesty.
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People profess to love the truth
but live as though they were afraid of it --
hence the old Armenian saying:
"If you speak the truth,
you will be chased out from seven towns."
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The very same people
who pour venom on every line I write
and sling mud at me
(hoping some of it will stick),
accuse me of being negative.
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In a dictionary of philosophy:
“Generally speaking megalomania is a reaction to failure.
The megalomaniac represents himself
as he would like to be
but as he is not.
Megalomania may also be a symptom
of the decline of one’s critical faculties.”
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On dogmatism:
“It stands in direct contradiction to criticism,
skepticism, empiricism, and realism.
It fosters intolerance and fanaticism.”
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To be read by friendly readers:
nothing unusual in that.
To be read by hostiles:
That’s where the money is,
because it means being allowed the opportunity
to introduce ideas where none exist.
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[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

Ara i really wish you practiced what you preach. Your blind support of isreal and its racist policies is good proof of your hipocracy. Blaming the victim is a popular pass time nowdays and i see your more then willing to jump on that band wagon. You call the victims helpless losers and you support the strong no matter how unjust their cause. I mean really man why should anyone bother with you? Go ahead and keep rambling on, putting down your people and other helpless victims while kissing ass of the strong but dont preach us about stuff you really have no clue about.