notes and comments

[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

You definition of fascism exactly fits the description of the USA government. Dont tell me you dont see it. The government take our taxes and young men and spends it on wars to help one race dominate a region and a few people get insanely rich. The skinheads and thugs in this equation are the zionists and coorporations that colaborate to ensure this fascism.
As for your homeland definition it is rather weak and vague (i am not sure why you brought it up). A man can concievably make a living anywhere. Many of the families left armenia not because they couldnt provide for their families (they weren't starving and had roofs over their heads) but they left to find a better standard of living. This makes your definition rather ambigious.
It is important to understand that skinheads and thuggs can take on many forms and now days they are taking on the form of the USA government through coorporate lobies and zionist infultration.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 8, 2010
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DIARY
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Asked if he had seen Mozart's DON GIOVANNI, Casanova is said to have replied: “Seen it? I have lived it.” Which reminds me of a similar line in reference to Reagan's longevity as president. When asked if he had heard of Marco Polo, he is said to have replied: “Heard of him? I knew him!”
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An old tactic that seldom fails: when cornered in an argument, assume the air of someone with a large store of inside information not available to ordinary laymen like your adversary, and proceed to lie your head off.
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Free and fair elections are probably known by corrupt regimes (like our own) as an American disease.
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It is fashionable to blame the Yanks for dropping the first bomb on Hiroshima. No one says, Thank God the Japs didn't have it first. And some day in the near or distant future if history repeats itself and the bomb is dropped on Muslim fanatics, they will call it a crime against humanity until they realize the only reason Muslims didn't drop the bomb on New York City or Washington is that they didn't have it.
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An unspoken Armenian mantra: “Tell me what I want to hear and I will believe it even if you happen to be an habitual and compulsive liar.”
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A nation that places propaganda above literature is doomed.
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[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

Well you didnt adress my post and if you last sentence is true then all nations are doomed.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 9, 2010
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WINNING AN ARGUMENT --
ARMENIAN STYLE
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Another tactic that never fails is to make an assertion so untenable and asinine as to make your adversary give up in despair and disgust. Three examples of such assertions that have been leveled against me follow:
“Armenians are incapable of hatred.”
“The only reason people quit their homeland and emigrate to foreign lands is greed for more money.”
“Criticizing Armenians in English in an open forum on the Internet is akin to treason.”
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Armenians cannot engage in dialogue because their aim is not to get at the truth or to learn from one another's experience and understanding but to assert their intellectual prowess by being invincible in argument. So what if in the process they expose themselves as inbred morons? For perennial losers, victory trumps all other considerations.
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We like to speak of “the Armenian wound.” What we carefully avoid mentioning is that more often than not this so-called wound is self-inflicted.
If we are at the mercy of unprincipled mediocrities today it's because we betrayed two generations of our ablest men to alien authorities. We could not betray all of them because in the Diaspora free speech is not thought of as a capital offense.
As a result, those who survived were either silenced or treated as parasites and nonentities whose sole contribution to our welfare as a nation was empty verbiage. After all, who has ever heard of a chef who can cook pilaf and shish-kebab with words?
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It has been said that for the shoeless, happiness is a pair of shoes, not the complete works of Shakespeare. Likewise, for the starving, happiness is a loaf of bread, not the music of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. And now that we are neither shoeless nor starving, can we really say we are a success as a nation or a diaspora because we are progressive, civilized and smart? And if we are smart, why do we take pleasure in uttering inanities?
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[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

Again you totally blow off my comments since they destroy you argument. Your prowestern sunglasses must also have blinders on them.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 10, 2010
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ARE JIHADISTS PARAGONS OF VIRTUE?
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How does a jihadist justify the slaughter of innocent civilians?
Easy!
“My imam tells me if I act in the name of Allah I will be rewarded with a harem of virgins in paradise.”
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ARE ARMENIANS SMART?
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How does an Armenian justify his stupidity?
Easier.
“Everyone knows Armenians are smart. Whatever I say must therefore be smart. Those who disagree with me are ignoramuses.”
Correction!
Everyone does not know Armenians are smart for the simple reason that everyone does not even know we exist because they tend to confuse us with Romanians and Aramaeans. The very few who think we are smart, they mean smart only in the marketplace or as rug merchants.
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WOMEN IN LOVE
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In a biography of Patricia Highsmith, author of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (filmed by Hitchxxxx and partly scripted by Raymond Chandler) we read: “For most of the 1940s Pat never stops falling in love with women – sometimes for no more than an hour or an evening.” (See THE TALENTED MISS HIGHSMITH: THESECRET LIFE AND SERIOUS ART OF PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, [New York, 2009, page 569].)
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In a recent issue of LE POINT (Paris, January 2010) one of Brigitte Bardot's old lovers reminisces: “I was 18 when I first met her. She was then a famous star pursued by paparazzi. At one point she whispered to me: 'Listen, I don't go to bed with someone I am not in love with.' Ten minutes later she added: 'But, you know, I can fall in love three times in a single day.'”
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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 11, 2010
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COMMENTS
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The history of deceivers and their dupes has a beginning (the Serpent and Eve) but no end.
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If we have not been taken in by Patagonians and Zulus it's because we have at no time dealt with them.
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In the latest issue of the NEW YORKER dealing with the Internet I read: “...pervasive anonymity (which encourages bullying and moblike behavior)...”
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When I was young I went out of my way to make friends. In my old age I am much better at making enemies. The friends I made were not always worthy of friendship. As for my enemies, I will say this: they make solitude a glorious experience.
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How much of what we know today would be reduced to ignorance if we were to see reality through the eyes of God?
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Greed makes a man more cunning as well as stupid: more cunning in his employment of means to achieve his end, and more stupid in thinking he can hide his greed.
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THOREAU SPEAKS
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“The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.”
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“Society: Pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.”
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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 12, 2010
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ON LEADERSHIP & NATIONAL IDENTITY
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Unlike American “birthers” who believe Obama is a Muslim double agent born in Kenya, I have no interest in questioning the national identity of our leaders some of whom may well be of mixed parentage. But I have every right to question their honesty. So much so that the expression “an honest Armenian leader” sounds to me as absurd as saying the sun rises in the West or one plus one makes eleven.
Speaking for myself: I'd much rather be ruled by an honest Zulu, Patagonian, or even Turk than a pure-blooded Armenian (assuming such a one exists) who speaks with a forked tongue.
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About the irrelevance of national identity in political leadership: some of the most competent Byzantine emperors spoke Greek with a foreign accent for the simple reason that they were of Armenian descent.
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To repeat what we have heard is not to say what we think.
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Honest Armenians prefer to be silent. The louder the speech, the bigger the lies.
When one of our sermonizers died of cancer of the tongue, a friend who was personally acquainted with him said: “That's because he spoke too many lies.”
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To quote someone does not always mean to agree with him but to point out a different perception of reality.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 13, 2010
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THE OTTOMAN CURSE
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Like all imperial powers, the Turks adopted divide-and-rule tactics in their dealings with us and they appear to have succeeded so brilliantly that we remain divided long after their empire collapsed. Think about that next time you say Armenians are smart.
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Explaining a phenomenon is easy. What is hard is dealing with it. Armenian literature has failed to convince our leaders in that endeavor. Hence the contempt for our vodanavorjis and scribblers.
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The dumbest Armenian is capable of inflicting the deepest wounds and the smartest Armenian can voice the dumbest opinions.
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One reason why our wheeler-dealers – unlike our writers -- have prospered and no doubt will continue to prosper is that they can pretend to be idealistic, committed, and principled much more convincingly than honest men.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 14, 2010
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DEMONOLOGY
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If you are not with us, you are against us. If you are against us, you are against God. If you are against God, you are with the Devil.
That's not theology but demonology. One could even say, theological dogmas are the inventions of the Devil. Hence the countless innocent victims...
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Loyalty, when it is obedience of the powerless for the powerful, it is a one-way street.
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Idiots who think they are smart: they are my favorite sources of inspiration. Our world is full of them...and they are full of it. I speak from experience. I was one of them myself. In the eyes of God I still am -- I use the word God as a point of reference that is invisible, inaccessible, incomprehensible, but Almighty.
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The most powerful people in the history of mankind – those who changed the world and continue to do so -- men like Christ, Marx, and Einstein – were born, raised, and lived without power. They did not command armies and they were not part of a power structure or bureaucracy. Think about that next time you say you cannot cook pilaf with words. Remember, it took a three-letter equation to incinerate Hiroshima.
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