notes and comments

[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

On and on goes this one man blog of part truth-mostly bs. You contradict yourself so many times and in so many ways that i cant help but to ask what is the point of this meaningless ranting? You must have observed yourself making numerous hypocritical statements in these blogs yet instead of rethinking your logic you defend it like it is your life even when it is obviously wrong. You will make correct statements but when questioned about the ones that do not make sense you get defencive instead of admiting a mistake. I am no lover of religion and i think nationalism like everything else is only good in moderation but i do not see the point of you belittling the armenian people. Yes we are not perfect and neither is anyone else. What exactly is your intent in this endless blog of yours and why do you pretend to preach reason yet run like hell when confronted with it? It is beginning to look like you just do this for your own pleasure but i dont understand what pleasure you derive from copying and pasting stuff. The fact that you do not participate in any of the other threads means that you have no interest in what anyone else has to say about anything and you feel no need to to teach or comment or spend time sharing your thoughts with fellow armenians and this leads me to question why is it that you are here? What exactly is the point of this thread which is started by a man who has no interest in the Armenian people and a limited understanding of logic. WHY ARE YOU HERE?

[KanadaHye]

Re: elegy

He's like a shadow in the night... Ara by day, HyeClub blogger by night

He does read what we post since I can see some relating themes but maybe he doesn't participate in discussion just so he can remain more mysterious. He's like an Armenian Confucius.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 1, 2010
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DIARY
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There are two Armenians mentioned in Cheever's biography: one of them is a loud-mouth phony and the other Saroyan and his “tax problems.” Elsewhere we are informed Saroyan was popular in communist countries and “all but forgotten in the West.”
Cheever and Updike were thought to be good friends but in his diary Cheever had this to say about him: “He describes erections so exhaustively that he's beginning to look like a big prick with a hair-piece” -- a remark that probably hastened Updike's death.
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Those who say “We need solutions,” want nothing of the kind because solutions may expose them as dupes or frauds.
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Politics seems to attract the kind of people whose role model is not Gandhi but Don Corleone.
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A good fraction of mankind today makes a comfortable living by deceiving their fellow men.”
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One should judge a religion not by its theology but by its history, which also means, by its crimes against humanity.
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If I repeat myself it may be because our blunders keep repeating themselves and not repeating myself would amount to either giving up or covering up.
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[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

He's like a shadow in the night... Ara by day, HyeClub blogger by night

He does read what we post since I can see some relating themes but maybe he doesn't participate in discussion just so he can remain more mysterious. He's like an Armenian Confucius.

He is as mysterious as my 5 yearold.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 2, 2010
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IF...
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If the West were to adopt the methods of the Ottoman Empire, all Muslims within its borders would be deported to Siberia, Sahara, and even Antarctica. This may still happen if things get worse instead of better.
When civilizations clash it is not always the most civilized that prevails but the most ruthless. Democracy and respect for human rights may be noble principles, but life-and-death situations demand not moderate measures but ruthless tactics.
It is true that most Muslims, perhaps even the overwhelming majority, are not for terrorism, they may even be against it, but so were Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and xxxs in Europe during World War II.
Some of us may not live long enough to witness this apocalyptic denouement. That does not mean it may never happen. On the contrary, it may even be thought of as inevitable.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

allow me to share a professional secret with you.
the greatest insult that a reader can deliver to a writer
is to ignore him.
i once stumbled into an armenian forum
that was a vipers' nest of hostile readers
who treated me like a leper.
but ever since i shared this secret with them,
i have been left alone.
peace is wonderful!

[KanadaHye]

Re: elegy

allow me to share a professional secret with you.
the greatest insult that a reader can deliver to a writer
is to ignore him.
i once stumbled into an armenian forum
that was a vipers' nest of hostile readers
who treated me like a leper.
but ever since i shared this secret with them,
i have been left alone.
peace is wonderful!

Not bad. Pretty clever here

[Haykakan]

Re: elegy

Yeh i guess ignoring people is a lot easier then answering them. I wish the rest of us could figure stuff out like that. Thanks for sharing more of your wisdome with us.

[Eddo211]

Re: elegy

You two guys are disturbing the balance of this one man’s jerk off fest of a thread.

[arabaliozian]

Re: elegy

February 3, 2010
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FRAGMENTS
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As children we are brought up not to questions the words and conduct of adults. The trouble is, some of us never quite grow up. That's the only way to explain the popularity of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao (who is said to have slaughtered more people than the other two combined, or so I read in today's paper).
One could sum up the work of all great thinkers with two words: “Grow up!” Or, as the Scriptures tell us: “When one grows up, one should put aside the toys of one's childhood.”
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I am a man without a country and without a neighborhood, if one defines a neighborhood not as a collection of houses but of homes. Every house in which I have lived at one time or another has been torn down by either war or real-estate developers; only my alma mater stands but it is no longer an educational institution but a cheap motel. As for my present neighborhood where I have lived for fifty years: the old are either dead or in nursing homes; the young have moved on to better neighborhoods or have been arrested on drug charges and taken away never to be seen again, and the immigrants have returned to their homeland.
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Gresham's Law, named after the 16th-century English merchant Sir Thomas Gresham, states, "Bad money drive out good money," meaning: adulterated gold drives out pure gold, for the simple reason that it is cheaper. By extension, opportunists drive out men of principle, and mediocrities drive out those who seek to achieve excellence.
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An extension of Gresham's Law: Evil knows how to organize itself because it appeals to the selfish instincts of the majority.
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Likewise, recycled crap drives out objective judgment, and hoodlums and their verbal abuse drive out dialogue.
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