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[arabaliozian]

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Sunday, June 24, 2007
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GOOD QUESTIONS / BAD ANSWERS
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“Instead of telling us we are on the wrong path, why don’t you tell us where the right path is?” a reader demands to know.
My answer: The right path does not exist. It must be invented, and everyone must invent it for himself; and even after you invent it, there is no guarantee it will take you where you want to go, assuming of course you know where you are going.
Perhaps the best way to come up with a good answer is by rejecting all bad answers, even if you may end up with no answer; even if the choice is between a bad answer and no answer at all, or between collective catastrophe or individual anxiety.
Remember our revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire: because they settled for a bad answer, we were visited with a collective catastrophe. Something similar happened in Stalin’s USSR, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and more recently with Bush’s reaction to 9/11.
No answer is better than an answer that will create bigger problems. Remember, if an answer makes perfect sense to you and every fiber in your body tells you it must be the right answer, it’s sure as hell to take you straight to the devil.
Perhaps all questions are good and bad at the same time: they are good as long as they remain questions; they are bad when we try to answer them.
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[Armenian]

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Ara's philosophy is that Armenians should roll over and die and that we should have been extinct. This would give him the most satisfaction becuase then he could say "I told you so" to everyone.

The nonsense written on this thread is the main reason why I feel compelled to come in here once in a while and make a comment or two. Take some time and read the senseless self-hating psychobabble being posted by our resident "intellectual." Anyway, I'm glad you see the worth of his "thoughts" in a proper light.

[RSNATION]

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Your "intellectual" crap here is getting worst by the day. Sorry Ara jan, but you have become a pathetic looser in your old age. Your written crap is not even worth the paper its written on.

Ara's philosophy is that Armenians should roll over and die and that we should have been extinct. This would give him the most satisfaction becuase then he could say "I told you so" to everyone.

[arabaliozian]

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"Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving
offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my
country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven,
which I revere above all earthly kings." / Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.

[arabaliozian]

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Saturday, June 23, 2007
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REFLECTIONS
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Man has the peculiar ability to think he is absolutely right even when he is catastrophically wrong.
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In war one no longer thinks in terms of right and wrong but only in terms of kill or be killed. Something similar could be said about our controversies, which may be said to be civil wars by other means.
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One should write as a human being and not as a member of a specific club, group, nation or race. To write in the name of a fraction of mankind is to elevate an accident of birth to a commandment from above.
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I have nothing but contempt for our charlatans but I have become as attached to them as a criminal is attached to the rope from which he hangs.
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The most dangerous and universal fallacy: Because I believe, it must be true. How many of our conflicts will vanish if we teach ourselves to say: Because I believe, it must be a lie.
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[melikianAvak]

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Your "intellectual" crap here is getting worst by the day. Sorry Ara jan, but you have become a pathetic looser in your old age. Your written crap is not even worth the paper its written on.

I agree, his stuff sounds like crap, I think he is impressing himself.

[arabaliozian]

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Friday, June 22, 2007
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CONFESSION
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There is a type of mediocrity who will sell his soul to see his name in print. This is well known to our editors who operate on the assumption that the views of these mediocrities are representative of the majority. The truth of the matter is, these charlatans don’t write what they really think and feel but what will have a better chance to be printed. If anti-Turkish venom and pro-Armenian crapola have a better chance than objective, impartial, and critical assessments, they will produce venom and crapola. As a result, what we see in our weeklies is not a multiplicity of views but a uniformity of predictable and unreadable nonsense. I know what I am saying because I was there once – that’s when I was popular with our editors and my things appeared everywhere.
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[Armenian]

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To sum up Armenianism in two sentences: “Once upon a time we were slaves. We are now slaves of former slaves."

Your "intellectual" crap here is getting worst by the day. Sorry Ara jan, but you have become a pathetic looser in your old age. Your written crap is not even worth the paper its written on.

[melikianAvak]

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Thursday, June 21, 2007
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CONTEXTS AND DIMENSIONS
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Truth is a dimension in which all contradictions are resolved. One way to explain this is to say that contradictions make sense only in sub-dimensions or false contexts. In a tribal, national, or political context, for instance, mankind will be divided into adversaries and allies, friends and enemies, victimizers and victims, butchers and sheep. But in a higher or religious context all men will be said to be brothers. It is up to us to choose in which dimension we wish to live and think.
In a world in which the truths of religion are only preached but the lies of politics are practiced, inevitably there will be more intolerance, hatred, and war, and less brotherhood and peace.
When mankind speaks with a forked tongue, double-talk, deception, and lies are sure to follow.
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Nice dream your having, thanks for sharing.

The world is not what it should be, it is what it is.

[arabaliozian]

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Thursday, June 21, 2007
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CONTEXTS AND DIMENSIONS
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Truth is a dimension in which all contradictions are resolved. One way to explain this is to say that contradictions make sense only in sub-dimensions or false contexts. In a tribal, national, or political context, for instance, mankind will be divided into adversaries and allies, friends and enemies, victimizers and victims, butchers and sheep. But in a higher or religious context all men will be said to be brothers. It is up to us to choose in which dimension we wish to live and think.
In a world in which the truths of religion are only preached but the lies of politics are practiced, inevitably there will be more intolerance, hatred, and war, and less brotherhood and peace.
When mankind speaks with a forked tongue, double-talk, deception, and lies are sure to follow.
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