random thoughts

Thursday, September 17, 2009
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OUR FATHER
WHO ART IN HEAVEN
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Readers who contradict and insult me
do so with the self-righteous arrogance
of our revolutionaries whose revolution
resulted in in one of the worst catastrophes
of the last millennium.
They may think they have God on their side
(meaning of course our bosses, bishops, and benefactors)
but I have His word on mine.
You don't believe me?
Read instead the Scriptures.
But if you are too lazy to do so,
allow me the privilege:
“Put not your trust in princes.”
For “Wide is the gate and broad is the way
that leadeth to destruction.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“Where there is no no vision, the people perish.”
“What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?”
“The wages of sin is death.”
“If the blind lead the blind,
both shall fall into the ditch.”
“The way of transgressors is hard.”
Amen!
Let us now pray.
“Our Father...”
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Friday, September 18, 2009
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WHO SAYS WE CANT
DEVELOP A CONSENSUS?
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When it comes to praising God
and worshiping Mammon,
we all sing in harmoney
and use the same hymn book.
When it comes to bragging about survival
and lamenting our countless victims
we are all on the same page.
We all agree to confuse reason with treason.
We are unanimous when it comes to
praising our poets when they are dead
and burying them when they are alive.
We all agree to believe in Big Lies
and to verbally abuse those who expose them.
We all agree to preach Armenianism
and to practice Ottomanism in the Diaspora
and Sovietism in the Homeland.
We are all for freedom
and dead set against free speech.
We are solidly united
when it comes to creating problems,
pretending we have none,
and blaming the rest of the world for them.
And if you say that doesn't make sense
I will also say
we all agree that
making sense
is an unArmenian activity.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
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RANDOM THOUGHTS
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If Freedom or Death does not mean
my freedom and your death,
why is it that our revolutionaries had a Plan B
only for themselves?
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Memo to our revolutionaries:
Freedom from oppression
does not mean freedom to oppress.
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Whenever I am insulted anonymously,
I count my blessings when I think
in the Ottoman Empire and the Soviet Union
I would have been betrayed to the authorities.
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If my central ideas are paraphrases
of Biblical quotations (see above)
does that mean God too is an enemy?
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A fool's silence
is more valuable than his speech.
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An established truth is a grave
from which only lies are resurrected.
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