just a thought

Thursday, March 22, 2012
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JUST A THOUGHT
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You would think that after more than a thousand years
of defeats, massacres, and subservience to alien tyrants,
our leaders would have enough sense to say,
“Let us give solidarity a try for a change –
we may have better luck that way.”
It must be obvious by now that propaganda moronizes
not only the people but also blinds the leadership.
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A regime that terrorizes will view dissent
as a crime against humanity.
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To see connections that have been carefully covered up:
that’s one of the functions of detectives and critics.
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There is a familiar type of Armenian
who is cunning enough to know that
one way to have the last word
is to make himself so repellent that
anyone with the minimum sense of hygiene
will do his utmost to stay as far away from him as possible.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
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NEOLOGISMS
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“santorum”: a byproduct of anal intercourse.
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“To die on the job” or
“To take the Nelson Rockefeller option”:
death by orgasm.
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POETRY
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Marx’s “religion is the opium of the people”
is preceded by
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed,
the heart of a heatless world,
and the soul of a soulless condition.”
Now, that’s what I call real poetry!
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DIALOGUE, ARMENIAN STYLE
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Not all dialogues end in consensus by means of compromise.
Some end in death.
Case in point:
Shane to Wilson:
“I’ve heard about you.”
“What have you heard, Shane?”
“That you are a low-down Yankee liar.”
“Prove it.”
Another example will be found in
Hemingway’s long short story THE KILLERS.
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
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OBSERVATIONS
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From the persecution of heretics
to the massacre of defenseless civilians:
infallibility may be said to be the source of all violence.
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Neither the sultan nor the pope
ever thought of himself as prone to error.
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Where there are leaders and followers
there will be charlatans and dupes.
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One could say that the role of god in history
has been to legitimize crimes against humanity.
Or, where god enters, the devil is sure to follow.
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Religions are the greatest enemies of god.
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If willingness to kill and die
in the name of an illusion or lie
is a sure symptom of insanity,
it follows our planet must be
the insane asylum of the solar system.
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