let us reason together

Sunday, March 25, 2012
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MEDITATIONS
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A Canadian poetess on publishers:
“After you have been screwed in all possible ways
you run into someone who has read the KAMA SUTRA.”
This observation applies to so many situations in life.
Nay life itself for that matter, and more particularly
to dealing with fellow Armenians.
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It’s when you think you are too smart to be taken in
that you swallow the bait hook, line and sinker.
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The world belongs to bullies, bullshitters, and brown-nosers.
The surest way of exposing your limitations
is by pretending to be better than you are.
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All talk of reparations and annexation of historic lands
is no better than a Ponzi scheme. There is a Madoff in all our Panchoonies and Turcocentric ghazetajis.
Don’t get me wrong.
Mention of Hai Tahd scares the shit out of Turks.
But that’s all it does. All they have to do is take a shower
and they feel clean again.
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The only way to be happy in this world
is to be deaf to silent screams.
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When an old man falls in love
it’s never with an old woman but with a much younger one.
So much for the spiritual content of love.
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Whenever I am tempted to take myself seriously
I can always rely on one of my Armenian readers
to bring me down to earth and to my senses.
To them I am eternally grateful.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
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WARS
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All wars are just wars against an unjust enemy.
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The sanctity of life?
Don’t make me laugh.
The very same people who are against abortion
are also for war.
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The only way to keep your sanity in an insane world:
take nothing seriously beginning with yourself.
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Is it His absence or presence
that I feel more intensely?
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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FROM DUST TO DUST
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All your life you try to do what’s right
and you end up doing what’s wrong.
That’s the only way to explain
the hemlock, the crucifixion, and the assassination –
Socrates, Christ, and Gandhi.
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Every idea generates its own contradiction.
For every believer there will be a non-believer;
and to complicate matters even more,
some non-believers will parade as believers and vice versa.
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Hitler was a man of vision
whose idea of heaven was hell
to Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and many others.
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Where there is love there will be hatred.
For every positive there will be a negative
and the result will be zero or death or nothingness.
From dust to dust.
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The world is full of idiots who think
(if you will forgive the overstatement)
they are smart enough to know what must be done
and they go right ahead and do it.
Think of our revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire…
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Philosophers and historians have tried to explain these paradoxes
and so far they have failed to reach a consensus –
very much like our own thinkers whose existence (like that of god) has so far eluded a universally valid proof.
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What am I driving at?
I am not sure.
Perhaps this:
If you sit on your ass and do nothing
or if you choose to die for a noble cause,
nothing will change and the world will go on
as before and as it has always done.
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An ant may impress another ant
but not a pedestrian.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
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LET US REASON TOGETHER
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The 1% do not have to lie in order to deceive;
all they have to do is withhold the evidence.
First and foremost they are cover-up artists.
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The greatest sin is allowing oneself
to be deceived, brainwashed, and systematically moronized.
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The system is foolproof because
we are moronized with our own consent.
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“Thou shalt not be deceived”
is not in the Decalogue because Moses was with the 1%.
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The secret ambition of the 99% is to join the 1%.
It is this hope or ambition more than anything else
that keeps them in chains.
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The 1% does not manufacture chains;
they hire the 99% for the job.
Schoolteachers and priests are first and foremost
hirelings of the 1%.
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All great assertions have direct references
to this self-evident truth –
from “The Kingdom of God is within you,”
to “You have nothing to lose but your chains.”
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You don’t need middle-men to tell you
what’s what and who’s who.
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The hidden message of “I think therefore I am” is:
To repeat someone else’s thought
is to abdicate one’s right to exist as a human being.
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The best answer to the question:
“Who the hell do you think you are?” is
“You are full of shit, that’s who I am.”
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