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Sunday, July 22, 2012
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AURORA
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Why do some so-called normal individuals
go unhinged and commit massacres
on unarmed and innocent civilians?
The simple answer is and must be,
an accumulation of injuries inflicted on them by others
in the name of this or that
moral code or educational system, or law and order.
All I have to do to reach that conclusion is
to examine my own life – and by that I don’t mean
only the injuries that have been inflicted on me
but also the injuries that I have myself inflicted on others.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
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HEAVEN AND HELL
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There are so many lies parading as truths
that truth has become a synonym of lie.
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Power, real power, means
the power to kill and steal
and get away with it.
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When the 99% do something wrong,
they are punished.
When the 1% do something wrong
they give themselves a fat bonus.
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Kings, statesmen, popes, imams, rabbis:
they are as habitual and compulsive liars
as murderers and thieves.
Most of them are in fact murderers and thieves.
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Heaven and hell are predictable places
we are told. But in life, heaven may change into hell
and vice versa without notice.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
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POWER
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Absolute power creates morons.
Sultans, commissars, popes, imams:
the great their power,
the greater the number of dupes.
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The number one concern of all power structures is power.
This is as true of America as it is
of Russia, China, Syria, and the Vatican.
The Pope has probably devoted more time,
resources, energy, and personnel
on his propaganda against contraception
than against child molestation.
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Who understands Armenians?
Not even Armenians.
If Armenians can’t understand Armenians, who can?
Only God and He is not in the business
of sharing His understanding with us.
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My advice to our enemies:
“You don’t kill a man who is committing suicide.”
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
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ABOUT INTERMARRIAGE
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Dedicated to my good friend Hagop Jelalian
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In the Armenian ghetto
where I was born and raised,
I was brainwashed to believe
intermarriage meant sleeping with the enemy.
I know better now because
I appreciate the positive aspects of mixed marriages –
namely, the introduction of racial and religious tolerance.
And sure enough, some of our ablest and most progressive intellectuals,
from Abovian to Zarian,
and from Arlen to Saroyan,
married odars.
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How to explain the popularity of intermarriage? –
about 80% in the United States, I am told.
A man is a man,
a woman is a woman,
and when the two meet, everything else –
moral and esthetic values,
political orientation, financial status,
religious and ethnic prejudices,
fly out the window.
What remains are a man, a woman
and the instinct to be fruitful and multiply.
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