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Sunday, November 06, 2011
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METAPHYSICAL REFLECTIONS
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If God knows neither fear nor doubt,
can He really understand man?
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When we speak of God
it is useful to remember that we speak of Him
not as He is but as we conceive Him to be;
and it is a serious blunder to conceive of God
in our own image.
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We may have the answers to the most important questions
only after we die. In that sense,
death may be not an end but a beginning.
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To God past and future are one
and both might as well be a fraction of a second.
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What if the Big Bang as we know it
is only the last bang in an infinite series of bangs?
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Everything we say about God is based on hearsay evidence
and therefore inadmissible.
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God and men are more fiction than reality.
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Reality (or God or Truth) is so different
from what we imagine it to be that
if the two ever met
they would not recognize each other.
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Monday, November 07, 2011
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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To go down into the gutter with your adversary
is almost to agree with him -- if not with his words
than with his way of life.
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No Armenian writer loved his fellow Armenians
as much as Khachatur Apovian – and he committed suicide.
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I don’t criticize ideas;
I criticize their absence,
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In a controversy to be silent
is to support the status quo.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
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HOW MANY ARMENIANS?
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We have more questions than answers.
Who qualifies as an Armenian?
What if half of Turkey is half Armenian?
Because an Armenian girl was legally raped as a teenager,
does it follow that her offspring
acquired the national identity of her rapist
who may have been himself half Armenian?
An Armenian who is against us,
is he not more Turkish than Armenian?
A Turk who is with us
is he not more Armenian than Turkish?
If to divide-and-rule is enemy action,
do our dividers qualify as Armenian?
How many of our bosses, bishops, and benefactors
(who support only one faction) qualify as Armenian?
If we say only Armenians who are for solidarity
qualify as Armenian,
who will dare to say he is against solidarity?
If we preach solidarity and practise divisions
do we not speak with a forked tongue?
Can an Armenian who speaks with a forked tongue
qualify as a human being?
Confused?
You should be.
i am.
Who said reality is easy to figure out?
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011
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OBSERVATIONS
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After a disaster,
those who are partly or wholly responsible for it,
will come up with a thousand reasons why
the disaster was inevitable.
Don’t believe a word they say.
Their priority is not to understand and explain
but to mislead and deceive.
Their aim is not to learn from history
in order not to repeat it,
but to salvage their powers and privileges.
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To say where there is power there will be abuse of power
is like saying where there are people
there will also be the law of gravity.
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Haves and have nots?
It would be more accurate to speak of
bloodsuckers and their victims.
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Deceivers and dupes?
Even better: predators and herbivores.
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Class warfare?
I suggest telling bloodsuckers
to minimize their intake of blood
does not qualify.
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There are many things that can be seen
even by a legally blind man,
but most of us are so carefully and consistently indoctrinated
that we are willing to testify under oath
we saw nothing.
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Sh*t happens because most men are sh*ts.
And more often than not
a deceiver is as much of a sh*t as a dupe.
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Voltaire on the origin of religion:
“From the meeting of the earliest scoundrel
with the very first fool.”
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