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#1 ara baliozian

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Posted 09 August 2001 - 05:53 AM

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In human affairs there are always two ways of doing things: the easy way and the hard way.

Reasonable men choose the easy way, perverts the hard way.

Reasonable men cooperate; perverts prefer to live in a state of permanent conflict.

Any man who chooses to live by perverted principles will be a pervert.

To a pervert, the normal will be abnormal and vice versa.

A pervert will ascribe his failures to others, never to his own perversion.

A pervert will ascribe his perversion to nature or the will of God.

A pervert is driven not by reason but by instinct.

All mention of reason, common sense and decency will be viewed as insults or personal assaults by a pervert.

The same applies to institutions, societies, ideologies, and nations.

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Posted 09 August 2001 - 09:21 AM

When you discount the subjectivists, the mysticists, the relativists, you may end up building a standard which the rest of the world may honor and benefit.

But, I am affraid there is always room for the pervert. That's why I think an objective standard of conduct that is interchangible with human consciousness is necessary for our well being.

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Posted 09 August 2001 - 10:22 AM

there is room for the pervert, yes, of course; but it doesn't follow that we should accept his perversion as the norm.
just because there is evil in the world, it doesn't follow we should legalize it.

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Posted 09 August 2001 - 11:58 PM

I was hoping that the standard of conduct will be precluding the actions of the pervert by virtue of a detriment to his intentions. If he chooses to act as a contrarian to the accepted, on the basis of what is right, then I would leave it to the police, rather than the church, or the community.

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Posted 01 September 2001 - 06:09 AM

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posted August 15, 2001 07:04 AM
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PROBLEMS / SOLUTIONS
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When it comes to solving problems,
the complexity of a problem is not as significant as its context.
By context we mean the cultural environment, the power structure,
and the social forces that have generated the problem.

The context of a problem will determine its solution.

The most difficult problem has a better chance to be solved
in a reasonable context than the easiest problem in an unreasonable one.

If the solution of a problem is found, it does not necessarily mean the end of the problem, especially if the problem is set in an unreasonable context.

A solution that ignores the context of the problem will be only a useless verbal formula.

If a problem is set in an unreasonable context,
the more reasonable its solution the more violently it will be rejected.

If we assume that mental and emotional development is a process involving successive states of equilibrium, it follows that equilibrium has been an absent factor in our collective existence, whose context has been shaped by centuries of brutal oppression, massacre, genocide, deportation, cultural shock, destitution and slum life.

It follows, even if a messianic figure with the ability to solve all our problems were to appear among us, he would be crucified, and worse: he would be ignored, silence, buried alive, and forgotten.

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Posted 01 September 2001 - 06:10 AM

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posted August 17, 2001 07:08 AM
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AXIOMS / 3
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We are brainwashed against our will but we remain brainwashed by consent.
To be brainwashed means to have a fraction of our brain paralyzed.

An Armenian who asserts we are better than others is a brainwashed Armenian. The historic evidence (see below), common sense, and objective judgment all combine to suggest that we are as bad as most and worse than some.

To say that we are better is to imply our representatives are better too and they are therefore capable of doing what must be done.

To assume that our representatives are our betters is to adopt a passive stance.

Assuming a passive stance comes naturally to a nation that throughout its millennial history has been subservient to warlords, sultans, and commissars.

Our warlords have divided and tribalized us, sultans have massacred us, and commissars have systematically eliminated our ablest men.

Warlords, sultans and commissars are no longer with us but we continue to be divided and decimated by our representatives who continue to brainwash us to believe we have nothing to worry about, they are doing what must be done, and all we have to do is adopt a passive stance and trust our destiny into their own hands.

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