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Can anyone tell me where I can find a group of Armenians with whom I can play football recreationally in the L.A. area. I haven't played since I was a kid but would like to start it up again just for fun.

"Though a Glass, Darkly" the Bergman film? Romantic?? I would never have thought someone would characterize it that way. As a matter of fact, I can't think of any Bergman film that is romantic. He's too cynical to be romantic.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0620502/ This guy is doing quite well for himself. He had quite a significant role in the movie Happy Feet. Good luck to him.

Wonderful to see a reply from you, Pascal! Keep up the cool music! I don't know what your audience is like in the United States but I hope something would bring you to Los Angeles at some point. Thanks.

Pascal Godjikian also released music with a band called Enihcam. I have the album Le Grande Photolase which I purchased from Systemic Audio (http://www.systemicaudio.com/store/). It's completely ridiculous bizarre breakbeat insanity. I'll recommend it though I'm sure only I would actually be entertained by it.

La STPO (La Société des Timides à la parade des Oiseaux / Shy Society at the Bird Parade) is a French progressive rock band of the RIO style (like Henry Cow). Their lead singer is Armenian: Pascal Godjikian. As all RIO they have their avante garde mix of jazz and rock with occasional hints of Armenian music influence. They even have a song titled "Armenie". Progressive rock isn't for everyone, let alone RIO, but they should be given a chance and supported. They have MP3's on their site. their official site: http://www.stpo.blrrecords.com/home.php you can make some purchases here: http://www.blrrecords.com/shop.php?art=La+STPO

Hagop Arakelian (1894 - 1977) was a French film make-up artist. I saw a credit to him while watching Roger Vadim's And God Created Women. Other important directors he had worked with were Marcel Carné, Max Ophüls, and most notably Jean Cocteau because he did the make-up for Beauty and the Beast. Apparently, you can see him on the supplements of the Criterion DVD being interviewed on an old French television program that also has footage of him working on the Beast's mask. He doesn't have a huge resumé but he does have two important films under his belt, being the Vadim film and the Cocteau film.

No gold plating.

I can't tell what your tone is with that post though it sounds derisive. If it is, and it is so to imply that it may be overly pricey, I can only say that parking in the area is not prohibitive and the coffee is priced as it would be anywhere else. I like good coffee so I would go Beverly Hills just to visit the coffee shop, though I am aware that most others would not be that way.

If you find yourself in Beverly Hills and are in the mood for high quality, tradition Italian-style espresso drinks, visit the Armenian-owned Euro Caffe between Camden and Rodeo on Little Santa Monica. It gets a lot of praise within the Los Angeles coffee snob community. Unfortunately they close at 7pm and are not open on Sundays.

http://www.hmcards.com/ They're hand cut and hand stitched in Armenia. And the company was started by an Armenian woman. I just bought one for a friend's wedding from a store in Silverlake (in Los Angeles) called Serifos [3814 W. Sunset]. They're not cheap but they're very nice.

http://www.armeniancommunitycenter.com/prp...l/schedule.html

I don't know what they say. I've never had one speak to me so I don't know how true that is. But I find it difficult to believe that everybody else knows the Hamsheni origins except for that one group of them. And it doesn't matter anyway. They don't consider themselves anything but Hamsheni. Their cultural separation is due more to geographical isolation and not change of religion. And even the fact that the two Muslim groups are dissimilar and do not entirely agree alone would prove that. Religion may have helped people keep their unity in the past. It may have. I'm nowhere near being entirely convinced of that. But what I am certainly more sure of is that whatever situations they were in that might have demanded reliance on religion for unity were conflicts that arose from religious differences to begin with. Religion is out-dated and it's wrong. Finding rare practical uses for it doesn't change the fact that it is illogical and wrong and should not be touted as knowledge.

For one thing, saying one group feels this and one group feels that seems to be an unfounded and meaningless statement. It is not a cultural analysis. And I also don't know what the whole secrecy thing is. That also seems irrelevant. Secondly, a significant portion of them still speak a dialect of Armenian, even Islamic ones. Lastly, they actually have a different culture all together since they have been isolated for so long. And that culture differs from those of the Arabs and Turks proving that it takes more than just the religion for them to feel like they are not Hamsheni. They know their history and they recognize themselves for what they are: Hamsheni, descendants of an Armenian sect. If they did not feel themselves different, well they probably wouldn't exist anymore. By now you would have a bunch of mixed-blooded people -- probably mostly non-Hamsheni -- who might recognize that they have some Hamsheni ancestry. But this is not the case.

What kept them from being Turkish was the fact that they were Armenian. Ethnic feelings are not dependant on religion but people unacquainted with the perspective of the non-theistic outlook cannot see that so easily. I never had religion and I didn't speak Armenian very well as a child but there was never a doubt that I was Armenian.

Religion is out-dated and illogical.

I didn't say it was making a difference to the Armenian economy. I was responding to your comment about "counterattacks".

Again, it has nothing to with affecting the Turkish economy. It also has nothing to do with hatred. I don't disagree that we need to enhance the industry of Armenia. However, Turks have an embargo against Armenia. The hypothetical Armenian industry should be used to replace Turkish products marketted to the diaspora.

All religion is a stupid, illogical adherence to fairytales concocted by ancient stupid people uncomfortable with their inherent ignorance. It's a disgusting festering disease and a flagrant mockery of the potential of the human mind. And if you're going to believe in a religion keep it to yourself. It should be something that you are ashamed of for needing. Like a diaper.

I've never heard anything about Dali's works being banned. There are works I see all the time in the US that are more vulgar and one can say that all abstract art is "less understandable." That said, I hate Dali. He had incredible technical skill but as paintings his works are just stupid.

Thanks. I'll probably read "Self-Criticism" now.

So don't engage. It is unfortunately important that I stop the spreading of memes that could propagate misinformation. There is a wealth of studies yielding results that prove prenatal origins of homosexuality. If someone states that such a thing is a myth they are necessarily putting their faith in the opinions of someone who has an anti-homosexual agenda and have not actually sought such studies. That is ignorance; the label cannot be avoided. I will not argue that environmental factors cannot create sexual confusion or cause someone to perform homosexual acts (or heterosexual ones, for that matter) but whether or not someone is inherently homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual is biolgogically determined. You obviously believe that marriage shouldn't be a right in a hypothetical government to your liking and that is an entirely different topic. The fact is that heterosexuals are favored, with or without children, and that concept in itself is wrong.

Maybe for religion. But if a government has something called marriage, a legally recognized state between to adults, it cannot be a priviledge that is given to certain citizens or legal residents based on sexual orientation. It must be a right. Especially in a democracy or a democratic republic, etc. where the government is, on principle, a body elected by the people to represent the people. It's all very logical.

When did this happen? Did Anonymouse switch sides? I never thought that would happen.

No, it isn't a myth. You're completely ignorant on the topic. Don't spread such ridiculous memes. There are no credible peer-reviewed studies that claim this. Sorry. ?!