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I'm sorry but that's like one of those "if they mated" pictures that Conan O'Brien does on the late night show. In this, case, it's a PERFECT picture for a Movses + Accelerated cross! Trust me, if you have seen both of them, you would know what I am talking about. For those who don't know, below is Accelerated (on the left ) ... Juggy, hope you don't mind me digging up an old pic http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/hf/jug_babe.jpg

Isn't this what all relgious "debates" boil down to? Link to video. I mean once the lord has spoken, isn't that the end to any and ALL debates?

Bravo

Armjan you brought up a VERY good point! I have a VERY close friends that is kind "Glendeltsi". We were both at UCLA together. So obviously he is very smart etc. But he is ALWAYS trying to be "street smart". I just can't understand it. And he will almost look down on anyone that doesn't see the world as he sees it. A case in point: He used to work at this big high tech company in the LA area. I was doing my PhD at the time. So one day I go to visit him for lunch and we go to a local Baja Fresh. Well, they had this deal for the people from his company that with their badge, the soda was free. Great. You can not imagine to what extents he went to force me to take advantage of this amazing deal. In his mind, it was completely stupid of me not to take advantage of it so he had to figure out a way to order his food, get his free soda, then sneak his badge to me, so I order my food, and get a free soda. And of course the entire time I was like ? WHY? Needless to say the guy working there saw him pass off his badge because both of us were acting so awekwardly and refused us the free coke. And even though I couldn't care less, he was pretty much devastated. But it wasn't just that incident... it is also a phenomenon that is very rampant in the Glendale Armenian sub culture ... it is as if in "our" bloods to find every which way to cheat the system and abuse any and everything for personal gain. Start from free lunches at highschool cafeterias, to foodstamps and small insurance scams, ALL the way to ripping million and millions from medicare and HMOs. ... and all this, under the guise of being "street smart" (which I would call city-dumb). And if you think the Armenians are bad ... Iranians are 10x worse.

I think you are perhaps confusing "degrees" with "education". I fully agree that just because one has a degree, it doesn't mean one is "educated". But I would use the term educated to refer to just the kinds of people you are talking about with the example of your uncle.

I didn't know dogs care about breast size

What? Garo, Movses, Azat, Vava, Sasun, Edward, alert alert ... RED ALERT ... WE MUST enable the attachment feature RIGHT now. Oh my god oh my god

In regards to himar vs xhelatsi, we have had several threads before discussing what the definition of inteligence is. However, this is an interesting question now since even though "himar" translates to probably "idiot", xhelatsi kind of translates to "brainey" In terms of "himar", I would classify them as the following: 1. Intellectually lazy (as you put it): They are just not willing to spend the effort required to have disciplined and organized thoughts.2. Uninformed/inexperienced: Some are himar based on their lack of knowledge and the necessary experience required in knowing certain things. 3. Illogical himar: Some people are himar simply because they think incorrectly. Their inferred knowledge or their conclusions are simply incorrect due to their faulty way of going about inferring knowledge or making those conclusions.4. Stubborn himar: Some are simply himar due to their inability to admit failure or being wrong.There are probably other classifications and I certainly do not think everyone is equally intelligent or has equal potential to be intelligent. I think genetics do play some role but more importantly, up bringing and personal traits that are not necessarily genetic (learned behaviors) play very significant roles in how one develops as the time goes on. But all this just reminded me of one of my most favorite poems by Saadi (persian poet). To use his words, he basically classifies the himar/xheloks as follows: Those who know, and know that they know.Those who know, but don't know that they know.Those who don't know, and know they don't know.Those who don't know, and don't know they don't know.I have listed them in the order he thinks they will succeed. To directly translate, he thinks the 3rd cateogry, those who don't know, but know they don't know, will still somehow "get their limping donkey home" (sounds much better in Farsi). But the last category, those who don't know, and don't know they don't know ... he says they will forever remain in their complete and utter ignorance

FYI, the typical convention online is to use the letter 'x' for that latter in xelatsi.

There is absolutely no way. Unless Iran does something really stupid like pull a 9/11 caliber stunt to send the American public running around like headless chickens (similar to the actual 9/11), there is no way the US is going to take military action against Iran.

#1. It's the most basic form of getting sympathy from others. The more unhappy you are, the more attention you can draw to yourself. Unfortunately, some people as you say, will even push away happiness just so that they can feel sorry for themselves which somehow, stragely enough, makes them in a way happy! #2. Not sure about this one. I am sure there are those like this but it's not everyone. If you are asking why some people might do this, my guess is because of jealousy. #3. There is nothing worse than watch the world pass you by! Especially if you know you could have done something about it but didn't. So with #3, somehow watching others unhappy justifies our own failures and miseries. #4. Same as 2 and 3 I think.

Yup sSebB Kakachik, it is really easy to make! Just find any sorts of greens you can and thow them in a pan with some eggs Actually, a lot of the Armenian and Iranian stores sell the greens all ready made and dried in a bag. If you don't have such a store closeby, you can also get it online. For example, here is the dried vegies and herbs and here's the recipe from sadaf.

Let's just say I used 8 extra large eggs

I made kookoo last night ... it's a persian easter thing Ingredients: (4 servings) vegetables (parsley, dill, coriander, lettuce, spring onion ends), 1 kg eggs, 4 large baking soda, one teaspoon wheat flour, one spoon cooking oil salt black pepper Directions: Wash vegetables and rinse thoroughly. Chop finely and fry in oil for about 5 minutes. Let cool completely. Beat eggs well, then add baking soda, salt, black pepper, flour, barberry and walnuts. Add vegetables and mix well. Heat oil in a non-stick pan until it is hot. Pour in the mix, flatten the surface with the back of a spoon, and place the lid on. Reduce heat and fry for about 10 minutes, until kookoo is cooked under. Cut radially into 4 equal pieces, turn over, and fry for another 10 minutes. Recipe copied from here.

New word for today: snackrifice (noun), plural snackficies. 1. giving up a valued snack: a giving up of a valuable or important snack for somebody or something else considered to be of more value or importance 2. snack offering to god: an offering of a snack to honor or appease a god, especially a snack made of a ritually slaughtered animal or person 3. symbolic snack offering: a symbolic offering of a snack made to a god 6. loss in giving up a valued snack: a loss incurred by giving away or selling a snack below its value verb (past snackrificed, past participle snackrificed, present participle snackrificing, 3rd person present singular snackrifices).

The Bible. If you are not familiar with Penn and Teller's show "Bullshit", be aware that the video contains bad language and it might be offensive to some. If your feelings are easily hurt, don't click the link.

http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/forum/images/smilies/fart.gif Ok God Damnit freedom of speech stops at farting in public. I draw the line

Anon, before this goes any further, do you concede that even though everything may be a "perspective", that some perspectives are more valid than others?

Sometimes the grandest of all proofs can be carried out through the simplest induction. In order to "see" evolution, instead of asking for the grand demonstration of a single cel evolving into the highest of life forms all at once, maybe one only needs to see the clues in each little step over millions of years. As exemplified by the article that started this thread, now there is another link between purely sea and purely land creatures. Is it "proof of evolution"? I don't know. But is it perhaps a little piece in the induction puzzle going from step to step, maybe!

I see. Used toys and shoes I might understand but a pentium can still do a LOT (except maybe be used to warch the latest porn technology ) Although those donating old pentium PCs should not be able to claim more than $10 in charitable contributions for their "computers".

I am having a very hard time understanding what that says. What is AMD and what costs 26.92 billion? And what's this ban on used toys and comptuers?

But I have to be honest, I used to like Tata at first. It's just that pretty much everything from him now is sounding the same to me. It's good for a party when you just want to jump up and down and dance but I just can't get myself to "listen" to his music like I would other kinds of music (ahem Harut P. ahem ahem)

In other words, http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/forum/images/smilies/gay.gif

By the way, just to clarify, I don't mean this as any sort of insult to those who pray even though I don't think they are doing anything meaningful. My point in this thread is why do we even care if someone wants to pray for others? People still read astrology and fortune cookies and talk to psychics who can converse with the dead so why single out prayer (that might even do good to calm the nerves of those who do the praying and give them hope) and try to expose it? It might be more fruitful to start with the simple things like how a generic paragraph in a news paper that is circulated to thousands of people can't possibly predict anything meaningful about a single person based on when they were born.

Just to make me happy, once those groups are set up, we should write the names of the people in two of those groups and sent it to space on the suttle. One group should know about it while the other doesn't. Maybe we'll find a statistically significant correlation between names being shot into space and health conditions. The point being, there are billions of experiments we can set up. The important question is why bother