Accelerated

I think Armenia is a long way from entering the EU (ie. meeting EU membership criteria)

quote:And you think that this is a good thing? Well, from the humane point of view, it certainly isnt a good thing, considering any sort of extremism is a root for conflict. From the political point of view however, I am not so sure. Armenia may benefit from a world resurgence in Christian fanaticism. On the other hand Armenia would be right on the front line if a global war between Islam and Christianity took place (though this is very unlikelly). It really is a mixed bag. quote:see it as a major step backword and exactly why religion of this sort is dangerous, wrong, backward I think you will find in most cases it is the Muslims (as evident from what took place recently in Nigeria) who initiate violence, and the Christians are forced to defend themselves. And I do believe the spread and belief in Christianity to be beneficial for the individual and the world. quote:So everyone - do yourself and the world a favor and kill an evangelical I really dont know much about evangelicals, or for that matter any other Christian fundamentalist sects, but I think the vast majority of Christians in the third world belong to more mainstream Churches (Catholic, Protestant etc.) and not these fanatical sects.

I guess it would depend on the situation....for example I would always put my best friend above any girlfriend, because he is like a brother to me. But I wouldnt put him above my wife.......

Speaking of partying, it was my best friends birthday this Saturday, and we went to a really popular nightclub, which I had never been to. For some reason, it was one of those nights where I just didnt feel like drinking, probably because a girl that I was really looking forward to turning up to the party didnt show up . So I didnt even get drunk. But the place we went to was amazing. Three floors of dance arenas, and really nice music (just not fast enough). They even had a 'spin-out' room where all the junkies vegged out on lounges while listening to weird beats.........LOL Its times like these when I wish I was a junkie [ December 02, 2002, 04:07 AM: Message edited by: Accelerated ]

Qristine, Just finished reading your (long) post, and I must say I agree with you, and dont let these hyenas( j/k) sway you, for God knows you are right!

Hasmiek, quote:what's 'pure armenian' anyway?Its a shame, you have allready forgotten/given up. And I dont take the phrase literally, but it would be next to impossible to be one, living outside Armenia. [ December 02, 2002, 03:56 AM: Message edited by: Accelerated ]

Harut, quote:i'm probably one of them. i wear a cross across my neck, i celebrate chirstmas, easter, etc.Why do you wear a the Cross then? As a fashion accessorie? A little while ago I was watching the Cable Shopping Channel (for about 15 min...LOL). Anyhow, they were showing a cross incrusted with rocks (maybe diamonds), and the salesperson said something along the lines of "Apart from religion, this is a great fashion accessorie". I was infuriated, even if there was no God, respect should be shown for those who believed and paid for it with their lives. btw. I dont wear the Cross or any other jewellery, and I find it distasteful when other men/youths do so......

quote:Why would a "pure" Armenian ever bother to learn English? So he/she can earn a living in an English speaking country.

Hi guys, I found this one on the site of the most respected local dayly paper "Sydney Morning Herald" (www.smh.com.au). I think you will also find it interesting....comment here quote:Christian reactionaries leading a new crusade By Paul Sheehan December 2 2002 Spare some empathy for Abbas Aly, a good bloke with a bad sense of timing and an even worse sense of direction. Mr Aly has had a head-on collision with something much bigger than most people realise. He's trying to get a prayer hall built in Annangrove, a semi-rural area in Sydney's prime middle-class growth belt. It's the next suburb after Dural, Kenthurst and Kellyville. It's a growing area. Abbas Aly wants to grow a Muslim community into the mix. Having stimulated some 8000 letters and calls of complaint, Mr Aly has learned three things the hard way. This is a community trying to keep the semi-rural feel by limiting commercial development. It is part of the closest thing Sydney has to a "bible belt". And right now the word "Muslim" has the same effect on the Australian psyche as the tug of a riptide during a swim at the beach. The Lebanese-Australian beauty Nicole Gazal had the misfortune to get too close to the hot zone when she went to Nigeria two weeks ago as Australia's Miss World entrant and found herself under army protection while hundreds of people were murdered by Muslim mobs fired into action by mullahs. The mullahs didn't like a newspaper column by a Nigerian journalist, Isioma Daniel, a Christian woman who had the gall to suggest that if the prophet Mohammed were around he might want to marry one of these Miss Worlds. The term bombshell was given new meaning. Isioma Daniel has fled to the United States. Nicole Gazal and the other 89 Miss World aspirants have fled to London. And the world has been reminded, yet again, that Christianity and Islam are becoming an increasingly volatile mix. This latest sectarian carnage, far removed from the normalised anti-Semitism of the Arab world, should wake us up to the biggest demographic change in the world today. It is much bigger than the rise of militant Islam. While understandably obsessed with the medieval barbarism coming out of Islamic fundamentalist sects, the secular West appears oblivious to the powerful impact that Islamic fundamentalism is having on Christianity, and the rise of fundamentalist Christianity itself. Philip Jenkins, the distinguished professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University, believes the world is standing on a demographic and religious explosion on a scale not seen since the Reformation. He also believes Western society is informed by a media in large part dismissive, uninterested or hostile towards muscular Christianity. His new book, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford), presents some explosive views. According to Professor Jenkins: "Across the regions of the world that will be the most populous in the 21st century, vast religious contests are already in progress, though so far they have impinged little on Western opinion. The most significant conflict is in Nigeria, a nation that by rights should be a major regional power in this century; but recent violence between Muslims and Christians raises the danger that Nigerian society might be brought to ruin by the clash of jihad and crusade. Muslims and Christians are at each other's throats in Indonesia, the Philippines, Sudan, and a growing number of other African nations ..." The winners in this global struggle are those who are most uncompromising, most conservative and most combative, groups on both sides of the divide with what Jenkins calls "a strongly apocalyptic mind-set": "Perhaps the most remarkable point about these potential conflicts is that the trends pointing toward them have registered so little on the consciousness of even well-informed Northern observers ... I suspect that most see Christianity very much as it was a century ago - a predominantly European and North American faith." How outdated this view has become. The missionaries have won. Worldwide, Christianity is moving towards evangelism, supernaturalism and neo-orthodoxy, which dominates Christian beliefs in Africa (360 million adherents), Latin America (480 million), Asia (313 million) and the evangelistic branches of Christianity in North America and the West (200 million), who not only outnumber the non-evangelical Christians, but exceed the demographic scale of Islam. In 1900, Africa had just 10 million Christians, about 9 per cent of the continent's total population. Today there are 360 million African Christians, 42 per cent of Africa's total population. They have exported their faith back to its colonial source. Half of all London churchgoers are now black. The annual baptism total for the Philippines is higher than the totals for Italy, France, Spain and Poland combined. This global demographic change is not heading in the direction of gay rights, women priests and soft liberalism favoured by the Western churches. Professor Jenkins has no doubt where Christianity is going in global terms: "The denominations that are triumphing across the global South [Third World] - radical Protestant sects, either evangelical or Pentecostal, and Roman Catholicism of an orthodox kind - are stalwartly traditional or even reactionary by the stands of the economically advanced nations." The US President, George Bush, has a core constituency dominated by Christian conservatives, who have never been more numerous or more powerful. Australia is a far less religious country than America, but such trends co-exist here, largely ignored until someone like Abbas Aly trips over a fault-line. On the global canvas, Philip Jenkins concludes: "As the media have striven in recent years to present Islam in a more sympathetic light, they have tended to suggest that Islam, not Christianity, is the rising faith of the world's huddled masses. But Christianity is not only surviving in the global South, it is enjoying a radical revival, a return to scriptural roots. We are living in revolutionary times. But we aren't participating in them. By any reasonable assessment of numbers, the most significant transformation of Christianity in the world today is not the liberal Reformation that is so much desired in the North. It is the Counter-Reformation coming in the global South. And it's very likely that in a decade or two neither component of global Christianity will recognize its counterpart as fully or authentically Christian."

As soon as I get an internship. It shouldnt take too long, since half of all our family friends work in the IT industry. I took this week off to vegge, but from Monday Im going to start sending out the resumes and making phonecalls. I should get somethin by the end of December, and if everything goes well at work, I'll start looking for a car mid-January. Yeah, we do have speed limits and they are ridiculous at some places, but all fixed speed cameras are marked, so just gotto watch out for the mobile ones. Im not really a fast driver, but I love going around corners fast. The laws here arnt overbearing, but I really cant compare to any other place in the world And there are some very nice roads both inland and along the coast, and since Australia is sparcelly populated the traffic is very light, except during holiday periods. In the Northern Tettitory Outback there are no speed limits . btw. yesterday for the first time I sat in a Supra, and it was quite amazing. Its liking sitting in a cockpit with all the instruments facing you and within easy reach. Here is a pic of inside: http://www.mkiv.com/mkiv_gallery/mkiv_gallery/interior/i_01.jpg

I see, yeah those pics were awesome too . Cant wait to get my Supra, Ill send the pics (of burnouts) through as soon as I get it

Wow, thats really something man! btw. what does it say on the spare tyre cover "Work sux......something...."?

quote:I don’t think so but the truth is I refuse to kiss ass and that is who I am never did never will. MJ assumes some kind of leadership role here To BOF's defence he was (once) a great contributor (and a moderator) to this forum, and this is probably the reason why many forumers and moderators eat his humble pie and dont complain. But for the past year (at least) his posts contain more jokes and insults (about other forumers) than constructive material. And dont get me wrong, I dont mind a laugh at my expense, but latelly he has become rather blunt and repetitive.

Good job on the poster Rubs, but I just dont think its a good idea, since alcohol has absolutelly nothing to do with the Genocide. And just because you got the Absolute Vodka bottle there......I dont know it probably will capture peoples attention, but maybe not the right type people.....LOL

quote:Hey juggs, are you always looking for ways to cause trouble? Just bummin around mate. . The exams are finished, and the resumes are almost ready to be sent, so all Im doen is waitin for calls ALL day long. btw. you like my new sig? [ November 23, 2002, 04:55 AM: Message edited by: Accelerated ]

Varduhi and Qristine jan, as allready quite apparent to you, many (actually the majority) of the active forumers at HyeForum dont think like the 'conventional Armenian'. They are however intelligent and able to come up with powerful arguments, so my only hope is they dont sway you from your current correct (IMO) position. But watch them swarm all over you like a pack of hyenas, escpessially look out for the one they call Winston (THOTH)....LOL

quote:and those who lack the heart /have lacked it - are out Stalins. Mao Tse Dungs, Hitlers & such....great company eh?Sure is! . Apparently, Stalin toward the end of his life, liked hosting drinking parties at his dacha. He would invite his closest associates (Mikoyan one of them), and encourage them to get drunk and perform scandalous deeds.....LOL And it was after one night of such binge drinking that he died Reference: documentary film "Russias War: Blood Upon the Snow" Actually it was a pretty sh!t documentary

quote:WHAT'S NEXT? Damn, let Kelly do as she wishes, hopefully she will learn from her mistake later.

Well, apart from the general benefit of 'the more (Armenians) the better'. These days marriages are complicated matters and many dont last. A mixedmarriage would just be another source of arguments and misunderstanding, because of cultural and other differences (basically pointed out by Harut).

quote:well Camarades, lets get rid of the capitalist threats. Dang, where are those Black Shirts when you need them....

THOTH, have you heard of this Churchill quote, goes something along the lines: "If you are under 30 and conservative, you dont have a heart. But, if you are over 30 and a liberal, you dont have a head" Naturally, bieng Winston Churchill the original quote was more bombastic, but this was the underlyng message. [ November 22, 2002, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: Accelerated ]

Thats interesting, I got Economic Left/Right -3.25 Authoritarian/Libertarian 1.95 Authoritarian Leftie LOL, hehe same direction as Stalin. Actually I am quite surprised since I consider myself to be more of a centrist on economic matters, hence more like Hitler. [ November 21, 2002, 01:29 AM: Message edited by: Accelerated ]

Got the answer, u guys might find it interesting too: quote:Madonna's tattoo on her arm says 'LAV' in Hebrew letters. 'LAV' in Hebrew means “not”- representing the 10 commandments “shall not…” The tattoo represents all her sins. It’s a mark, like the Mark of Cain. The leather band she wraps around her left arm 7 times is called 'Tefillin' (or phylacteries). Every Jewish man who reaches the age of 13 and a day has to put them on every morning during the Morning Prayer. It is important to stress that only men put them on, men and Madonna that is… In the video there’s a struggle between the White Madonna and the Black Madonna- good vs. evil (just to get the point through that it is a James Bond theme song..). The Black Madonna seems much stronger in the beginning- but once she puts on the 'Tefillin' and thereby cleans her sole, the White Madonna takes over. The White Madonna kills the Black Madonna right when the executioners turn the electric chair on. Her executioners walk in and see that she managed to escape from the electric chair. She got to a certain spiritual level in which she didn’t need to be punished anymore- her sole was clean.

quote:Most recently I have learned that pop star Madonna has converted into JudaismYes, I suspected so, since that tatoo on her right arm looked like three hebrew letters, clearly seen in her latest video "Die another day". Does anyone know what the three hebrew letters mean or stand for?

quote:if anyone has more ideas i am more then happy to hear from youDid anyone mention alcohol?.....LOL(j/k) On a more serious note, I would like to say I dont think women should get drunk, they are much more likelly to do something they later regret.