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In other words, we become like children again.

I'm fully aware of the fact that Adams was an atheist. The quote, taken from a satirical novel, was meant to reflect that.

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This one doesn't work, but they're the same letters anyway. ագռավ - գավառ

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

Indeed, one could also do it from behind the computer.

I'll let you answer that question yourself whenever you're ready. And if you never are, then there is nothing I can say that will make you feel comfortable with the notion of homosexuality.

And why are you disgusted exactly?

I'll take the liberty of answering to these questions, assuming we exchange gay for lesbian and girl for guy. 1) I would simply tell her that I'm not interested and hope that she will not pursue. I do the same with guys, so why should I treat girls differently? 2) I wouldn't be going out with him in the first place (no offense, but to me he's still a woman). I would assume that by the time I start taking my acquaintance with this guy to another level, he would have already had the decency to tell me, and if he didn't, then he deserves to be dumped anyway. That's a pretty damn big secret to keep from someone you want to have serious relationship with.

I was talking about those who aren't gay, and they are a growing number. As for homosexuals, at least among those that I know or have read about, the greatest majority has never even considered sex-change. Apparently it is still possible to be gay and comfortable enough in your skin to not want to change your sex.

Heterosexuality is shoved down our throats all the time.

I'm not talking about homosexuality. I'm talking about the latest fad: wanting to have a sex-change. Like I said, 99.9% of the cases. I cringe whenever I hear a girl-turned-boy saying something like "I always liked fishing and I'm addicted to sex, therefore I must be a boy" as if all guys like fishing and no girls like sex. The same when a boy-turned-girl says something like "I like wearing make-up and buying purses, therefore I must be a girl" as if every girl does these activities by nature. When I hear this, I think to myself, If someone had told them that they are still boys or girls sexually, regardless of their preferences, would they still choose to change their sex?

Are you saying that the desire to have a sex-change is not a choice? I think that in 99.9% of the cases, people would not feel the need to have a sex-change if our society would start recognizing that the labels "feminine" and "masculine" are empty as they stand now. A person born with female sex organs is feminine by definition, whether she likes shopping, interior design, and the latest glossy magazines, or whether she prefers to fly a plane, study physics, and drink beer. Similarly a person born with male sex organs is masculine by definition, whether he likes to get into fights with other people, be addicted to porn, and play with his train collection, or whether he likes to get a manicure, cry when he watches a sad movie, and knows how to do laundry without mixing colors. And once again, none of these preferences determine one's sexual orientation! Just because you're a guy and you like shopping, does not make you gay! And just because you're a girl and you don't like wearing high heels, does not make you lesbian!

What I wonder about is why a growing number of young American teenagers is undergoing sex-change. A person born a girl says: "I never liked wearing dresses and I always liked playing football, therefore I must be a boy." A person born a boy says: "I like wearing dresses and plucking my eyebrows, therefore I must be a girl." Who said that boys can't wear dresses and that girls don't like playing football? Who indoctrinated these kids into believing that their behavior is either "feminine" or "masculine"? Is it not time we accepted that there are all kinds of men and women? That there are men who like shopping and women who don't? That there are women who like cars and men who don't? That there are men who like gossiping and women who don't? That there are women who like to educate themselves and men who don't? And that these men and women have been around since the dawn of mankind, or else we would not have had such inane labels like "tomboy" and "sissy." Edit, PS: And that not all "sissies" and "tomboys" are gay or lesbian!

I didn't know that actually, but the story makes much more sense to me now.

By the end of the story it becomes clear that he's not a Bolshevik, so I'm assuming that he is a Dashnak. The red armband still makes me wonder, however..

Someone help me out here! Have any of you read "Vandunts Badi"? If so, what is Varzhapet Minas? Is he a Dashnak or a communist? He wears a red armband, which I associate with communism (and the Soviet Union), but he seems to preach Dashnak ideology, e.g.: Վարժապետ Մինասը մի անգամ էլ եկավ, խոսեց դաշնակցության մասին, մենշեվիկին ուշունց տվավ եվ ասաց, թե ով դաշնակցական չի, նա հայ չի: He even uses the word dashnaktsutyun, but that doesn't necessarily mean Armenian Revolutionary Federation, does it? For me it's the last part "whoever is not a dashnak, is not an Armenian" that makes me interpret it as Dashnak ideology. But what's up with the red armbands? ...երկու մարդ եկան, թեվերին կարմիր շորի մի կտոր կապած: Մեկը վարժապետ Մինասն էր, մյուսն էլ մի ջահել տղա: Did Dashnaks wear red armbands back in the day? For those who haven't read the story, it begins right before WWI and ends right before Armenia became a member of the Soviet Union.

But this is okay? Sarkessian Turkey is the worst country Madeleine Sarkessian Tukey is a penguin stupid land

Well, you are repeating their arguments... Reality check: recognition of the Armenian Genocide will NOT prevent other genocides. EVER. All it can potentially do is help us reconcile with Turkey. Nothing more. As to why YOU are trying to have the world recognize the Armenian Genocide, you should explain to me, because I don't know. For a number of years now I have said that I don't care whether the rest of the world recognizes the genocide or not. We know it happened. Who cares what the rest of the world thinks?

I don't agree, Harut. I think she has gotten worse.

Looking at her should provide enough clues. Note that many USSR drugs were made in such a way that they could slip through regular tests. There is a possibility that she has access to her own drugs and chooses what to take and what not. But if we follow Soviet rules, then it's the federation and the coaches that provide the drugs, often under the pretext that they are vitamines or other healthy/harmless pills.

Ya think? Where did you get your wisdom from? Dashnak propaganda?

That has nothing to do with it. All we need to do is to start recognizing our human limits and respecting those limits. If Daluzyan can lift 200 kg without drugs, then that is her limit and it should not pushed further artificially with drugs that will only harm her in the end. Because if we take your frame of mind, then women shouldn't practice any sports, because all of them require physical strength!