as i see it - Pt. IV

[Louise]

Monday, July 23, 2007

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BITCHES, PIMPS, AND MORONS

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“asserting: unless we thoroughly de-Ottomanize and de-Stalinize ourselves, mart bidi ch’ellank.

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And what about the armericanized/ the Frenchized/ the Japonized among the young

people who love "mangas". The Armanian youngs too.

 

Another kind is one Armenian woman who came in France and staid her since 1975

and said to me : I feel better with Arabs than with French Armenians. She invited

an arab family.

 

[ara baliozian]

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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ON FORGIVENESS

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Bishop Desmond Tutu in NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS (New York, 1999, page 23): “If the victim could forgive only when the culprit confessed, then the victim would be locked into victimhood.”

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Martin Luther King in a sermon delivered in 1957: “Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship.”

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It is not my intention here to advocate forgiving the Turks because I am not in the habit of advocating utopian daydreams. What I am doing is revealing two unfamiliar (to me) aspects of forgiveness that may well be in our self-interest.

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GENERAL ANTRANIK ON NATIONALISM

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“I am not a nationalist. I am on the side of underdogs of all nations.”

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WHAT I KNOW ABOUT OUR GHAZETAJIS*

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What neocons are to the Bush administration, our Turcocentric ghazetajis are to the Armenian nation: they speak hate and war (strike that! I meant to say justice) but when the time comes, they will let others to the fighting for them.

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FOOTNOTE

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*ghazetaji: what paparazzi are to photojournalism, ghazetajis are to journalism.

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[ara baliozian]

 

 

And what about the armericanized/ the Frenchized/ the Japonized among the young

people who love "mangas". The Armanian youngs too.

 

Another kind is one Armenian woman who came in France and staid her since 1975

and said to me : I feel better with Arabs than with French Armenians. She invited

an arab family.

 

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what you describe is part of our "white genocide" = assimilation. / ara

[ara baliozian]

Thursday, July 26, 2007

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KILLERS

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Hitler: “How fortunate for governments that the people they govern don’t think.”

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Overheard: “There are two kinds of people: those who want to kill you, and those who want to save you. It’s as simple as that.” It’s not as simple as that. It’s worse. The overwhelming majority does not care if you live or die, and indifference is worse than hate.

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When was the last time you heard any one of our leaders say “the buck stops here,” or words to that effect? When Germany lost World War II Hitler put the blame on the German people, but he was also decent enough to kill himself.

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To agree with a politician or a political party is to agree with a propaganda line. To recycle a propaganda line is another form of subservience.

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We are an angry people. I sense this anger and its deep roots by some of the comments I read on the Internet. Our leaders are fully aware of this anger and they do their utmost to channel it in the direction of Turks. If it weren’t for Turks, I suspect Armenians would rise against their own leaders and slaughter them, or one another.

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If some day the United States agrees with us that the Genocide is not a figment of our imagination, deep inside somewhere they will continue to sympathize with Turks. That’s the way it is with empires – they speak the same language because they are products of similar experiences, policies, and actions. Violence is their common medium – violence and plunder, oppression, discrimination, exploitation, war, conquest, massacre, and genocide. The Turks are fully aware of this fact. Hence, their brazen denials.

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How many times we have been told that once upon a time we too had an empire under Dikran the Great? Who has ever wanted to know the number of his victims? Who has even bothered to raise the question?

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We are brought up to brag about the fact that some of the greatest Byzantine emperors were Armenians. Does anyone know or care to know the number of their victims? How many Armenians know what Basil II Bulgaroktonous (“Bulgar Slayer”) did to earn that sobriquet? Ancient history? Maybe. Some things may change, but human nature doesn’t. And if you think a contemporary Armenian emperor or super power would be more humane on the grounds that Armenians are a morally superior breed with a unique DNA, you run the risk of justifying the Turkish contention that we are a nation of self-deluded dupes prone to believe figments of our own imagination.

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[Shahan Araradian]

To agree with a politician or a political party is to agree with a propaganda line. To recycle a propaganda line is another form of subservience.

There is POWER in organization.

 

You never seemed to have learned this in life.

 

...And in ALL organization there is a human social hierarchy, a power structure. That's the way the world is. That's the asymmetry of the world: some can lead more effectively than others, some can communicate better with others, some are wondering what's going on, others don't care, others follow entrusting the decision-making to their friends and they're complacent in fighting in the trenches.

 

Without organization, Armenia would never have existed. Without organization, we'd neither have Armenian schools nor any community events nor any community publications nor any community LIFE.

 

Being part of an Armenian organization is the essence of being an Armenian, especially in the Armenian Diaspora. An "-ian" and "-yan" don't qualify a person to being an Armenian. To be a part of the Armenian nation, one needs to be a part of an Armenian organization.

 

Would you like it if I said that writers want to get other people to do work for them? Don't take it personally, and this is just a question: Why doesn't a writer such as yourself become the leader of Armenians? Or at least a particular portion of Armenians, say starting with a group of 2-3 people? Wouldn't this be a more effective use of your time? A more efficient means to your ends? (Assuming that your ends are the well-being of Armenians around the world.)

 

But you are proposing that Armenians have no organizations (hence, no leadership). And I claim that without organizations, you get individuals. Disparate individuals. And disparate individuals have no power. In fact, disparate individuals are the EASIEST to manipulate.

 

(as an aside, that's how American corporations control the masses of Americans: they've glued everyone to watching their OWN TV. Each American household today has more TVs than occupants... It's really a beautiful system...)

Edited July 27, 2007 by Shahan Araradian

[Takoush]

There is POWER in organization.

 

You never seemed to have learned this in life.

 

...And in ALL organization there is a human social hierarchy, a power structure. That's the way the world is. That's the asymmetry of the world: some can lead more effectively than others, some can communicate better with others, some are wondering what's going on, others don't care, others follow entrusting the decision-making to their friends and they're complacent in fighting in the trenches.

 

Without organization, Armenia would never have existed. Without organization, we'd neither have Armenian schools nor any community events nor any community publications nor any community LIFE.

 

Being part of an Armenian organization is the essence of being an Armenian, especially in the Armenian Diaspora. An "-ian" and "-yan" don't qualify a person to being an Armenian. To be a part of the Armenian nation, one needs to be a part of an Armenian organization.

 

Would you like it if I said that writers want to get other people to do work for them? Don't take it personally, and this is just a question: Why doesn't a writer such as yourself become the leader of Armenians? Or at least a particular portion of Armenians, say starting with a group of 2-3 people? Wouldn't this be a more effective use of your time? A more efficient means to your ends? (Assuming that your ends are the well-being of Armenians around the world.)

 

But you are proposing that Armenians have no organizations (hence, no leadership). And I claim that without organizations, you get individuals. Disparate individuals. And disparate individuals have no power. In fact, disparate individuals are the EASIEST to manipulate.

 

(as an aside, that's how American corporations control the masses of Americans: they've glued everyone to watching their OWN TV. Each American household today has more TVs than occupants... It's really a beautiful system...)

 

You are correct Shahan:

 

Though you're talking to someone who wants to be and is a cosmopolitan.

 

Karekin Nejdeh said that a cosmopolitan is someone that is good for nothing and for no one; because a cosmpolitan has an egocentric and a selfish entity and a being. He is only and solely good for himself. When a human being works solely for himself alone rather than working for the good of a country, a nationality or a party, then he usually becomes to be a man without colour. Unfortunately Ara wishes to be one of them. He claims that he is a man for all; though frankly I still don't know why he is posting in Armenian Forums when he is indeed a cosmopolitan man.

 

 

 

 

 

[ara baliozian]

Friday, July 27, 2007

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PARALLEL UNIVERSES

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Belief systems and ideologies (or religions and political parties) allow us to live in a parallel universe in which, very much like the coyote in the Road Runner cartoons, we have the sensation of standing still in midair over the abyss because we don’t yet realize we are falling.

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To commit oneself to an idea does not make that idea infallible. To voice an opinion does not make that opinion valid. If ideas and opinions are not constantly revised, they tend to close the mind instead of opening it.

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Both Turks and Armenians believe truth to be on their side, which makes them morally superior. But what is moral superiority if not the exercise of mutual tolerance, understanding, compassion, mercy, and ultimately love for our fellow men regardless of race, color, and creed. And what could be more contradictory than to use truth as a means to justify and legitimize prejudice and hatred, that is to say, lies.

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There are many theories that explain why Nixon prolonged the war in Vietnam (that resulted in the death of two million Cambodians), why Bush went to war in Iraq, and why the Young Turks committed genocide. The obvious answer is: Nixon, Bush, and the Young Turks did what they did because they had the power. Power is like money: it allows you to do things that if you were poor you wouldn’t even dare to dream of doing. Which leads me to ask: how much of our so-called moral superiority is a direct result of military inferiority? Next question: do you really believe we wouldn’t behave like Nixon, Bush, and Co. if we had the power to do so? If you do, it maybe because you live in a parallel universe.

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[ara baliozian]

To Her Highness and Shant the Great:

 

Literature is the pursuit of truth.

politics is the pursuit of power.

which may explain why politicians

have been the natural enemies of writers. / ara

[Takoush]

To Her Highness and Shant the Great:

 

Literature is the pursuit of truth.

politics is the pursuit of power.

which may explain why politicians

have been the natural enemies of writers. / ara

Are you kidding?

 

You should know more than I that Raffi, Hagop Melik Hagopian wrote the way to get our independence back. In the"Կայծեր, he prompted us very powerfully to finally fight and get our independance and with it our lands back.

 

You cannot say that all writers abstain from politics. Your statement is not true; and who says that politics is always bad and something to be abhorred about. This is all rubbish and nonsense talk.

 

Politics and to be powerful in our case was and is still very vital and important to fight against the barbaric turks and the azerbaijani baboons. I just wish we fought them much more powerfully before the barbaric mongols came and stayed in our country in the 12th century.

 

 

Edited July 27, 2007 by Anahid Takouhi

[Shahan Araradian]

To Her Highness and Shant the Great:

 

Literature is the pursuit of truth.

politics is the pursuit of power.

which may explain why politicians

have been the natural enemies of writers. / ara

Literature is simply man's thoughts in writing. There are truthful thoughts, and there are non-truthful thoughts. Literature in itself doesn't imply "the pursuit of truth." Are you in lalaland?

 

Many writers HAVE BEEN politicians. (Ever heard of Sarkis Zeitlian?) There is no correlation between politicians and enemies of writers. That is simply a figment of your imagination in order to explain your own life.

 

I think what has happened in your life is that you've tried to be a part of an Armenian organization and lead others, but you were incapable of doing so; then, you didn't want to "follow" other leaders who you deemed them to be "lower" than you since they weren't academically smart. But what they DID do right (and better than you) is know how to COMMUNICATE with others and work well in TEAMS. You chose NOT to learn this very important and CRITICAL skill in life, that would have elevated you to the level of a great leader: intelligent, with morals, and able to communicate. You most likely had some sort of communication/social problem when speaking face-to-face and even more likely it was that you didn't have the RESOLVE to be a leader and didn't quite know what you wanted in life...

 

Hence, your only means to ease your heart is to write and to "bash" our Armenian leaders and our Armenian organizations.

 

A sane person can see right through your writings, Ara. This is your reality.

 

But I'm not saying that is your fate. At ANY age you can learn to communicate better and even get your thoughts together... decide what you WANT in life (and perhaps for your Armenian community).

 

As to what you call "politics," it is our community organizations and the ARF that has done a fine job of sustaining and maintaining our Armenian communities; and it is through continued community participation -- mostly by volunteers -- that ensures the quality of our community. These organizations are open to ALL, so instead of bashing, join your fellow Armenians in creating thriving and sustainable Armenian communities in the Diaspora.

Edited July 27, 2007 by Shahan Araradian

[ara baliozian]

Saturday, July 28, 2007

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ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

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Our Turcocentric ghazetajis (gutter journalists) believe they are defending our cause, they are on our side, they have our national interest at heart. What they fail to see is that on a different much deeper level they may also be promoting victimhood, prejudice, and hatred, which may lower us to the level of those we hate. Don’t get me wrong. As a child I too was brought up to hate Turks. I was taught to hate them because I had two million reasons to do so – and to hate the perpetrators as much their offspring for their refusal to accept any responsibility in the matter. But I am no longer a child and my reason tells me this hatred is wrong because it belongs to my gut and not to my brain. My reason tells me hatred harms me more than it does Turks. It harms me because it closes my mind, it perpetuates my status as a victim, and it makes me dependent on the goodwill of the victimizer. And when our ghazetajis say they don’t hate Turks, they only want justice, then all I can say is that they are far better men than I am. When I was a child no one ever mentioned the word justice in reference to Turks, or for that matter such words as revisionism, denialist, closure. I suspect these words didn’t even exist then neither in Armenian nor in English. Leave it to academics to come up with politically correct euphemisms and to our ghazetajis to exploit them in order to appear better than they are.

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[ara baliozian]

Plato wanted to serve and civilize a Sicilian tyrant, who had him arrested, jailed, and sold as a slave.

 

More recently, Heidegger, the greatest German philosopher of the 20th century, became a Nazi.

 

as for Raffi: he was even more merciless in his criticism of his fellow armenians, one of whom, a wealthy merchant, paid a notorious Kurdish bandit, to assassinate him.

 

i could but i will not make a loooooooooooooooooooooong list of writers and philosophers (from Socrates to Solzhenitsyn) who were victimized by politicians. / ara

[Takoush]

Plato wanted to serve and civilize a Sicilian tyrant, who had him arrested, jailed, and sold as a slave.

 

More recently, Heidegger, the greatest German philosopher of the 20th century, became a Nazi.

 

as for Raffi: he was even more merciless in his criticism of his fellow armenians, one of whom, a wealthy merchant, paid a notorious Kurdish bandit, to assassinate him.

 

i could but i will not make a loooooooooooooooooooooong list of writers and philosophers (from Socrates to Solzhenitsyn) who were victimized by politicians. / ara

 

Is it so? If Raffi defied the wealthy and the arrogant in Armenians, he was merely trying to teach the arrogance and the wealth accumulation of the wealthy that wouldn't and didn't offer much if anything to society and he did well to speak ill of them and criticize.

 

You are in no position to compare yourself with our mighty Raffi.

 

When Raffi justly criticized the wealthy in our society; but on the other hand he wrote and showed our people how to fight by creating and writing the path for our independence. And from his writings the Armenian Revolutionary Federation was to be born to arm its people and create the Republic of Armenia of today. And that great and holy day was Mayis 28, 1918.

 

Please don't give yourself airs to compare him with you.

 

 

[ara baliozian]

Is it so? If Raffi defied the wealthy and the arrogant in Armenians, he was merely trying to teach the arrogance and the wealth accumulation of the wealthy that wouldn't and didn't offer much if anything to society and he did well to speak ill of them and criticize.

 

You are in no position to compare yourself with our mighty Raffi.

 

When Raffi justly criticized the wealthy in our society; but on the other hand he wrote and showed our people how to fight by creating and writing the path for our independence. And from his writings the Armenian Revolutionary Federation was to be born to arm its people and create the Republic of Armenia of today. And that great and holy day was Mayis 28, 1918.

 

Please don't give yourself airs to compare him with you.

 

 

 

Raffi criticized not only the wealthy merchants, but also the priests and the ordinary cowardly armenian who assumes a subservient role and sees nothing wrong in that.

 

and speaking of arrogance: i see very little humility in your sentiments and thoughts. / ara

[Takoush]

Raffi criticized not only the wealthy merchants, but also the priests and the ordinary cowardly armenian who assumes a subservient role and sees nothing wrong in that.

 

and speaking of arrogance: i see very little humility in your sentiments and thoughts. / ara

Whether Raffi criticized the merchants, the priests and also the ordinary people; but I hope you get my point in matter now. And that is the same as I have said above twice: He wrote the way to fight and gain our freedom back as a nation. He was the most nationalistic man in his time.

 

It's very amusing that you find my stating the fact that you are very much mediocre compared to big men like Raffi and his likes upsetting to you. I have seen you state that you are a mediocre writer.

 

I have personally seen you talk back to me with much more arrogance as well as to others in here that I have read and observed.

 

Furthermore don't address me as your highness that's not my nickname. Almost everyone in here has addressed me as Anahid or Anahit.

Edited July 29, 2007 by Anahid Takouhi

[nairi]

Literature is simply man's thoughts in writing.

 

Some people have considered this to be enough to call it a form of truth. After all, it is the thoughts of a man; a truth you cannot deny.

[nairi]

He wrote the way to fight and gain our freedom back as a nation.

 

I believe that that is what Ara has been attempting to tell us as well for the last three decades: we have gained our freedom, but we act as if Sultans still govern us.

 

And don't forget: Raffi was a writer, not a fighter.

[Takoush]

I believe that that is what Ara has been attempting to tell us as well for the last three decades: we have gained our freedom, but we act as if Sultans still govern us.

 

And don't forget: Raffi was a writer, not a fighter.

Ara only talked about Raffi's criticizing various stratums and the rows of the Armenian people. He did not and does not believe in being a nationalist and that goes with thinking and writing about nationalistic objectives and pursuits. Raffi certainly was a great nationistic person and he wrote us the way to fight and go after our dreams of gaining back our freedom. He was that great cerebral man.

 

Though Ara talks about criticizing Armenians; but don't you get it? All he does is spew hatred and venum.

 

I don't agree with you that most of us feel that a Sultan still govern us; but we are disgusted and angry with their continued barbaric ways, for nearly a century have destroyed our sacred Churches, our cemeteries and any trace of our existence in our lands; a decade and a half now for blockading our RA and for their corrupted ways to put under the rug our Genocidal validity and our rights. Shall I go on and on?

 

Although we have a very small portion of our lands and freedom of our RA; but the majority of our lands is still under the turkish rule.

 

Sure Raffi was a writer; but he was very much a nationalistically derived writer who showed us the way and the path to fight fight fight to gain our freedom and our complete lands back. (Including our Western Armenian lands).

 

 

 

[nairi]

From the way you write, it seems to me, that you have been raised by those same Sultans that Ara is trying to fight against with his pen.

 

As for Raffi: his nationalism, and, more specifically, racism, has rightfully been criticized.

 

Raffi was a contemporary writer of the nineteenth century. He dealt with our problems at the time (and not only problems with our foreign enemies, but also with our own internal ones). Ara is a contemporary writer today. He deals with our problems as they are today--and according to him, many of our problems today are very similar to those we had in the nineteenth century (hence why he quotes authors from the nineteenth century every now and then).

 

If Ara spews hatred and venom, it is only towards our own Sultans and their devoted followers, and no one else. If you are neither a Sultan, nor a follower of one, you should feel anything but insulted by what Ara writes.

 

Now, you may choose to ignore our current problems or disbelieve Ara. But I don't see why anyone and everyone who even just slightly disagrees with Ara feels the need to resort to personal attacks and insults, as if self-control and being polite are not part of the standard Armenian cultural education package.

[Takoush]

From the way you write, it seems to me, that you have been raised by those same Sultans that Ara is trying to fight against with his pen.

 

As for Raffi: his nationalism, and, more specifically, racism, has rightfully been criticized.

 

Raffi was a contemporary writer of the nineteenth century. He dealt with our problems at the time (and not only problems with our foreign enemies, but also with our own internal ones). Ara is a contemporary writer today. He deals with our problems as they are today--and according to him, many of our problems today are very similar to those we had in the nineteenth century (hence why he quotes authors from the nineteenth century every now and then).

 

If Ara spews hatred and venom, it is only towards our own Sultans and their devoted followers, and no one else. If you are neither a Sultan, nor a follower of one, you should feel anything but insulted by what Ara writes.

 

Now, you may choose to ignore our current problems or disbelieve Ara. But I don't see why anyone and everyone who even just slightly disagrees with Ara feels the need to resort to personal attacks and insults, as if self-control and being polite are not part of the standard Armenian cultural education package.

 

Are you a turk? It seems like both Ara and you hand in hand should join the turkish army or the turkish diplomats. You both certainly deserve each other as all I have seen in here how he sells us to the turks by further having the turkish Forums quoting him and Ara further goes and criticizes us to Jewish Forums. You call that criticizing positively for our behalf or selling us to our enemies like a traitor??????

 

It seems to me that you were the one who was brought up by the very Sultans that you are talking about. You can take that kind of talk and tell that to your very self.

 

Go and further check the previous posts and see how in an uncivilized way he threw stones at me and certainly resolved to personal attacks to me simply because I disagreed with him. And further he has done the same to others too, so don't go telling me otherwise!!!!!!!

Edited July 29, 2007 by Anahid Takouhi

[nairi]

Are you a turk? It seems like both Ara and you hand in hand should join the turkish army or the turkish diplomats. You both certainly deserve each other as all I have seen in here how he sells us to the turks by further having the turkish Forums quoting him and Ara further goes and criticizes us to Jewish Forums. You call that criticizing positively or selling us to our enemies??????

 

Go and further check the previous posts and see how in an uncivilized way he threw stones at me and certainly resolved to personal attacks to me simply because I disagreed with him. And further he has done the same to others too, so don't go telling me otherwise!!!!!!!

 

Those Turks who quote him understand him just about as much as you do.

 

As for him throwing stones at you: I believe those were tiny pebbles, compared to the rocks that you threw at him.

 

[Takoush]

Those Turks who quote him understand him just about as much as you do.

 

As for him throwing stones at you: I believe those were tiny pebbles, compared to the rocks that you threw at him.

 

Are you talking about yourself again quoting about turks????? Who is not understanding? Too bad that it is you who don't seem to comprehend that all he does is spew venom against Armenians and doesn't seem to write anything new for a great many years now.

 

No he threw bolders at me and as far as throwing stones; I see that you are throwing much bigger stones at me now. I see why, because you seem to be on the side of a traitor. What does that say about you????

 

Why not write from time to time about our good as well as our achievements and mixing them with some constructive criticizms. Or put some originality in his writings so that perhaps we can learn from them.

Edited July 29, 2007 by Anahid Takouhi

[ara baliozian]

Sunday, July 29, 2007

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A PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION

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Everything I write is a confession. When I speak of Ottomanized Armenians I speak of myself. When I speak of Turcocentric ghazetajis I speak of myself too. For more than two decades I reviewed only books (sometimes as many as three a week) that had something positive to say about Armenians or something negative to say about Turks, and needless to add, most of the lines I quoted dealt with atrocities, massacres, and genocide. Half of my first book, THE ARMENIANS: THEIR HISTORY AND CULTURE – A SHORT INTRODUCTION (Toronto, 1975), was not about Armenians but about Turks. It took me more than twenty years to start de-Ottomanizing myself – a painful process and a work in progress.

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My critics tell me I write about problems but I don’t provide solutions. Here is a solution for this particular problem: the establishment of research centers and educational programs for both adults and children that will liberate us from our Ottoman chains and allow us to recover our humanity. We should teach our children civics – the meaning of democracy and human rights. Before we try to civilize “barbarians,” we should try to civilize ourselves. Something we will never succeed in doing as long as we allow our ghazetajis to run amok in our press, blogs, and Internet forums.

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What to do in the meantime? Easy. No sweat. Send an email to our editors and moderators and keep sending it until you get a reply, an explanation, a promise, or a change in editorial policy. Miracles happen. I don’t believe in them but statistics suggest that if they happened two thousand years ago, they may happen again.

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What to say in your email to our editors? Make it short, sweet, and to the point. Sample #1: “Dear Sir” or even better, “Your Excellency: When I read an Armenian weekly, I prefer to read more about Armenians and less about Turks. I do hope you don’t consider my request extravagant, unArmenian or unpatriotic.”

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Sample #2:

“Since you write more about Turks than Armenians I suggest you call yourself THE TURKISH REPORTER, or THE TURKISH OBSERVER, or THE TURKISH WEEKLY, or THE ISTANBUL COURIER.”

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Sample #3:

“Is your readership going up or down? If down, it may be because there is too much prejudice and hate in it. Please consider a radical change in your editorial policy. Thank you.”

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[ara baliozian]

okay!!!!!!!!!!!! Edited July 29, 2007 by ara baliozian

[ara baliozian]

Whether Raffi criticized the merchants, the priests and also the ordinary people; but I hope you get my point in matter now. And that is the same as I have said above twice: He wrote the way to fight and gain our freedom back as a nation. He was the most nationalistic man in his time.

 

It's very amusing that you find my stating the fact that you are very much mediocre compared to big men like Raffi and his likes upsetting to you. I have seen you state that you are a mediocre writer.

 

I have personally seen you talk back to me with much more arrogance as well as to others in here that I have read and observed.

 

Furthermore don't address me as your highness that's not my nickname. Almost everyone in here has addressed me as Anahid or Anahit.

 

Your Highness:

 

my mediocrity and arrogance harm only myself.

but our collective subservience to our bosses, bishops, and benefactors, and more particularly your own kind of cowardice, harm the nation.

 

I call Your Highness a coward because you choose to attack me anonymously and from a very safe distance...and only after identifying me as a nonentity. Now then, pray tell me, what kind of courage does it take to do that, YOUR HIGHNESS?