ara baliozian Posted August 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 Thursday, August 30, 2007 ******************************************* TRUST ME! ******************************************* Beethoven may have been killed by his own doctor, according to a Viennese pathologist. Had this discovery been made in the 1930s, the doctor would have been identified as a Jew. And if you were to ask an anti-Semite today, he would tell you the killer-doctor must have been a Jew – no doubt about that. Why a Jew? Why not? For two thousand years they have not only suspected but asserted and continue to do so today that our Lord Jesus Christ was a phony and a blasphemer. Who is right? Jews or Christians? We are told for most of her life Mother Teresa doubted the existence of god and the divinity of Christ. But when she was alive she sang a different tune. If you can’t trust Mother Teresa, whom can you trust? * Trust me. I know better. I am more sincerely committed to the Cause, whatever that may be, than anyone you care to mention. Do not criticize me because I am beyond criticism. That indeed is the subtext in everything we say; and notwithstanding the fact that most people don’t give a damn about what we think or say we think (not always the same thing), we continue to beg for their trust and to assert our superiority, even when we know we deserve neither. Who has ever been beyond criticism? Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi? Not only they had their share of critics but also mortal enemies, and this not among hostile foreigners but among their fellow countrymen. Socrates was condemned to death by Athenians, Gandhi was assassinated not by a Muslim but by a fellow Hindu, as for Jesus: according to the eminent contemporary theologian, Mel Gibson… # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted August 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 Friday, August 31, 2007 ********************************************* JUNGLE **************************** Readers may be divided into several distinct categories: Children who are spoiled brats and think they are smart enough to understand everything they read, including matter intended for adults. Adults who are advanced cases of arrested development. Self satisfied egocentric narcissists who are convinced (or have been brainwashed to believe) we live in the best of all possible worlds, we never had it so good, we are in good hands, god in his heaven above is on our side, and anyone who disagrees with them is an enemy of the nation who should be hanged from the nearest tree. (You would think the only way for an Armenian to subscribe to this Leibnizian school of thought is to expunge our past). The smart-ass know-it-all garbage mouth bully who operates on the self-serving assumption that his brand of perverted patriotism justifies racism, violations of human rights, fascism, and massacre – if not literal than verbal. (This type is rare but because he suffers from chronic verbal diarrhea and loves the effusions of his own outpourings, he gives one the impression of being not a single nut but an entire unruly mob.) And then there is the well-meaning but essentially timid reader who doesn’t want to get involved, adopts a passive stance and thus promotes and legitimizes the Ottomanized hooligans among us. We owe the jungle of our Internet discussion forums to him more than anyone else. And if I speak with some degree of authority on these different types of reader it’s because at one time or another I have been all of them. # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 Saturday, September 01, 2007 ********************************************** IN PRAISE OF TOLERANCE **************************************** Frequently spoken lies: “I know better,” “I am better,” “I am right,” “You are wrong,” “I know it for a fact.” * Man is prone to confuse fact with fiction. Case in point: for millions of years men believed the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and when someone came along and dared to say otherwise, he was threatened with torture and death…all in the name of a god who is truth and love. * A dogmatist is one who explains things he doesn’t understand. * There is a realm somewhere in which everything that doesn’t make sense here makes perfect sense there. But so far man has failed to discover the location of that realm. # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 Sunday, September 02, 2007 ************************************************** SUSPICIOUS BUGGERS *************************************** For a good number of years my Ramgavar relatives and friends thought I was a Tashnak, and my Tashnak friends kept their distance because they thought I had gone to the highest bidder. The first time my anti-partisan stance was questioned, I was outraged. Now, whenever an Armenian believes what I say, I immediately assume I am dealing with a brown-noser who wants his book reviewed or translated. Living among Armenians does that to you. It’s easier for an Armenian to understand Turks than fellow Armenians. I have never heard an Armenian say, “I don’t understand these Turks.” But every other Armenian is convinced anyone who disagrees with him has something of the renegade and the traitor in him – he is, in short, an enemy of the nation, perhaps even a Kemal-worshiping hireling of Ankara. * The problem with Abel was that he trusted Cain; and the problem with Cain was that he was an anti-Semite, the first of the species, if you don’t count the serpent. About the real identity of the serpent, there are a number of theories. If you ask an anti-American Armenian from the Middle East or a crypto-Stalinist from the former Soviet Union, he will tell you the serpent was a CIA agent, perhaps even a McCarthyite. * De Gaulle once complained that Frenchmen were difficult to govern because they produce 174 varieties of cheese. He should have counted his blessings. It’s a well-known fact that whenever two Armenians are stranded on a desert island, they build three churches, the third being the one they don’t go to. # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 Monday, September 03, 2007 *********************************************** ON BIAS ****************************** As children we are taught a set of rules. As adults we discover that others have been taught different sets of rules. Still others recognize no rules, or if they do, they are more readily disposed to break them with an easy conscience. * More often than not the certainties that are instilled in us do not even qualify as lies or fallacies; they are no better than absurdities. Consider the certainties in the name of which we are willing to kill and die: I belong to a superior race; I am a member of the chosen race; my god is the only true god; the mud of my homeland is better than any other mud, including the mud on the other side of the mountain or river. But there are other absurdities that we are not even taught but which we take for granted, such as, I am the center of the world. There you have the source of all bias. * If your certainties outnumber your doubts, you may more easily qualify as a barbarian than a civilized man. * The relation between what we say and what we think is about the same as that which exists between who we are and what we pretend to be. * If I am wrong, I will be the first beneficiary. If I were a believer, I would go down on my knees four times a day and say, “Please, Lord, prove me wrong so that I may live happily ever after.” # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 Monday, September 03, 2007 *********************************************** ON BIAS ****************************** As children we are taught a set of rules. As adults we discover that others have been taught different sets of rules. Still others recognize no rules, or if they do, they are more readily disposed to break them with an easy conscience. * More often than not the certainties that are instilled in us do not even qualify as lies or fallacies; they are no better than absurdities. Consider the certainties in the name of which we are willing to kill and die: I belong to a superior race; I am a member of the chosen race; my god is the only true god; the mud of my homeland is better than any other mud, including the mud on the other side of the mountain or river. But there are other absurdities that we are not even taught but which we take for granted, such as, I am the center of the world. There you have the source of all bias. * If your certainties outnumber your doubts, you may more easily qualify as a barbarian than a civilized man. --------------------------------------- Should we doubt of everything ? even the scientists disagree between each other and dispute though they are so learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Tuesday, September 04, 2007 ********************************************* ON SOLIDARITY **************************** It all began, or so we are told, with our impassable mountains, deep valleys, and long winters: a clear-cut case of landscape shaping the profile of a nation, or the unthinking ruling the thinking. Then came ruthless empire builders from the East – actually, also from the North, West, and South – who, as everyone knows by now, rule by dividing. What we are not told in this context is that the barbarians divided us because we allowed ourselves to be divided or, since we were already divided long before they appeared on the scene, we saw nothing unusual in staying that way. I once heard an Armenian-American academic say that an Armenian queen bequeathed her kingdom (or is it queendom?) to her two sons by dividing it into two equal parts – good for family harmony, bad for the survival of the nation. Had the Ottoman sultans adopted this system, Turkey would have been wiped off the map by now. If the Ottoman Empire lasted 600 years (surely, a record in the history of mankind) it’s because the sultans adopted a system that would prevent all future wars of succession: they strangled with a silk cord all but one son (a silk cord because it was against the law spilling royal blood) – bad for the innocent victims of strangulation, good for the empire. The West being slightly ahead of the East in matters of civilized conduct solved this problem by establishing the principle of primogeniture whereby the eldest son inherits the throne. Who divides us today? The only answer I can come up with is our DNA – another instance of the unthinking ruling the thinking, or the gut dictating to the brain. I ask again, who divides us today? Consider the parable of the two Armenians and three churches on a desert island: who divided them? Surely, not the solitary palm tree on the beach, or the remains of a crab being washed by the blue waves of the ocean. Our leadership and us: another instance of the unthinking ruling the thinking (if you will forgive the overstatement). If this is not a popular subject with our editors and ghazetajis, it may be because they are manipulated by our leadership as surely as we were under the sultans and commissars, and because subservience is in their DNA. They are as carefully selected, trained, tamed, and housebroken as the pet dogs of the wealthy. # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Should we doubt of everything ? even the scientists disagree between each other and dispute though they are so learned. scientists have devised methods whereby they reach a consensus. you don't see them killing one another in the name of their favorite theory. this cannot be said of religious or nationalist "truths" -- which are no better than lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Tuesday, September 04, 2007 ********************************************* ON SOLIDARITY **************************** It all began, or so we are told, with our impassable mountains, deep valleys, and long winters: a clear-cut case of landscape shaping the profile of a nation, or the unthinking ruling the thinking. Then came ruthless empire builders from the East – actually, also from the North, West, and South – who, as everyone knows by now, rule by dividing. What we are not told in this context is that the barbarians divided us because we allowed ourselves to be divided or, since we were already divided long before they appeared on the scene, we saw nothing unusual in staying that way. I once heard an Armenian-American academic say that an Armenian queen bequeathed her kingdom (or is it queendom?) to her two sons by dividing it into two equal parts – good for family harmony, bad for the survival of the nation. Had the Ottoman sultans adopted this system, Turkey would have been wiped off the map by now. If the Ottoman Empire lasted 600 years (surely, a record in the history of mankind) it’s because the sultans adopted a system that would prevent all future wars of succession: they strangled with a silk cord all but one son (a silk cord because it was against the law spilling royal blood) – bad for the innocent victims of strangulation, good for the empire. The West being slightly ahead of the East in matters of civilized conduct solved this problem by establishing the principle of primogeniture whereby the eldest son inherits the throne. Who divides us today? The only answer I can come up with is our DNA – another instance of the unthinking ruling the thinking, or the gut dictating to the brain. I ask again, who divides us today? Consider the parable of the two Armenians and three churches on a desert island: who divided them? Surely, not the solitary palm tree on the beach, or the remains of a crab being washed by the blue waves of the ocean. Our leadership and us: another instance of the unthinking ruling the thinking (if you will forgive the overstatement). If this is not a popular subject with our editors and ghazetajis, it may be because they are manipulated by our leadership as surely as we were under the sultans and commissars, and because subservience is in their DNA. They are as carefully selected, trained, tamed, and housebroken as the pet dogs of the wealthy. # ------------------------------------- We Armenians are not so divided as we should have been if we had not in front of us the block of Turkey trying to strangle us. Same thing as Jews if they had not the Palestinians against them, they would be much more divided Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Wednesday, September 05, 2007 *********************************************** PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS ****************************************************** An Armenian is an Armenian Another Armenian is another Armenian And never the twain shall meet. * Most of our problems (like the one stated abnove) are in the convolutions of our brain – assuming of course we have one, a daring assumption at best. On the day we express a willingness to engage in dialogue, as opposed to issuing dogmatic statements, a great many of our problems will collapse into a heap of dust and will be gone with the wind. * Whenever I have a choice between blaming the world or myself, I choose myself. It is within my power to change myself. As for changing the world – let me begin by saying I have no desire to add megalomania to my long list of failings. * The aim of the blame-game (or ascribing our failings to others) is to adopt a passive stance and do nothing, except perhaps to bitch and lament – two activities in which we excel. * The most frequently unspoken Armenian sentiment: “Because you are wrong, you deserve to die.” * Instead of saying “you are wrong,” we should say, “Obviously, I failed to explain myself.” * Doubt is more civilized than certainty. * I like today’s quotation by Erich Fromm in our paper: “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.” Elsewhere a famous Hollywood actor is quoted as having said, “How do the bad people among us end up our leaders?” It can happen to all of us, I guess. # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 ------------------------------------- We Armenians are not so divided as we should have been if we had not in front of us the block of Turkey trying to strangle us. Same thing as Jews if they had not the Palestinians against them, they would be much more divided but jews and armenians were divided long before palestinians and turks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Wednesday, September 05, 2007 *********************************************** PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS ****************************************************** * Doubt is more civilized than certainty. * ------------------Montesquieu disait: "le doute est un mol oreiller" Doubt is a soft pillow. Yes ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 (edited) Monsieur Montesquieu sure knew his oignons! Edited September 5, 2007 by ara baliozian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Thursday, September 06, 2007 ***************************************** TOWARDS A RAPPROCHEMENT ********************************************** Homo sapiens is a selfish and self-centered creature. Selfless specimens like Mother Teresa exist, but they are the exception rather than the rule, and you can count them on the fingers of one thumb. And speaking of thumbs: a small cut on our little finger matters more to us than the death of ten or a hundred thousand peasants in China. When the Turks count their victims, even two of them are two more than our two million. We may all believe in our statistics but we also know that one man’s believer is another’s infidel. * Nothing could be more abysmally naïve than to say, their politicians lie but ours speak the truth and nothing but the truth. “A bourgeois is a bourgeois, regardless of nationality,” Lenin once said. So is a politician. * If Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini continue to have their defenders and admirers today it’s because “even the gods cannot compete with human stupidity.” * I trust our politicians and their version of the past as much as I trust theirs. And by extension, I trust an academic who enjoys political support as much as I trust a politician. Most politicians are either lawyers or operate like lawyers. They emphasize the strengths in their own case and expose and concentrate on the weaknesses of the opposition. Lawyers do it for money, politicians do it for power; and it is power and money that make the world go around, not love and truth. Love and truth may be favorite subjects for Sunday sermons but they don’t carry much weight beyond the sacristy, and sometimes not even as far as the sacristy. In politics as well as in may other lines of work (from organized religions to advertising and public relations) concepts like objectivity, honesty, and impartiality are not thought of as assets but as career-wrecking liabilities. I speak from experience. * A wise man once said, “the lie on the lips becomes the lie in the soul” -- another way of saying, if in our formative years we are not brainwashed by vested interests, we end up brainwashing ourselves. Which is why, after being exposed to our own propaganda year in, year out and ad nauseam, I don’t mind giving the opposition a chance for the sake of breaking the monotony more than anything else. And if cooperation and harmony are ever established between them and us, it will be because of individuals who place their humanity above their nationality, individuals moreover who are fed up playing the role of dupes to their speechifiers and sermonizers with an ax to grind. # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Friday, September 07, 2007 ****************************************** MORE ON THE SAME SUBJECT *************************************** If you think I have a mighty low opinion of our political leaders and their dupes, you are absolutely right. And if you want to know more on this subject, I suggest you have a talk with one of our leaders – assuming you can find one willing to come down from his high jackass. Once in my salad days I did exactly that and published the resulting give-and-take in one of our periodicals. That’s when the doodoo hit the ventilator. Since the leader of my interview was a Tashnak, one of his Ramgavar counterparts reacted by writing a vitriolic letter to the editor. My Tashnak responded by accusing the Ramgavar of being more Bolshevik than Stalin. * To say a good Armenian is one who respects and trusts our leaders, amounts to saying to qualify as a good Armenian it is necessary to be a brain-dead dupe. What’s the difference between brain-dead and dead? And to think that they have the temerity to accuse me of harboring anti-Armenian sentiments. * I am more interested in the Turk within us than the Turk within Turks. As for the Armenian within the Armenian: I do hope one of these days I shall have the privilege and good fortune of making his acquaintance. * Speaking of politicians and jackasses, there is a well known and widely quoted exchange between a Republican presidential candidate (I forget his name) and a heckler that goes something like this: HECKLER: My father was a Democrat, my grandfather was a Democrat, I am a Democrat. CANDIDATE: If your father were a jackass, and your grandfather were a jackass, what would you be? HECKLER: A Republican! # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Friday, September 07, 2007 ****************************************** MORE ON THE SAME SUBJECT *************************************** . As for the Armenian within the Armenian: I do hope one of these days I shall have the privilege and good fortune of making his acquaintance. * ---------------------------------- I do not quite agree with you, there are very very good Armenians, but they are not in front. They work behind the scene. At least in France. May be in other countries, I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Saturday, September 08, 2007 ********************************************** DIPLOMACY 101 *********************************** “Don’t get mad, get even.” (American folk wisdom) * “Just the facts, ma’am.” (Jack Webb) * “He who loses temper, has wrong on his side.” (Chinese saying) * If, god forbid, you happen to be one of those rare Armenians who starts foaming at the mouth whenever Turks are mentioned, I have one or two suggestions that you may find of some use. * Never get emotionally involved in an argument because when the gut speaks louder than the brain, reason exits, unreason enters, and unreason might as well be synonymous with insanity. * One of the fundamental principles of diplomacy that is common knowledge even among non-diplomats with a single-digit IQ is that, if you want something, anything, from someone, anyone, one way to get it is by pretending you neither want it nor need it. And the best way of not getting what you want is to make it clear that what you want is the most important thing you ever wanted in your life and that if your demands are not fully and unconditionally met, your life will no longer have any meaning. * When engaged in negotiation, you either do so from a position of strength or weakness. If weakness, do not give in to the temptation of losing your equanimity or resorting to name-calling, if only because name-calling is easy and more often than not totally ineffective. History is on my side on this. After a century of name-calling, what have we accomplished? Number of victims: not a single resurrection. Reparations? Not a single red cent. Territorial claims? Not a single inch of dirt. On the other hand, if you think you are negotiating from a position of strength or moral superiority (because god and truth are on your side) no need to go down into the gutter if only because doing so may expose your claim of moral superiority as bogus. * You may do whatever your little heart desires and minuscule brain dictates in the privacy of your own home and behind closed doors, but in public or on an open discussion forum on the internet, try to be cool, objective, and impartial; and if you can’t be cool, be silent. For there is more wisdom in silence than in empty verbiage. * To the question, “Why is it that you don’t always practice what you preach?” I can only say, I am not a very good sharpshooter. I aim high when I write, but I don’t always hit the bull’s eye when I live. Isn’t that a common failing in all sermonizers, speechifiers, and, sometimes, scribblers? # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 ---------------------------------- I do not quite agree with you, there are very very good Armenians, but they are not in front. They work behind the scene. At least in France. May be in other countries, I don't know. i do hope one of these days i shall have the opportunity to visit Paris and Marseilles. / ara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Saturday, September 08, 2007 ********************************************** DIPLOMACY 101 *********************************** ------------------------------ I have been married for 30 years with my late husband, and I have not once had a quarrell with him, nor with my father and mother in law, nor with my children… may be you call that weakness, the fact is I like quietness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 ------------------------------ I have been married for 30 years with my late husband, and I have not once had a quarrell with him, nor with my father and mother in law, nor with my children… may be you call that weakness, the fact is I like quietness. the question to be asked at this point is: why is it that armenians like you and your husband and all the good armenians you have know are not allowed to be openly active in our communities. or to put it differently, why have we allowed ourselves to be at the mercy of scum (ordure) with the result that our collective existence has become an enfer de merde. / ara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Sunday, September 09, 2007 ********************************************** THE RAT AND THE PITBULL ******************************************** Once upon a time there was a pitbull, a rat, and a little mouse sharing the same backyard. These three didn’t particularly care for each other but they coexisted in relative peace for many years until the rat fell seriously ill and was diagnosed with terminal old age. Whereupon the pitbull decided to put him out of his misery by delivering the coup de grace. When the rat realized what was about to happen, he fought like a demon. It was at this point that the little mouse committed the serious strategic blunder of siding with the pitbull. And when the pitbull, for reasons of his own, left the field of honor, the badly mauled rat fell on the little mouse and tore him to shreds. Ever since then historians of this occurrence have been divided into two, the pro-mouse faction asserting the rat had behaved like a rat and in total contravention of the Marquis de Queensberry rules. It is to be noted that most of these pro-mouse historians happen to be direct descendants of the pitbull. # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Monday, September 10, 2007 ***************************************** MAN THE QUADRUPED ************************************ Ask a specialist in any field, from astronomy to zoology, and from ethics to politics, and he will tell you the average layman is a total ignoramus about his subject. What he may not volunteer to admit as readily is that he is himself a total ignoramus about countless other subjects. In that sense we are all ignoramuses at the mercy of other ignoramuses who only pretend to be infallible. Shaw was right when he said, “all professions are conspiracies against the laity.” Long before Shaw, Socrates spent a good part of his life in exposing the ignorance of charlatans whose sole expertise consisted in pretending to know better. For every political leader or pundit who says one thing, there will be another who will say the opposite. Who is right and who wrong? Marx was right when he spoke of the machinery of capitalist exploitation. But he was wrong when he failed to see that his own theories would be mercilessly manipulated, perverted, and exploited by gangs of operators even more ruthless than the most ruthless of capitalists. After a lengthy interview with Hitler in the 1930s, Toynbee declared to the press: “I am now convinced Herr Hitler wants peace.” If a power-mad loudmouth demagogue can deceive one of the greatest political pundits and historians of all time, who will protect us from deceivers? A dog, it has been said, knows his master but not his master’s master. My question is, in what way are we different from dogs? # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 ******************************************* ON POPULARITY **************************** Marquis of Halifax: “Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought.” * If those who promote hatred (sorry, I should have said justice)… if those who promote hatred are more popular than those who speak of understanding, it may be because hatred appeals to the gut, understanding to the brain, and in all primitive societies the gut rules the brain. * Anyone who disagrees with us is either an ignoramus or a liar is an argument that succeeds only in undermining our own credibility. * There is something Ottoman in our anti-Turkishness. Surprised? I don’t see why. It took less than sixty years for the Russians to Sovietize us and for the Yanks to Americanize us… * More often than not the sentence “I know it for a fact” is followed by fiction. * It is not at all unusual to deceive oneself all one’s life and remain totally unaware of the deception. * I may be wrong on specific points but you are wrong on the most important things if you don’t allow me the freedom to be wrong on the assumption that you support a position, or an ideology, or a religion that happens to be infallible. # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ara baliozian Posted September 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 ************************************************* PERSPECTIVES ***************************** When I first read a thick volume on the history of Christianity in which Armenians were not even mentioned in a footnote, I began to have second thoughts about what is remembered, what is thought of as relevant, and what is worth mentioning. * To those of my readers who take me to task for being consistently nasty and deliberately malicious, I say it is all a charade, and that in reality and deep inside somewhere I am much worse, and that even when I feel good and at peace with the world, a more accurate description of my disposition would be like that of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire. * I once met an Armenian who said he loved his fellow Armenians but every other word he uttered dripped with the concentrated venom of ten Turkish vipers. * If memory serves, it was Baronian who once declared: “I love mankind but I hate people.” * A buried head in the sand is not a defense but an invitation. # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 ************************************************* PERSPECTIVES ***************************** * If memory serves, it was Baronian who once declared: “I love mankind but I hate people.” * ---------------------------------- Some people love their dogs or cats much more than mankind. They love their babies, as they do not juge nor critic, but when they grow they cannot stand them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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