Armen Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 Be creative... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 Don't know WHY, but I have the feeling that this thread is dedicated to my modest SELF!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 (edited) Hmmm, just curious, but I thought CSI meant Crime Scene Investigation, no? edit: Sorry, I didn't get the point of the thread. <_< I'm having a blond moment. Edited January 31, 2004 by Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 I don't get this thread. I rule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angel4hope Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 mousie mousie mousie~ you are the king of sarcasm dude ;)as far as i know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 Don't know WHY, but I have the feeling that this thread is dedicated to my modest SELF!!! I like that!!! Wow, how was this for sarcasm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 mousie mousie mousie~ you are the king of sarcasm dude ;)as far as i know! Actually, I'm the shrunken headed hunchback dwarf with a lisp, a limp, and a nervous twitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevo27 Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 when people are looking for something and they find it, why do they say, "ahh it was the last place i looked,"????? Why the hell will you keep searching for it when u find it.. no *^%(& its the last place u looked.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyebruin Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 sweet sweet gevo jan only if more guys thought like you, kakhtsr jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevo27 Posted February 2, 2004 Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 sweet sweet gevo jan only if more guys thought like you, kakhtsr jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted February 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2004 We're not vegatables, meat or fruits. We're spice. And this is why we like to become integrated into surrounding invironment by being a pain in the ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted February 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 Preaching anarchism among Armenians is like explaining to Muslim Wahabi suicide bomber that Alah is Mighty and Islam is the best religion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted February 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 Leave him alone and he will immadiately start to self-destruct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghos Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 I disagree. Leave an Armenian alone and he thrives. Lock him up in a ghetto and he often behaves like a cannibal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted February 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 No need to disagree, Boghos. You said the same thing. Leave him alone on national level in getto and he is cannibal. Leave him alone in getto and he will self-destruct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghos Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 Sorry, you are right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted September 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 http://groong.usc.edu/world/as/msg00836.html The last two Jews of Kabul. And they hate each other By Nick Meo in Kabul The Independent/UK 11 September 2004 Life is not easy at the best of times for the last two Jews in Afghanistan. But the situation is made more complicated by the fact that they hate each other. Worse still, despite their mutual loathing, Zbolon Semantov and Isaak Levi have to live together in the country's last synagogue, long after the rest of Afghanistan's Jews moved to Israel. For years the feud was so bad that the temple was divided by a curtain so the pair didn't have to see each other during worship. "Careful of him, he's a magician," hissed Mr Semantov, who lives in the upstairs quarters. "He's not a real Jew, he converted to Islam just to please the Taliban." Mr Levi, whose squalid old man's quarters are downstairs, insists he is the true guardian of the synagogue. He is weary now though and just wants to give up and join his family in Beersheva. "Don't listen to that dirty dog upstairs," he says, showing missing teeth from, he claims, fist fights between the two of them. The stand-off in the synagogue off Flower Street is a sad end to a rich culture hundreds of years old. Bukhara in Uzbekistan, on Afghanistan's northern border, once had a Jewish community of around 100,000, most of whom emigrated to Israel and the United States. Only a few thousand remain. Herat in the west once had thousands of Jews, but most left for Israel after 1948. American Jewish researchers say they have recently found families in Herat who converted to Islam to survive but who have continued to practise their faith in secret. In the 1940s a community of 40,000 Jews lived in Kabul, where they prospered as money-changers and as carpet dealers. They built the capital's synagogue in 1966. However, after the Communist revolution of the 1970s most left, eventually leaving only Mr Semantov, whose carpet business was thriving, and Mr Levi, who found himself, as a shoemaker, too poor to go. Both see themselves as custodians of the last flickering flame of Judaism in Afghanistan. "It's my country so why should I go?" asked Mr Semantov. "Somebody has to look after the synagogue, and if I move to Israel it will be that imposter downstairs." Mr Levi has had enough. He suffers from diabetes and ekes out a living selling amulets to superstitious Afghan women seeking to become pregnant. "I just wish the Israeli government would help me go," he said. He claims that he was beaten by the Taliban's feared Vice and Virtue Police after Mr Semantov ratted on him to save his own skin. "I told them I was trying to help people - how could that be against Islam?" Mr Levi said. "But they beat me anyway." Today little prejudice is shown against them and both have Muslim friends. Most Afghans know nothing of their own country's Jewish heritage and leave them alone to their worship and their feud. Some progress has been made on taking the poison out of the dispute of late. Jewish groups from New York have arbitrated and persuaded them to take the partition down in the synagogue. But they still won't speak to one another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted September 13, 2004 Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 "Careful of him, he's a magician," hissed Mr Semantov, who lives in the upstairs quarters. "He's not a real Jew, he converted to Islam just to please the Taliban." At the risk of being even sillier. How does one tell the difference, even if one would inspect inside their pants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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