#3 Memo

arabaliozian · Valued Contributor Posts: 328

July 31, 2010
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#3 MEMO TO MY TURKISH FRIENDS
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You say,
“In our place you would have done the same thing.”
To which I can only say, and in our place
you would be reacting the same way.
Which means, we may be members of different tribes
but the same race – namely, the human race.
It also means we share more things in common
than we like to think. And yet,
we pretend otherwise
and we expect others to believe us
perhaps because we don't have as high an opinion of them
as we have of ourselves.
This pretense is baseless
because we might as well be transparent.
We both have a highly developed critical sense
when we deal with others, especially those we label as enemies,
and lack objectivity when it comes to ourselves.
You think the world needs you
more than it needs us, and we think
in the long run justice and truth are bound to prevail.
You cannot fool all the people all the time.
We both believe God or truth to be on our side,
thus reducing the mystery of existence to a game.
But life is not a game.
Not only today's victor may be tomorrow's loser
but also because victory on one level
may be defeat on another.
A criminal who believes he is innocent
because he is a law-abiding citizen
will commit the same crime again and again
until he is caught, arrested, tried, and found guilty.
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A state that thinks only in terms of power and influence over others
is a dehumanized state. That is to say,
a state that has committed moral suicide.
Such a state doesn't have to be killed in order to die
because it is already dead.
I say this with grief in my heart
because it applies to the rest of the world as well,
including ourselves.
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arabaliozian · Valued Contributor Posts: 328

Ari Sivacyan commented on your note "thank you":

"Productive human beings like Ara Baliozian who contribute to Armenian culture, work for less than minimum wage for scumbag Armenians (Armenian government, mafia, church, and business "leaders") who send our women to prostitute themselves in the brothels of Turkey -- when not tying to assassinate heroes like Monte Melkonian because they wanted to sell for profit the fuel that he needed to put in his tanks in order to defend Armenians.... That's what Armenians amount to, today. I'm ashamed to be an Armenian TODAY."

Omoro565 · Valued Contributor Posts: 398

Then go be a Turk or something if your not proud. Dont call your self Armenian. Go bitch and complain somewhere else. your words hold no bearing to them or to anyone. What country isnt corrupted? which one is s perfect that you 2 anti-Armnenians Look up to.

You repsond with non-sense because that all you have to give

MaratMilano · Supreme Posts: 6666

^Did you even read what he wrote about?

Or do you just skim through a couple words and then huff and puff?

Omoro565 · Valued Contributor Posts: 398

Metallica4ever · Supreme Member Posts: 1392

gev · Supreme Member Posts: 2100

Well said. Had you titled this differently and masked its purpose a lot more people would have agreed.

myleftfoot · Supreme Member Posts: 3009

Omoro565 · Valued Contributor Posts: 398

BTW what i wrote reflects to all his posts in general, but most of people follow anything with a paraggraph or more here lol, if most you looked into it and saw how much the man generlized our people.

PlanKash · Supreme Member Posts: 10631

but