status quo
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Topic: status quo
Posted By: arabaliozian
Subject: status quo
Date Posted: 29-Apr-2016 at 07:54
| Everything is as it should be. I never had it so good. The surest warnings of an impending catastrophe. |
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Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 29-Apr-2016 at 07:56
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NOTES / COMMENTS ********************************* We are brought up to believe we were defeated because our enemies outnumbered us. The truth is we outnumbered them but we were as divided then as we are now. * The mightiest empire cannot defeat the weakest tribe if the empire is divided and the tribe united. This has been said before but it bears repeating. # |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 02-May-2016 at 07:48
| Talaat was part Armenian. So was the Red Sultan. What does that prove? Only one thing, that all men are brothers, like Cain and Abel. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 03-May-2016 at 07:27
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If you and I disagree it doesn’t mean only one of
us is wrong. |
Posted By: Aeoli
Date Posted: 03-May-2016 at 10:05
Well said my friend and not just men,  Can you share any source about Talat Pasha and Sultan Abdulhamit?
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Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 03-May-2016 at 14:15
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There are many forms of
addiction; addiction to propaganda is
one of the most dangerous. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 03-May-2016 at 14:37
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We learn nothing from history |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 04-May-2016 at 07:28
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS ***************************** It takes two to tango also means
responsibility must be shared,
the blame-game is out. * In a political context, evil and incompetence might
as well be synonymous. * If you brag about your
assets, they become liabilities. # |
Posted By: Aeoli
Date Posted: 04-May-2016 at 09:26
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Ara Baliozian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_Baliozian - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_Baliozian İs it just name similarity?  |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 04-May-2016 at 14:26
| one & the same. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 04-May-2016 at 14:27
| "When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch," the Bible tells us. Our history in a nutshell. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 04-May-2016 at 14:48
| To those who say, "My religion does not legitimize murder," may I quote Voltaire's unforgettable dictum: "Since it was a religious war, there were no survivors." |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 09-May-2016 at 14:29
| Plato tells us in an anti-intellectual environment, a philosopher cannot but be like “a man who has fallen among wild beasts..." |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 26-May-2016 at 08:13
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If you think you belong to a nation that is God’s chosen, you will be torn to shreds by the scum of the earth. This is neither theory nor speculation, neither prediction nor metaphysics, but historic reality. # |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 29-May-2016 at 07:35
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Propaganda is a freely
distributed drug and we are all junkies. * One can get addicted to
flattery as surely as to nicotine and
alcohol. * What is the role of
leadership? Let’s begin with what isn’t:
Leading a nation to
genocide. # |
Posted By: medenaywe
Date Posted: 29-May-2016 at 10:21
You have topic for thought of the day arabaliozian, use it!Please! 
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Posted By: medenaywe
Date Posted: 29-May-2016 at 10:23
| Famous quotes from A E followers/A E Tavern... |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 30-May-2016 at 14:45
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After having sex with his wife, Tolstoy wrote in his diary: “It was so disgusting; I felt I had committed a crime.” |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 30-May-2016 at 15:42
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Please refrain from using bold caps. It's construed as offensive.
Is there a point to your posts? ------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 30-May-2016 at 15:47
I believe you hit on it Aeoli. We have an academic celeb. as a member.  ------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 31-May-2016 at 07:39
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There is nothing wrong with patriotism provided you keep in mind your enemy too has been brainwashed to believe there is nothing wrong in killing you in the name of God and Country. # |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 31-May-2016 at 08:14
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There was a World War II because the combatants had their own versions of World War I. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 31-May-2016 at 14:14
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Nature seems to be partial to the number two: we have two eyes, two ears, two arms, two legs, and a forked tongue. # |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 02-Jun-2016 at 08:04
| Olaf Stapleton: "A nation is just a society for hating foreigners." |
Posted By: Aeoli
Date Posted: 02-Jun-2016 at 12:12
This is really good. A bit harsh but still good
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Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 10-Jun-2016 at 14:36
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In Aaron Sorkin’s NEWSROOM, after making a long
list of facts that prove “America is not the greatest
country on earth,” McAvoy (the central character) adds: “But we used to be.” No mention of slavery, racism, McCarthyism, Watergate. Nixon, Scalia, Archie Bunker, Madoff… and I could go on! |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 11-Jun-2016 at 17:05
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Yes, you could go on, but before you do, you might read the Code of Conduct first. Just to keep you out of trouble.
:)
------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 12-Jun-2016 at 14:43
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Of the 1% we can truly say: The higher they rise, the lower they sink. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 12-Jun-2016 at 14:43
| ????????????????? |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 14-Jun-2016 at 07:52
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If you speak the
truth liars will conspire
against you and you will be
outnumbered a thousand to one. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 16-Jun-2016 at 07:34
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Real patriotism and propaganda are mutually exclusive concepts. # |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 17-Jun-2016 at 07:50
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ON LEADERSHIP ********************************* Leadership plays a key role in the life and death of nations. Compare the fate of Jews in Germany with that of Jews in Egypt under the charismatic political leadership of Moses. And now consider our own fate at the turn of the last century in the Ottoman Empire. * Homo sapiens may also be defined as a being incapable of learning from history. * If we reject history as a useful tool of survival, we condemn ourselves to systematic extermination or the death of a thousand self-inflicted cuts. * Our historians have betrayed us by reducing the study of history to perpetual lamentation. # |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 19-Jun-2016 at 07:55
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Survival comes with a
price. The body may survive, but the spirit, that’s different. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 19-Jun-2016 at 14:20
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The best argument against all organized religions: the Middle East is the birthplace of 3 religions. |
Posted By: Aeoli
Date Posted: 19-Jun-2016 at 18:40
I guess you mean three Abramic religions. But What about Zoroastrianism? also Yazdânism, Druz and Bahai Faith |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 21-Jun-2016 at 07:53
| them too. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 21-Jun-2016 at 07:54
| ...& if you come up with others, include them too! i am catholic in my stance. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 22-Jun-2016 at 08:04
| they are more like clubs... |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 22-Jun-2016 at 08:10
| Those who declare wars have a better chance to survive them than those who do the actual fighting. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 05-Jul-2016 at 14:25
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SPENGLER AND TOYNBEE ************************************
What I find
fascinating in Spengler and Toynbee are not the grand theories about the
cyclical (Spengler) or non-cyclical (Toynbee) nature of history, but the gems
of penetrating observations that are scattered throughout their works. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 12-Jul-2016 at 08:25
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Marx said, other philosophers only tried to interpret the world; he was going to change it; but he was wise enough not to say “for the better”; he was even wiser when he said, “I am not a Marxist!” |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 14-Jul-2016 at 08:05
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Stanislaw Lec:
Only the dead can be resurrected. It's more difficult with the living." |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 17-Jul-2016 at 14:30
| To rewrite history means to ignore its lessons. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 24-Jul-2016 at 08:01
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The bloodthirsty disposition of the few and the cowardice of the many: there you have it – an abridged history of mankind. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 28-Jul-2016 at 14:46
| Unbelievable but true: Suleiman the Magnificent once wrote a poem in praise of a contemporary Turkish poet. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 09-Aug-2016 at 07:30
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If you understand 99 things you will be brought low by that single thing you failed to understand. * |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 09-Aug-2016 at 14:12
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Politics and big business: they are both conducted by individuals without a conception of right and wrong. This is as true of Turks as it is of
Americans, and we are no better. |
Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 09-Aug-2016 at 16:23
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Don't forget the rest of the world. None are innocent. Amen. ------------- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" S. T. Friedman Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true' |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2016 at 07:32
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Mussolini and Italians, Hitler and Germans, Stalin and Soviets, Trump and Yanks: Political leaders are
idiots. * |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 10-Aug-2016 at 10:36
As is anyone who attempts to lump us Yanks in with the others. Trump is not a leader, he's a "wannabe". Even if he wins the election, which is highly doubtful, he still wouldn't be a political leader. ------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2016 at 07:27
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NOTES / COMMENTS **************************
Sooner or later all
empires bite the dust; and we are the dust. * |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 07-Sep-2016 at 08:09
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Dario Fo: "People who are up to their necks in shit walk with their heads held high." #
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Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 12-Sep-2016 at 14:43
| A historian is not judged by the degree of his patriotism, nationalism, loyalty or subersvience to a power structure, but by his honesty and impartiality. For more on this subject see Michael Grant’s GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORIANS: INFORMATION AND MISINFORMATION (London, 1995). |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 15-Sep-2016 at 07:26
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ISLAMOPHOBIA ******************************** We are told Islamophobia is racist nonsense. What we are not told is that no one in his right mind could be for sharia and jihad. # |
Posted By: arabaliozian
Date Posted: 14-Jan-2018 at 08:09
| A clearly stated problem has an unspoken solution. |