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Thursday, November 12, 2009 ********************************** DIARY / 2 ***************************** “What Africa needs is precisely such transmutations of tribal loyalties to the larger loyalties of nationhood.” I copy these lines from a magazine article for those of my readers who say we need solutions. * To be a dupe in our context means to be deceived by frauds who have deceived themselves to believe they are leaders of men. * Let us not confuse anti-Turkism with pro-Armenianism. * Martin Scorcese: “...thanks to a professor named Haig Manoogian I discovered that I could express everything I felt through film.” * Salman Rushdie: “My father was a great religious scholar, but he wasn't a believer.” * David Lynch on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: “I owe him the discovery that the possibility for happiness dwells within us.” A hundred years before Maharishi, Tolstoy based a belief system on a 2000-year old dictum: “The kingdom of God is within you.” * There is only one religion: the search for meaning. * There is a type of reader who reads not to learn but to settle scores; not to engage in dialogue but to insult; and an insult is as difficult to refute as a massacre, perhaps because it is verbal massacre. * Nothing human is beyond criticism, including the Word of God as heard, interpreted, written down, translated, read and understood by man. * According to Buddha: “That which is spoken, heard, and understood are three different things.” * What a scathing book review Buddha would write of the Bible and the Koran! # Friday, November 13, 2009 ********************************** DIARY / 3 ***************************** To understand Turks, all I have to do is examine my own heart. To understand Turkish lies, all I have to do is consider our own. * Why should I trust the judgment or integrity of men who hire belly-slitting lawyers whenever their sensibilities are offended? * Northrop Frye on a common misconception of God: “...the ferocious old bugger up in the sky with the whiskers and the reactionary political views, who enjoys sending people to hell.” * When I hear or read the word Islam, the first four words that come to mind are: giaour, imam, fatwa, and jihad; and I loathe these words as much I loathe the words boss, bishop, benefactor, and commissar. * You cannot change that which you hate: that may explain my failure. Perhaps what we need is not critics but messiahs. Anyone interested in being crucified? * There is something in our partisans that doesn’t like disagreement, dissent, criticism, dialogue, democracy, free speech, human rights, honesty, straight talk, common sense…. * The disagreement of a single honest man means much more to me than the agreement of a thousand fools and ten thousand dupes. # Saturday, November 14, 2009 ********************************** DIARY / 4 ***************************** Sooner or later all lies are exposed and replaced by other lies. * Truth is not a noun but a verb – it consists in shedding lies. * Ottomanism, Sovietism, Armenianism: the only difference between them is the number of dupes and hoodlums they control. * Northrop Frye's explanation of deconstruction: “Rousseau wrote on the origin of language, but he was primarily interested in masturbation.” * Eduardo Galeano: “Hunting Jews has always been a European sport. Now the Palestinians, who never played it, are paying the bill.” * Men need to believe in something, even if it is a lie that will enslave them. # |
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