Islamist-Fascists and European Democracies...

The globalization of the world united us in a collective destiny never witnessed before...
The wars are not localized any more... and the elusive peace will not be localized too... 
The wars in the Middle East, mostly instigated by the West-NATO and the U.S. has rippled through Europe... The Migration Crisis is the face of the wars in the Middle east... The crisis in the Middle East has developed a tsunami effect through global terrorism... and as yet the global community has no solution to the crisis... in Syria, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya, in Israel-Palestine... 
The Middle East is transformed to the perpetual killing fields of the 21st century... Will it stop...? It's anyone's guess... But definitely it will usher in a NEW WORLD ORDER... What will be its shape... is a guess for anyone... 
Will it be the total Islamization of Europe...? Maybe...
Will it curtail the U.S. global hegemony...? Again, maybe...
Will it initiate the decline of Judea-Christian civilization...? Definitely yes... The New World Order will be more democratic than the fake democracies of the West-NATO-U.S.
Democracies cannot be hinged to greed-profit chasing values of our capitalist societies... The New World Order democracies will be based on sharing and peaceful coexistence... of all nations... 
The wars in the Middle East are the painful witnesses to the birth of the New World Order... The wars are the childbirth pains... 

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This is a projection of the face of the Turkish President Erdogan... It is styled as the face of Hitler... It appeared on the walls of the building of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin...
The projection was a reaction of German artists to the recent arrests of two Turkish journalists... because they offended the President and also printed news which the President's party did not appreciate... 

The Turkish President has a very thin skin and takes criticism of his imperial ambitions as personal insults... His regime has punished more than 2000 reporters-journalists for insulting Turkishness or the presidency...
The Turkish regime even extended its reach to Europe and wanted to punish satirists in Germany and France and Austria... The president succeeded partially in Germany... a court ruled over the weekend in his favour... 

Jokes About Erdogan Aren't Funny in Germany

 

The German government has allowed authorities to prosecute—if they choose to do so—Jan Böhmermann, a satirist who mocked the Turkish leader on TV... The judge ruled that Böhmermann is allowed to mock the Turkish president... but he should not refer to the president having sex with goats and animals and other sexual references...

By siding with the Turkish president... the German judge in fact arrested the free expression of artistic ideas... and handcuffed freedom of speech...

So if Big Brothers do not like anything they can refer to the German courts to curtail the free flow of ideas and criticism...

The Islamist-fascists of Turkey are exporting their authoritarian outlook and Islamic Sharia concepts to Europe and beyond... Now it is Germany... and then Europe and North America too...

For a century the Turkish fascists are denying the Armenian Genocide... and by their denials they are perpetuating the genocide...  

But neither Europe nor minorities can survive in a Islamist-fascist society... The authoritarian Islamist Sharia laws do not allow democracy and stifle all human freedoms...

Last week fascist parliamentarians attacked  Kurdish and Armenian PMs... in the Turkish Parliament...

Read below...

Istanbul Armenian Garo Paylan, who is also an MP from the pro-Kurdish “Peoples’ Democratic Party” (HDP) of Turkey, is speaking out... “They are attempting to silence and ‘digest’ not only me, but the opposition in Turkey,” Paylan specifically said and continued: “And we are continuing to fight. Of course, there is a greater risk in case of being an Armenian [member of the] opposition [in Turkey]."  He said, the attack that occurred in the Meclis [i.e. the Grand National Assembly (parliament) of Turkey] was pre-planned, and it was a lynching attempt based on hatred. “I have always received social networking website threats, or profanities, whose target was my Armenian identity. [But] after the incident in Parliament, my supporters’ messages have become more visible. “Targeting of the HDP MPs and the insults toward them continue, and this is led by the [Turkish] presidential palace.  The MP said; “Armenians can survive in a democratic Turkey; I am fighting for the fulfillment of this idea.”

Ross Would Have Helped In Answering My Questions...

I was going to start when Ross and I were planning to visit a mosque... But then a funny thing happened... 
I was enjoying the day... It is cloudy, but the sun peeps out once in a while... I was watching out to my backyard from the sliding door... a bird flew and settled on a branch of the big oak tree... Played with the leaves... sang a while... and then flew to a chair in the backyard just a meter away from me... sat on the back of the chair... at the top... looked at me... sang again... and turned its back to me... raised its tail... and drop its shit on the back of the chair... and without hesitation flew away... They say in order to fly efficiently and quickly, the birds need to carry as little weight as possible, so they evacuate their excess cloaca...
that is, shit-pooh frequently...
I have not studied biology-zoology... In fact at school I studied very hard for that course... but no matter what, I barely passed the course...
The bird caught my attention and made me happy... and just then and there... I decided to share the poohing bird with you...
I went out to the backyard... checked what had happened... and left it there... It changed my mood for the better... I was in my backyard... under the oak tree... I looked up and checked the twigs that the bird played with... The oak tree is huge and when I look at it I always wonder... "How many leaves are on the tree...?" I have no clue... 
In the backyard I wondered... what if a human had done all that the bird did... I attempted to imagine my reaction... I contrived my plan of action... 911...? Chase him out...? I decided I would have done both... I will do both...
The bird made me happy... the human distorted the beauty... !!!!!!
I went back into the house...

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Ross, the chaplain at me school, came to my class one day and was curious if I will be willing to visit a mosque with him... I told him that most probably they will not let us into the mosque... He said; "Let's try..." and i went along with him...
We phoned the office of a nearby mosque... and checked if we can visit them... The man on the other side of the phone was cordial and did not oppose... We sat a date...
Ross and I went to visit them... 


The "priest" invited us in the office... we chatted... He was very friendly... and Ross was very happy... when we said if we may visit the mosque... the "priest" looked at us confused and said... "No... the mosque is a place to pray... it is not a touristic sight...," he said...
Ross thanked and we bundled our disappointment and went to a nearby bar... We drank our disappointment out... 
I remembered all this while reading about Europe and what is happening there... My daughter lives in Europe and I check what the latest news is from that part of the troubled world...

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I remembered Ross and his disappointment... and wondered what would have been his reaction to the migrant-refugee crisis in Europe... Would he have said, "They are allowed..." ? Would he have dismissed the situation as the essential by product of White Men's Burden... The inevitable by product of the invasion of Afghanistan... The invasion of Iraq... and the so dubbed "Arab Spring..." 

I wondered all morning what would have Ross said... what would have he done... and then the bird poohed in my backyard and for few moments I was happy... 

But the question remained with me... What would have Ross done and what would have he said...? What will happen to Europe...? 

A woman, with her fist raised, defying a uniformed march of neo-Nazis in Sweden

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I would have not imagined that Sweden will be a stage where civilizations clash... But it is happening right now... all over Europe... 

I wonder if there will be a reconciliation or the clash of civilization will open the way to neo-Nazi thugs... 

I wonder if Ross would have connected the bird's pooh in my backyard... The neo-Nazi gangs in Europe and the Islamic-Jihadist-fascists in the Middle East and in Turkey... 

Neo-Nazi movements have been on the rise in Sweden and other European countries as a result of the migration crisis. The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats Party is the third biggest political force in the country. The country, which has a decades-old reputation for welcoming refugees and political asylum seekers, has introduced tighter border controls in an attempt to control the influx. Alongside Germany, Sweden is one of the main destinations for migrants trying to reach Europe. Tensions there have been heightened by arson attacks on asylum centres and other cases of violence.                                                                                    A woman, Ms Asplund, confronts the uniformed neo-Nazi demonstrators in Sweden ..... ..... ***  ... Is the, Islimazation of Europe the main impetus for the growth and bold resurgence of neo-Nazis ... Has Big Brother leadership placed its greed and profit chasing before the humane and Judaeo-Christian culture of Europe...? I wish Ross was around and answered my questions... !

... And still the...                                 Islamization of Europe Continues...

An immigrant group based in Bern has called for the emblematic white cross to be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it "no longer corresponds to today's multicultural Switzerland." Ivica Petrusic, the vice president of Second@s plus, a lobbying group that represents mostly Muslim second-generation foreigners in Switzerland (who colloquially are known as secondos) says the group will launch a nationwide campaign in October to ask Swiss citizens to consider adopting a flag that is less offensive to Muslim immigrants. In a September 18 interview with the Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung, Petrusic said the cross has a Christian background and while the Christian roots of Switzerland should be respected, "it is necessary to separate church and state" because "Switzerland today has a great religious and cultural diversity. One has to ask if the State wants to continue building up a symbol in which many people no longer believe." In the interview, Petrusic said Switzerland needs new symbols with which everyone, including non-Christians, can identify. As an alternative to the current Swiss flag , Petrusic proposed the former flag of the Helvetic Republic which was officially introduced in 1799 and consisted of green, red and yellow colors. "Those colors are similar to the current flags of Bolivia and Ghana and would represent a more progressive and open-minded Switzerland," Petrusic said. The proposal to change the Swiss flag has been met with outrage across the political spectrum and is sure to fuel anti-immigrant sentiments in Switzerland.

... And still the...                                 Islamization of Europe Continues...

The Swedish Green Party has Islamisation Problems... The party's problems started when Housing Minister Mehmet Kaplan, a Green Party member and former leader of a Swedish Muslim youth group, resigned last week after media reports that he had contacts with ultra-nationalists and Islamists in his native Turkey. Though he denied any wrongdoing and the party leadership defended him until the end, he stepped down when a video surfaced of Kaplan comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians to how the Nazis persecuted Jews. Images emerged where Kaplan and other Muslim members of the Green Party were seen holding up four fingers, a hand gesture used by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. One of them, a Green Party youth leader, walked into the picture during a live broadcast on Swedish television and flashed the sign behind the presenter. Of course the gesture isn't illegal in “liberal” Sweden but many Green Party members questioned whether the brotherhood's conservative views are compatible with the feminist and gay-friendly platform of the Swedish Greens. The biggest outcry came after Yasri Khan, a 30-year-old running for a seat on the Green Party's executive board, refused to shake the hand of a Swedish TV reporter. He said shaking hands with someone from the opposite sex is too "intimate," and instead put his hand on his heart in a Muslim greeting. ...And, The deputy head of Sweden’s main Turkish association stepped down in disgrace after calling for death to Armenians. Speaking to a small crowd in Stockholm, Barbaros Leylani urged Turks to awaken, and to kill what he branded "the Armenian dogs.” Speaking at Sergels Square in the center of the Swedish capital, Leylani also said: "Let us show Sweden, Scandinavia and Europe what Turkey stands for. We do not like blood, but we can let the blood flow when it is needed,"  the Swedish publication Dagens Nyheter reported.

... And here is...
Adonis, greatest Syrian-Lebanese Arab poet , who lives in Europe now says...

Being raised a Muslim himself and having deep and one of the greatest understandings of the language of the Quran, Adonis said: “You can not reform a religion. If they are reformed, [the original meaning] is separated from it. Therefore, modern Muslims and a modern Islam is already impossible... It is an oxymoronic contradiction...  Modern and Islam cannot go together... Modern and Muslim contradict each other... If there is no separation between religion and state, there will be no democracy especially without equality for women. Then we will keep a theocratic system. So it will end.” Laying down a heavy critique of the Islamic world, he added: “Arabs have no more creative force. Islam does not contribute to intellectual life, it suggests no discussion. It is no longer thought. It produces no thinking, no art, no science, no vision that could change the world. This violence is the sign of its end. The Arabs will continue to exist, but they will not make the world better.” The remarks are in reference to the broader questions of how he sees the Middle East, and specifically his native Syria which has been in a state of civil war for years. Adonis describes the totality of Islam in the life of people in the Islamic world saying Muslim society is “based on a totalitarian system. The religion dictates everything: How to run, how to go to the toilet, who one has to love…” He went on to say the rebels were controlled by interests in America, Saudi Arabia and certain sections of Europe, and stessed: “I have long been an opponent of Assad. The Assad regime has transformed the country into a prison. But his opponents, the so-called Islamic militants, commit mass murder, cut people’s heads off, sell women in cages as goods and trample human dignity underfoot.”

... But the...                                 Islamization of Europe Continues...

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The oil barons and their greed and profit chasing...

 Fort McMurray in western Canada is burning... The entire population - more than 80 000 - have been driven off their homes... 
Even emperor Nero would have felt the devastation... and not enjoyed the fire... but the oil barons do not care... They will pollute the earth and they will extract profit out of the dirty oil sands... and unfortunately squeeze people out of their homes...
Check the devastation below...

Officials said the size of the blaze was now more than 10,000 hectares (39 square miles) and it was being tackled by 100 firefighters.

People are fleeing through the fire tunnel...

The caravan of cars... and people abandoning their homes to the fire...

 

It is total devastation... and I hope the newly elected government... instead of showing off the charm and cute face of the Prime Minister... helps the people...

The oil companies should help the people too... 

FACT Check.. 50% of teens and 27% of parents feel they're addicted to their mobile devices, poll says... Nearly 80% of teens check their phones hourly; 72% feel the need to respond immediately... I and my friend Ross, the chaplain at my school, consistently and persistently stressed that the youth is in need for social contact. Maybe we are in need of a new social contract... and reorganization of society... The elders, Big Brothers of all the nations are piling stinking garbage piles all over the globe... and the youth are "angry"... they are disinterested in the social fabric woven by their elders... but at the same time they are genuinely in need for social interaction... That's exactly what the above poll demonstrates... They need to interact and talk and come together...  ...and maybe soon the youth will take another step and come up with a new agenda to change the social fabric of society... and maybe they will initiate a more peaceful... caring and sharing society...  The youth is in revolt in North America... that's what the U.S. primaries are showing... The youth have rejected the mainstream candidates... But, as yet, they have not come up with their own and future oriented agenda... Maybe they will soon...  I will be delighted... Ross, my friend, would have been thrilled... The above poll inspires hope... The atrocities of the Islamist-Jihadist-fascists inspire hope too... After all, humans cannot condone forever the fascistic vision of the Islamist-Jihadists... These groups will implode from within... and the Islamic youth will reject them...  The Turkish, Saudi, Azerbaijani... and other despotic fascist regimes will be rejected eventually... and I hope sooner... than later...  The above poll of mobile phone users... gives me hope and I will wait patiently... and I know that Godot...eventually will come... *** We are destroying ourselves and the environment around us... and the youth does sense it...  Go home - by Viktoriia Moskalenko (Ukraine) The sheep are peaceful... and very docile... The flock and the shepherd are part of the harmony of humans and earth... But then there is the rest... Appreciate every piece - by Marcin Jucha (UK) But then there is the brutality... We kill and we murder... to eat every piece... and then we kill just for the fun of it... and then we kill just for sports... and then we kill just for the sake of killing... We have devastated the environment... and I am sure the youth senses this... After all they will inherit the world... ... and check the beauty of nature... we do not have to kill so as we survive... there are the alternative lifestyle... These fruits are delicious... and nutritious too... Can you guess what this is...? A beautiful field of wild garlic...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it is besides being beautiful it is nutritious too...  But maybe you do not want to smell garlicky...!!!   Puno, Lake Titicaca -  by Robert Holmes (USA)     and            Salmon still life - by Susan Bell (UK)               A beautiful stand ...................And a deadly sin...  Maybe it is not the right thing to say... But the ravages of the wars in the Middle east and Africa... and the migrant-refugee crisis... is giving me hope that soon there will be a new world order...  Society cannot sustain the brutality and the savagery of the wars and religious fascism... So there is a hope in the evil that a New World Order just around the corner... *** I am hopeful... Ross, my friend, would have been proud of my optimistic evaluation...  Wars are the harbinger of peace... and brutality and beheadings will usher world harmony... A world without borders... in peace with itself... *** I do not like The System of The Dawn... Their music is too loud for me... But listening to their lead vocalist in his new song is fun... I hope you like it too... Here is the article from Rolling Stone magazine... ............................................................................................................................ Rolling Stone Magazine See System of a Down's Serj Tankian Perform New Political Song 'Artsakh' Passionate acoustic tune calls for solidarity among Armenians in disputed region of Azerbaijan By Kory Grow May 4, 2016  System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian was so moved by the resilience of Armenian fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan that neighbors Armenia, during a four-day war in April that he wrote a passionate new political folk song, "Artsakh," in deference to them. The song voices support for the people of Artsakh – the Armenian name for the region – and protests what Tankian describes as Azeri aggression. "These people have lived on those lands for thousands of years," the singer wrote in a statement. "They have struggle but also great beauty written on their foreheads. The whimsical appropriation of land by an empire (Stalin) placed them under Azerbaijan. They have since gained their independence and have lived a prosperous existence for the last 20 or so years. I do not believe in wars and ultimately borders but I deeply believe in self-determination and life without oppression. Therefore it is time for the world to recognize them as the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)." Violence broke out in the region on April 2nd, prompting Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, to call for the "immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Armenian troops from our territories," according to The Washington Post. As the situation worsened, Azerbaijani troops attempted to take control of the region. The paper reported scores of deaths, the worst in the region since 1994. A ceasefire was declared on April 5th. Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced his support of a truce, according to Armenia Now. "It's a crazy provocation," the singer tells Rolling Stone. "It's a land that these people have lived on from the beginning of time, from time immemorial, with children springing from the rivers and generations coming from their mountains. There is a national liberation struggle embedded within their character, their public mask, if you will. It goes on through trying to create peace. We will ultimately win with culture and all this beautiful stuff." Tankian made a video for the song, on which he sings and plays guitar, this past weekend. "Artsakh" lyrics, translated: We've always lived on these lands, Reaped and harvested these fields, Generations sprung from your rivers, Children born from your mountains, The public mask of tradition, The struggle for liberation or death, The enemy's gaze at your terrain, Our smiles at your bosom, At your bottomless will. We're going to sing with our fists With the tricolor flag of justice, Humanitarian love of peace With the holy blessing of a child's face, We are going to prevail with culture We are going to prevail with culture We are going to prevail by being Armenian. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rollingstone.com_music_news_see-2Dsystem-2Dof-2Da-2Ddowns-2Dserj-2Dtankian-2Dperform-2Dnew-2Dpolitical-2Dsong-2Dartsakh-2D20160504&d=DQIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=LVw5zH6C4LHpVQcGEdVcrQ&m=oV5e4k2HTzcffz58fzVhCqJKYM0shhWG_AA1Dt2S37g&s=OE5m7h_fva2LldVqiQxFA0o3uhQeHq3YdATqKiIRXR0&e= https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_wFE7wlB3-5FEc&d=DQIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=LVw5zH6C4LHpVQcGEdVcrQ&m=UMuHcaPXkX4j2JBJPtihaGl_pSdot8q3a4n-Hkq_5v8&s=Q9wZsmAQid2E24yPauPEaSPzlvmeHkueqWttZxkUy1w&e=

Ross Realized the Danger of Organized Religion...

Ross, the chaplain and my friend, knew the danger of dogma and Organized Religion... He always reminded my of that... He said Organized Religion and democracy and civilization cannot co-exist... 
Ross was a visionary and he foresaw the coming terror and brutal beheadings of Islamic-Jihadist fascism...

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I love football (though some call it soccer...!)...                   It is "the beautiful game"... It is an art in its own right... The game is athletic... and graceful... It looks like a ballet without the music... But the vociferous stands almost provide the missing music... the chants are civilized and comprise a touch of primitive and brutish ritual... It reminds me of the boys... chanting and dancing in circles around the head on the stick... and if when the chanting-dancing is not civilized... hooliganism takes over... riots take over...
I love football ( some call it soccer...) and the passing and the curving flying ball... It is magic...
The game is not violent and that's its basic appeal to me... The North American "football" is not played by foot... and also is quite violent... I don't like it...
My student-engineer-friend plays football (some call it soccer) and he is quite good at it... That's what he says... I have never seen him play... but I do not have any reason not to believe him. I was thinking about football (some call it soccer) all day... Just because I read in the news that the father of the Afghani boy... who is a fan of Messi ( Barcelona player from Argentine...) was threatened... So he fled Afghanistan...  
Organized Religion at it Again...                         ... "I received 20-30 unknown threatening calls in Afghanistan asking why I'm teaching my kid about football and not teaching him about the Quran," the boy's father, Muhammad Arif Ahmadi, has told the news outlets... 

Here is the kid happy... displaying the autographed football jersey from Messi... Why people do not let kids to be kids... and force them into child labour... salve labour... force them to become child soldiers... Force them to be like the elders... imitate the stupidity of their elders and maim and kill and attack others... commit genocide... ?????????????????????????????????????????
It is the tragedy of our times...
Islamic-Jihadist-fascists... threaten the kid and his father and force them to escape to safety away from home...
... And the West... and North America... and NATO... invaded Afghanistan in order shoulder "the White men's burden..." and "introduce DEMOCRACY..."
Democracy is not a game... and it cannot be forced on others... Democracy cannot be forced fed to people who do not have the basic knowledge of civilized behaviour... 
Democracy cannot be introduced to any community who take their basic knowledge from the "Holy Books"... 
Organized Religion is NOT Democratic by its very tenets... be it Christian or Islam or Hindu or Judaism... or any other religion... Organized Religion imposes concepts and vision on its followers which cannot be question... and the interpretation of the Holy Book(s) MUST BE followed... and in case of Islam ushers in despotic rule and fascism... which directly rejects the democratic concepts of the West and North America...

Turkey is Sliding into Despotism... and Islamic Directorship...

Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist Slams Erdogan’s Authoritarianism... Joining a growing list of Turkish intellectuals critical of the Erdogan administration, Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk accused the Turkish president of using draconian laws to silence dissent. The trial of Murat Belge, an academic who writes for Turkey’s Taraf newspaper, began on Tuesday. Charged with insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by suggesting that the Turkish leader created conflict with Kurdish communities for political gain, he could face up to four years in prison if found guilty.

Turkey's most celebrated auther Orhan Pamuc Speaks out...
Pamuc himself was subject to persecution for 10 years... when he wrote about the Armenian massacres and genocide... 

"This has nothing to do with insulting the president. This is only about silencing political opposition. This is about intimidating people and scaring the country so nobody would criticize the government," he said following Belge’s court hearing. "This has nothing to do with insulting the president. This is only about silencing political opposition. This is about intimidating people and scaring the country so nobody would criticize the government," he said following Belge’s court hearing. "I hope the leaders of the EU when they are shaking hands with Turkish leaders…would also occasionally talk about free speech," he said. *** 'I said loud and clear that one million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey, and I stand by that. For me, these are scholarly issues,' said Pamuk. 'I am a novelist. I address human suffering and pain and it is obvious, even in Turkey, that there was an immense hidden pain which we now have to face.' He went on to remind me that the biggest obstacle right now was Article 301. This is a new law and how it found its way into Turkey's new and supposedly EU-friendly penal code is a subject of heated speculation. Article 301 ... is about "insulting Turkishness..." and Pamuk was prosecuted under that law for his statement about Armenians and Kurds...

But the EU and the West and North America will not listen to Orhan Pamuk and Turkish intellectuals... They will go after their greed and chase profit... and the Turkish leaders will massacre more Kurds... and prosecute more intellectuals... and stifle democracy...
In Afghanistan... the West-NATO and North America want to "introduce democracy..." and in Turkey they are silent when democracy is maimed and intellectuals are imprisoned...
This is the shameful face of the globalized Big Brothers... This is the deceitful face of the alliance of Big Brothers Without Borders... 

... And "see" you tomorrow...

Ross... "You have Friends Too..."

“You have friends too...,” blasted Ross in the phone... Ross was a good chaplain and an entertaining, honest and supportive friend when I was teaching... He supported me always when we had a dispute among teachers... He supported me when other department heads attacked me... But regardless Ross and I had a conflict... I had a family and he was single...free...without any social obligations... He wanted us to do whatever he wanted to do without restrictions... But his desire conflicted at times with my family schedule and societal obligations...                           Ross was a intelligent individual... He had learned math without numbers... He prided in that... But he could not comprehend the obligations that another person may have... He was like a child in those moments... and cried foul because of the contradictions with his bachelor kingdom and married social realities... What is worse, he did not have parents or siblings around... and had absolute social freedom... He was responsible for himself only... So we had conflicts and disputes... whether to do or not to do an event... and blasting in my ear, over the phone... "You have friends too..." was one of those occasions... I had declined an opera and he desperately wanted to attend that opera... he was annoyed with me for several days... and then we went for drinks and the opera that he wanted... few days later...!!!                                                   ***                                 I remembered the above... because I have a family guest at my house for a week now... It is family... so I have to tend to my social duties... as conflicting as they may be... In fact, while I am writing this... it is very early in the morning now... and my family guest woke up had his cup of coffee... and right away turned the TV on... We do not have much in common... but there are things that one should not avoid... So now I am going to stop my meditations... contemplation... and go and sit with him... [I will continue later... when I have a chance... Maybe tomorrow...] I do not have anything in common with our guest... Ross is right in this... but I have my social duties... Ross is not right in this ! He does not want to visit exhibits...He does not want to visit art galleries... he likes to visit the malls...admire jewellery... I hate both... I do not even wear my wedding band...! He likes to eat at restaurants... I don't like restaurants... I only order salmon plates... Ross knew that and he always ordered for me... Bars I do not mind... I like to share the ambiance of a bar with friends and family...I would have two or three glasses of whatever... My guest does not appreciate drinks... Opera, theater and classical music are headaches for him...He even does not appreciate old or new movies... He says; "He sleeps after 10-15 mins..." It is sad and contradictory... Why he decided to visit me is still a puzzle... a puzzle that I do not even want to solve...            A famous Armenian author has a book titled... The Hazards of being Polite... The Funny Side of Social duties and Expectations. The book is a satire on our social norms and obligations, "duties" and expectations... I love the book and appreciate its satire of social mores and values... Most of the social expectations is bull-shit... and I do not like them... But no matter what I respect people and at times I sacrifice my time for them... I wanted to visit an exhibit in a library... I wanted to see the photos and paintings... My guest did not want to attend... so we cancelled... and I missed the exhibit...                                                            *** Today my guest departed... Everyone left to their work and I was alone at home... So, guess what... I listened to Rimsky  Scheherazade, 1001 Nights Retold in a Symphony Bedtime stories took on a new meaning for Scheherazade. Her husband, the Sultan, had the nasty habit of marrying a woman at night and killing her in the morning. So Scheherazade thought up a plan. Every night she would tell him a story, and leave it hanging. 1001 captivating stories later, he decided to keep her. I love the music... I love to imagine the stories... and why not make up new stories... adding to the 1001 plus so many more... I love adding up new stories... and sip the vodka and breeze through the music... Korsakov's Scheherazade... I blasted the player... loud... and I poured a glass of vodka... I enjoyed the music and the vodka cleansed the bugs which had accumulated for the past ten days... Ross understands what I mean... Once I told him... "No ice cubes... no water... no orange juice... Just do not contaminate my drink..." I told him..."give me just chilled... ice cold vodka... and that's good enough for me..."  He laughed his attention seeking and grabbing loud laugh... and I enjoyed the chilled drink... warming up inside me... I did the same today... I celebrated my freedom... and the sips brought back memories of Ross and some sanity back inside me... I remembered the Good Old Days... the times that we had together... He was correct in one sense... I "have friends too..." but I cherish my "alone" time... and I think and I write...         I told my student-engineer-friend that as I think by myself... I also write for myself... I do not write for others... the "others" is a by-product of my writing...  Now I am listening to Caucasian Sketches... It is beautiful... so I will stop now... and enjoy the music... The monasteries high up in the mountains... They almost touch God... and staying there for a day or two is heavenly...  Ippolitov-Ivanov is great in the Caucasian Sketches...  Every time I listen to it... I enjoy it more... *** Tomorrow I will post the accumulated notes that I have from the past few days...