Odjak

I saw it on TV:

Primates live in groups. Social living is competitive.

To survive, primates develop a social expertise: The ability to manipulate others within the social group.

This manipulation of others is called “intelligence”.

Greek literature contains many cunning figures. These figures turn unfavorable situations to their advantage by outwitting others. Their techniques are often unscrupulous, deceitful, and dishonest.

I read it in the newspaper:

“The Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing this afternoon to examine the Bush government’s manipulation of pre-war Iraq intelligence.”

Sometimes I say to myself, all is in my head. What if there is no friend and enemy; no love or hate, no luck good or bad; no fate or destiny. What if all these were a fabrication of my own mind?

It would be so easy to change my mindset and live in a new world.

Today is April 24. The day of remembrance of the great calamity of 1915, otherwise known as the Armenian Genocide.

Before 1915 there were two million Armenians living in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire (today’s Turkey).

In 1915 these Armenians were made to vanish. Forcefully, deliberately, ruthlessly.

After 1915 there were no Armenians left in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire (Today’s Turkey).

Today, I remember.

I remember that there is friend and enemy; there is love and hate; there is luck good or bad, there is fate or destiny.

‘There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Talk as if you were making your will: the fewer words the less litigation.’
Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658)

This was posted today by Nicole Elliott on

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