Testimony
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded his empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for him.
Cynicism
Some go to church to see and be seen,
Some go there to say they have been,
Some go there to sleep and nod
But few go there to worship God.
By the Eternal
Nothing on earth can satisfy man’s aspiration. Heaven and earth may pass away, but that which thinks within us can never cease to be.
…Canto ix from The Pelican Island, a poem by James Montgomery (1827)
Family Mis-relations
Having heard about an unusual computer that stored personal archives, a man decided to put it to the test. He arranged to place an inquiry with it, and asked “Where is my father?”
The machine answered, “Your father is in a Turkish prison.” Delighted at having caught the computer in a mistake, he responded, “Wrong. He is in Los Angeles, working in a bank.” The computer came right back with a rebuttal, stating, “Your mother’s husband is in Los Angeles. Your father is in a Turkish prison.”
Armenian Proverb
Because the cat was given no meat, he said it was Friday.
Restoration of the Fedayi Ethic
Act alone, yet in concert.
Identical goals.
Mutual respect.
Self-sacrifice.
What’s in a Name?
Farhadian: Arabic in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, farhad is defined as happy, merry, cheerful.
Farhadian is from the Pahlavi name Farhad, which ultimately derives from the Avestan Thraetaona. The ancient church Father Aphrahat/Aphraates had a different form of the same name, as did Fraotes, whom Apollonius of Tyana visited in India.