So, There!
Virtue is its own punishment.
… Aneurin Bevan
From the Word Lab
CADUCEUS: According to Webster’s New International Dictionary, it is a herald’s staff of office; spec., the staff of Hermes or Mercury. Hermes’ staff as a symbol of a physician or medical corps. However, Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, in his Reader’s Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories, and Poems, has the following to say: The wand of Mercury. The “post of Mercury” means the office of a pimp, and to “bear the caduceus” means to exercise the functions of a pimp.
Bad Timing
Employer to Office Boy: Do you believe in life after death?
Office Boy: Oh, yes, sir.
Employer: Ah, then everything is in order, because after you took time off yesterday to attend your grandfather’s funeral, he came here to see you.
Hamshen Armenians
According to information posted on the internet, there are between 25,000 and 30,000 Armenian-speaking Muslim Hamshen Armenians in the Khopa Region of Turkey. In the diasporan Armenian community there are many who feel that the Hamshens are not to be accepted as Armenians because they are not Christian. Such persons should be asked if they consider Dikran Medz to be an Armenian king.
Shipshape
Edo: How did you make out with your last physical exam?
Bedo: The doctor told me that I’m in good shape for the shape I’m in.
What’s in a Name?
Mahmarian: Persian in derivation, identified as a trade or calling, mi‛már is defined as builder.
CK Garabed
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I like your Comment Mr Garabed
And I will add my voice to be with you
Let us together be Hamshintzi…
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I want to change my religion
And I will change…
To be called Hamshinly…
Hamshintzi
As I look ‘Like Them’
And they look ‘Like Me’
Who knows my religion
By looking to my face
I will be grateful
If thee…could tell me…!
Thus…We can change our Religion
Hence…never our ethnicity
It is our genes
It is Our DNA…s
Implanted to seed
It is Our Ancient Armenian Tree
Like an Olive Tree
Which can live thousand years
And still give the same olives
The same green leaves…
And every seed created
Must Beat… breathe…reborn
Through the centuries
Did you understand my dears…!
Sylva-MD-Poetry
It’s a justified open letter Mr. Garabed for the one’s amongst us who are disbelievers about Hamshen Armenians, who were terribly forced to change their religion throughout the Seljuk Turkish invasions from the middle of Asia – Mongolia. Hence, who would not choose for living and not dying. Perhaps some of them prayed to Jesus but quietly, who knows.
Dear Sylva-MD, once again you wrote such a nice poem about Hamshen Armenians, abris!
Seervart ( Seri-Vart) thanks once again for your comments…and hearty support
I am not a story writer…but this story is true, and i saw by my young eyes…!
I will tell you a story from Baghdad when i was young…
The Al-Shammarri tribe, A well known Arab tribe there are 5 million of them in Hilal Al-khaseeb the Arabian crescent as it is called…one of their Shaikh looked after the Armenian orphans girls and boys, when they grew up with them they let them to marry each other…A very honest attitude… They had children… and when their sons grew up they called them we are Armenians and wanted them to mix with Armenian to marry them and have Armenian family…One of their son use to come to our Armenian club in Baghdad…He was very kind, polite, and handsome guy…The Armenians started avoiding him because of his religion…after he felt the rejection he left our club…At that time with my small brain, I did not like it but i could not talk…!
You hear now many Armenians married to European or real Armenians…are divorced and I know many Armenian girls married to Muslims have happy marriages…
This is a lesson for everyone to know that the religion nothing to do with humanity…
All of us we call our selves Armenians, but we have many other DNA from centuries…
If we analyse our DNA we will be surprised… We have black genes…Indian genes…white genes and so on…
Dear Seervart…I will leave the rest for you to complete…
Dear Sylva-our poet,
I liked the way you ended your above post… it was a refreshing way to end it….
You know Sylva jan, the Arabs in general they look up to us and give us a great deal of respect far more than Christian Europeans and or Christian Armenians do…. We expect Armenians to love and support each other, right? but you don’t know how many of them wanted to tear me apart because of jealousy, wanting and so forth…. It’s true that I am a sensitive human being and unfortunately I allowed them to make me miserable sometimes, though as I have grown older and wiser, I started paying less and less attention or value their opinions, to their lies and or attacks against me. Yes my dear Sylva, more Armenians than even odars treated me badly, but I still care and love my people, because I want to believe that not all are bad as I pray for them. I am Egyptian Armenian and I have also known as a child when I was in Egypt how many of our Arab neighbours were good natured and loving, much more than my own kind unfortunately, but truthfully.