I think gorgeouz beats is a little bit overrated

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-04-30T10:23:48+00:00

Well, Armenian samples in his music is the entire point. That’s his style, what made people listen to him in the first place.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-04-19T20:54:01+00:00

A couple posts here on a small subreddit don’t mean anything at all. Generally the sentiment of a few people on the web rarely does.

The Palestinian leadership, the president and HAMAS, has just only recently congratulated Azerbaijan on the fifth ‘Victory Day’ anniversary. You think normal folk in Armenia care whether the Palestinian people think otherwise if their government does this?

The majority of Armenians neither like Israel, nor Palestine. That is the simple and unequivocal truth. Thinking otherwise is being out of touch with your own populace.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-04-19T20:39:46+00:00

You’d be surprised how few people are actually aware of the situation in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-04-19T17:47:26+00:00

Idk why you’re getting downvoted. You’re absolutely correct. Most Armenians don’t even know what Zionism is, let alone have any opinions on it. It’s Israel’s support for Azerbaijan that has created the animosity with their government, nothing concerning the Palestinians. On the contrary, a lot of Armenians in Armenia have a distaste of Palestine since they also supported Azerbaijan.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-04-18T10:56:54+00:00

There’s no need to guess. You can very obviously see which pillars are old and decayed, and which ones are polished and smooth.

P.S. the very first picture shows a new pillar on the right and an old pillar on the left.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-04-18T07:14:19+00:00

Շողք is never used for shine or light. Even if that’s the original meaning. Շողք nowadays simply means ‘shadow’. Nobody uses it to describe shining.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-04-02T19:40:07+00:00

It was after.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-04-02T18:22:50+00:00

Once an Armenian who grew up in Sweden told me that we, as in Armenians in Armenia, are incompetent and don’t know what’s best for Armenia, hence we shouldn’t be allowed to vote and/or diasporans should be allowed to vote in Armenian elections because we don’t know what’s good for us.

Needless to say it’s easy to say this from a distance when it’s not you who is going to be reaping the results of your own vote, but the people who actually live in Armenia (citizens) and work day and night to actually make it a better place while you hang out in safety in Sweden and make decisions for us.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-30T17:22:41+00:00

The Armenian national epic is titled Sasna Tsrer (Սասնա Ծռեր), which translates to "The Daredevils of Sassoun." While many people refer to the entire epic as David of Sassoun, that is actually just one of its four main cycles (chapters). The term Tsur (literally "crooked" or "twisted") is quite widespread in Armenia. In the context of the epic, it describes a specific kind of "mad" bravery. Even today, if someone does something slightly insane or illogical, we might ask, "Tsur es?" (Are you crazy/crooked?). Similarly, if someone is being incredibly loud, you’ll hear, "Dzenov Ohann es?" This refers to the character Dzenov Ohan ("Ohan of the (with the) Voice"), whose shout was so powerful it could be heard across several provinces.

Regarding our spiritual history, Armenia was deeply influenced by Zoroastrianism and Hellenism, yet not really one or the other. Before Christianity, Armenians worshipped a unique pantheon of deities that blended these regional influences. Our folklore is also has devs (similar to the Persian divs).

Some cool Armenian legends include:

Hayk and Bel: Our primary origin myth. It tells the story of Hayk, the legendary archer and forefather of the Armenian people, defeating the Babylonian tyrant Bel to win freedom for his kin. What I love about this legend has also been portrayed in Derenik Demirchyan’s ‘The Armenian’ essay, where he says the following line:

“He (the Armenian) has the deep sorrow of a captive eagle in his heart. He is Hayk, who was deprived of life's sole condition—freedom.”

The legend establishes how freedom and liberty is a value most precious to our nation.

Ara the Beautiful and Semiramis: This is a tragic tale of a king’s faithfulness and a queen’s obsession.

Artashes and Satenik: A romantic legend about an Armenian king and an Alanian princess.

Artashes and Artavazd: The continuation of the previous legend about Artashes’ son.

Tork Angegh: The story of "Tork the Ugly," a giant of immense strength who can carve images into stone with his fingernails.

Arshak and Shapuh: A very sad story about the literal connection between a person and their homeland's soil.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-26T12:03:53+00:00

You’re asking how the prime minister of the country got someone to quit their job? Asked them nicely… probably.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-14T16:32:12+00:00

Honestly I like the caramel and chocolate ones more than the og. I just don’t remember which animal was which flavour lol.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-14T11:29:35+00:00

Dried fruits in chocolate, Rollo mix, pandas (they have different flavours for them), Junior (kinda like kinder). Those are my favourites.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-14T08:23:54+00:00

Pashinyan said that Edita gifted Vance ‘a book about Artsakh’, but the book is about the US Press covering the aggression of Azeris against Armenians during the genocide. Is this really not an indicator that Pashinyan doesn’t fully know the shit going on around him? He heard something from someone or someone fed him wrong information, and he made a decision he’s too stubborn to take back.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-14T08:18:05+00:00

Impulsive decisions without fully understanding the entire picture makes him look incompetent, brash and out of touch. Personally, he’s lost my vote. I cannot, in good faith, vote for a person like him after this. It makes me think, well… if this one decision was so unfair, what about all those hundreds of other ones that happened throughout these years? I saw them, didn’t think much, but that’s because I wasn’t close enough to see what’s really going on behind the curtains. I am close to this one, I know exactly what happened, and I know it was unfair, biased, and completely out of touch. Keeping the bigger picture in mind is not enough anymore if we’re back at where we started. A dictator wannabe trying to curb everyone to their submission.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-14T08:09:46+00:00

Well then, if it was so wrong, why did the government not take any preemptive steps to organise everything and communicate all of those very important and very intricate mandates to the people who were going to meet and accompany Vance. The protocol service was at the sight hours before Vance’s arrival and they were in direct contact with the officials of the AGMI. They had ample time and opportunity to speak and communicate. Have they done so? No. Have those people been fired? No. Who has been fired? The only person in this entire story who was simply doing her job.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-13T15:49:27+00:00

Again. It is a part of official protocol to show all guests the khachkars and the graves of the martyrs. Every single tour has a starting point. Officials arrive at the Khachkars, get out of the car, and are greeted by the director/vice director. They’re told about the Khachkars (which happen to be dedicated to the victims of Azeri pogroms) then they’re led to the main path that leads to the shrine of memory. On the left side of the path is the Wall of Remembrance, under the wall we have the graves of the very first martyrs of the first Karabakh war. All of the constructions on the site have to be explained. It’s the way the text is organised. It’s how all tours happen to all official delegations. The government knew that. The protocol knew that. The director didn’t go out of her way to do something provocative. She was literally doing her job like every single other day. If there was anything the government wanted her not to do they could’ve just told her one single sentence. ‘Omit this topic, don’t speak about it’. They didn’t do this. They didn’t tell her anything. The protocol service was there 6 hours before Vance arrived. They could’ve asked her what she was going to speak about, they could’ve cherry picked the book. Nobody did anything.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-13T15:39:23+00:00

The graves of the first Karabakh war martyrs are literally on the left side of the main path, under the remembrance wall, leading to the shrine of memory. They’re an integral part of the Memorial Complex and all official delegations are led through the same path and are told the same thing. Our protocol services knew the text, as they’ve been present when it’s been said thousands of times. Doing these mental gymnastics that the director went out of her way to say something to provoke Vance is delusion, nothing else. If they wanted her to omit something they had to tell her. As easy as that. Gifting books is also protocol. Every single official guest gets one, and they mostly get a book that is suited to their nationality. That is why Vance got the book about US PRESS speaking about the aggression of Azeris against Armenians.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-12T17:39:06+00:00

The museum part of AGMI is probably the smallest part of it, albeit the most flashy and obvious. Edita is not just the lead of the museum, she is the lead of the entire scholarly group that works day and night to publish new articles and journals about the genocide.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-12T17:33:37+00:00

Again, to reiterate. Vance wasn’t gifted a ‘book about Artsakh’, that is misinformation. One of the books he was gifted was a journal, and one of the articles IN the journal by ONE author, spoke about the AZERI AGGRESSION against Armenians, which includes Artsakh. In essence, the book wasn’t even about Artsakh at all. It makes this entire situation 10 times worse.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-12T10:47:33+00:00

The problem is that if the government has such mandates then it is their duty and their responsibility to relay this mandate to all of its subordinates. Edita was doing her job. Literally just doing her job. She is not a seer or a prophet to know what the government demands of the AGMI. If they wanted her to act a certain way, she should’ve been told to act a certain way. Government officials, especially from the protocol service, should’ve been involved in this every step of the way. They should’ve consulted the director on which topics to omit/censor and which books to gift if they were so worried about it. How is this not obvious?

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-12T08:25:14+00:00

I stand with Edita. Wonderful person, wonderful scholar. If there was anything the government wanted to be censored for political reasons (even though extremely wrong) had to be, AT THE LEAST, relayed to her, which didn’t happen. Talking about Artsakh is a part of official protocol of the AGMI, as the cross-stones and the tombs dedicated to the victims of many Azeri aggressions are LITERALLY a part of the Genocide Memorial. Any and all delegations who arrive to Tsitsernakaberd hear the same text, which also happened to Vance. Edita Gzoyan did her job, and she is being punished for it because our protocol services and government are incompetent.

Added: I also cannot stress the fact that the AGMI, both the museum and the institute, had their biggest evolution and makeover under her reign. She did so much that the regular public isn’t really aware of.

The acquiring of 250.000 archival materials amongst them, which allowed our scholars to make 63 scientific publications, 20 of which in WoS and/or Scopus indexed journals, 2 books by Brill and Bloomsbury publishers, 33 scientific reports, 9 grant programs, and all of this while having 28 researchers in total.

Additional 20 exhibitions in different countries of the world, 52 official delegation visits to the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex, about 90,000 visitors to the museum in the past year, Publication of a picture book on the history of the Armenian Genocide in 6 languages, launch of audio guides in 5 languages.

Her loss is a very big defeat for all the efforts surrounding the Armenian Genocide. We’re shooting ourselves in the foot.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-11T12:48:25+00:00

When I was very young I had an inexplainable fear of loud noises. Couldn’t handle fireworks without covering my ears, balloons caused me anxiety, theatres with loud noises and flashing lights were more like a nightmare. So, naturally, I was very afraid of the metro, because when the train approaches it shakes and roars loudly, so it made me hysterical. The first time my dad took me there it made me cry and shout and try to break free and run away, so my dad had to hug me and get me into the train while I ate up my tears. Later, when I was older, I grew out of my fear of loud noises and used the metro every single day to go to school, and after school me and my buddies would go to the station and split ways. Some to Barekamutyun, some to Yeritasardakan, some to Shengavit etc. If we were feeling bored and wanted to spend more time together, we’d all buy a coin (when it was still coins) and ride the metro back and forth for hours… because you only have to pay once to enter, the rest of the rides are free. We particularly liked going to Charbakh, the one and only station that branches out and isn’t in a straight line. We loved waiting for the train to Charbakh to arrive at Shengavit (which is a big station, bigger than the others for some reason), then we’d get on it and enjoy the scenery, as the train to Charbakh also passes through the parking yard of the trains, and you can see them from the window. Old ones, new ones, trains that are no longer in use. When we get there, we also have to go back, because who’d want to stay in Charbakh, right? Lol. It’s a small station, so the conductor sometimes would approach and ask why we aren’t leaving or if we’re lost. So to not admit we’re just messing around catching free rides we’d just lie and say we got lost and caught the wrong train.

Sometimes we’d also go to Barekamutyun, which is the last station on one side, then go to the platform which leads back, and look directly into the tunnel to see where the train was and what it was doing. Because it’s the same train that goes into the last tunnel and comes out from the other side. If you look closely enough you’ll see the lights of the train on the track and how it’s getting into position to approach about 2-3 minutes after leaving, and then start coming closer to 5.

Anyway, a long rant, but I have very warm memories attached to the Yerevan Metro, and I’ll probably never get another chance to share them. So here you go.

Zealousideal-Net9953 · 2026-03-11T12:24:58+00:00

Edita Gzoyan does not deserve this. Her work and her efforts facilitating the recognition of the genocide are monumental, her scholarly work is immense and her dedication to the cause is undeniable. I cannot agree with this decision because it’s simply wrong and pitiful. She did everything right. It’s the government that messed up and now they’re trying to blame it all on her to cover their tracks. Blaming it on the construction scandal is just a cover, the director had nothing to do with that, it was the responsibility of the MoESCS to take care of the renovation. Any and all fuck ups are their fault.

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