Last photo of the Armenia situation, unless things go full on revolt. 

Yerevan, Armenia is currently a police state while the people and the government try to sort out who legally won the presidency and who will actually take power of the government. 

Fun times. 

khalvin8:

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generalbriefing:

So….I totally never thought about this. I’m sure very few of you have. I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit disturbed…

SEE HOW THE BIBLE WAS EDITED OVER TIME BY RACIST PEOPLE

Those are all names that have been translated first through Aramaic, then Latin, then German then English. Nearly all ‘English’ names are derived from Latin which  adopted a lot of Aramaic names. Aramaic adopted a few  from Hebrew. The Hellenistic Greeks consumed the Province of Judah, and Greece itself was consumed by Rome which also consumed… England. Only ignorance of history allows you to say these names are purely European.

Peter: Derived from the Greek Πετρος (Petros) meaning “stone”. This is a translation used in most versions of the New Testament of the name Cephas, meaning “stone” in Aramaic, which was given to the apostle Simon by Jesus

John: English form of Iohannes, the Latin form of the Greek name Ιωαννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning “YAHWEH is gracious”.

James: English form of the Late Latin name Iacomus which was derived from Ιακωβος (Iakobos),Greek form of the Hebrew name Ya’aqov (see JACOB).

Matthew: English form of Ματθαιος (Matthaios), which was a Greek form of the Hebrew name מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Mattityahu) meaning “gift of YAHWEH”.

Andrew: From the Greek name Ανδρεας (Andreas), which was derived from ανηρ (aner) “man” (genitive ανδρος (andros) “of a man”).

Philip: From the Greek name Φιλιππος (Philippos) which means “friend of horses”, composed of the elements φιλος (philos) “friend” and ‘ιππος (hippos) “horse”. This was the name of five kings of Macedon, including Philip II the father of Alexander the Great.

Thomas: Greek form of the Aramaic name תָּאוֹמָא (Ta’oma’) which meant “twin”

Simon: From Σιμων (Simon), the New Testament Greek form of the Hebrew name שִׁמְעוֹן (Shim’on) which meant “he has heard”.

And now you know. Google shall cleans you of your embarrassment. Commune regularly with the Google and you will grow wise. Because you won’t be learning this in school I promise.

I don’t believe in the bible or anything of that nature and even I know this. 

Armenians have been around much longer than the bible and some of these names date back almost as far. These translations also hold true for Armenian names:

Armenian (Meaning) - Hebrew/Greek - English

Hagop (Supplanter) - Yacob - James

Hovannes (God is gracious) - Iahonnes - John (Johnathon)

Bedros (Stone) - Pertos - Peter

Antranik (First born child) - Andreas - Andrew

Pilibbos (To Love) - Philos - Philip

Tovmas (Twin) - Ta’oma - Thomas

Simeon (To Be Heard) - Shim’on - Simon

(via statehate)

The mathematical genius of the Armenian alphabet. 

The Armenian Alphabet is a miracle. Here are the names of some chemical elements. The interesting fact is that each one of the Armenian alphabetic letters represent a numerical value. Now the sum of the numerical values of letters used to write the name of each element equals the Atomic Number of that element. 

The numerical values assigned to each letter is nothing more than their placement within the language. Similarly, in English, the letter ‘A’ would be 1, ‘B’ would be 2 and so on. 

Armenian is also a phonetic language that is easy to learn. Here’s more on the Armenian language. 

@Suga_Shane

R.I.P. to all the Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and Kurds that were slaughtered at the hands of Turks under the guise of national security. 

We don’t need to convince the US Government that the Genocide was real. We need to convince the Turkish Government. We need to educate the Turkish populous, those that have grown up with incomplete history books and shady politicians presiding over them. It will be through their voice that the Turkish Government will finally hear our outrage. That’s who you should be protesting, not America. 

Protesting the US government does nothing for us. Even if they recognize it, what then? Are we satisfied? I won’t be and I know none of you will be, either. Look to France as an example. A powerful and large nation who’s recognized the Genocide for many years and has even taken it a step further to outlaw it’s denial and what was the result? Did it somehow convince the Turks? Did it some how lower their level of denial? Did it force them to negotiate with our countries and our people? No. It did the opposite. It infuriated the Turkish Government. It drove them to lash back and get vocal in opposition. 

Why? Because the Turkish citizens still have their back and politicians, regardless of ethnicity or creed, will bend in the direction that the majority moves in. And for now, through institutional controls, their citizens deny the genocide because they are sheltered from it. 

Just like people used to deny the existence of an America, or a round planet, or the idea that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of our solar system. But through time and education, knowledge and truth will prevail. That’s why Hrant Dink was assassinated. He was on the inside, lifting the veil of darkness from the eyes of the Turkish people. And that’s why they assassinated him. But with that loss, adding to the 1.5 million before him, more eyes were opened. 

The path to recognition is not paved with the same violent methods that got us here. It’s paved with the education of the Turkish people. So I urge everyone to not badmouth the Turkish people but to befriend them. Show them that we aren’t vile, as their gov’t has told them. We aren’t liars. We are humans, like them, and like them, we’re missing 97 years of our history.

@Suga_Shane