Category: Creative non-fiction
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The Illusion of Religion: Understanding Faith vs. Organized Belief
Faith is and never will be religion. Faith is an individuals journey and relationship with the intersections and the mystic of life. Religion is a manmade tool used to ensure that when we look up, we look up in awe not in disdain. For if we looked through the lens of disdain to those above,…
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How Automation Threatens Our Sliver of Power
The Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment were man’s response to societies move from conservativism to liberalism. These periods gave more people freedom. It was not perfect but it was better than the period before where few had any.
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Catastrophic Chaos
If we don’t understand where we have been and how we arrived at the now, we are doomed to repeat an unwanted past. Color – Gender – Ethnicity are irrelevant to the type of future we are inching towards. The only relevance is how many positives zeroes you hold. The less you have, the more…
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An Atheist’s take on Trump
Until WE look at what it means to be a citizen of the USA, we will be stuck in the Bud Light commercial screaming tastes great vs less filling over the politicians pulpit. It’s what they want. They lose nothing and are tasked with doing less. Who exactly are the Democrats addressing when they speak?…
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The Rancher
Transitioning back into America has been a challenge. The home I left is not the home I returned to. It is a dog eat dog world that is being built on fabricated truths that allow us to feel better about ourselves despite many choices being anti-democracy and inhumane. All American Citizens deserve to be treated…
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A Six Dollar Loaf of Bread
Staples are needs. The fact that America is a nation in which staples are priced as wants is a problem. In means that there are those that are starving while others profiteer. It is an unfair and unjust system of governance.
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A Failure to ASK
We are living in the Era of Jerks. A period of time that can be described only as selfish idiocracy for we have devalued the basic traits that seperate humans from animals. More specifically, the abilities to reason, think and ask questions to find answers to modern day conundrums.
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Blooming Kobe
Kobe Bryant was a hero of mine and the rest of the world it seems. He was a great man by msot measures. However, it doesn’t change that he an early bloomer who missed a lot of living. We can learn from his success, certainly. But also from his loss. Many of us have been…
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Black Eyes and Licorice Pizza
A lot happens behind the scenes. Those with power wield their power so that we, those without, continue to see them with reverance and awe. Neither should be given unconditionally and those with power should be held to the same standard as the rest of us.
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God is: Man is Dead
Villains are those that take from others. The worst villains we call murderers or killers. When we connect this idea to time being relative, any person that steals part of OUR lives to do their bidding are villains. Plan accordingly. Cartoon Villains and Superlatives always get me. What about you? I watch cartoons and wham,…
Observations From the Spectrum 