Category Archive: Philosophy / Metaphysics
WAR AGAINST ISLAM IS WAR AGAINST OURSELVES. 12/6/06 I have heard many statements made about the followers of Islam from the media and from other ignorant or propaganda filled sources. I have heard these same disturbing statements made about people of different races, people of different languages, different sizes and weights and income status. Are …
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CORK? 11/26/06 Thanksgiving is finally over and thoughts are focused on Christmas, but one of the most disappointing aspects of this Thanksgiving, besides undercooking the turkey, was discovering that my once favorite wine now has a screw off cap, instead of a cork. As I was milling around in the local …
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EXPOSING A NERVE 10/19/06 Pain seems to be the only thing that will create the need in someone to change their way of thinking. Even when pain becomes too excruciating to ignore some people will still try to ignore it. When we have a toothache we immediately find a way to relieve the pain. First …
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EXPOSING A NERVE 10/19/06 Pain seems to be the only thing that will create the need in someone to change their way of thinking. Even when pain becomes too excruciating to ignore some people will still try to ignore it. When we have a toothache we immediately find a way to relieve the pain. First …
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MONEY IS EVERYTHING ISN’T IT? 10/11/06 I have wanted and needed money just as every man ,woman and child in the world has. Every saint and every sinner needs money. Every saintly institution in the world needs money to exist and their followers, founders and board of directors either personally donate to the institution or …
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TORTURE! TORTURE! TORTURE! 9/29/06 Many Americans seem to have a strange and obsessive infatuation with torture. A simple glance at the television promotions for the latest horror flicks validates my statement. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is coming out with a sequel and other forgettable gore movies are constantly being promoted. For some reason adolescents are …
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I wrote and published this article in 2006 after the invasions of Lebanon and the genocidal attacks by Israel against the Palestinians. In the last 12 years since this essay was written, the Palestinians have been subjected to far greater hostilities by the Israelis, more murders of Palestinians and evictions and theft of their lands …
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THE AMERICAN PRIVILEDGE 4/30/06 It is a rare and genuine privilege to be an American citizen. I am fortunate to have been born in this country and received all the benefits of living in this free society. Perhaps the greatest benefit has been the ability to dream of a better future of endless possibilities. …
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THE INORDINANCE OF TIME 4/6/06 Maybe I’m in the first stages of Alzheimer’s or I’ve simply lost too many brain cells from living an excessive life style; but lately I seem to be losing my sense of time. I just realized that it has been over a week since I posted a new article. …
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WHO ARE AMERICANS? 3/2/06 I have asked this question because I’m not really certain myself. As a naturalized and legal citizen of the U.S I’m asking myself and the rest of the U.S citizenry, WHAT ARE WE and WHO ARE WE? What are Americans? For that matter what are Poles or Indians or Italians or …
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THE END OF THE MONTH IS HERE! 2/27/06 What if the end of the world was here and the world was set to end at midnight on 2/28/06? Wow, now that is something to think about! What if tomorrow was the last day the world had to exist? If we knew this would we all …
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SUPERBOWL STUPERBOWL AND SATANISTS 2/05/06 For all my international readers who do not understand the All American pastime of the STUPER BOWL please allow me to explain this insane custom. The STUPER BOWL IS: A flagrant American day of waste. Yes , STUPER BOWL SUNDAY is the day that many Americans sit around a living …
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POPULATION REDUCTION AND THE GLOBAL 2000 REPORT 1/29/06 It is a frightening and harsh truth that I have discovered recently. I know I should have known about this long before now but I ignored the report out of fear for what it stated. I ignored the words because I could not comprehend what they meant. …
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THE DON QUIXOTE IN ME 1/1/06 Democratic chivalry best describes the greatest essence of every man and women who dreams the impossible dream and fights the unbeatable foe etc. etc. Anyone who has ever read Don Quixote or seen the movie or play of Man from La Mancha has got to have identified somewhat with …
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BUSH GONE NEW YEAR 12/28/05 Well it’s time to make my New Year resolutions. I take a lot of time thinking about it every year. I ‘m not sure why since I break most of them by February. To be truthful I usually forget what they were by February. This year …
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TOOKIE vs THE TERMINATOR 12/15/05 By 9:15 pm on the night of Stanley Tookie Williams execution, I could no longer allow myself to watch or listen to the insipid and insidious debates over Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to grant clemency and stop the execution, or to let Stanley Tookie Williams die. The decision was predetermined twenty …
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MISLEADERS AND MALCONTENTS 12/07/05 I have no faith in any American political party. The dripping hypocrisy of our political figures is beyond any fictional character imaginable. Each and every political incumbent in the U.S is a sad and silly figure of a sick society. Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, G.W. Bush, etc.etc. there is …
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QUR’AN CONTEMPLATION # 2 11/19/05 As I plow through centuries of rigid beliefs I understand why we are desperately loosing the struggle in Iraq. Did anyone even attempt to read the Koran or a history of the Middle East before they decided to go to war with an Arab nation? If they had they would …
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CONTEMPLATING THE QUR’AN 11/16/05 “The infidels resemble him who shouteth aloud to one who heareth no more than a call and cry! Deaf, dumb, blind: therefore they have no understanding.” “Oh ye who believe! eat of the good things with which we have supplied you, and give God thanks if ye are His worshippers. But …
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LISTENING TO THE DEAD 11/16/05 Recently I was listening to the best of the Grateful Dead (Skeletons in the Closet” 1974 reissued cd.) I was thinking about things in general, when it occurred to me that “St. Stephen” wasn’t such a great song and “Golden Road” wasn’t so golden. “Truckin” and “Uncle John’s Band”, …
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NOVEMBER 11/13/05 November in New England is clinically clear and cold with an occasional day of clouds. I have lived in New England my entire life and except for a more northern or southern geographic claim November in New England is generally the same. Colder than most climates skies are clearer than in other …
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RAP, RAP, RAPTURING AT Rap Rap Rapturing at My Door 9/7/05 Yes, please dear God take all the Bush family to heaven in a twinkling of an eye. Take the blessed Bush Administration straight to their just reward. God if they are truly deserving of heaven please leave me here. I do not wish to …
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A BRIDGE TO SOMEWHERE 8/31/05 I was watching television today and saw an endless stream of refugees from the devastation of New Orleans walking over a remaining bridge. I couldn’t understand where they were going. It seemed like they all had one destination in mind, thousands of people walking toward somewhere. Never in my lifetime …
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SLIGHTLY ON THE LEFT 8/17/05 Just slightly on the left side of sanity is a small and comfortable place where I often dwell. Yes, often in my normal everyday battle for sanity I retreat to this corner, just left of my center mind that seems to welcome me like an old friend with a welcomed …
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I HEARD SOMEONE CRY 7/15/05 I am never too distraught when it comes to someone’s death from war especially people I never knew. I’ve never been very good at suffering through funerals. I have seen death in many faces and have escaped from it several times, but I have never welcomed it. I have never …
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6/23/05 My first experience of racial hatred and violence was when I was in the second grade. I was eight years old. I went to elementary school in a small town in the state of Maine. To many the state of Maine is a land of forests and lakes and laid back lifestyles but to …
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6/9/05 On occasion I have to keep my mouth shut before I explode in anger in polite society. I have always struggled to find a way to express my anger non violently or non verbally so not be arrested or shout out a vulgar statement at someone that I will later regret. One effective method …
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5/25/05 I have been an independent activist most of my adult life. I have chosen my battles carefully after much research and validating my heartfelt commitment to a cause or to an injustice. I do not take my involvements lightly and I try to understand the motivations of both sides of an argument before I …
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5/20/05 We have all seen or heard of some miracle or form of healing not considered possible by the medical or scientific communities. We have heard of people who can create masterful illusions that confound all senses. We have heard of shamen and medicine men or psychics or spiritualists who have communicated with the dead …
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5/13/05 Acceptance and tolerance, anger and aggression, compassion and wisdom, omnipotence, karma, balance, right, wrong, imbecility, genius, hatred, forgiveness, death and reincarnation, strength, weakness, soft, hard, high, low black , white, large small. The compensatory compulsions and laws of man and nature, universal laws of new and old, past, present and future dictate against the …
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5/11/05 Throughout my maturing years I have heard and wondered about the power of excommunication. Not that it was ever a preoccupation of mine but every so often you hear about it. When I was a child growing up in a Catholic family the word excommunicated got tossed around once and a while, but it …
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4/15/05 I have tried to express myself in so many different ways, but regardless of my methods or mediums I always encounter major resistance from my indifference, anger, contempt, arrogance, guilt, presentation, dislike, fear, self-consciousness, over confidence, lack of confidence. These are just a few of the great walls of resistance I encounter trying to …
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4/13/05 I’ve never considered myself a mathematician but common sense and basic math skills brought me to a startling observation. If one considers that there are approximately seven billion people on planet earth and maybe one percent of all these people are involved with governments and militaries, that would be 70 million people controlling the …
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4/9/05 Something makes a Radical radical. I haven’t quite identified that certain attribute or detriment to the radical character yet. As I keep seeing more and more injustice and abuse of power, starving, crippled, homeless misery of billions of people around the planet, I get angry and agitated and feel the need to do something …
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4/2/05 I think it was my first mortal sin according to the rules laid out by the Catholic Church when I questioned why I would go to Hell if I didn’t go to catechism class. I remember asking that question to old Father Bouchard who tried to scare me into sitting in my seat with …
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3/29/05 I feel saddened by the Terri Shiavo story. In all this public outcry from the right and left Terri Shiavo is forced to die without dignity. She can obviously not live with dignity. Did she want to be the poster girl for euthanasia? Did she want the Republican epitome of corruption Tom Delay coming …
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3/23/05 I am a great admirer of Ralph Waldo Emerson and have been for many years. His wisdom has led me to many revelations. I have recently re-read his essay on Illusions and I began to recognize some of my own. I have built up a myriad of illusions throughout my life. Some self imposed …
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3/21/05 In a recent conversation with journalist and human rights watcher Keith Harmon Snow he enlightened me to the fact that Hotel Rwanda is a fake, untrue, and a total manipulation by the CIA to deter the American Left away from the actual involvement of the U.S. in the events in Rwanda during the ’90s. …
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3/18/05 I’ve known too many SOBs in my life, so I feel qualified to describe the one trait that makes a person worth knowing. Integrity is the only characteristic worth mentioning. If a man or woman doesn’t have integrity I don’t want to know them or I’m damned sorry that I’ve met them. I’ve had …
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3/9/05 I was walking my dog last night after dinner when an arctic wind began to gust and roar through the neighborhood. My dog got angry at the sound and the cold blasts of air and growled, then he began to bark at the wind. As his bark got louder I laughed at the thought …
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2/23/05 PREAMBLE: It has always taken just one person to get angry enough to either change himself or change the situation that angers him. First he must rationally identify what needs changing. He must reconcile through reason and research, that the anger he feels is either personal or universal in nature. Is his anger brought …
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2/18/05 I’ve given this idea a lot of thought and perhaps more than it merits but I was watching the movie LUTHER the other day and realized, that if what he did caused the complete reformation of the Christian religion and breakup of the Catholic Church, then what I am about to propose at least …
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2/11/05 I’m not generally an alarmist. Most of the time I just look at issues that come to my attention and try to analyze them until they make sense. I try to make sense out of most but in the case of the new national ID card I was thrown for a loop. According …
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2//5/05 In Emerson’s great series of essays, Conduct Of Life, his essay on Fate states this about conservatives: “All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.” On the grand design …
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1/27/05 (CPAC) is the Conservative Political Action Conference an annual convention of grassroots conservative activists and broadcasters held in February at the Ronald Reagan Building in D.C. To my great surprise I received an invitation to attend the conference and interview some or many of the conservative pundits and political celebrities who will be gathered …
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1/25/05 “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged …
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1/21/05 I am a majority of one. So is everyone who is rightly committed to justice, freedom, universal law and universal brotherhood. I need no one to convince me of my mission in life or try to deter me from it. I am as great or as insignificant as I think I am. Greatness was …
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1/05/05 “There is in a society that rests upon industry the constant danger of Barbarism…” Theodore Roosevelt The world has endured Feudalism, Communism, Fascism,Racism,Socialism,Stalinism, Catholicism, Protestantism,Zionism,Radicalism,Conservatism, and countless other isms, but now the world must endure the most ominous and globally threatening philosophy of world domination ever conceived and the driving force behind a military …
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DEAR MR. NILES 12/30/04 Dear Mr. Niles, The American Revolution was not a common event. Its’ effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe and when and where are they to cease? But what do we mean by American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was …
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