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Tag Archives: fatalism
Baby Elephant, Walk!
When we are young, they begin to fit and clothe us in raiments for battle: the helmet of self-esteem; the breastplate of self-confidence; the shield of self-assurance; the sword of self-righteousness – before we understand the “self”, when what self … Continue reading
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Tagged elephant training, fatalism, fear, hopelessness, indoctrination, self-determinism
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Cannon Fodder
When all else fails (and at some point it will), so all that’s left to us is simply talk, the victors will be those with basic skills for making idle words seem like a walk through all the rhetoric and … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, daily poems, fatalism, history, nonsense, poetic forms, rhetoric, sonnet
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Just Yesterday’s News
I don’t know the man that I’m supposed to be: I’ve looked at his life like a documentary; and with some of his choices I just can’t agree; but it’s too late to start out again. I’m tired of the … Continue reading