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Today at Shoneys I observed
Today at Shoneys I observed the lemmings at the breakfast bar: fresh scrubbed from church and sanctified, their patience thin, their manner rude. And that seemed odd; for were I bound to meet my maker, in his house, I’d tread … Continue reading
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Tagged food, hypocrisy, meals, public, restaurants, self-righteousness
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The Shelter of Righteousness
What good was in the world has gone, if we proclaim, with innocence, that justice has escaped our grasp, while our hands show no sign of fight and, at the end of stiffened arms held at our sides, are soft … Continue reading
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Tagged fortune, hypocrisy, language, lies, pity, religion, self-righteousness
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Don’t Believe the Hype
The world is suffering and pain or so the Buddhists say but with control of mind and flesh for some, it goes away Not for the tree, or rock or mouse does this travail desist; nay, ’tis for man, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, evolution, humanity, hype, self-importance, self-righteousness, stewardship
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All Things Zero
What is the point to the great war that we have waged three thousand years? Have we discovered any more than better ways to produce gears? The revolution that gave birth to so-called luxury and ease — has our great … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Quinn, extinction, futility, humanity, Ishmael, revolution, self-righteousness, waste
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Instruction to Fertilize
If I hurl vitriolic gobs of hate-filled angst at the speed of aborted thought down the ink-blood edge of an angry pen; take as my heroes those who defined life as the bitter sentence terminated with the punctuation of death … Continue reading