My grandfather taught me two great things:

A real man grows a beard out every year in the Fall/Winter”
Never argue with an idiot because they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

You can’t argue with a fool who believes the literal “End of the World” which will look ridiculously like the whole [...]

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Today is the seventh anniversary of the second worst attack on American soil (I count the British attack which burned the White House during the War of 1812 as the worst attack but I don’t measure by body count).  This is the day that the Illuminati of our country would like for us to come [...]

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I am not a fundamentalist about anything.  I will always reserve the right to change my ideas but I will never change my core values.  In college, I avoided thinking about politics at all; opting instead to get my spiritual and artistic core values down.  After matriculation though, I made it my [...]

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Check out this quote in the September 2008 edition of National Geographic in the Letters Section. He is writing in response to last month’s amazing feature about China:
In 1998 I was a 19-year-old student in Hangzhou, China. The doors were “open,” but no one really had come through them [...]

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This talk given by Krishnamurti is something I read often on Sunday mornings.  It’s as close as I’ll ever get to going to church.  This text was obtained from this site where you can read many of Krishnamurti’s works (and I highly recommend that you do). I’d recommend buying the book also.
The Function of [...]

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In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a paragraph and murdered religion.  Sure, it was a slow death but a death it was.  He wrote:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet [...]

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It was fantastic. I was moved by every minute of film. I would love to see seasonal biopics on every Founding Father prepared this way, not to mention every President.
The most moving parts for me, occurred in the final episode. The first was the death of Abigail, perhaps one of the finest [...]

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…because on March 16, a cinematic bombshell is going to be dropped in the form of a 7-part mini-series based on David McCullough’s Best Seller John Adams .  I’ve seen the Behind the Scenes and I am salivating.  Paul Giamatti being cast as the cantankerous ex-President was a pure stroke of genius.  The research and [...]

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A friend sent me a link to this fascinating interview with Naomi Wolf, author of the best seller The Beauty Myth. I’ve been reading a lot about the end of all things, the breakdown of society, end times crap. I’m doing research for the setting of a book I’m plotting out. This [...]

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Have you ever seen this short film by Charlie Chaplin The Dictator? It’s a genius piece but it’s almost painful to watch. How short our world has come in the time since this was made. This was made during a time when black and white was less grey–back when making a political [...]

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