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Category Archives: Sample Essays
Discussing Porn for Christmas
See, “porn” is a bogus term. Nudes are not “porn”. Nor are odalisques, nor even depictions of people having sex. Strictly speaking, pornography is writing about prostitutes. Prudes added the gloss, “…in order to titillate peurile interests and arouse lusts…” … Continue reading
Posted in Sample Essays
Tagged A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, censorship, erotica, EYES WIDE SHUT, Hitchcock, Kubrick, law, Porn, pornography, prison, PSYCHO, society, violence
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Death Thoughts: Memento Mori Mood, just in time for Yuletide.
It offends me that we’re able sometimes to die without being aware that it’s happening, like it comes when we’re not looking. What a sneaky, cowardly way for the darkness to eat us. I want a chance to fight and … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, death, existentialism, light, lotus, nanotubules, philosophy, Roger Penrose, Zen
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Bang. Again.
Here are my responses to the CT school shooting of Friday, 14 December, 2012 C. E. # Oh look, another mass shooting. God is a concept, not a being. Heaven and hell are concepts, not places. We create all of … Continue reading
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Tagged blood, bullets, change, culture, economy, guns, kids, mass shooting, sadness, school, society, stochastic terrorism, violence
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Wake and Rise
The country as a whole needs to wake up to the control mechanisms, the lies, and the false fronts put up by the manipulators of society that prey upon us, steal our work, destroy our lives, and enslave us. Corporate … Continue reading
The Secret Life of Fans
“A life is a secret thing, even between a husband and wife. Your secret life is completely your own, and because it is unknown, will never be mourned. The secret life of each individual goes unhonored through eternity.” — Steve … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, Fans, fanzine, genre, life, Secret, The Knarley Knews, Tom Sadler, Writing
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Brutality Is Not the Answer
Someone said: “I support capital punishment for any person who sexually molests a child. One cure. One bullet.” I said, no, that’s just fascism and, when asked for suggestions, wrote the following. /// Oh, this is a layered, subtle topic. … Continue reading
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Tagged brutality, Childhood, compassion, complex, delicate, Fascism, historical, Kindness, Sexual abuse
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IFF
Enlightened, rational adults think the teabaggers are ignorant and backward thinking but they are actually just representatives of a different, enemy culture, the one our ideals fight against. The one America was founded to fight against. The one that dominates … Continue reading
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Tagged America, compassion, death, democracy, enemy, Fascism, fight, greed, intolerable., Kindness, Teabaggers
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Personal Code of Ethics – A Guest Essay by Niklaus Stewart
My youngest son wrote this last night as part of a school assignment. Makes me proud and humbles me. /// Do no harm to others, be it physical, mental, or emotional in nature (i.e. do not physically hurt another human … Continue reading
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Tagged Code of Ethics, Kindness, Niklaus
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