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February 9, 2007

abortions reach a new record

  (Picture: a digital print I made called Savage Peace, click image for larger view) Yesterday it was reported that abortions set a new record for one month in Britain.  Marie Stopes, which performs about a third of the abortions in Britain, conducted 5,992 abortions in January.  The question is...

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February 7, 2007

every day is christmas; every meal a feast

If you open your eyes in the morning and you are still breathing, then you are alive.  Every thing else is a bonus. (Picture: somewhere on manuevers in Germany) Part of my training as an Infantry Officer required me to go to Ranger School, which is suppose to primarily be...

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February 6, 2007

pleasure is good

  Whatever happened to good old fashioned hedonism, you know, the doctrine that states that pleasure is good and that pursuing anything other than pleasure is absurd and irrational? The only thing we pursue these days, it seems, is work, work, and more work, so we can buy more things we...

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February 5, 2007

consumer units

(Picture: Birmingham, New Street) We live in a consumer society and it runs on a simple principle – our lives will be better if we buy this car, own this home, eat this food, use that mobile phone, drink this beer, or wear this brand of clothes.  We have allowed ourselves...

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February 3, 2007

reason is a whore

(picture, created in photoshop, click here to see a larger view) “Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.” – Martin Luther Martin Luther didn’t have much good to say about reason.  He likened reason to the Devil’s bride, a “pretty whore” that comes in and thinks she’s...

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February 1, 2007

Specialization is for insects!

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an equation, analyse a new problem,...

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January 31, 2007

Dying in my tv chair

Promises made Promises kept Never this way was it meant Dying here Dying there My dreams have gone nowhere Hard work Work hard Success will be yours Mrs Fader said. She lied or didn’t tell the truth Standing up there in front of the class with Her pea green skirt...

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January 31, 2007

My girl

I like to collect things.  I sketched this off of a pub wall in Bristol.  Click on the picture for a bigger view.

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January 30, 2007

Top five health benefits of regular sex

  (Picture, an original digital print I made entitled, why gentlemen really prefer whores)  In keeping with my friend Tisha’s post today, I thought I’d add a few reason why we should all be out there romping in the sack with our favorite guy or gal.  Sex, when practiced safely, contributes greatly to...

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January 29, 2007

Increase your intelligence

  Three ways to increase your intelligence: 1.  Cultivate a thirst for information and continually expand the source, scope and intensity of the information you receive. 2.  Revise your reality often.  Test and retest your reality maps and seek new metaphors to understand what is happening now and how it...

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January 26, 2007

We all want to change the world

In See You at the Top, Zig Ziglar tells a story about a young business executive who took some work home to complete for an important meeting the next day.  Every few minutes his five-year-old son would interrupt his chain of thought.  After several such interruptions, the young executive spotted...

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January 24, 2007

First Snow

We had our first snowfall this morning.  I wasn’t expecting it so when I walked out into the garden for my morning tea and meditation session, I was both shocked and excited.  I love first snowfalls.  It’s like nature has laid down a fresh coat of white paint on everything...

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January 23, 2007

Disney Wisdom

All I learned, I learned watching Disney movies.  My favorite Disney line is “Don’t spend your time looking around for something that can’t be found.” [youtube]Sp0l4-ySGjg[/youtube]

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January 23, 2007

Go tell it to the mountain

  The trail as a metaphor is a wonderful concept. Each person must walk his or her own path through life, and is ultimately responsible for the direction that path may take. Life, like any trail, is a matter of ups and downs. When one is going up, and the...

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January 21, 2007

Urban Wake Up

I like watching a city wake up.  I wandered around the streets of Leamington Spa this morning.

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January 19, 2007

a kind of half life

A virtual friend of mine was explaining to me how she wants to do so many these things with her life, but she had to temper her ambitions with pleasing other people. She reckons she is stopped cold by her obligations to the ones she loves. In her mind, she...

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January 18, 2007

Puddles

They say you know you’re getting old when you walk around puddles instead of through them.  I must be getting old because I walked around this one!

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January 16, 2007

Are you waiting for the right time?

The problem of those who wait, wrote Nietzsche, is that it requires luck. And it requires a lot of luck if you are waiting for some higher being to give you permission to act by telling you it is the ‘right time’ to act. The reality is the ‘right time’...

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January 15, 2007

Time

“Time!  What time do you think you have?  The hour is later than you think!� Time, time, time.  I could rant on and on about how there never seems to be enough time to get all the million and one things done in a day.  And please don’t even get me...

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