Category Archives: Musings

Staring Into The Abyss

September 17, 2007 – 11:59 am

The real thing doesn”t photograph well. You will have to go with my symbolic representation. Pic by me. For some people, it is simply a culmination of small things, over the years, and it is impossible to pinpoint the one that tipped us over. However we get there, most people, sooner or later, find themselves […]

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A Question of Reality

June 11, 2007 – 8:32 am

I just searched for “reality”, and I got this. I think Flickr just proved my point… Photo by Paula Iannuzzi. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)We think we know what reality is. Our lives are filled with work, sex, and food that we consider to be real. The processes within your mind, […]

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The Pervasive Idealism

May 29, 2007 – 9:55 am

Hell if I know…it just looked interesting. Photo by Cuspace. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)Of all the labels others have tried to stick to me in my life, there seems to be one that keeps coming around, no matter what face I may choose to wear or what path I am travelling: Idealist. […]

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The New Battleground: Freedom of Speech

May 11, 2007 – 8:15 am

Photo by Miyoko Schmez. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
—First Amendment of […]

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Poltergeists, Superpowers, and The Tao

April 25, 2007 – 2:11 pm

The superhero lurking within… Photo by Kevin Tostado. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)When I was about ten years old, my Mom laid down the law: I was old enough to sleep in my room with the door closed and the light off. I don’t know exactly why she felt compelled to declare […]

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Vampire Mythology and Corporate America

April 18, 2007 – 7:45 pm

The fiends lurk in the most unimaginable places… Tales of vampires have been with us for thousands of years. The Babylonians had Lilith, who reputedly had a thing for sucking the blood of babies. The fiends lurk in the most unimaginable places…The Greeks had the lamaias, also with a penchant for the little ones. The […]

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Reclaiming Ownership

March 9, 2007 – 11:07 pm

No Enemy
It is one of the greatest risks of living in a capitalistic society: where money is the presumed basis for happiness, each person grows up implanted with a susceptibility to marketing.
Humans have been trying to sell each other on their ideas since the beginning of time, and we have made an art form […]

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All About Eve

March 2, 2007 – 10:51 am

I found myself in a church classroom today. How and why I got there is unimportant to this story. The important thing is that I was sitting there in a little kid’s plastic chair, and I looked over at the various propaganda posted on the wall for the children to read, stumbling on the […]

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