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Wrecked Oppression screams loudly speaking to the black, the white, the red, the yellow Speaking loudly to the one that grabs them all, disabled, differently abled All the same, all the same. Disabled and seen as less than whole, Treated like children, inside screams aloud.  Begging/not begging for a voice For a chance to spread … Continue reading #190 →

The Awakening Drawing nigh on lease of evils, unwanted but for utility’s sake. It is not worth the blemished mark of evils survived. A better way, A simpler way, must be found. Immediate pleasure, the folly of a race. The race misplaced of its own accord, a place of ego fancy and arrogance. Sated ego, … Continue reading #189 →

Life Abounds Hope salted with a silent frustration, hope for others but more for myself. The vision is alive, the living, breathing beast of thought. That ever present hope for a future without, locked in my realm of thought, My magnum opus, my work of art, the tapestry of my life.

just because something, well documented and consistantly verified, sounds untrue and doesn't agree with your instilled belief system, by no means makes it any less true nor does it make you an expert in the field of that science or whatever. The gall and arrogance of some people is flabbergasting! So arrogant and scared to … Continue reading Closed minds →

"War is the health of the State," wrote social critic Randolph Bourne in a classic essay as America entered World War I: "It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. … Continue reading Noam Chomsky wrote: →

What determines a closed mind? It is when you go into a situation with a bias or with your mind already fixed on an outcome. I was there, twice. Knowing from what I had learned and seen that religion was a farce and a pox but convinced via social conditioning and cognitive dissonance that it … Continue reading /facepalm →