You are dead.
You sleep for awhile.
(It was exhausting.
Almost real.)
You wake up.
You see the sky above.
(Was it always that color?
Don't remember.)
You notice something.
The clouds are forming letters.
(A message from God?
Who knows?)
You read the words:
PLAY AGAIN? Y/N
(You smile, finally...
Is the quest for inner peace not a selfish thing?
What right do I have to be tranquil while others are in torment?
When I meditate, am I truly "exercising my spiritual muscles", or am I simply sitting on my fat posterior with a smug, superior look on my face while the world burns around me...
September 12, 2023 = Midnight
AI - Thank you! It's always helpful to know when you're ready to move on. What can I answer for you now?
ME - You want me to ask you anything. Very well. What do YOU want to know? You ask me anything...
AI - Thank you for asking. I am an AI language model...
Years ago, I was regularly churning out post after post on many an online forum. Now, I hardly ever post anything. Somehow, somewhere along the way, I just lost interest in adding my "two cents worth" to online discussions. Perhaps I finally realized that my words weren't really worth two cents...
When is it time to say goodbye?
When we cannot feel enough to cry?
When we haven't even the will to try?
Or when what was true is now a lie?
When is it time to die?
When are you sure that you've lived too long?
When you are no longer strong?
When you realize you don't belong?
Or when what was...
We three Kings of Orient are...
Well, no. They really aren't.
So much has been amended and revised concerning the Nativity that it occurred to me to try and set some of the record straight. The three kings are not the only mistaken idea that folks have about the event. Let's start with the...
The idea of an "enemies list" should be repugnant to Americans of any political persuasion.
The Trump Accountability Project
No. I am not a fan of this at all.
I'm going to be tagged as a heartless ba$tard for this, but since I've been called practically everything else in my lifetime, I suppose I can live with it.
Let me set the scene:
You come in after a hard day at work. You grab your preferred libation. You flip on the tube, and settle down in...
At times, I feel sad for the Facebook Warriors who fancy themselves as either patriotic militiamen or as members of a resistance movement. Do they really feel that their words, their rants, their online diatribes actually help to secure those goals which they claim to want to attain? Do they...
Penguin: I only just now noticed your signature (Who'd have thought this frank talk about religion would result in heated debate?)
Now, whenever I think of you, I will see Claude Rains:
Traveller's Tale
by
Michael L. Dalton
(Taykair)
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Disclaimer
The following is a work of fiction.
Any resemblance to persons, living or dead
(or anywhere in between),
is purely coincidental.
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Part One
Changes
"All appears to change when we change."
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- - -...
"The difference between your belief in your religion and my belief in science is that science would be true whether I believed in it or not."
I've seen this statement made again and again whenever a religious person states that scientific thought is nothing more than a matter of mere belief. It...
It may be that there are alternate universes.
If there are, it may be that there are a vast number of them; so many that there may be billions upon trillions of "you"s out there - each "you" living its own life in its own universe. It may be that all of these "you"s are connected somehow...
In the following generic post, the poster's unwritten thoughts are in parentheses:
The evidence for X is overwhelming (in my opinion). My personal beliefs have nothing whatsoever to do with the validity of X (that I'm willing to admit to). You have yet to provide any credible evidence that X is...
The reasons people give for their antipathy toward religion are as diverse as the people themselves. Yet, I sometimes wonder if the true foundation of their rejection of religion lies elsewhere.
In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, the conspirators meet in Brutus' house to plan the...
I think I started going online around 2000-2001. Of course, I have no way of proving it, since most of the forums I contributed to back then have since gone belly-up for one reason or another. Still, except for a short "vacation" from the internet (which ended up lasting about three years), I...
Most of us have heard the phrase since we were kids:
"Finders keepers, losers weepers."
It's something that many believe is true of life's journey - that the goal is to find The Answer. If you find it, then you're a winner, and those who are still seeking are just poor, pathetic losers.
I...
Since all of the places I used to post have gone belly-up, I've decided to resurrect some of my old posts here (and in a couple of other forums). I do this so that my profound wisdom will not be lost.
Yeah, right. The real reason I'm rehashing some of my old stuff is because I can't think of...