adibat's Blog

• They call us what they are.

  September 12, 2009

  • The United States, Britain, and France did not go to war with Hitler because he Socialized health care. No - we went to War because he had secret prisons, because he tortured the prisoners in those prisons and because he practiced genocide. We now have the rabid right attacking Obama’s health plan by comparing him to Hitler.  We are told to follow the money when investigating crime, so I ...
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• A Whale of a difference

  February 2, 2009

  •   A Whale of a Difference        When reading Orwell: ‘Inside the Whale’ I realized that acceptance was equivalent to ‘making no difference’. Are we to use our poetic powers for propaganda purposes? No! Therefore Henry Miller hits the mark – Bulls Eye. What does your existence have to say? Does it express pure joy or does it desperately seek self-aggrandizement. The latter ...
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• Dumbo's Feather

  January 10, 2009

  •                                        Dumbo’s Feather Dumbo flies through the air with his magic feather, unhindered by doubt, then he looses the feather, and no longer believes he can fly. He falls! The mouse must confess the  lie, “It was not a magic feather! I tricked you! Believe in yourself - you can fly. Just try!” It is easy to conjure up fabulous talismans, ...
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• Musing on a New Years Eve

  December 31, 2008

  • That infinitely small and omnipresent point  - the totality of our being – is that illusive point in time we call 'now'. Now reaches out to grasp a possibility, recalling where it has been and why.  The old seeks to realize the new – it is renewal. Two ever-changing factor try to merge divided by an unfathomable chasm which reason cannot breach. ‘Now’ is always becoming ‘then’ ...
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• Writing

  December 14, 2008

  •  I hack my way through the jungle of ideas, toward the shining city on the hill housing the Holy Grail, or perhaps a windmill dragon. The gnats of distraction dive into my eyes, the snakes of delusion curl round to choke me, the tiger of insecurity wants to devour me, and the monkeys of my ignorance mock me. Why not go back to the town of commonplace satisfactions and write homilies. Stop ...
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