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Posted on February 7, 2018
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Ben Tre: Keep The Loneliness Warm I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from… Continue Reading “Ben Tre: Keep the Loneliness Warm”
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Posted on September 9, 2017
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“The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established… It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but… Continue Reading “Nationalism and Police Brutality: The Deafening Sound of Ignorance”
Category: All, Kephen's Commentary, Miscellaneous, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, America, Confirmation Bias, Constitution, Continental Congress, Divided States, Facts, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Identity Politics, National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, Nationalism, Oath of Enlistment, Opinion, Police Brutality, Politics, Roland Fryer Jr., Silo Effect, The Washington Post, Truth, United States Marine Corps
Posted on August 24, 2017
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Identity Politics and the Slow Death of the American Moral Landscape I used to watch Fox News, and then I switched to CNN, and then I stopped watching network channels for daily news and commentary because they are all so heavily biased towards the… Continue Reading “Identity Politics and the Slow Death of the American Moral Landscape”
Category: All, Kephen's Commentary, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Abortion, America, American Dream, Belief, Compromise, Confirmation Bias, Conservative, Counter-Evidence, Democrat, Divided States, Division, Donald Trump, Ego, Emotions, Evidence, Facts, FMRI, Identity Politics, Immigration, In-Group, Left, Left-Wing, Liberal, Moral Landscape, Neurology, News Media, Opinion, Out-Group, Political Duality, Political Party, Politically Bias, Politics, Republican, Right, Right-Wing, Selfish, Silo Effect, Social Media, Tribalism, Truth
Posted on July 17, 2017
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The Choice That Never Was I wanted to believe that my work of writing about this topic had since passed and that I would never again have to write in defense of it, of us, of the nature of our being. Unfortunately we still… Continue Reading “The Choice That Never Was”
Category: All, Behavioral Health, LGBTQ+, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Choice, Conversion Therapy, Depression, Gay, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Lesbian, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, No Choice, Politics, Suicide, Truth
Posted on June 4, 2017
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Abortion, Abstinence, Abuse, Birth Control, Teen Sex, and Unwanted Pregnancy One in every five American teens lives in poverty. Abuse, poverty and a lack of opportunity plays an important role in not only teen pregnancy, but also unwanted pregnancies in general. Later in this… Continue Reading “Abortion, Abstinence, Abuse, Birth Control, Teen Sex, and Unwanted Pregnancy”
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Posted on October 30, 2016
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s film on climate change: Before the Flood “We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world, his inner life molds the… Continue Reading “How Climate Change Affects Our Lives”
Posted on October 10, 2016
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Muslim Refugees, Christianity, and the Future of Freedom Vetting, the process of reviewing refugee candidates before they come into the U.S., should be a concern for all of us. In this essay I will discuss why, but above all else I want you… Continue Reading “Muslim Refugees, Christianity and the Future of Freedom”
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Posted on January 1, 2012
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January 1, 2012 I once said that I would write an atheist manifesto, but this is not it. However, religion and atheism is the subject of this writing. If you don’t like the idea of subjugating American religion and ridding it from our government (ode… Continue Reading “The Erosion of the Sagacious American Intellect”
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Posted on October 8, 2011
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October 8, 2011 I was talking to a friend of mine this past week about how fear and misunderstanding lead to a negative impact on minority groups. About how inequality and ignorance still run rampant in our society and about how those things are… Continue Reading “Lemmings and Other Things”
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Posted on July 17, 2011
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July 17, 2011 “The man who never learns to face himself, will never know what it means to be free.” The Man In The Mirror I ask myself why it bothers me so much that there are groups of people who take a strong… Continue Reading “The Man In The Mirror”
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Ben Tre: Keep the Loneliness Warm
Posted on February 7, 2018 by Kēphen
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Ben Tre: Keep The Loneliness Warm I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from… Continue Reading “Ben Tre: Keep the Loneliness Warm”
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Human Condition, Kephen's Commentary, Miscellaneous, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Ben Tre, Bombing of Ben Tre, Buddhism, Buddhist Monk, Da Nang, Destruction of Ben Tre, Facts, Ho Chi Minh City, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, PBS, Politics, Public Broadcasting Service, Saigon, Self-Immolation, Southern Vietnam, The Vietnam War, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Quang Duc, Viet Cong, Vietnam War