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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…
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
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 one…
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…
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…
Category: All, Depression and Suicide, LGBT, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Choice, Conversion Therapy, Depression, Gay, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Lesbian, LGBT, Mental Health, No Choice, Politics, Suicide, Truth
Posted on February 13, 2017
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Photo credit: Mike Blake/Reuters The Wall, Illegal Immigration, and the U.S. – Mexican Border The U.S. and Mexican border is 1,954 miles long. As of last year the U.S. only had enough border patrol agents to securely patrol half the border. In 2004, then…
Category: All, Human Condition, Kephen's Commentary, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Arizona, Asylum, Bluebird Pass, Brooks County, Central America, Colombia, Customs and Border Protection, Darien Gap, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Detention Centers, Donald Trump, El Salvador, FARC, Green Card, Guatemala, Gulf Cartel, Honduras, Human Rights, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration Court, Immigration Reform, Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, Mexico, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Panama, Pima County, Politics, President Trump, Rio Grande, Secure Fence Act, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca, Sonoran Desert, South America, Texas, The Devil's Highway, The Wall, Truth, Tuscon, U.S. and Mexican Border, U.S. Border Patrol, Visa, Yuma
Posted on May 9, 2012
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(Please note that this piece was written prior to the Federal Supreme Court decision ruling it unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.) For a very long time, I’ve wanted to be able to write something that spelled out exactly why civil…
Category: Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Human Condition, LGBT, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Courage, Depression, Equality, Ethics, Gay, Hope, Hopelessness, Human Rights, Inspiration, Introspective, Lessons on Living, LGBT, Morals, Politics, Suicide, Truth, Unity, Wisdom
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…
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, God, Human Condition, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Atheism, Courage, Ethics, Faith, God, Hope, Inspiration, Morals, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Spirituality, Truth, Wisdom
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…
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Human Condition, Kephen's Commentary, Miscellaneous, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Atheism, Equality, Human Rights, Lessons on Living, Politics, Religion, Truth, Wisdom
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…
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Posted on August 13, 2010
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It is fundamentally important to understand that I believe in human progress. That we, as a nation and a species, must always put one foot in front of the other, hold up our heads and march forward. Always against the tides of repression and…
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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…
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
Nationalism and Police Brutality: The Deafening Sound of Ignorance
Posted on September 9, 2017 by Kēphen
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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 one…
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
Identity Politics and the Slow Death of the American Moral Landscape
Posted on August 24, 2017 by Kēphen
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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…
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
The Choice That Never Was
Posted on July 17, 2017 by Kēphen
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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…
Category: All, Depression and Suicide, LGBT, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Choice, Conversion Therapy, Depression, Gay, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Lesbian, LGBT, Mental Health, No Choice, Politics, Suicide, Truth
The Wall, Illegal Immigration, and the U.S. – Mexican Border
Posted on February 13, 2017 by Kēphen
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Photo credit: Mike Blake/Reuters The Wall, Illegal Immigration, and the U.S. – Mexican Border The U.S. and Mexican border is 1,954 miles long. As of last year the U.S. only had enough border patrol agents to securely patrol half the border. In 2004, then…
Category: All, Human Condition, Kephen's Commentary, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Arizona, Asylum, Bluebird Pass, Brooks County, Central America, Colombia, Customs and Border Protection, Darien Gap, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Detention Centers, Donald Trump, El Salvador, FARC, Green Card, Guatemala, Gulf Cartel, Honduras, Human Rights, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration Court, Immigration Reform, Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, Mexico, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Panama, Pima County, Politics, President Trump, Rio Grande, Secure Fence Act, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca, Sonoran Desert, South America, Texas, The Devil's Highway, The Wall, Truth, Tuscon, U.S. and Mexican Border, U.S. Border Patrol, Visa, Yuma
If You Could Only See
Posted on May 9, 2012 by Kēphen
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(Please note that this piece was written prior to the Federal Supreme Court decision ruling it unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.) For a very long time, I’ve wanted to be able to write something that spelled out exactly why civil…
Category: Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Human Condition, LGBT, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Courage, Depression, Equality, Ethics, Gay, Hope, Hopelessness, Human Rights, Inspiration, Introspective, Lessons on Living, LGBT, Morals, Politics, Suicide, Truth, Unity, Wisdom
The Erosion of the Sagacious American Intellect
Posted on January 1, 2012 by Kēphen
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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…
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, God, Human Condition, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Atheism, Courage, Ethics, Faith, God, Hope, Inspiration, Morals, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Spirituality, Truth, Wisdom
Lemmings and Other Things
Posted on October 8, 2011 by Kēphen
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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…
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Human Condition, Kephen's Commentary, Miscellaneous, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Atheism, Equality, Human Rights, Lessons on Living, Politics, Religion, Truth, Wisdom
The Man In The Mirror
Posted on July 17, 2011 by Kēphen
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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…
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Human Condition, LGBT, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Atheism, Courage, Equality, Ethics, Gay, Guilt, Hope, Human Rights, Inspiration, Introspective, Lessons on Living, LGBT, Morals, Peace, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Truth, Unity, Wisdom
Awaiting Daybreak: Regression and a Nation Asunder
Posted on August 13, 2010 by Kēphen
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It is fundamentally important to understand that I believe in human progress. That we, as a nation and a species, must always put one foot in front of the other, hold up our heads and march forward. Always against the tides of repression and…
Category: All, Human Condition, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Courage, Philosophy, Politics
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