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Good night, dear lightShadows fall like silenceInot despairing nightI decide at once.I've had enough of clowns and jokesWhen the clowns and jokes are on meI took my mind, my jacket and smokesAnd let...
View ArticleFlash of Life
If you read this, please let me know what you think. I am needing some opinions. I want to send a book of them in and need to know what might get a decent response. Thanks!Flash of Life8/13/03Heather...
View ArticleTo Better or Be
To Better or to BeJ. C. RutledgeIs it better to be who you are or to attempt to better yourself through change? Is it even possible to change? First we must define better. If we mean to say a more...
View Articletimothy mcveigh
The End Another distant scream... Another shattered dream. Lost another bet... Another cigarette. The world's only getting stupider... Mother nature's crying, but no one hears her. "God" damns you...
View ArticleVerbose Doggerel for Philosophasters
This commorancy of perfidious and perspicacious palaver, under perlustration of the subjacent hoi polloi, should not insinuate affirmation of diablerie, but manifestly promote multifarious arteries to...
View ArticleAcross the Universe
We are so small, so insignificant relative to this universe, just relative to our galaxy we are no more than cosmic dust mites. How can anyone be so arrogant as to place humanity at the height of the...
View Articlesoul searching
SOUL SEARCHINGBeen doing some soul searching, but with no soul to search. They tell me I should be feeling empty right now.But I dont, is that wrong, (I dont know)Why do I not belong, (I dont...
View Articlelooking back
LOOKING BACKLooking back everything was much simpler, but maybe I just didnt ask the questions. Is it easier to have your life planned out for you? To have your next move already mapped out by this...
View ArticleCo-Dependant
CO-DEPENDANT(Whisper) Go ahead, pull the triggerpause(whisper) what are you waiting for(whisper) I dont knowpause(louder) Well is there anything worth living for? (screaming) YES(louder) Well what is...
View ArticleIn my head.
it gets into my headand i can't wish it awaynumb for days and dayssurely it can't stay.a dark awakening to an equally dark daythey all look to me for answersbut what am i to say.questioning myself...
View Articlethe Antichrist
The Antichrist or Ode to WarThe seasons are twenty and five from the dayWhen the unholy rift brought the birth of decayA whirl of confusion, excitement and lieLean and uneasy, aggressive and shySworn...
View ArticleFlying High Again
Moral Reasoning and a Jet PlaneAtop my ivory tower of moral clarity, overlooking the 2004 Bedlam football game I am faced with a sudden dilemma. It has come to my attention that the small prop plane...
View ArticleWhat's in a Name?
BaphometLucifer is the metaphorical embodiment of human will; direction, course, and focus a perfect orbit and sacred path of a shimmering star. Lucifer represents limitless possibility and potential...
View ArticleThe Nature of Things
McCurtain County CabinMaking some empty point, mid way through a jointIn unbearably rigid surroundingsIt occurs that Ive lost, beyond value or costMy connection with natural groundingIn my urban array...
View ArticleGOD
The Blind Webster by Aleister CrowelyIt is not necessary to understand; it is enough to adore.The god may be of clay: adore him; he becomes GOD.We ignore what created us; we adore what we create.Let...
View ArticleDazed and Confused on the Strip
Beer and Roaming in Las VegasFrom the Baphometic WritingsFour days in the Oasis of the Sierra Valley, nestled in Luxorian luxury and for what? $4,000 in the hole and a resounding conformation of my...
View Articlethe Baphometic Log
Chemical Joustingscent and symmetrypolish the pooling momentsfleeting connections'04 J.C.R.
View ArticleKingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
by Michelle GoldbergEditorial ReviewsFrom Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In an impressive piece of lucid journalism, Salon.com reporter Goldberg dives into the religious right and sorts out the...
View ArticleAt Least One
The following is the text of a letter that I wrote during my second tour in Iraq to Mr. Cliff Walker of Positive Atheism Magazine. Cliff has dedicated many years of his life to defending atheism...
View ArticleThe (Even More) Portable Atheist
Ever since Susan Jacoby's dogmatic insistence that mobile devices will inevitably be as distracting and intellectually enervating as broadcast television, I've been on a bit of a techno-jag to prove...
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