Tag: reality
member name: Rory M.
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August 07, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
I was pondering the question which serves as the title of this piece, after participating in another conversation string here on Gather in which the idea of "common sense" was thrown out.
My . . .
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . .
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October 09, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
(If you are a person who believes that every word in the Bible is literal truth and your mind is not open to other points of view or interpretations, then it is perhaps best if you do not read any further . . .
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December 15, 2008 07:26 PM EST --
We have a weird attitude towards death in our culture. It seems as though we reject death as though it were something strange, something unusual, even something unnatural.
And yet, death is the most . . .
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September 24, 2007 06:56 PM EDT --
All new parents, when their child is born (usually in a hospital) should be given these instructions as the baby is placed in their arms:
Here is your new child, it is a wild animal that will act . . .
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May 24, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
In this fifth installment of my series on words that have had special meaning to me in my life (links to the first four articles are at the bottom) , I would like to focus on a very few words that were . . .
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September 20, 2008 02:00 AM EDT --
With the crisis in the financial markets of recent months and especially the past week, and the back-of-cocktail-napkin policy writing on the fly, there is a very big change coming to the way Americans . . .
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February 11, 2009 10:11 PM EST --
I remember my father saying that a man does his best work in his 40s. I guess I'm fucked, then.
If my best work is behind me then there are a lot of things I would have liked to accomplish that . . .
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April 20, 2009 01:40 PM EDT --
In recent years the phenomenon of what is commonly referred to as "Reality TV" has taken over a good deal of the broadcasting schedule for the major television networks in the USA, with bleed . . .
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May 19, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
This is the third article in the series I have begun to pay homage to the words of other writers that have meant so much to me through my life. The first two articles can be found here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977347468&nav=MyGather . . .
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November 11, 2008 11:27 PM EST --
There is a lot of evil in the world.
However, this does not mean that evil is an active force, as most seem to believe it to be.
Of course, many believe in a personifcation of evil alternately . . .
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May 28, 2008 01:09 AM EDT --
The Baha'i Faith began in 1863 when the founder, who took the name of Baha'u'llah ( the Glory of God ) when he announced his ministry, declared himself the latest in a long series of prophets . . .
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