Writing Prompts: Stage and Speech

Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech? To answer the prompt, I will say yes, to both. I’ve not exactly done anything major (my ‘stage’ appearances were school plays, and my speeches were wedding speeches), but I can say yes to both. The school plays often feel like a lifetime ago, but […]

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Our Deepest Poverty

I am sharing a post over at the Coalition of the Brave that was published by Just Drive Will You, who has shared the same post via their own site. Our Deepest Poverty asks some soul-searching questions of those who claim the moral high ground whilst failing quite miserably at empathy and compassion. I know […]

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Writing Prompts: Among Us?

For many years (decades even), the belief in intelligent alien life has seen two primary interpretations. The mainstream scientific idea is that it is almost certainly out there, but well beyond our ability to detect (much less communicate with) using current technology. There are on-going efforts to locate potentially habitable worlds, and the SETI (Search […]

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Guns vs Knives

Referring back to my earlier post ‘TikTok Gun Debates‘, I thought it might be wise to instruct Street Hawk further, given their dogged ignorance of facts and logic. He has tried to suggest that knives are an equivalent threat, similar to guns in terms of the danger they pose, and that more guns would equate […]

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Moral Law

I recently got into a brief discussion with Citizen Tom about moral law. Tom then wrote a post about ignorance of the moral law, which got me wondering. Is there one true moral law, or is this a more fluid situation, dependent upon varying religious and cultural circumstances? Tom quoted Merriam-Webster regarding moral law, which […]

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Writing Prompts: Roswell

Of all the UFO stories, perhaps the most famous by far is the notorious narrative about Roswell, New Mexico, in the USA. It could well have innocent explanations, but that has not stopped conspiracy theorists from clinging to the idea that an extra-terrestrial craft crashed near the ranch of W.W. “Mac” Brazel, in mid-1947. Mr […]

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TikTok Gun Debates

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeD2ecNn/ By now anyone who follows my blog will know my view on guns. I do not believe they will make any given situation safer, and I believe the evidence bears this out. One ‘Street Hawk’ on TikTok (whose posts rather annoyingly keep coming up on my feed) has made what they no doubt consider […]

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Writing Prompts: Piercings

To answer the question, no, I do not have any piercings. My wife considers piercings to be very sexy, but I am not brave enough to get one done! To be fair, at one point I’d have never considered tattoos, and now have several, but a piercing – especially of say, a nipple, or the […]

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