The Affectionate Display
“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
I am fomenting a philosophical revolution that will change everything for everyone in due course. How? By finally fully redeeming Western Civilization.
You’re going to help.
Save the world from home – in your spare time!
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The book's objectives are precise and concise: To take the claim of justice away from the state, the mantle of intellectual authority away from the academy and the experience of reverence away from the church. It puts all of those things back where they belong — in your mind. There is no middle-man on truth.
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More by Greg Swann
FREE Willie
A 100% FREE collection of some of the best of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie stories. You will want to read all of my books, but here is a cost-free way to get started.Buy my books at Amazon.com
Dusty
An elegy of hope and love.
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Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
Kindle
Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
Kindle
Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
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Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
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Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
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Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
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Christmas at the speed of life...
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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The Unfallen
A love story
Print | KindleMy other writing isn't collected in one place, but here's a shopping list for finding the best of it:
- Greg Swann writes – fiction and early essays.
- PresenceOfMind.net – a weblog I maintained in the early years of the new millenium.
- BloodhoundBlog – a national real estate weblog I started and contribute to. Much of the content there will be real estate related, but everything I write is focused on the self, and this is best represented in the longer essays.
- SplendorQuest.com – a weblog devoted to celebrating the uniquely human life.
Author Archives: Greg Swann
I am Charlie Hebdo!
How do you know for sure that Allah is impotent? Why can’t he ‘avenge’ himself? If they can’t take a joke, fuck ’em.
A rule to live by for 2015: Butthurt is not contagious.
If you want to be free – what’s stopping you?Photo by: Klearchos KapoutsisI should be grieving because you’re nose is out of joint? You should be torqued because someone else has a peeve? Here’s some perfect news for the New … Continue reading
An atheist’s Christmas card to religious people and to everyone: Give your kids a father for Christmas.
Father’s DayMore Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.Available at Amazon.comShow me a high school senior who is an Eagle Scout or a member of the National Honor Society and I’ll lay odds that kid comes from a strongly religious … Continue reading
The Sexual Splendor of Storgic Romance: Why all-the-way-married sex is the best love you can make.
The headline is not enough of a tease? See me on The Joy of Chastity for an appetizer. Meanwhile, here is yesterday’s homily from The Church of Splendor: Why does all-the-way-married love-making make all the difference? My full answer is … Continue reading
Frolicking more and enjoying it less? Try the joy of chastity instead.
She could bump into you at any time. Will it be you she is looking for when that happens?vasilennka / Foter / CC BY I get mail. Not very much, but I get good mail. This is a young man … Continue reading
How the three little pigs weathered the federal government’s housing scams.
The big bad wolf figured out that, if he could muck with the real estate market enough, he could get the puerile little pig a home of his own – and then he could count on his vote forever…Once upon … Continue reading
A question for #rapeculture #feminism: What happens when victimhood is the only way to get attention?
“What about Jackie?” From yesterday’s Church of Splendor homily, the rape of Jackie, Rolling Stone magazine #rapeculture poster girl, has but just begun.
Despite #Ferguson, #feminism and #Marxism, why the Driven will inherit the future.
From The Church of Splendor yestermorning, Rejuvenating Youngtown: Deploying the Ferguson riots to defend fatherhood, all as a way of revivifying the middle class.
Underfathered children? Check. Childless adults? Check. #Feminism is working just fine, thank you.
Yesterday’s Church of Splendor homily: Contra Ayaan Hirsi Ali, #Feminism is working just as intended: Unfathering children and fostering dependency on the state. And there is more to come…
Ayn Rand and me: Distinguishing self-adoration from big-O Objectivism – over brunch.
Pulling this forward to amend it with this video, a clip from a Church of Splendor service imagining a Sunday brunch with Ayn Rand that she might not storm out of: Praising the empathy of her fiction while taking her … Continue reading
Uncle Willie’s manifesto: If the words aren’t worth etching into stone, get someone else to write them.
Authors die, but their ideas need not. I am vain enough to declare that I lack the everyday flavor of authorial vanity, but I more than make up for that with the other kind. There is no place for me … Continue reading
The word that defines Western Civilization – ingenuous – and how to make it work for you.
What could be more becoming from a four-year-old girlchild than these words: “Do you worst. I will not kneel.” Sunday’s homily from The Church of Splendor.
The Affectionate Display: When life hands you a lemon – hand it back and shop for your own values.
Affection from The Church of Splendor: The nicest possible answers to life’s most brutal questions.
Brand new! (Just add you.) A party game that will make introverts enjoy parties at last.
The homily from the Church of Splendor yestermorn, “The Dutch Uncle Game (or: Tits or Get Out).” It’s a long walk on a brisk fall Sunday with a business proposition at the end. Salute and you could change the world.
Ideas from The 21 Convention and the answer to every married man’s prayers: Making more love more often.
My life my way. That’s why.To the right is the business-card image I used on my first slide from my #t21c presentation, a personal mission statement, of sorts. I could do decent stand-up on the idea of being a poet, … Continue reading