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“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.
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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.
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Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
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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
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- 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
Intellectual exterminator for hire: I will step on academic cockroaches like Sam Harris – if you make it worth my while.
Clueless much? Either human beings do not have free will OR they can be gulled into buying this dumbass’s dumbass book. Not both. Which does this charlatan REALLY believe? Does he deploy his own free will to endorse the checks?Mind … Continue reading
“Get me rewrite!” How to revise the script of your life – writing yourself a happy ending.
You can say: “I’m a lousy writer.” But you can be just as truthful by saying this instead: “It hasn’t been easy for me to improve my writing skills, but I’m finding that hard work is paying off for me.”Photo … Continue reading
The price of mindlessness? “If you are gulled by bad ideas, it is because you want to be.”
From Chapter 10 of Man Alive, “A mindful catalog of mindlessness.’ Back in high school, you knew a young lady I call the Swoop Girl. Someone said that high school is taxpayer-subsidized dating, and that observation was probably hard to … Continue reading
Empathy for the Incandescent: Using the DISC system to understand the cast of Entourage.
“You will note that there are no C’s at all in the group. This is why Vinnie, who is paid millions of dollars per movie, is always broke. No one in the family can make a buck last from now … Continue reading
Being the change I’m looking for with an affectionate wave to the victims of Islam.
Find the love for life your dog never lives a day without at Amazon.com:Shyly’s delight: Work, play and love like a Labrador.This is me from today’s Church of Splendor homily: The interests of the self. This week – in observation … Continue reading
Relationships as prison camps: “There’s no way out of here. When you come in, you’re in for good.”
This is an advance-look chapter from the book I’m working on now, “Shyly’s delight: Work, play and love like a Labrador.” It’s about illimitable joy, so I’ll tease you with some observations about pain. —GSS Find the love for … Continue reading
My sermon on religion: Unsolicited advice to the sane victims of Islam.
From September 16, 2012, just after Benghazi. I may come back to this sometime soon, because Islam is a particularly brutal example of the intellectual and spiritual ossification that results when a high-C tyranny achieves a relatively-stable state. What would … Continue reading
Here’s a bomb for the trading room floor: Is after-market securities trading rent-seeking?
Poker: Where the fakers take the makers. Are things different on the Bourse?Photo by: David EgerI’ve been thinking about the connection of poker to securities trading: Are they both rent-seeking? Poker is. In a vacuum (no rake), poker is zero-sum … Continue reading
What did you do with your weekend? I spent mine finding the cures for Marxism and divorce.
Peer pressure is the direct result of Ss being punished for their failures (C dominance) rather than being rewarded for their successes (D dominance).Photo by: Tim LydyI am a geyser of ideas almost no one cares about – yet. I … Continue reading
My 7 magic laws of done: How to finish the things you start – quickly, completely and with style.
Genius is fueled by midnight oil – by hours and hours of focused, solitary effort.Photo by: Raffaele CamardellaYou know that book I keep begging you to read – Nine empathies? Here’s something funny about that book: I wrote it last … Continue reading
“I grow regardless.” This is the poem of my life – and of yours, too, I hope.
The Grand Unifying Theory of Human Motivation – as taught to me by a turtle, and by an eternally-outraged human reptile.To read more about empathy, see me, feel me, touch me, heal me at Amazon.com. I know why. I can … Continue reading
Empathy for your monster? Knowing that the surfers are the guys who didn’t wait for the next wave.
I understand empathy well enough to surmise that your biggest fear is that you have not over-prepared enough. But imagine yourself right now on a surfboard in good water. If all you do is wait for the right wave, the … Continue reading
“Why do people act that way?!” How you can double your understanding of other people overnight.
The Grand Unifying Theory of Human Motivation – as taught to me by a turtle, and by an eternally-outraged human reptile.To read more about empathy, see me, feel me, touch me, heal me at Amazon.com.That’s a fun headline – more … Continue reading
Apprehending the empathy of Loki’s loving malice: You always love the ones you hurt.
The Grand Unifying Theory of Human Motivation – as taught to me by a turtle, and by an eternally-outraged human reptile.To read more about empathy, see me, feel me, touch me, heal me at Amazon.com.This is a big, big day … Continue reading