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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.
Save the world from home – in your spare time!
Disintermediate the ruling class: Read the free book that tells you how to do it.
Disintermediation means cutting out the middle-man, and, by teaching you a new way of thinking about human nature and about your own unique self, the free book Man Alive! puts you in charge of your own philosophical affairs.
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.
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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
The Church of Splendor: There is a crack in everything.
If a lion can stalk the earth as lord of all he surveys, why can’t you? While our Christian friends are celebrating Easter, let’s talk about resurrecting the god you’ve been trying and failing to crucify since you were a … Continue reading
What’s “good” #conservative #art? Ars gratia libertatis – art for #freedom’s sake.
There is nothing in a good “conservative” story that should repel a liberal reader.cindiann / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Clearly I’ve hit a nerve in my discussions of a more-ideal kind of “conservative” art: … Continue reading
@LibertyIsleMag made #conservative #art into just another Dairy Queen disappointment for me.
Unless you have a boat of your own, there is no liberty on an island…It’s late in the day. You’re hot, tired, cranky. Up ahead on the right there’s a Dairy Queen, and for every reason you should not go … Continue reading
Let’s have a real writing contest: Take a sad song and make it better.
How do you make a family whole when everyone in it is broken? Hollywood will pay big bucks for a compelling answer to that question.The PIX-JOCKEY (visual fantasist) / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) Officious … Continue reading
Rearranging the universe the way you want it is #egoism in action, not self-sacrifice.
This is egoism in action, remaking your world the way you want it. The video illustrates pellucidly why the idea of agape as self-sacrifice is incorrect. The love expressed this way is entirely egoistic: I am rearranging the universe to … Continue reading
When you do as you know you shouldn’t and don’t do as you know you should – you’re living selflessly.
I like to personify my thinking. I do this anyway, in the silence of my own mind, playing out my conjectures like a 4D movie – like the set of long-term transactions that human relationships are. But I like to … Continue reading
A short take on The Dancing Bear Fallacy: Humans #reason and #choose. Animals don’t. Get used to it.
Another short clip from the interview I did last August with Anthony Johnson of The21Convention: Mind what goes into your mind: What animals (and ‘artificially-intelligent’ software) do is not intelligence but pattern-matching, a cargo-cult-like analogue to inference with respect to … Continue reading
My first quarter: #Love, #sex, #death, #chastity and a brand new #atheist, #egoist #church.
Poetry is leadership is dance, and they will prove that to you if it takes them all afternoon.Prabhu B Doss / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND I had a killer first quarter, secular arguments about marriage, chastity, life and death — … Continue reading
The Church of Splendor: Make your marriage last forever.
Why do some marriages seem to be so perfectly easy? Why don’t they all work that way? 10 MST Sunday morning. See the service live and sing hosannahs in real time or choir subjunctively by subsequent stream.
The Church of Splendor: The joy of redemption.
I can’t give you either absolution or the promise of an afterlife, but I can show you a path to real redemption in this life. Seems like a fair deal to me. Come and see the service live or stream … Continue reading
The ontology of ugliness: Your face is gonna freeze like that.
Anthony Johnson of The21Convention had me out to Orlando last Summer, where we did a taped interview. This clip is from that session.
The Church of Splendor: The splendor of church.
Why an #atheist #church? Because regardless of what you believe, you need to be reminded regularly of the need for and the benefit of moral #philosophy. This is the value every church offers, I just serve it up without the … Continue reading
The Church of Splendor: The path to every human value is paved with poetry.
This week’s service: The Power of Poetry. It makes girls swoon and boys fight, and it drives every quest for the next frontier: poetry. And yet it is mocked everywhere, most especially in academic mock-poetry, and it is ridiculed and … Continue reading
Thriving lessons: First you have to turn around…
This is the homily from my first service for The Church of Splendor with all the church business cut out. This is a philosophically ambitious argument about moral ambition, an equally-opportunisitical offender, a thoroughgoing take-down – and rebuilding – of … Continue reading