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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 Price
My 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.
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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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I am delighted to speak anywhere, anywhen, and I am interested in any opportunity you can come up with for me to evangelize egoism. I am rich in ideas that, so far, few of us seem to prize. If you value the idea of self-adoration in the way I do, let's talk about how we can increase our numbers.
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.
Kindle
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.
Print | Kindle
Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
Print | Kindle
Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
Print | Kindle
Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
Print | Kindle
Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
Print | Kindle
Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
Print | Kindle
Christmas at the speed of life...
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
Print | Kindle
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.
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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Gratias tibi ago, #Manosphere.com. Who will be first among you to review #FathersDay?
Fathers: If you make your children’s world better, you’ll make everyone’s world better – your own first.Available at Amazon.com:Father’s DayMore Married. More Husband.More Father. More Man.I’ve been picked up as a linked blog by Manosphere.com, a boon for me. I’ve … Continue reading
A valentine for Cathleen: A love to live up to.
The best parts of the fully-human life are met with a smile, at a minimum – and a smile and kiss is even better.February 14, 2011I want to be the man she sees when she looks at me. That’s a … Continue reading
If you come to The 21 Convention in Tampa, you’ll see me – somewhere in the middle of the pack.
Anthony Johnson of The 21 Convention is only doing one show this year – and it’s a killer. I’ll be there, but I’m afraid I might be outshone by this galaxy of talent: 1. Anthony Dream Johnson (unannounced) 2. Socrates … Continue reading
Physicists make another absurd, useless claim. Universe yawns. Life goes on as it should.
If it sounds likes bullshit, it’s good odds it is.By: Lauro Roger McAllisterThis is a silly article, but it’s actually wonderful news: It illustrates how little physicists actually know about the universe, and how much of what they say is … Continue reading
How to explain Ayn Rand’s late-life Social Security parasitism? “Old people make mistakes.”
*Please be sure to read the fine print.Wow. I ignored this last week, because this is obviously an ass-covering exercise. 1. Ayn Rand took Social Security. 2. She knew that was criminal. 3. As with her adultery, she invented an … Continue reading
“‘Sex-positive’ sex should leave you so scarred that you will put up even less resistance to it the next time.”
This is a chapter extracted from Father’s Day, an exploration of promiscuity and chastity in the context of marriage. Of all the people who should be celebrating this book – fathers, mothers, egoists, conservatives – the people who should be … Continue reading
Save the world in 3 quick ’n’ easy steps: Happier fathers, better children, global redemption.
Fathers: If you make your children’s world better, you’ll make everyone’s world better – your own first.Available at Amazon.com: Father’s Day: More Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.I am a man of such huge ambitions that I expect no … Continue reading
Women can’t fix #marriage and #family. Only men can. My new book “Father’s Day” shows how.
More married. More husband.More father. More man.I would love to excite your interest and incite your action: I want to save a few dozen-million marriages, and I need your help. Father’s Day will save marriages – it already is pre-release … Continue reading
What do spree-killings, #YesAllWomen and #abortion all have in common? Fatherlessness.
Could this be what hell looks like?By: *saxFrom today’s homily at The Church of Splendor, a discussion of the latest spree-killing in the context of the on-going dismantling of the family as a redoubt against the therapeutic state. I’m finishing … Continue reading