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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.
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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.
Kindle
Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
Print | Kindle
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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- SplendorQuest.com – a weblog devoted to celebrating the uniquely human life.
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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Introduction to Nine empathies – Empathy for empathy itself.
I’m writing a short book of philosophy this weekend discriminating among depths of empathy. This is how it begins: Introduction: Empathy unbound. Of the nine kinds of empathy I want to explore, only three concern real people, the next three … Continue reading
What is true child abuse? It’s the emotional outrage Stefan Molyneux himself repeatedly endured.
The purpose of defooing is not to induct the defooers into a cult but to inflict what Stefan Molyneux believes to be the most excruciating possible pain upon their parents. His motive is not to help anyone but to kill … Continue reading
Empathy for the underfathered: Why Hamlet, Stefan Molyneux and Richard Dawkins can’t shut up.
Not only do parents and friends deserve to be scolded, scorned and shunned, but your unborn baby secretly wants to die! What should you do? Try not listening to underfathered moral idiots.I made a video for The 21 Convention’s Youtube … Continue reading
Comfort for the Defooed Heart: Stefan Molyneux’s pathetic pantomime of parricide-by-proxy.
What is the ‘defoo’ advocated by Stefan Molyneux – the practice that has at last won him recognition as a cult leader? And what can you do when it happens to you? All my Molyneux news.
How long is The Long Tail? Long enough, even, for Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet.
“Daddy! Daddy wasn’t there!”We watched Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet on DVD last night. Very insightful in light of all the things I’ve been writing and talking about. Claudius put me in mind of the tragic figure of Stefan Molyneux, a Peter-Principled … Continue reading
Love among The Unfallen at every wavelength of heaven’s light.
Today is the last day to get The Unfallen – my rom-com novel with real romance and real comedy – for free. Invest yourself in this extract, if you like, or just snag the book while it’s free. This is … Continue reading
Devin’s devotion: “We are locked together, locked like the links of that chain.”
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com.Loki’s Love Letters are prime choice LadyPorn for this reason: I am writing a man’s kind of love-making from a man’s point of view – while tickling every fancy that … Continue reading
Until you know what the buyer is buying, you don’t know what you’re selling – or how.
Did he just say matron-fracker? In church?Thanks to Anthony ‘Dream’ Johnson of The 21 Convention, The Church of Splendor is streaming with his much more robust Youtube powers. This week: Loki the Trickster illuminates the emotional factors in play in … Continue reading
A comic romp of love, sex and philosophy: My Kindle novel The Unfallen is FREE right now.
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com.My novel The Unfallen is now available as an Amazon Kindle eBook. Here is the way I blurbed the book when I wrote it: The Unfallen is a very sexy … Continue reading
Cultivating Splendor: An atheist egoist church, philosophy without a net – and you.
I’m staring at you – and you know it.The Church of Splendor is growing. With half-a-year’s worth of services in the vault, Anthony ‘Dream’ Johnson of The 21 Convention is taking on the live streaming with his much more robust … Continue reading
How does a man express his love? With teasing, torment, pushing, crowding and obstruction – that’s how.
The love of families is expressed with pushing, crowding and contrived annoyances. You call that love? I sure do. From Sunday’s Church of Splendor service, Loki’s the trickster’s humor as an expression of storgic love.