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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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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
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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
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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Is the Ayn Rand Institute’s indefensible stand on abortion part of a clandestine intelligence op?
Spies everywhere!Photo by: JD HancockWriter David McGowan is the author of an enchanting conspiracy theory: Was the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s a sophisticated intelligence operation devised to defuse the anti-Vietnam-War movement? As with … Continue reading
Evading abortion got you down? Rhapsodize premeditated torture and murder instead.
Paper tiger flexes his tonsils, soils himself, sullies Western Civilization. Piers Morgan: ‘My highest moral virtue is my ferocious animal savagery.’ With emphasis: Rhapsodizing violence is evil. It is even more self-destructive if, like Morgan, you know your homicidal rage … Continue reading
Eliciting a response from the Ayn Rand Institute on the Planned Parenthood abortion scandals.
Blood makes noise. I’ve known Don Watkins net.wise for 15 years or so, and I met him in real life last Fall in Tampa. I comped him a copy of Father’s Day – because the last thing the world needs … Continue reading
My top 5 posts illuminating the Ayn Rand Institute’s intellectual paralysis over abortion.
“Why should we bother to reply to Kautski? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautski is a … Continue reading
Who knew it would be so easy to bitchslap the Ayn Rand Institute over abortion?
Hard work pays off. I should have done this years ago. I did, of course, but not as well as I’m doing today. As always, I never think about something until I do, and then I think about it all … Continue reading
Why am I infanticide-shaming the Ayn Rand Institute? Because abortionism kills humanity itself.
Good grief…Intrauterine infanticide – abortion – is morally repugnant – and you don’t need for me to tell you that, do you? The ‘procedure’ itself is ugly, as are its secondary consequences, but being instrumentally involved in abortion makes us … Continue reading
Spanking the Ayn Rand Institute on abortion and Planned Parenthood: None so deserving.
Ahem.How can you tell The Ayn Rand Institute is run by thick-witted cowards? Blank out. Ayn Rand lived her whole life waiting to meet a man strong enough to turn her over his knee and show her what she always … Continue reading
Libertarians: You’ve been wrong about abortion all along. It’s time to rip off the band-aid.
If you’re driving the I-5 and you need some Immodium, don’t stop in Irvine. They’re fresh out.If you have given your moral sanction to abortion until now, it’s time to rip off the band-aid. Here’s why: Abortion and self-adoration: Do … Continue reading
Why won’t the thick-witted cowards at the Ayn Rand Institute rise up to defend Planned Parenthood?
Dead babies… can’t take new ideas to the next level – even if that were permitted.Official-Objectivists never talk to me. They come around by the committee-load, but all they do is lurk. I see them by what they read – … Continue reading
For what other species of the earth would we argue for #abortion?
The ultimate in man-made marvels:The man-made extermination of man.Photo by: Kyle SimourdCall me Cassandra. My job, apparently, is to state the stunningly obvious facts no one has any intention of heeding. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it. … Continue reading
If your ‘thought leader’ can’t tell you why abortion is evil – you’re going to the wrong church.
Like chattel slavery at the birth of the American experiment, abortion is the vicious contradiction upon which libertarianism foundered. I’m redeeming the quest for liberty by correcting this awful error.Photo by: sabianmaggyIt turns out people who eviscerate babies for a … Continue reading
End gun-free zones? No. End gun-free adults. Self-defense cannot be delegated. Denying that fact kills.
How can there be bullet holes in that glass when the sign clearly says that this is a gun-free zone?Four more unarmed innocents were killed yesterday. U.S. Marines, attestedly the most fearsome soldiers on earth. They were lawfully disarmed in … Continue reading
The goal of #abortion-as-politics? Cultivating ‘Good Germans’ to both effect and surrender to genocide.
The actual political purpose of abortion-as-politics is to cultivate a population capable of both effecting and surrendering to genocide.It’s working.Photo by: Dylan WaltersIn one of the links back to 2004 I cited when we illustrated why putative-liberty-lovers always side with … Continue reading
Illuminating libertarianism’s fatal flaw: Individualism – Egoism = Utilitarianism = Useful-Idiot-Marxism.
Indulging a whim is not a self-loving act, it is carving a permanent scar into your self-image – an ineradicable mental wound that your memory will recall to your conscious attention again and again, for the rest of your life. … Continue reading
Taking on Ayn Rand and Objectivism on abortion: A moral atrocity cannot somehow be a political sacrament.
From September of 2012, this is me at Richard Nikoley’s FreeTheAnimal.com talking about abortion in the context of nominally egoistic moral philosophies. Quoting a comment from Richard: Greg Swann has the best and only valid argument counter abortion: you have … Continue reading