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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!
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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
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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.
Category Archives: Splendor!
Abortion and self-adoration: Do what you want, but don’t claim you can escape the consequences. You can’t.
Whether you like it or not, seeing your self committing atrocities is abhorrent to your mind, and no amount of rationalizing self-destructive behavior will turn vices into virtues.Rethinking your stand on abortion today? That seems wise to me. This is me … Continue reading
Do you want to #StopGunViolence? Do #TaxpayerLivesMatter? Then #DisarmTheFeds!
Who can’t be trusted with a firearm? The man who bears no consequences for his errors. In America, the people most immune from prosecution for gun crimes are federal law enforcement officials.It’s absurd to try to hold Marxists accountable to … Continue reading
Three blasts from my past: Love, sex and making your marriage last forever.
Father’s DayMore Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.Available at Amazon.comI made a series of videos in 2014 for The 21 Convention on love, sex, marriage and family. Anthony Johnson dissolved our affiliation after I spoke at his event last … Continue reading
The Independence of Opposites: If all you can see are reasons for despair – turn around.
There is no mere sexual activity that can compare with the storgic, romantic love-making of committed, monogamous, heterosexual matrimony – an obvious fact almost no one upholds.Photo by: Florida MemoryThere are two kinds of people in the world. The other … Continue reading
All you need is love? No, but everything you need, including your freedom, emerges from your love.
Independence Day is the father’s day that should matter most to Americans. This is the day we celebrate the love of liberty that began with the love of a man for his woman and with their love for the family … Continue reading
How do you contend with a world gone mad? Keep your own counsel and look out for your own.
If you don’t look out for your own, it will be swept away in the maelstrom.Photo by: DVIDSHUBWith a glance back to The Desperation Waltz, we take on the aftermath of the Charleston shooting and sundry other cargo-cult rain dances, … Continue reading
New York Times: ‘You have shit for brains, so shut up and do as you’re told.’
The editorial board of The New York Times.Photo by: Leonardo Aguiar“Can the bacteria in your gut explain your mood?” It’s dancing microbes all the way down in Times Square, which is why you need the intestinal fortitude Man Alive provides: … Continue reading
For Father’s Day, a photo celebration of fathers getting the job done.
Here’s to the man with a plan.Photo by Tambako the Jaguar.Satire is maledy in my formulation: Regardless of the jokes, the action of the story will move from better to worse. To make this fly with audiences, satirists will affect … Continue reading
Who benefits from the #RachelDolezal and #CaitlynJenner feeding frenzies? And how could this get any funnier?
“Sister, please…” #RachelDolezal and #CaitlynJenner are softening up black voters to accept #MichelleObama as America’s first tranny #POTUS. Is that true? Who knows? But it sure is funny… Sunday at The Church of Splendor:
Asking the hard questions: Wishful thoughtlessness, #FeminismPatrified and what to do about the poor.
Killing a man slowly is no kindness.Photo by: SPT Photographe (seanthibert.com)Killing a man slowly is no kindness. After mocking the left for their creepy embrace of the man formerly known as relatively dignified, I take up the black bug of … Continue reading
How the nigger in the woodpile became the elephant in the room.
“I am The Lorax. Who the hell are you?”Forget that antique wuss Mohammed, the unmentionable bête noire in American politics is race. We’re so eager to prove we’re not racists, we infantilize everyone by refusing to call the Boojum under … Continue reading
How can a married man maintain his masculine frame? Like this: “Pipe down. You’re such a silly woman.”
What to do about your lying, cheating, abusive wife.Reflecting on a blog post in which a wife comes to realize that she has been abusing her husband with a Cautious tyranny, this week’s Church of Splendor homily takes on the … Continue reading
#JeSuisMarkSteyn for #EverybodyDrawMohammed day: “Do your worst. I will not kneel.”
“Do your worst. I will not kneel.”I don’t admire many people, more’s the pity. I know too much and see too much, and too much of what I see taxes me of the respect I might otherwise feel for a … Continue reading
Bright young man (or woman) on the make? Learn about mentorship from a master, Edward Druce.
Edward Druce, master of mentorship.I met Edward Druce last fall at The 21 Convention in Tampa, nominating him as my choice as the star of the event. The talk he gave, How to find a mentor in business, was not … Continue reading
A question for pro-gay-marriage libertarians: Isn’t it well past time to admit you were wrong?
Nothing says ‘libertarian’ quite like the faithful capitulation to Marxist tyranny.Photo by: Ross AngusI don’t pay much attention to libertarians. They start wrong and stay wrong, with politics rather than the underlying ethics of self-adoration, which is why they cough … Continue reading