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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.
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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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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!
Leadership beckons – and it’s looking right at you!
Leadership beckons. You split yourself from the herd and you turn and you beckon and you lead love toward love for love. That’s the only reason to lead, and, accordingly, it’s the only reason anyone ever actually does lead.Photo by: … Continue reading
Shyly’s delight: Manifesting the secondary consequences of splendor.
Man Alive elucidates the ontology of human social relationships, but it’s dense, tough sledding. Appended below is a easier-reading summary of some of these ideas. I wrote this as a speech for my Toastmaster’s Club in August of 2001. In … Continue reading
Want to put the eclipse in the shade? Shine with your own light instead.
And do you know what it means when the white ball rolls in front of the yellow ball? That’s right. Nothing.Photo by: Paulo GuedesNot to alienate myself – even further – from the rest of humanity, but I think this eclipse … Continue reading
How do you live happily among people at war with all joy? Cultivate indifference and press on regardless.
If you can learn to think of your ego as something you must always love and honor and revere and burnish until it seems to glow of its own light, you can make yourself immune from other people’s ugly behavior.Photo … Continue reading
No Nork nukes yet: Is James “Kill ’em all” Mattis an amiable spy in the house of malice?
Donald Trump is an Id pretending to be a Di. Because he is pretending, he is beyond easy to manipulate, and he insulates himself from that risk by being capricious: You can have Trump’s ear until you either bore or upstage … Continue reading
Do you believe in magic? Love is made from its own shared and mutual propitiation!
Love is shaling.You don’t get it, you earn it.You don’t give it, you produce it.You don’t share it, you make it – but only together.The product IS the process, so without that, there is nothing.Photo by: Hamza Butt What are … Continue reading
The origin of character: You chose to be who you are before you knew you had the power of choice.
“Why, yes, I am working you. How’d you guess?”Photo by: Mysudbury.ca Ouisudbury.caMy taxonomy of kids is Infants, Babies, Toddlers, Children. Infants snooze, Babies observe, Toddlers participate and Children converse. Children are awake – persistently volitionally self-conscious of abstract conceptual self-consciousness … Continue reading
Prometheosophy: I own all of philosophy, and I’m giving it away to everyone – for FREE!
Everything I say lately seems to both encapsulate and elucidate everything else I’m saying: Ds failed against Dc then, but Di can beat Ci now, then deliver the goods to Ds.Photo by: Faris AlgosaibiI think I have everything – all-the-way … Continue reading
Sister Mary Elephants all the way down: Why the victims of Ayn Rand end up so bitchy and repressed.
It’s funny that Ci’s insist that DISC cannot be true with pitch-perfect Ci fit-pitching – but that’s what Ci’s do when their compliance displays run up against defiance.Photo by: IsengardtThe Ayn Rand Institute has been paying special attention to me … Continue reading
What the upside of integrity? “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
James Damore, the now-fired Google engineer, fought Ci with Di. He lost the battle – but he won his own soul, while all the cowards around him lost a little more of theirs.Photo by: Rendy Cipta MuliawanRemember the kid’s story, … Continue reading
Feeling supervised? Hunted? Haunted? Hounded? I think you’re in a Ci state of mind.
A Ci life is Narcissus in the hall of mirrors: Your preening fakery alienates you not just from self love but from all love.Photo by: Axel RouvinWhen I was young and stupid, I used to think totalitarianism had an insuperable … Continue reading
Love husbandry: Marriage dies by the snarl – but it thrives in the light of a loving smile.
A good marriage makes everyone better: Thriving seeds ever-more-abundant thriving. You breed by breeding, but you breed your ideas with your good example, too.Photo by: Hamza ButtPicking up from yesterday, let’s put a finer point on what we’ve learned so … Continue reading
Why is love, sex, marriage and family a battlefield? Ci Blindness. I have the math to fix it.
Human civilization is nothing but the answer to this one monumentally important question: How does a nice guy go about getting a second date around here?Photo by: Kevin DooleyWell, I’ve had a fruitful fortnight: Robert Tracinski went all Irrational Hagiographic … Continue reading
Am I being unfair to the Cautious and the Incandescent? Let’s do the math.
You get into the same jams again and again – the snags that never seem to snag anyone else – because you respond in the same way to the same situations over and over again.Photo by: tacit requiem (joanneQEscober )Yesterday, Cathleen cautioned me … Continue reading
Empathy tells all: Why are libertarians so hostile to marriage and family?
Do you see any room for a baby – an endlessly needy whining mammal that will never, ever pay back its monetary and opportunity costs – in there? That’s why you see so few babies among libertarians.Photo by: Lisa Rosario[From … Continue reading