Posted in update on Mar 6th, 2010
So, I’ve updated a few things on Loki Listens today, and I’d like to take a moment to bring your attention to them. Now, at the bottom of every post and page, you can find Sociable buttons! This makes it easy to share my posts with all your friends and neighbors through whatever social network [...]
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Oct 6th, 2009
When I asked the community for an inside view of Humanism, I never expected to get such a rich and detailed version like the one Ryan provided for our last lesson. In this lesson, we’ll talk about Humanism, using the information that is generally available across the net, and some of the remarks Ryan made. [...]
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Jul 28th, 2009
The tracks always come back. Rumi. Shams. Wine and Dance and God. Was there ever really anything else? Since I first discovered Sufism as an adolescent, the dervish spin never left me. The idea that one can get so close, become so consumed in the flame, and love every moment of it. I lost that [...]
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Posted in Fragments on May 20th, 2009
Sometimes you wake up, and you find yourself in those quiet moments. Like a dream was about to begin, but it was cut short by consciousness. It’s hard to say if the dream you missed was worth the waking. You look at your life.. and think, “Where the hell have I been?” The thoughts are [...]
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Posted in fiction, The Cost of Magic on Feb 10th, 2009
This is the 19th section of my novel. If you haven’t read the first 18, you might want to start here. Section 19 ends Part 1 of this novel. And So He Walked —- They were roused from a light sleep around 7:30pm by the ring of Minus’ phone. It was Kotoko. Minus answered. “What [...]
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Posted in fiction, The Cost of Magic on Jan 7th, 2009
This is the ninth section of my novel. If you haven’t read the first six, you might want to start here. In Which the Good Doctor Learns —- And with that, they both opened their eyes on Minus’ converted basement. They agreed that a nap was necessary to replenish their energies before further work. They [...]
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Jan 6th, 2009
Sometimes we hit a high point and we think that life couldn’t possibly get any better than that moment. I call it the cusp, but I think it’s more like a crescendo. Have you reached your peak? Your crescendo? Are you still waiting for your peak to come? Are you on the up or the [...]
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Posted in fiction, The Cost of Magic on Jan 4th, 2009
“How did you get here? I thought it was hard for you to get into the stream?â€
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Dec 28th, 2008
Sometimes we worry about the things we might have missed, the opportunities we allowed to fade, for what ever reason. For the most part, this is merely existential anxiety. We worry, because we are. “I think, therefore I am.†No. You are, long before you ever think. Any creature that recognizes this is sentient, as [...]
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Posted in asides, Basic Ideology on Dec 19th, 2008
This is the moment I live for.
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