Poetry by Brian37 (poems by an atheist)
Offline I post all over the web, but I want a back up in case my computer or one particular website goes down.
I have decided to edit this post because I do not like giving people the wrong impression. I cannot read Shakespeare to save my life. I just remember this one line from act 5 scene 5 and put my own spin on it. I've had to explain this over and over so here I decided to put that in this post so there is no more presuming what I know or don't know. But the plot of MacBeth is the old lesson, you can have everything and nothing at all at the same time. And how did all that cruelty serve you in the end? But I do not like play summeries calling him a Nihisist, because it is possible to not do what he did, and accept life as being finite, and sitll have morals without religion.
NEW EDIT 9/19/22 I got pissed at myself that I was scared to read MacBeth, so tonight, I forced myself to read it online. Now mind you, I did not understand it line for line, but basically Macbeth was an assdhole who murdered his way to the top, and did not believe the 3 witches prophcies. He murdered Duncan and had Banquo murdered. Banquo's ghost haunts Macbeth. And made the grave mistake of attacking McDuff's family and killing them(If I am reading this correctly) But Lady MacBeth has a guilty conscience and kills herself, upon finding out Macbeth basically says that life is not worth living and he should go down with a fight anyway, but refuses to fight Macduff face to face and Macduff kills him as the hero. ( I SERIOUSLY read the entire play every line, tonight. I even know where the famous line "double double, toil and trouble". comes from. The three witches, basically saying "look out Macbeth" your ass is in trouble.
So basically the moral of the play, don't be a fucking asshole when trying to get to the top, or "the bigger they are the harder they fall". Reminds me of the movie Scarface and all the shitty things Tony did to get to the top and all for not. But Sosa in that case was not a good guy either.
QUOTE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MACBETH:"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Here is my spin on that wonderful and profound line:
Out, Out brief candle, By Brian37
To-deities, and to-gods, and to-God
Creeps in this petty tyrant from day to day
Until the extinction of humanity new ones will be invented
And all our yesterday's Gods have been created by fools
The way to tribal death. Out out brief myth
Claims are but a walking shadow, a poor reflection
That struts our narcissism upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by the credulous, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
(END)
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Last line says it all. 300 million guns is managable? So 500 million would be more managable? A billion guns would be more managable? It seems to me the status quo is acceptable to you because you want more guns.
Oh and one more dead at Seattle Pacific University.
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Sugar Pill, By Brian37
I'm not impressed
With your sugar pill
I'm not impressed
By emotional appeal
The spider's trap
You dont see
Self inflicted
Intangled in it's web
False martyr
From this you ploy
In barbarous actions
You take joy
Cancerous tulmut
It produces
Protected by
Taboos and status
The repetitive fatigue
Of erroneous prophets
Counter each other
With acts of violence
I'm not impressed
With your sugar pill
Or any claims
Of good will
Obsolescence
Is it's home
Black iron gates
Restrain your thoughts
You'd expect me
To buy such assertions
Of an impetuous jealous
Puppet master?
That by decree,
I am property
By mere proxy
Of utterance?
I'm not impressed
With your sugar pill
I'm not impressed
With what you sell
Lecherous entity
Cloaks itself
Behind false claims
Of morality
Falsely you fancy
Yourself the eagle
Above treetops
Powerful sight
The real truth
Is that you are
Nothing more
Than a rat bird
Sulfuric acid
A predator
Looking for
Gullible converts
I'm not impressed
With your sugar pill
I'm not impressed
With what you sell
You've switched your masks
Changed your costumes
Given yourself
New alias's
All to bludgeon others
Who don't conform
Die sugar pill,
Die!
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Mendacity, By Brian37
The enticing falsehood
Drenched in delusion
Self inflicted
From false perceptions
That angel is no angel
That hero is no hero
It is you lying to yourself
In want of the non-existent
The scourge of thought
To be complacent
With mere emotion
With mere tradition
You are not
Looking for evidence
You are looking for
Excuses
Excuses to cling
To empty claims
Too afraid
To self examine
So you lie
To yourself
And in turn
Lie to others
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Yep.
Unniversities are dangerous. Tthey should be banned
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
Brian, people who criticize guns should be SHOT !!!
Same with assholes who claim the pay gap is too big. (Note to self: that must mean I have to shoot myself).
I thought it was funny as hell when the NRA, had a rare moment of sanity and told the open carry nutters to back off, and then the nutters turned on them.
I bet these same morons would run screaming if a black person or muslim citizen walked into a public place with the same assault riffles.
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Reportedly, the Seattle Pacific University shooter was subdued by pepper spray, during a lull in the action while he was reloading. Had one or more members of the public been carrying, he might have been subdued sooner -- or more people might have been shot by stray bullets from the would-be heroes.
So the question is: In which direction would we rather err?
There are no theists on operating tables.
I am the first to admit I am a horrible speller. I do try to use search engines to look words up, one gun huggers keep avoiding out of their own selfishness is the word "VOLUME".
There is no pragmatic way to manage the shear amount of guns both legal and illegal because of the flooded market. In a utopia I would not care who owns one and even some gun owners are sane enough to know we have a problem. MONEY is the reason we cant get anything done and the NRA is acting as the heat sheild to the industry that like any big business will do, use that influence to maintain the status quo and or expand their market.
Which position do I want to be in? Less gun death from ANYTHING.
So you gave me two options.
1. Gun
2. Peperspray
How about the third option?
3. Work long term for a society where we would have to worry about having to make either of those choices?
What is not optional at this point in history is to allow things to continue the way they are going.
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Call me a pessimist, but I think the feasibility of the 3rd option is limited. It's only a matter of time before someone starts shooting in public. Perhaps societal action can reduce the number of people who want to, and perhaps laws can limit their access to firearms, but sooner or later it is going to happen. When (not if) it happens, are we better off with John Q. Public wielding pepper spray, or return fire?
There are no theists on operating tables.
It would not shock me if what you say came about. But if it does then it is a testemony to what a sad lot our species is to care more about a mere object than to care about human life. This kneejerk reaction is the same attitude Muslims have when you burn a Koran.
The other absurdity with this line of logic they use to defend gun ownership is why the fuck would you want your enemy armed? To insure you yourself don't get harmed by dissent you would have to do what Hitler did, expand gun rights to party loyalsts and ban them from rivals.
Their selfishness is merely nothing more than falsely claiming to be a victim because other people exist and vote. If they are willing to start a civil war over guns then what they are saying is that they do not value peaceful transfure of power which is what our Constitution was set up to do to avoid physical violence.
So if some gun nutfuck wants to murder me while I am unarmed because I object to the status quo and object to the volume made, being unarmed how would I be the bully?
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Nooooo ! if you were killed then who would flood the RRS with shitty poetry !!!
And as usual, you would be wrong.
Interesting historical note, the Black Panthers were very pro gun. The KKK was always a strong proponent of gun control.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
Yes, gun control is always pushed by people who have access to using police and military power. Is it impossible that someday a Hitler type figure could be elected in the US?
The tranfer of power is peaceful because all sides have access to guns.
You are not unarmed. The laws you support are enforced by one of the most heavily armed police forces to ever exist. While you personally wont be the one kicking in the door to arrest someone, that force is used because you support it, and it is the use of violent force that you support. You are by far the largest supporter of violence on this site. Government force is your solution to every problem.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
What Happens In Vegas, By Brian37
When Dawkins spoke
Of meme theory
Upon the first time
Hearing about it
I scoffed
But be the issue
Religion or guns
Ideas and ideology sell
Why did this couple
Shout "Revolution"
Why did 9/11 happen
Why do they murder abortion doctors
Because marketing works
Play off of fear or vanity
Sell a utopia
In an imperfect world
Humans will futilely
Fight for Plato's essence
At the cost
Of compassion
Those evil cops
Simply eating pizza
Deserved to die
They were the bullies
Yes, the bullies
We trained collectively
To fear the worst
We are responsible
Absurd to expect
As some do
They should fight crime
With pea shooters
When we have A-R 15s
When 45s and Glocks
Infest every home
Made like Skittles
And you assholes
Have the nerve
To be shocked
At the body count
Have the nerve
To be paranoid
Of how well armed
Law enforcement is
When you yourself
Like a petulant child
Think Dirty Harry
Is Constitutional documentary
Your high capacity phallus
Does not impress us
Your deadly selfishness
We've had enough of
These are not the days of muskets
You are no one's hero
If all you want to do
Is live in a bubble, concerned only with yourself
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If owned a business the sign on my door would be "KEEP YOUR PENIS EXTENTION OFF OF MY PROPERTY".
Funny thing is even the NRA had a brief moment of sanity and told these nutters to stop scaring the shit out of people, but like cowards backed off doing the right thing for once.
You stupidly not only with the issues of guns but ecomics think nothing you personally do affects anyone else which is Ayn Rand bullshit. You have absolutly no fucking guts to say "RIGHTS RIGHTS RIGHTS" to those two dead cop's families or the innocent women's murdered in the Walmart. If gun rights are what you say are absolute then what that couple did was right, so either support them or accept that the status quo is unnacceptable.
Now for the billionth time, in a utopian world we could BOTH have what we want and I would give one fuck less who owns a gun. But just like saying the pay gap is to big is not a call to end the private sector, the conditions with the VOLUME of guns are not AT THIS POINT IN TIME under the "no rules" attitude the manufactures and NRA want, are pragmatic. The manufactures and NRA want all the profit and none of the responsibility, much like God is all powerful then blames humans for the conditions he creates.
We've put up with "rights" as an argument, we've tried to meet gun owners half way, and it isn't even about most gun owners at all, we've been obstructed from problem solving by an industry like republicans, controlled by monopolies and money.
You want to reduce gun death just like I do, at least I would hope you do. But "no rules" and "fuck you I got mine" and "other bad shit happens so lets not do anything about this bad shit", is unacceptable. Any idiot who thinks the amount of gun death from BOTH legall and illegal guns is acceptable is bat shit insane and nothing short of selfish.
Now just like the pay gap, you can work with us, or we well do it for you. But what will not happen is you playing false maryter and victim because someone else is making the attempt to use their voice in media and the voting booth to try to do things differently to SOLVE problems.
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And if you owned a business, I would strongly support your right to do so. You are the one who wants to use guns to force people to do what you want.
No, I believe that simply because someone does something you don't like is not a sufficient cause to use violent force.
I believe that murder is a sufficient reason to use violent force. There is a huge difference between carrying a gun and murder.
For the billionth time, you have never specified exactly what gun laws you support. You have only advocated 'fewer', never specified how you get to fewer. As usual, you don't even have the courage to state your beliefs clearly. We don't live in a utopian world. Bad guys have guns and no amount of wishing will change that. No law will stop it. The only people who obey gun laws are people who abide the law.
That says it all. "Do it my way or I will force you to do it my way." And you have the audacity to call me selfish? You are the largest advocate of violence on this site.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
Since you love numbers so much here is one for you ZERO. As in ZERO gun deaths. Oh right, our laws as you want them work so well we have none.
Just like economics with you. And just like a theist, cherry pick to suit yourself.
Other countries who allow guns ALSO have much heavier regulations on them and far less gun death. Your Ayn Rand crap isn't going to work anymore.
You want to live in a country with no regulation, move to Somalia. That would be your wet dream.
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"Tyranny, The False Cry Of the Petulant Child", By Brian37,
In 1966
I was born
Johnson was President
Since more have sworn
Sworn the oath
Of public office
In the interest
Of peaceful transfer of power
Nixon followed
Then that of Ford
Carter and Regan
Different parties in power
After Regan
Then Bush Sr
Then Clinton twice
Then Bush Jr twice
To argue policy
Or efficency
No matter what
Oversight never left
None of them
Could ever deem
President for life
On sudden whim
None of them
Not even today
Has the power
To dispand congress
Power shifts
Over time
It is not tyranny
If you lose
The only danger
I can percive
Is is corruption and greed
Which can affect everything
It is not limited
To government
The ways humans concive
Monopolies of power
Theocracies the same
Are no different
Than that of the fascism
Of North Korea
But some who read this
Would like to think
That the private sector
Is never abusive
Everything
Both public and private
Is run by humans
And subject to gaming
Oversight
Is the only way
To keep monopolies of power
Of taking hold
I do not care
To engague sore losers
Who get angry at me
For my right to vote
I've never thought
Of Bush or Nixon
As being tyrants
Because I don't like them
We had back then
What we have still now
Checks and balances
Which prevent absolute power
So do me a favor
And shut the fuck up
When Obama leaves office
To which he has no choice.
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Submit, By Brian37
If the other tribe
Would just do so
If my women
Would just do so
My liberal brethren
So well intended
Lending cover
To the literalists
My qualm with you
Is your ignorance
That they read
The same words you do
Your kindness does show
And you know
Other labels
Can be kind too
Still not my point
Or argument
About any of
Your good intent
You skip some parts
Like they do too
And with the same god
Come to different conclusions
There is a source
As to which
Female cattle
They are treated
There is a source
Whence violence arises
And use words in a book
To thus justify
The violent ones
Are getting it right
Because back then
You defended your tribe
Back then
You obeyed the king
You dared not
Step out of line
Back then
Vaginas were fields
Men gave the seed
Girls were crops
The words in those books
Are hardly modern
Having nothing to do
With secular pluralism
The only peace
Holy books sell
Is peace through submission
Or burn in hell
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T- Boned, By Brian37
Someone texting
Someone smoking
Someone eating
While they are driving
Some one speeding
Someone drunk
Runs the red light
Hitting another
I have detractors
Who don't like me
What would they do
If I was the perp
What if I
Was the innocent victim
Would politics or religion
Prevent them from helping?
I certianly know
What I would do
When someone is helpless
And I could lend aid
I would not at all
Pass them by
Just because
I hate what they say
I am fine with the fray
With those who are lucid
Yet all of us
Are still the same species
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We Don't Know, By Brian37
While this is true
Technically speaking
Of the future
Some things we do
No sane scientist
I know
Will claim to know
Everything
But in this admission
There is of importance
That is incumbent
Of the scientist
To forgo
And let go
And discard
Bad data
You don't dwell
On alchemy
Nor would a neurosurgeon
Use parapsychology
Of the invisible
Cognitive cause
That some do claim
Started it all
Which to you
Makes more sense
A deity is real
Or of human origin?
Think about
Those you've discarded
Think of those
You rightfully reject
Add to that
Simply one more
Then you'll understand
The position I am at.
We do know
And so does Hawkings
"A god is not required"
Leave dead claims in the past
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See If You Can Spot The Pattern, By Brian37...
What if someone
Argued the same
As you are now
For another pet god claim?
Take a book
Of your choice
Replace the the deity
With someone else
Would those claims
Still make sense
If it was not you
Or the god you defend?
Elaborate prose
Best sellers become
Defending presuppositions
And naked assertions
Some use dead language
Like Greek and Latin
Some retrofit science
To justify nothing
They think it's original
I've seen it before
From every religion
All over the world
Yet none of them willing
To ask themselves
If that same argument
Would work with someone else
Take the word lord
Or the word God..
Take the word Allah
Or Jesus as well
Swap them out
And see if it works
Would it make the magic
True in reverse
Rivers of milk
Rivers of wine
Virgin births
Or surviving death
Abrahamic gods
Or polytheism
Do they make sense
With the same arguments?
You have not controls
No universal standards
For if faith really worked
You'd all be right
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Pretty Equals Sky Hero, By Brian37....
A clear night time sky
A calm ocean sunset
A glowing mother
Who just gave birth
Is nothing more
Than our sense of awe
Gap filling
Ignoring harsh reality
Pretty? Really?
How about tornados
How about volcanos
Tsunami's and cancer
Bacteria,
Downs syndrome
Rape, earthquakes,
Famine and war
That night time sky
Is pretty as well?
Take a space walk
Take your helmet off
Pretty, really?
No, I am sorry
It is nothing more
Than your sense of awe
Your sense of awe
Fooling you
Allowing you
To ignore
To ignore
The destructive side
Of our existence
To placate your emotions
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Omnibenevolent, By Brian37
They all claim peace
Their goal so true
Here are some verses
For each of you
Hebrews first
And from the OT
From the book
Of Exodus
"2:11 And it came to pass
In those days,
When Moses was grown,
That he went out
Unto his brethren,
And looked on their burdens:
And he spied an Egyptian
Smiting an Hebrew,
One of his brethren."
"2:12 And he looked this way
And that way,
And when he saw
That there was no man,
He slew
The Egyptian,
And hid him
In the sand."
Street justice
Sanctioned by God
No civil court
Was involved
Now to that
Of the NT
Lets see what that
Has to say
In John 3
Verse 36
Here is what
It really says
"He that believeth on the Son
Hath everlasting life: And he that believeth
Not the Son shall not see life
But but the wrath of God abideth on him."
Tough luck Muslims
Atheists and Hindus
And even tough luck
To most Jews
I'd be remiss
If I forgot Islam
With all it's peace
And all it's charm
So lets take a look
At Allah's love
For the outsiders
Who don't subscribe
In book two
Named "The Cow"
Unbelievers fate
Under Allah's brow
Verse 161
And 162
Tell tells the unbelievers
Where they will go
"Lo! Those who disbelieve
And die while they are disbelievers;
And them is the curse of Allah
And of angels and of men combined.........
They ever dwell therein.
The doom
Will not be lightened for them,
Neither will they be reprieved"
Now I know
Others of these three
Others will claim
"Out of context"
But that is precisely
The same problem
Even with in the same religion
All do fight
Orthodox Jews
Do not like it when
Liberal Jews
Of Muslims befriend
Baptists think Catholics
Are not real Christians
German Christians
Once killed Jews
Sunnis kill Shiites
And their enemies still
Are Jews, Christians and atheists
They burn in hell
But all read the same
Exact books
Look for justifications
For what they do
And all the same god
All three have
How can this god
Sit up above
And watch us all fight
Like children with knives
Stabbing each other
To win a prize
You point to kindness
All of you do
But the kindess ends
When challenges arise
To take these books
Word for word
You all become monsters
In the name of your God
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Hobby Lobby, By Brian37
This trend did not
Start over night
30 years prior
From the right
The wall is being
Torn down
Thecratic plutocracy
Is on the rise
Mix wealth and faith
It's all the same
A way to control
Any dissent
Keep poverty up
And also crime
Keeping the sheep
All in line
Knitting in
The fabric of society
Crafting a backslide
Boiling the lobster slowly
Control their wages
Keep them pregnant
Their sexist god
Wants submission
These hypocrites vile
Want government small
But insist that a CEO
Can be in your doctor's office
What happens when
The next company
Says no to a blood transfusion
That you may need?
What happens if
You want a vaccine
For your child
But the boss cops to their faith?
This is no hobby
You own not their body
Your just being selfish
Because others exist
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Custody Battle, by Brian37
Do not
Lie to me
And put your kids
In the middle of this
Allah vs Yahweh
Both of you insist
Jerusalam your capital
But is not about religion?
4 teens murdered
One burned alive
His cousin beat by cops
Quit selling me lies
We are not a separate species
Do either of you care
The hate you hand down
To future generations?
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Identity" By Brian37
I am a Muslim
I am a Jew
I am a German
I am a Hindu
I am from India
I am from Mexico
I am from America
I am from Morocco
I am Japanese
I am Chinese
I am Native American
I am Aborigine
I am the universe
I am much older
I'll be around
After the smoulder
Of this planet
When it dies
There will be no record
Of our species tribes
What is important
Is hear and now
And the only "Identity"
That I value
Is that of human
We are all
On one planet
Our only home
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Us vs Them, By Brian37
If you stake a claim,
Based on blood,
Religion,
Or race
Claiming land
For a god
Or claiming
"I was here first"
Those are artificial things
For the science is in
Common ancestors
From prior primates
Friend and foe alike
Rich and poor alike
As Sagan pleads to all
One home on which we live
With climate change a fact
Pollution alarmingly stacked
Our local tribalism
Needlessly distracts
We are not as different
As we would like to think
Free from fear we want
In the world in which we live
Our petty beefs between us
In which violence unfortunately thrives
Will never change the fact
All will meet demise
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Blue Wall of Profit, By Brian37
Amendments and rights
They hide behind
Played on through fear
A flooded market arises
Armed to the teeth
The public is
Then complain about police
Who fear harm themselves
Before their first beat
Trained from the start
To assume harm
On every call
They knock on your door
Or pull you over
Their families worry
They wont make it home
Any sign
Of slightest trouble
Trained to dominate
Instead of de escalate
This vile fetish
Infecting society
Creating mistrust
Causing overreach
You stupid morons
This industry
Sells to both
Caring not of death
Economics
Not your rights
Cops also desire
To make it home at night
Poverty wages
And volume of guns
And the industry
Who scares cops and society
Snakes on flags
Talk of tyranny
Killing cops
Is how they make money
Pit the parties
Against each other
Sell paranoia
To everyone
The climate of blue
Is caused by the right
Who puts profits above
All human rights
You want big clips
And assault rifles
Then expect cops
To use pea shooters
The gun factories
Are the only winners
Cops and society
Pay with our blood.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Delta Omega Alpha Sorority, By Brian37
They all joined
Not by choice
The house they live in
The chronic misery
The initiation
They never wanted
The Spirit of St Luis
Forever haunted
Coded words assasinate
"Thugs and riotors"
No one listens
To their mothers
Garner and Martin
And Brown too
2 a week
Our national average
We fill the house
From ignorance
Refusing to listen
To the house we fill
Lets not make
More members of mothers
To a sorority that none of us
Want to be part of
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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True Lies, By Brian37
Tumble tumble
Down the stairs
Rat a tat tat
Only bad guys die
Blame the owner
When things go wrong
General Motors
Was held responsible
Instructor dead
A girl traumatized
Gun manufactures
Sell True Lies
They want our highways
And public roads
With no street lights
Or stop signs
A free for all
Is what they want
For sheer profit
At all costs
"Controlled environment"
At a gun range
Yet it still happened
Because of "True Lies"
Liberals do not
To get rid of all guns
Just some sanity
Instead of "True Lies"
You don't need an Uzi
To shoot a deer
You don't need an assault riffle
To protect your house
The police do not need
Tanks or gear
This is the industry
Selling fear
This is about profit
And nothing more
About a lobby
That does not care.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Fuck Your Fetish, By Brian37
Oh look at you
Trying to look tough
A fake patriot
You've had enough
They're comming for me
I know they are
They'll take them all
I know they will
Rise up rise up
Protect me from
The boogieman
That is not there
Fuck your fetish
And your delusion
That gun saftey sanity
Will end in doomsday
Your needless fear
Is that of the ilk
Of indoctrination
That theists swallow
A fascist state
Will not arise
If we look for solitions
For our problems
Fuck your fetish
It isn't about you
Or your rights
You stupidly spew
The status qoe
Is unacceptable
Fuck your fetish
We'll progress without you
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Carnival Atmopshere, By Brian37
Bullets and Burgers
It must be a picnick
Allow a kid
To handle weapons of war
She'd have a blast
Speeding a car
Down a roadway
Ignoring trafic laws
As if it were
Slot racing
Bubmper cars
At Coney Island
A frat party
Of beer pong
Alcohol
Never does wrong
No regulations
Is what they cry
Mc Donalds mentality
No matter who dies
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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I don't think I'm being irrational in speculating that there will never be ZERO gun deaths. No matter what laws are in place, tragedy is going to strike, and people are going to get shot. The question then is, how can tragedy be minimized, if it can't be eradicated altogether?
There are no theists on operating tables.
The intent isn't to reach perfection in saying that, but more to the point of getting focus where it should be. I do not want to get rid of all guns, even if that is my "utopia" I am not a dictator and I know others will want them. But our status quo is unacceptable.
You cant reach absolute zero but it would be nice to get as close as we can.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Taking away my guns won't save a single life. You have yet to identify exactly how you would change the current laws. Many of the laws I have supported have passed, and right now, gun deaths are at the lowest point since the '60s. How would the laws you support work better?
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
Dictator, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet)
Never elected
Needs no consent
Laws unchangeable
Crushes dissent,
A manifestation
Of human desires
Their dear leader
Fights all outsiders
The call to loyalty
Thus he demands
A scorched earth
Is where it all ends
He set it up
Forced your existence
All to obey
To do his bidding
Maladroitness
Albatross strangles
Invisible chains
All inslave
Bring the bolt cutters
Of question and query
Bring all reason
Ridicule and blasphemy
He has no chance
Under scrutiny
Employ freethought
Set your mind free
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Dark Room, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet)
In your infancy
Your Iris fooled you
Kaleidoscope aperture
Gaps of the fool
Insert your film
Of ignorance
Only to develop
Utter nonsense
The broken camera
Was never there
The exposed film
Still unaware
The red light
Outside the door
Warns others
Not to enter
Open that door
There is nothing there
Open that door
Nothing to fear
Tis the con man
That dwells within
Holding no tools
Of real observation
It is the dark room
Empty and void
No real pictures
Ever emerge
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Pogrom, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB)
If we just
Get rid of them
That will answer
"The question"
Absurdities
Are the surest path
To that of
Atrocities
There is no magic race
No cleansing that will work
If we just get rid of them
A vile concept at it's core
It is our species cruelty
Manifesting in barbarity
Reapeats needlessly
Throughout our history
The final solution
Is not to be had
It is not compassion
To wash in blood
This racee that race
This book that book
This party that party
Us vs them
The travesty of selfishness
To think we are separate
To think if we only
Get rid of the other
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(NOTE TO READER.......the spellcheck does not work for me in this edit mode, any spelling errors will be corrected in time.)
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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A Pennie For Your Thoughts, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB & Twitter)
The Union Jack
Never holds back
A sailor's language
She does not lack
Her body ravaged
In the same way
By crimes of men
Has had cancer too
Yet even with that
She does not want
Anyone at all
To feel sorry for her
She'll fight back
With Hitchens fervor
Razor sharp bluntness
She'll run you over
Not out of hate
Not out of anger
But freedom from fear
Of what others think of her
And does so too
With no magic
No divine being
To explain anything
The Union Jack
I'll hang out with
Much more fun
Than snooty rich men
She cares not for
Those who judge
No fear in her
Holds back no words
Prefers to party
In jeans and T-shirt
Would be out of place
As a debutant
No no
She's not lawless
Just not shallow
Pretending to be flawless
The Union Jack
Accepts everything
Does not gloss it over
Will tell you what she thinks
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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There are no theists on operating tables.
Been through this before in other threads. I use this thread to write poetry.
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No Con CERNS, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Do not ask me
To ponder the past
To give superstition
Equal weight
There is a collision
Brought on by question
Destroying absurd
Aniquated pasts
The ship's bosun
Is a petty past
The officer of
Merchants of myth
The real warrent
Is large in pyhysics
Giving Higgs Boson
It's now standard name
Mesons and pions
And keons long before
Discovered in the 40s and 50s
Studying cosmic rays
The study
Of kenetic energy
A game of chicken
Where they don't swereve
The old clip
Of the trains on same track
Aimed at each other
Avoid they cannot
The scientist's boon
Is what it is
To give us insight
On what really is.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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If, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)
If you were born
In Saudi Arabia
Sunni would be
How you are raised
If you were born
In Tibet
Buddhism would be
A safe bet
If you were born
In America
Baptist, Catholic
Or Protestent
If you were born
In Israel
The Torah and Talmud
You would hail
If you admit
Others can be
Kind and compassonate
Here's the reality
It is not in that book
It is not in antiquity
It is in us
In our species
If you think
About the dead gods
Of the past
No longer bought
If you think
And reason well
Face reality
As it is
You can accept
Our finite ride
Seek to extend it
Without war or greed
If you scrap
Utopia thought
Put the differences
On the back burner
If you fear not
Scrutiny
If you fear not
Blaspehmy
You will find
The comfort sure
Of nature's grandure
Without the lore
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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We Don't Need, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet, Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
We don't need no indoctrination
We don't need no religious control
No dark quotations from your holy book
Holy men, leave those kids alone.
All in all you're just another myth in the wall
All in all you're just another myth in the wall
If you don't eat your myth
How can you have any fiction?
You, yes YOU BEHIND THE BOOK
Stand still for indoctrination
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Format fucked up my poem. Gonna re post it.
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Private Parts, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB & brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Sable waters
In land of Sumer
Private sector
Automatic weapons in hand
Civilians murdered
By our hands
Private sector
Profit from death
Tear gas canisters
End up in Egypt
Wind blown parachutes
Lend aid to Isis
BP spills
Does it's own study
Pays off lawmakers
To look the other way
Coal ash spills
In North Carolina
Koch Brother's money
Protects the industry
When will humans
Stop and think
You cant continue
To exploit with greed
You can do business
And do the right thing
Improve conditions
Without the greed.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The "Insiders", By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
The Jews say
It's yet to be
Christains claim
A second time
12 is the number
Imams claim
What do they think
They do differently?
Josheph Smith
And L Ron Hubbard
Spawn new religions
From absurdities.
And Ethiopia
Have also claimed
Their own Messiah
Haile Selassie thus named
Taoism, Buddhism
Hindus too
All insiders
Claiming truth
Call them profits
Call them gods
Call them wise men
Standing on nothing
They were nothing
Before their invention
And the universe
Continues not even caring
It will take
Everyone
Leaving no record
Of what we have done.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Sex Ed, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and Brianrrs37)
The cuddle fish
Can mask it's gender
It isn't the strongest
Always getting sex
Female spiders
For the most part
Are bigger than males
To which they devour
Yet human males
Think in script
As if they were
The only required
As if macho
And testosterone
Makes them entiteled
To a throne
And in memes
Around the world
Themes of war
And religious pride
Platitudes used
To divide
Science ignored
Hubris thrives
Oh so clever
We think we are
Thinking brawn
Is that which matters
This falacious script
From birth to death
That men are men
Never show weakness
To never be
Under female rule
To never accept
Support of them
Nature shows
And always has
All life is a range
Not sexist scripts
Both are needed
Brains and brawn
But neither require
Absolute rule
Life will adapt
If either win
Reproduction
Is all it is
A better focus
If to bring more peace
Is that of compassion
Not who is strongest
The thinkers are
Of both genders
The there is no monopoly
By proxy of penis
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Public Relations Department, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Divine divine
Words on high
He spoke to us
By writing books
Started with Hebrew
And the OT
Then a splinter sect
Claimed Jesus
The Arab world
Continued the trend
A splinter sect
Produced Mohommed
Their source their sorce
They all claim
The only manual
The world should need
All this all this
A blink of an eye
Yet this being
Took his time
Used fallable humans
To write these books
To no agreement
Amongst the flocks
Revised reviesed
Over thousands of years
Within the same labels
The blood still spills
All now with websites
And Facebook pages
To garner new members
Through public relations
Seems hardly efficient
If one is to claim
A blink of an eye
All this was made
A PR department
This being needs
Using flawed humans
That he created
Is this the worship
He wants from humans
Pit all of us
Against each other
If a parent
Had three kids
Allowed them to behaive
In such violent ways
The sane in the west
Would have them arrested
The child taken away
To be protected
In denial
The theist is
That public relations
Are comming from them
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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