ISIS IS ISLAM

More Christians have been abducted by ISIS, they're destroying historic sites, and kidnapping young girls and selling them to other muslims. Obama still won't say they're muslim terrorist...It's time to go in and wipe their evil from the earth, or we will end up with World War III when the cancer spreads to other parts of the Sunni world. I think that is where it is headed because Islam is evil at its heart. Mohammed was a murder, pedophile, and deceiver. We must pray for the Muslims, but not turn our back on our duty to defend Christian, Jewish, and innocent Muslims that are being slaughtered.

Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Founding Father

     Thomas Paine, 'That filthy little atheist' according to Theodore Roosevelt, is not often associated with the other Founding Fathers such as Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson and Adams, but should he be?  Paine is an intriguing figure that this author can relate to at times.  He wrote and communicated with a passion that bordered, and often crossed over into, anger about the political state of world affairs.  Differing from other 18th century leaders, Paine was not concerned with his image, or how others viewed him.  His bold an daring writing challenged the established power and cultural structure of America and Europe.  He is most famously known for his pamphlet Common Sense, which according to Gordon Wood, is the most influential and best piece of literature pinned in the English language.  But who was Thomas Paine?

     He spent almost the entire first four decades of his life living in England doing jobs ranging from tax collecting to preaching.  Paine had not achieved anything of merit during this period of his life.  After careful thought, this author believes one event changed Paine's life forever.  The death of his wife and child during child birth.  This event scarred Paine and influenced his relationships with women for the rest of his life.  It is after this event that Paine began to pursue a life of challenging the status quo.  First, by attempting to attain raises for other tax collectors, which led to him being dismissed from his position according to Wood.  He soon moved to America where he began work on Common Sense, which changed American thought forever.  This pamphlet became the most read piece of literature of the 18th century and brought Paine into contact with such figures as Washington and Jefferson.  Although he was respected for his thoughts and writing, he was never truly accepted as a gentleman and was often described as a drunkard.  Paine never truly felt respected for his work and seemed to want to incite debate on any established beliefs.  This was his downfall in America, when he chose to attack Christianity as one of the worst things to ever happen to man.  This earned him the title of atheist, even though in fact he was a deist like Jefferson and Washington.  Sensing the coming trouble in France, Paine traveled to Europe to participate in the revolution.  This revolution would turnout to be very different from the American version, and would eventually land Paine in jail.  He returned to America a miserable and unhappy man and died several years after returning.

     It is the opinion of this author that Paine was a broken man after the death of his wife and child.  It seems as if this tragedy sparked an anger for everything and anything that was in 'control'.  If it be God or government, he was determined to change things by his own will.  There seems to be an inner conflict that he fights and then writes in a cathartic way, because even though he would defame Christianity, after the death of his wife he actually spent time as a preacher.  Paine was a broken man, prone to drink and anger, gifted in writing, and someone never able to find peace in his life.  His sad existence and his blatant honesty of thought is probably why we don't place him among his peers.  

By Jeffrey Brandon Lee

I would like to give credit to Pulitzer prize winner Gordon Wood and other historical sources for the information provided.

Metaphysical Questions and an Amusing End

I ponder the following query this evening. Primarily my existence and the perceivable outside universe as it relates to my cognitive understanding of it. Is my conscious experience of time and matter merely a creation of an active mind, disappearing once it leaves the 220 degrees of visibility possible by my eye, and once again coming into existence when I perceive that it should be there when I change the direction of my site? Consider, if any of you truly exist outside of my own mind, when you dream things you have never experienced before, these a' priori thoughts are troubling to explain. Does the subconscious mind have access to an alternative source of knowledge which would thus make these images a' posteriori. Returning to the idea of my mind being the source of all that I experience and all that exist, why am I unable to change things with just a thought or command? Let us, or only me, assuming you're all a figment of my mind and I am the only one who truly is a sentient being, return to the subconscious mind. I posit that the subconscious mind may be creating the reality for my conscious mind to experience. When I harbor feelings of dread, is this my subconscious mind sending a cognitive premonition of what it has planned for my future conscious mind to experience? So what truly controls this unbridled subconscious mind that has created all of you for my own mind to experience and enjoy and hate? Wait a minute! This is all B.S. because my subconscious mind would never have created Barack Obama lol.

by Jeffrey Brandon Lee

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