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The Persistence of Feudalism in the Modern World

by Kenneth Harper Finton Most people honestly believe that we have left the feudal system behind us, though I cannot imagine why they believe this. They are correct only in the respect that the economics have changed and feudalism was not just one system, but many different systems in many different places. We no longer have kings; we have presidents and prime ministers. These rulers are often…

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SHORT STORIES

I love a great short story. Problem is, there are too few of them. How many great short stories can you name out of the blue? Perhaps you are better read than I, because I can only think of three. 1) “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. Scrooge is an icon. Dickens was paid by the word to run his work serialized in the newspapers. That is why so many of his works are tediously long. 2) “The…

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THE EARLY DAZE

DARIUS FRANK FINTON My grandfather was always an old man to me. He was nearly seventy when I was born, thirty five years older than my father. Grandpa smoked a pipe and cigars and always smelled of strong tobacco. We would spend many hours on the back porch cracking hickory nuts and walnuts with a hammer. He and I ate raw hamburger on crackers together followed by thick slices of limburger…

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The Mind of Pilot Andreas Lubitz

Tired of living, spurned in loving, deficit in compassion, Andreas Lubitz and his crippled amygdala donned his smart uniform and climbed aboard the plane. A pretty stewardess smiled at him, bid him a good morning as he passed. She smelled of a musky perfume. That reminded him of the sex he often craved with her. He found sex to be an animalistic and ludicrous practice. Love had always been a…

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THE THEORY OF COSMIC ORIGINS

By Kenneth Harper Finton —————————-ABSTRACT—————————- For much of my life, I have been trying to understand cosmic origins. I have tried to relay by words, music, and verse concepts of the many visions have come to me over the years. It is a most difficult task to bring together––atheists and theists, true believers and deists. We are a divided people in more that our politics and religions. We…

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PRE-EXIISTENCE

The mental universe of pre-existence was one of potential. Potential does not possess a physical entity. Potentials are mental images.

By Kenneth Harper Finton Before existence took place, there was pre-existence without time and without space, where no dimensions at all exist. Science can tell us nothing of this era. We are left to our own experiences to decipher our personal realities about from whence we came. There is a point before time and space. Within that point is the property of physical awareness.  That which is…

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A Dream Dreamt by a Distant Dreamer

Truth cannot be found in one place for it is the combined knowledge of the sum of its parts.

Living is not an illusion, nor is it real.It is more like a dream dreamt by a distant dreamer.Eternity is the time measure of spaceand space the place where time resides.Temporal means temporary.This is not a curse nor a reason for despairbecause it is a dream dreamt by the dreamerthat is neither real nor an illusion, certainty, or chimera.This is a dream dreamt by a distant dreamer.We live it…

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A TRIP TO FIRE ISLAND

Friday, May 30, 1969  I think I can now understand more about what feels wrong in my life. It is a fairly simple thing. Writing is not a full-time job for me. For me to be creative requires a certain mood. I can never sit down and schedule my work unless something has already started. Even then, if I’m not inspired by that small spark of something, that germinal idea of what to say, nothing…

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FROM WHENCE COMETH THE SONG: 1963

A young writer comes of age in folk music circles of 1963.

Wednesday – Sept. 11, 1963  Two weeks ago I bought some new tires for my car. The old tires were worn so smooth that the cord was showing, yet and I had not had the first flat. The garage man at Firestone said that if he’d have tried to drive on those tires he would have never made it home. But somehow I had been driving just like normal and I was only a hair away from a blowout. Two days after…

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What does the mind look like? What are its physical characteristics? We see the medical imaging of the brain at work, but we never see the mind itself. Senses like smells, tastes, and touch have no visible physical characteristics. We see them only by their effects, as we see the wind. It should come as no surprise that awareness is invisible.

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RECENT ONTOLOGICAL MUSINGS

Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality.It includes the questions of how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level. Ontology is sometimes referred to as the science of being and belongs to the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics. What does the mind look…

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LOVE IS FOREVER

-lyrics by Kenneth Harper Finton Love is forever That’s why it hurts I try to forget her. [him] [it] But it doesn’t work. Love is forever buried inside Much like a seed That’s waiting to thrive. burned in the mind burned in the mind love is forever burned in the mind An Image of time, gal [boy]. An Image of time. Memories are always Sleeping inside. Awaiting conditions  for love…

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