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Tag Archives: Humanity
POEM: Attrition Verses
Much of the brutality in our world takes the form of a war of attrition, where “the more titanic of the two” calculates that they can outlast the damage to won an other. This raze to the bottom abodes well … Continue reading
POEM: Beating The Conundrum
Blessed be the peacemakers. It will take awe we have to secure peace. May the fog of war give weigh to the tsunami of love rising in the see of humanity. Beating The Conundrum The peacemakers cried Everybody for everybody … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, Conundrum, Enemies, Humanity, Insanity, Love, Peacemakers, War
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POEM — Bought Ensouled: Owed To Corporate Personhood
Corporate personhood is a scam, edging out actual human persons. Many corporate souls are filed in bank vaults in Delaware, a safe house for corporate persons…and having official papers they feel free to take a dump on actual persons. Who … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Corporate Personhood, Humanity, Life, Money, Truth, Wall Street
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POEM: A Cain Due Attitude
This poem is a metaphor for the natural consequences of bulling through natural limits on planet earth, our one home. This poem is yet another existential plea for ledged humanity to step away from the cliff. This poem poses the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Existential, Greed, Heaven, Humanity, Love, Money, Titanic
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POEM: Large Language Mottle — Yet An Other Ode to AI
One of the cutting edges of AI, artificial intelligence, is large language models that can veraciously consume massive amounts of writing in short order — more info than thousands of humans in a lifetime. However impressive this might be, my … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged artificial intelligence, Awe, Humanity, Idioms, Ode, Prose, Relationships, Shakespeare
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POEM: Here on Abet
A mythic narrative that describes the arc of my life fairly well is the idea that I am here on a bet. More specifically, the bet was that, as in a previous life, I was a peasant scolding those living … Continue reading
POEM: Indecency Wee Re-side — Owed To Propriety Owner Us
This is another anti-capitalist poem, scorning profits over people, the vain whining of grievance politics, and the lethal short-sightedness of just us. Indecency Wee Re-side — Owed To Propriety Owner Us They miss judged As the profits for tolled Propriety … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Efficiency, Humanity, Kindness, Mourning, Play, Politics, Privilege, Propriety, Respect, skin in the game, Virtue, Wisdom
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POEM: Simply Living
This poem regarding simple living and simply living is about simply valuing people over things. Such an anti-consumerist lifestyle recognizes that increasing materialism edges out, and often runs roughshod over, our shared humanity. May we live ever aware and valuing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Capitalism, Consumerism, Cynicism, Greed, Humanity, Lifestyle, Materialism
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POEM: Iraq and a Hard Place
This poem tells a story — a story of patriotic fervor in slaughtering America’s foes. This story was told to me by a retired Grumman engineer, a literal rocket scientist and career military-industrialist. His story was prefaced by a glorious … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Awe, Bullshit, Defense, Evil, Farce, Hell, Humanity, Irony, Job, Media, Mercy, Military, Money, Necessary Evil, Patriotism, Technology, War
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POEM: Capitalism Kills
Capitalism works best as siphoning life and humanity from others. I dream of an economy that serves humanity rather than humanity serving the economy. Of course, this is more succinctly put by this poem: Capitalism Kills Capitalism is a dream … Continue reading
POEM: Anchoring Our Humanity
At the time of publication of this poem the five souls lost in Horizon’s Titan submersible have not been found or rescued. Anchoring Our Humanity An other deep see adventure On the Horizon Look out A sentry after One Titanic … Continue reading
POEM — Wisdom Verses: Foolishness
Partnering with artificial intelligence, AI, may be check mate for humanity… Wisdom Verses: Foolishness In loo Of our search for actual intelligence Wee will Be dethroned Buy artificial intelligentsia Knot knowing jack A john rolled by its trick A carnival … Continue reading
POEM: A Dubiously Fresh Pickle
They effaced a moral dilemma Support human rights Or economic favor A dubiously fresh pickle In a blue moon That hoary question Of prophets verses Profits And what they seed Their lukewarm revelation Hallowing out What we may no Knot … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Economic, Evil, Human Rights, Humanity, Life, Moral, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Prophet, Responsibility, Surreal, Terrorism, War
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POEM: Victor
The war ceased And deceased Telling their tales Red the same With blood mingling As parents and children At won’s mercy The fodder of another Bequeathing its soul prize And ultimate price as Victor Victor Frankenstein With monstrous mettle So … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Children, Conspiracy, Control, Death, Frankenstein, Hell, History, Humanity, Image, Life, Mercy, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Soul, Truth, War
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POEM: Weathering Humanity
They could Not no Weather humanity Had Arrived At that bottleneck Passibly a birth canal Or river Styx Too cross Dammed possibility Or mirror probabilities Humanity, with its profound possibilities and asinine algorithms, perpetually wrests at the juncture of tantalizing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged algorithm, Conformity, Dreams, Hope, Humanity, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Short Poems, Truth
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Free ANTI-GUN VIOLENCE POSTER: School Secretary Betsy DeVos Ponders Buying Gun Magazines to Support Her School
The latest shenanigans of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is to suggest spending precious federal education funds on buying guns for schools. Parently, she doesn’t understand that using violence to solve problems is anathema to basic principles of teaching children. … Continue reading
Testimony for National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service — END DRAFT REGISTRATION
I prepared the below testimony to present at a public meeting in Chicago before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, a commission created by Congress to deal with questions of draft registration, most specifically, whether to end … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Peace Signs, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, and Public Service, Balance, Blessing, Business, Change, Character, Charity, Children, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, Coercion, Community, Compulsion, Congress, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Constitution, Constitutional Rights, Control, Cowardice, Creation, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Draft Registration, Education, Elite, Employment, Enemies, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Family, Farce, Fear, Female, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, Future, Gandhi, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Heart, History, Holy, Honesty, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Ideals, Idolatry, Inspiration, Ironic, Jesus, Job, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Media, Mennonite, Mercy, Military, Modern, Moral, Murder, Muslims, National, National Commission on Military, National Security, Nature, Necessary Evil, Noncombatants, Obedience, Patience, Peacemakers, People of The Book, Perspective, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Present, President, Prison, Public Health, Questions, Radical, Reality, Refugees, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Resistance, Rhetoric, Risk, Rules, Russia, Sacred, Security, Selective Service System, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Suffering, Supreme Court, Surreal, Terrorism, Time, Toledo, Truth, Values, Violence, War, Women, Work, Worship
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: President Donald Trump DEFCON ORANGE Pushing Nuclear Button Launch, Out-to-Lunch
Welcome to DEFCON ORANGE! Prez Donald Trump continues to rant about pushing his own big button in truly masturbatory fashion. Without his big button he would simply be the village idiot. But, his culpability of destroying humanity and the planet … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Crazy, Donald Trump, Humanity, Political, Poor, President
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Anti Donald Trump POEM: Wear The Truth of Donald Trump Lies
For Mexico Donald Trump lies to the north and south For North Korea Donald Trump lies to the east and west For Venezuela Donald Trump lies to the north and south For Iran Donald Trump lies to the east and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Character, China, Donald Trump, Humanity, Hypocrisy, Iran, North Korea, Poems, Poetry, Power, President, Republican, Truth
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