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Nikki Giovanni Poems for ENG 242

The Lion In Daniel’s Den (by Nikki Giovanni)
on the road to damascus
to slay the christians
saul saw the light
and was blinded by that light
and looked into the Darkness
and embraced that Darkness
and saul arose from the great white way
saying “I Am Paul
who would slay you
but i saw the Darkness
and i am that Darkness”
then he raised his voice
singing [...]

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Translations of the Tao Te Ching

By Steven Gregory.
One of the oldest texts in the world, the Tao Te Ching, also happens to be one of the most widely translated books in history. Although its true origins are somewhat unknown, its teachings are said to have began sometime during the Zhou Dynasty, when, as fable has it, a woman finally [...]

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Gay Characters in Comic Books

(Facebookers, please ignore the double posting)
I always thought I hated comic books. As a kid I avoided shows like X-men and Batman and TNMT, and I have no idea why. Point being, until my favorite kick ass Vampire slayer (Anita Blake) was turned into a comic book, I never read any comics at all. After [...]

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Gay Marriage in Church History.

A friend of mine posted this and i felt obligated to repost it here.
When Marriage Between Gays Was a Rite
http://www.global.org/Pub/Gay_Marriate_Rites.asp
An article in the Irish Times that discusses same gender unions in the early church.
by Jim Duffy
Published in 1998
Gay Christians
As the churches struggle with the issue of homosexuality, a long tradition of gay marriage indicates that [...]

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The Amazing Atheist

www.youtube.com/theamazingatheist.
Go watch!!!

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Return to Blogging

As you may or may not have noticed, I haven’t posted anything in a very long while, and not like I used to post, almost every day. I have a few reasons for this, one of them being that I was not in a writing kind of mood. So many things have happened between [...]

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Why I am Taoist

Over the years, since as I was old enough to read, I have hungered for knowledge. Knowledge, my Dad always told me, is power, and as cliché as that sounds, he’s right. And that hunger has overwhelmed all of the other thing s that a human craves: acceptance, community, happiness, and just recently, spirituality. Perhaps [...]

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The Soloist.

After a disappointing Friday night, mainly after I found out that I was not getting two tickets for the Wolverine World Premiere, I decided to see a movie. So I went to the 12:20 am showing of The Soloist.
Right away I caught on to the whole schizophrenia thing right off. I really enjoyed Jamie Foxx’s [...]

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Bible, From Genesis to Revelation.

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OK, so in about 24 hours, it will be my twenty first birthday, and i had to share that.
Anyway. i have decided to read the Bible from Page one of Genesis to the last Amen of the Revelations, including the Apocrypha, [...]

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Gay Marriage in two States.

I am celebrating. These past seven days have been amazing when it comes to gay rights.
Sweden, an already liberal country, moved forward and legalized gay marriage, adding themselves to a growing list of countries whose civil, human and equal rights are further ahead than us at the USA. America is quickly losing its claim as [...]

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