As a man the age of 53, I still hope to have another 25-30 years of life ahead of me. Much of what determines my age of death is in my genetics. My grandparents averaged around the age of 84. That gives me about 31 more years. However, anything can […]
Religion and Philosophy
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Many families do not have the opportunity to take just one photo of a series of generations within a family. The above photo is of my family’s four male generations, beginning with the patriarch all the way to the newest member of the line of Greenlee’s – Brogan. What a […]
Empathy, sometimes a forgotten word in this self centered world, were sympathy and apathy are more common. Here’s the definition for the sake of this post, The power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person’s feelings. Recently I posted a thought on my Facebook page regarding the power of […]
For the past twelve months I have been providing small snippets of the background to my trilogy fantasy – The Chosen One of Allivar. It is a mythology primarily concerned with family. Not just an immediate family, but the human family. This month we celebrate a day that many choose […]
We live in a period of history where belief in a benevolent creator is starting to fade. Science, to some, has become the only solution to the questions. We mourn this month the senseless attacks and killings of the very young and innocent, here in the USA and in China. […]
I saw this blog post title (What I love About My Story) and decided it should be one of mine. To keep it simple I will just give bullet points: It has action. Action that increases tenfold with each book. It has characters I love and I characters I hate. […]
Have you ever noticed that many religions have stories so similar that you wonder if all religions were founded and then modified from a single mythology? I not insinuating all religions are myths, but they all have common themes: creation, life, and end of times. When I began contemplating my […]
Often in my 53 years of life I have pondered the meaning of life. I’ve researched the topic, read the bible and other non-canonical works, and I continue to research other points of view. I will continue to read other works of faith and spirituality. Today I saw the movie […]
Today I read a blog post regarding the shunning of family members due to religious beliefs. The blog was this young woman’s way of dealing with issues in a religious family. I admit fully that I have read the Bible in entirety and attended a large nondenominational church. I was […]
You’ve met them -whether in the dealings with family, friends or colleagues. They are the philosophers of justification. What I mean by this is that any action a person deems important to themselves is immediately justifiable. All others are the ones who have a problem. I am by no means […]