Santa Claus,
for Christmas, please,
don’t bring me toys, or games, or candy . . .
just . . . Santa, please,
I’m on my knees! . . .
please don’t let Jesus torture Gandhi!
('A Child’s Christmas Prayer of Despair for a Hindu Saint' by Michael R. Burch)
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What would Santa Claus say,
I wonder,
about Jesus returning
to kill and plunder?
For he’ll likely return
on Christmas Day
to blow the bad
little boys away!
When He flashes like lightning
across the skies
and many a homosexual
dies,
when the harlots and heretics
are ripped asunder,
what will the Easter Bunny think,
I wonder?
('What Would Santa Claus Say?' by Michael R. Burch)
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To know what we do know, and to know what we don't, is true knowledge.—Confucius on the need for real wisdom and proper perspective, sometimes incorrectly attributed to Nicolaus Copernicus, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
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All races have racists and bigots: that's a fact. How can we eradicate feelings of hatred and realize that what we feel is not what we actually see? There is a plausible cause behind the evil of people who discriminate and do the things they do. I suggest that you get enough knowledge from the wisdom you'll acquire and teach others.
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How deadly this sweet drink of praise, that sipped, decays the thing it lauds.
A sly deceiver, 'tis, oh yes, this chronic craving for applause. A first place prize, the kiss of death, to art that once roamed free. But now is surely lost, I fear, in mires of mimicry.
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Only strong men applause their foes with a smile and praise
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Plausible deniability made lots of babies...This led to that.
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