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Christopher Tanner
- May 27, 2015
- 4 min
Personal Journey Series – Reflections on the Passing of a Father
Sometimes life has a funny way of kicking you in the ass, and death has a way of helping you remember memories you once had forgotten. I don’t know where to begin or why this should even bother me the way it does. For this connection has been one that was long lost, drifted away on a sea of time and space only to be brought to my mind with the passing of a common acquaintance. This week I received an email from an old friend. One that used to share life and happiness with me
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Christopher Tanner
- Mar 24, 2015
- 9 min
Dreaming of Neverland: Faith and Extinction
This essay is my response to a song from Peter Pan. Here’s a video Many historians and observers of the human condition have likened the “stages of life” of civilizations and empires to those of individual human beings. They have spoken of the birth, infancy, adolescence, maturity and senescence and, of course, death of countries and cultures. This is, needless to say, a poetic use of language; but poetry often serves as a vehicle for truths that cannot be conveyed nearly so
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Chris Hanna
- Mar 4, 2015
- 5 min
Émigré 2 – Lilith
Back into the shadows – the soft, caressing darkness. Using the angry shriek of pursuing sirens as a guide and their flashing lights as a reverse beacon, a wraith once more, he traverses the rust stained slums with ease. Emaciated streets drift by his peripheral, left behind by negligence stemming from unrestrained capitalism and special interests, the landscape blends together as the motion blur directs his eyes to the rapidly approaching destination. Throughout the concrete
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Christopher Tanner
- Mar 2, 2015
- 4 min
Sometimes, For All to Live, Something Must Die
Christianity’s most outrageous and ruinous conceptual coup has also been its most brilliant, and has positioned the church for success in perpetuity by poisoning the well of humankind until the end of time. In a single stroke, this odious religion has enslaved a large portion of the human species by implanting the following malignant, two-headed brainworm into a hundred generations of potentially reasonable people: a) Instead of being an integral and necessary part of the way
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Chris Hanna
- Feb 25, 2015
- 5 min
Émigré 1 – 1674 Checkpoint
Deep in the absence of light, the air seems to bleed moisture as the night sky releases heat through the endless, cracked asphalt. Trash litters the alley, a space well within the wingspan of an average person. Paper scraps tumble and blow like synthetic leaves, hugging the walls, lost within the journey towards pure entropy. Skyward, chemical mists summoned just above the high rise homes of the bourgeoisie flow aimlessly in the turbulent artificial winds of the metropolitan
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Christopher Tanner
- Feb 24, 2015
- 3 min
8 Tips to Choosing a New Year’s Resolution Right for You
“The difference between who you are and who you want to be…is what you do.”
~Unknown Well another year has passed. A new year offers time for reflection and the feeling of a fresh start. We enjoy the idea of starting from scratch and improving ourselves. Many of us have goals we’d like to get started on, but how do you choose a path that’s right for you? I’ve given this some thought and have a few tips I’m hoping will get you off to a good start for a successful year. So whi
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 22, 2015
- 3 min
To Live and Love, A Woman Bares Her Scars in Defiance
I met this woman a couple days ago in a debate group. She was defending the pro-choice position and she happened to agree with some of my arguments and statements. So I thought I would request to be her friend on facebook. Today, she posted what is below, I read it and was genuinely moved. I think this story, as raw as it is, paints a great picture of a life that even through hardship has come out strong. She has a desire to fight, a desire to love, and she has endured l
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