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Writing·Jaia Papitz

Peer pressure and the insignificant life

The ethics and morals that guide our behavior are nothing more than the high school concept of peer pressure. The schmuck who wants to belong to an apartheid group, gives in like an exhausted gazelle. Slowly, submissive and resigned, carries...

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The killer next door. You & I!

Awe hijacks the TV sets and the radio antennas tremble with shouts of pundits devouring the new breaking story. Another one of us, a human, has committed a horrible crime. As soon as the story reaches us, via experts, the...

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Writing·Jaia Papitz

Aware

There's noting I could possibly tell you that you don't already know. There's nothing one can dream of that we didn't already grasp on to. So, what is left? Well, nothing and everything! Kinda extremist, one might reply. Of course,...

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The obtuse idiot cycle: Michelle Malkin

Just because one has an audience it doesn't mean that one has a valid reason to express. Michelle Malkin, in her recent post, the jihadi virus in our jails, states that: “… America faces an ongoing Islamic jihad at home...

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Writing·Jaia Papitz

Mecca vaccine

The word Mecca from the title could be replaced by any of the following: Hollywood, Holy-Land etc. since they represent the same essence but with a different form. Perhaps Dream vaccine would have been more appropriate or encompassing. Now, since...

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Atlas, tea, the mob.

Two years ago, sitting at my kitchen table and talking with a friend while sipping a cup of coffee and inhaling with nonchalance the all-damaging tobacco smoke, the idea of secession hijacked our conversation until late into the night. It...

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Everyone is a terrorist or a hero! Isn’t it?

Another hero. Another terrorist. Another brave marine. Another hole in the ground. Until tomorrow when we'll repeat. Stay with us to see a world record: a mammal gave birth to 8 great ideas simultaneously, and much more after this commercial...

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Writing·Jaia Papitz

Let there be science!

After eight years of a delusional presidency – where talking snakes, senator horses and born-again were more important than knowledge itself – we finally attempt to reenter onto the path of logic and reason. Yes, the stem cell research ban...

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Writing·Jaia Papitz

In time of crisis

In time of crisis extreme ideas tend to gain adherence. Desperate humans are inclined to believe the radical rhetoric and extravagant promises, hoping, like a junkie, for a quick fix. Necessity, anguish and desperation are a perfect breeding soil for...

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Writing·Jaia Papitz

The System(atic)

The economy is a decaying corpse and, for our own sake and health, the rotten stiff must be cremated. The iv therapy applied to our social system it's just prolonging the agony of those watching a dying system especially when,...

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Writing·Jaia Papitz

Every

Every moment that slaps one's conscious existence, could be a halting point or a jolting spring. Each second, one can become the next sensational mass murdered or the insignificant peace embracer. Each instant is a life taker or a life...

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