Category: writing

What Do You Believe?

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What do you Believe? If I were to ask about your beliefs, what would you answer? Would you say they were strong? Would you say they’re the same as your family’s? Did you get them from a book? Perhaps, you wouldn’t tell me anything. Instead, remind that your thoughts don’t concern me? None of my …

I Can’t Remember

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I Can’t Remember   by Jude Trail Frantic urgency pushed his failing memory into action. Who was the young woman in the faded photograph? The pictures were placed strategically to help him remember things and people from his past. Why couldn’t he remember this woman? She was in many of the pictures.For a long moment, …

What forms your Belief?

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I was reading W.K. Clifford and it put me in mind of Plato’s Meno, in which Socrates distinguishes between Opinion and Knowledge. The man who has the right Opinion knows what it true but can not say why he knows it. The man who has knowledge knows what is right and can say why. For …

Changing Realities

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Imagine how much our perception has changed in the last five years. Most of us have seen undeniable Mandela effects. We’ve faced the reality of our childhood memories being wrong, contemplated the obvious changes to the past, noted things we know that are now different, and we just write it off as a thing that …

Age of Ages: part 1

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Age of Ages Part 1 by Jude Trail John spoke slowly into the microphone, but his confidence soared. “We survived the Y2K bug and the end of the Aztec calender. Not to mention, the multiple other dates of destruction that have come and gone taking with them the so-called prophets who wrongly spread fear in …

Still Alive

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My dad told my mother that it was not the right time in his life; that everything was happening too fast and he wanted to wait a few more years. So, when she started crying, he knew he had her convinced. They went together. The small office was in a house on South Laughter Street, …

Words We Don’t Know

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Words We Don’t Know Words come and go But the soul knows There’s much more we could say Love comes and goes But our heart knows There will be better days Friends come and go But in the end We know that real friends stay Life can often be slow But, where does time go …

Creative People And their Muse

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Breaking down poetic boundaries and looking inside   Have you ever met someone very interesting and wanted to get to know them? If you have, and most of us have, you will better understand what it feels like for a writer to have a new idea. The ideas do not appear as words interacting with …

How To Get Everything You Want

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1. Know what you want! People say: this is easier said than done. But it’s done by many people and it’s the most important step to the getting everything you want. 2. Know what you don’t want. Obviously, we know what we don’t want. So, this comes down to finding the courage to rid yourself …