“The government of the United States is not,
in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
~ John Adams ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in May 2012.
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Posts Tagged With: Ignorance
PISSING INTO THE WIND
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Banana Republic, Bigotry, Blasphemy, Christianity, Dark Ages, Democracy, Digital Imagery, Fascist, Flies, Founding Fathers, Ignorance, Patriarchal, Perspective, Photography, Pissing, Poetry, Posteriors, Respect, Servitude, Shit, Theocracy, Tub-Thunpers, Wind
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A LOT OF CLOWNS
“When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.”
~ Heinrich Heine ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acrobats, Antennae, Asses, Baboons, Beasts, Brainwashed, Carnival, Chalice, Chaos, Circles, Circus, Clowns, Death, Digital Imagery, Fool, Ignorance, Jugglers, Life, Lions, Mirrors, Parabolic, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pig, Pit, Play, Poetry, Price, Ticket, Tigers
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AGELESS AM I
“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Kinderdijk, Netherlands in April 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Cave Painters, Civilization, Colonialism, Cruelty, Dark Ages, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Egypt, Environment, Experiment, First Farmers, Future, Greed, Greeks, History, Ignorance, Industrial Revolution, Innocent, Life, Medieval Society, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Romans, Sumeria, The Enlightenment, Time, War
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AS WE ONCE KNEW IT
“As beings, we should not strive to change the world but change ourselves.
For if we change ourselves all things are possible.”
~ Henry Johnson Jr. ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Rethymno on the Island of Crete in 1992.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Change, Clouds, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fear, Fools, Future, Horizon, Ignorance, Innocent, Life, Memories, Morning, Normal, Optimistic, Past, Photography, Poetry, Survival, Time, Uncertainty, World
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EMPIRES
“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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STAYING AFLOAT
“The world is filled with fools,
but none of them considers himself one,
or tries not to be one.”
~ Baltasar Gracián ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afloat, Awareness, Blind Belief, Common Sense, Comprehension, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Emotions, Exist, Facts, Flail, Flotsam, Flounder, Fools, Humanity, Ignorance, Imagination, Intolerance, Life, Noses, Nyaffs, Perception, Perspective, Perspicacity, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Prejudice, Reason, Reflections, Religion, Sea, Think, Water
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THE SIN OF THE CALF
“The God excuse, the last refuge of a man
with no answers and no argument.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Bible Babblers, Binge, Blasphemy, Confused, Darkness, Dazed, Desert, Dick, Digital Imagery, Face, Finger, Golden Calf, Ignorance, Moses, Mountain, Pants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Stick
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SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
~ Edward Abbey ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Animals, Beauty, Birds, Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, Ignorance, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Songs, Spring, Streets, Stupidity, Time, World
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CITADEL
“We are all born ignorant,
but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.
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THESE DARK DAYS
“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
~ Plato ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bounty, Care, Concern, Conscience, Darkness, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Empathy, Fear, Future, Harvest, Hatred, Heart, Ignorance, Kindness, Life, Light, Limits, Love, Perspective, Photography, Plentiful, Poetry, Positive, Rich, Safe, Seeds, Shared, Sickness, Strong, Time, Understanding
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