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anecdote

an anecdote For those of you whom I haven't already made read this; This is an anecdote I came up with for my honours thesis project about state-building & imperialism in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. I thought it might be a good way to side-step all the political science jargon for those of you who who don't find that stuff particularly appealing. Enjoy An Anecdote An unnamed shopkeeper sits at a shopping stall in a nondescript marketplace. The shopkeeper is the pride of the whole city; people come from far and wide to purchase his beautiful & ornate rugs. One day as the shopkeeper sits in his stall, a man who doesn’t really fit in walks up to him, takes off his hat and gives a nod to the man that looks like he means well, but his nod looks more like a bow that a Kung Fu fighter would give to their Sensei in the Karate Kid. “Wax-on Wax-off” the shopkeeper thinks to himself. He asks the man how he may be of service, to which the man responds he will be of service t
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Tie Me Down and Make Me Believe

Tie Me Down and Make Me Believe God Bless the person who starts fires that never stop burning the insides of peoples' minds with guilty thoughts of sideways practices and sad thoughts of things never justified on themselves but practical in a sick way for blistering grey matter and permanently etching realities with screwdrivers, creating scars which never go away even though they prophesize the changes everyone wants but no one wants to make sitting there like technicolor dreams more firm in conviction than energy persistantly thumping against the wall of sad life's conscience like a heart under the floorboards of an empty room in sanity's bleeding stone-cold dark corners just beyond the reach of everything ever wished for a better place, even though warning shots fired remind pilgrims that never-starting/ending problems start/end with naive and misplaced concepts of virtue, civility and humanity discarded in the burnt minds of tortured-but-letha
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First of Many

Hey everyone, I have finally devoted myself to one method of communicating my thoughts :P If you're remotely interested, feel free to check me out every so often to see my thoughts on stuff, and leave comments on what you think (unless they're hateful, cause then I'll just delete them, but knowing my friends you'll be all good) anyhow, have fun and TTYS All ~Thom
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