“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. Of course, where there is nothing to interrupt, noise will not be so particularly painful.”
“We can be better as a species if we recognize religion as a man-made construct. We owe it to ourselves to at least consider the real roots of religious belief, so we can deal with life as it is, taking advantage of perhaps our mind’s greatest adaptation: our ability to use reason.”
“He’s the first anti-Islamic terrorist, a new type of rightwing extremist,” […] “It’s a pan-European, anti-Islamic, anti-elitist movement that tends towards conspiracy theories and sees everything in black and white.”
By Madison S. Hughes (05.30.2009)
Not quite the ides of March,
A day shy of a fortnight before.
Marks the date each year
Of which I abhor.Unlike Caesar,
Remembered by all.
There was a great man
Unknown after his fall.Known by few,
And that is too bad.
Greater than many,
He was my Dad.
By Madison S. Hughes (05.25.2009)
Many search,
and fewer succeed.
That ever-eluding happiness,
Just like you and me.We seek it in fortune,
We seek it in fame.
It’s a vicious cycle,
But rarely a gain.We take three steps forward,
And two steps back.
We find it in theory,
But rarely in fact.We chase an illusion,
And mistake it as truth.
This abstraction called happiness,
Seems always aloof.
By Madison S. Hughes (05.23.2009)
Like grass and the sunflower,
It follows the sun.
It can never be mastered,
And seldom be won.As with this game,
Such is life.
It’s an endless pursuit,
Of conflict and strife.This game is ruthless,
And the results widely vary.
Many find it overwhelming,
And others down right scary.But try, try we may,
One really can’t scoff,
This game, is like life,
It’s a game we call golf.
By Madison S. Hughes (04.29.2009)
I quest for le mot juste
To decide ultimate diction.
Ever seeking truth,
And eschew empyreal fiction.While the task seems fruitless,
And the time spent endless.
To avoid the vexation,
Is nothing less than horrendous.
“If bin Laden is a Muslim terrorist, Breivik and McVeigh are surely Christian ones. Breivik was fascinated with the Crusades and imagined himself to be a member of the Knights Templar, the crusader army of a thousand years ago.”
“Even after it became undeniable that a white, Christian, Norwegian man was responsible for the rampage, the media still seemed determined to blame Muslims.”
By Madison S. Hughes (04.26.2009)
Belief is for the ignorant!
No kind way can it be said.Faith based on hearsay
From ignorant fools,
A book of myth and fable,
That few have actually read.Believers are intellectually lazy!
And braggart in how they see.Belief is cognitively easy,
For it requires no thought.
But to reach disbelief,
Requires intellectual honesty.
Always Question Authority 