The last thing I want to do is stop. I don’t want to give up. The last place I want to go is the end of the line. The last thing I want to hear is the sound cut off. The last thing I want to see is the fading…

To live or die as a species. My thoughts. — I am a warrior for peace, a combatant for love. My anger is directed at stupidity and conformity. I believe in individuality. I believe in defeating ignorance, especially in myself. I am prejudiced against racism, a bigot against bigotry. I am a champion of ending my own ignorance, a seeker…

The downfall of the human race — I just watched a man (delivering a sermon) scream and holler, and most of his message was to stand on the holy word of the Bible and Jesus. His screaming and working up his congregation of believers into a righteous lather made me sick, because he was claiming that the…

And I didn’t know it. — I discovered myself, today. I came across a word that I had never been exposed to prior to today. In the reading of Prince of Peace, by James Carroll, he used the term Camusian, (of or pertaining to Camus) and the expression that “we lived it but didn’t know it.”…

Was God connecting with this atheist, last night? — Last night I was directed to the Bible. A compulsion overpowered me to get a Bible from the closet and I was “directed” to open it at random. The Destruction of Babylon The book opened to Jeremiah on the prophecy of the destruction of Babylon. I read much of the chapter after questioning the…

Do you have what it takes to be an author? Do I? — Do I have what it takes to be an author? Never mind a writer of stature. After all these years of fighting with everyone and fighting mental illness, do I have what it takes? …

The consequences of living safe. — Avoidance behavior Jumping in when you don’t know everything; learning as you go; forgetting perfectionism: These are a few of my favorite things — To avoid. And what has avoidance given me? Safety? Freedom? A wonderful relationship? A good job? Lasting Friendships? Wealth and fame? To be honest, it has left me…

How does a writer write a novel without an outline? — “It was my fault that the one I called my little sister was sentenced to death.” Does this compel you to read on? As a writer, does this compel you to continue writing? Can it drive your writing on until you can type, “The End” at the end of your…

A new journey has begun. — Yesterday, I took the journal entry, “The Name of Satan is Fear,” (https://medium.com/@gilbertcorliss/the-name-of-satan-is-fear-1ecdf5ad9d33) and turned it into a blog that I posted on Medium yesterday morning. There were editing changes and additions to this posting, but I made it better, I believe, and gave a reader takeaway at the end…