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  • Rod McRiven (AKA Rivenrod)
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Tag: philosophy

August 14, 2017October 30, 2017Rivenrod

Art #Gorm No.1

This is Gorm, created in god’s imagination. The human species is Gorm ~ unfeeling, desensitised, divisive, deceitful, afraid and false.

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July 25, 2017October 30, 2017Rivenrod

Art #self portrait No.1

All that you are is all you ever can have been at some point in the dim and distant future.

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July 10, 2017October 5, 2017Rivenrod

BrainSparks #the thistle I bear

Truth stimulates nothing, it’s the lies that give us comfort.

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May 30, 2017October 5, 2017Rivenrod

BrainSparks #PoliticsBollocks II

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

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May 25, 2017October 5, 2017Rivenrod

BrainSparks #ISIS

Who actually gives a fuck? No, really, who? Ask yourself.

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May 9, 2017October 5, 2017Rivenrod

BrainSparks #PoliticsBollocks

“All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.” William Ewart Gladstone

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May 2, 2017October 5, 2017Rivenrod

The Belgrano: 1938 to 2nd May 1982

The sinking of The Belgrano during the Falklands war of 1982 is a small but interesting example which supports the axiom, whatever goes around, comes around.

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March 27, 2017October 30, 2017Rivenrod

BrainSparks #nothing

When is a thing something or nothing?

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March 23, 2017October 30, 2017Rivenrod

Art #this is THE perfect circle

Reality is hard work . . .

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March 20, 2017October 30, 2017Rivenrod

Worts #house

The trick is to be a raincoat, to trust honesty won’t shine through . . .

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