You're a part of something greater
Something greater wants to lift up your mind
Oh, it's a sparkler, scintillator
Hurry up and be the next to get in line!

Would you believe you're the most important
Keeper of Our Ways?
Someone loves you even more than you love yourself
(And you do love yourself a lot)
So get your faith on—enter the portal
Get your faith on—you'll be immortal
The creator of your world just needs a little help
(little help 'fore he gives you what you want!)

But you're gonna have to fight for him
Crawl inside a tank, lay your life down like it's nothing
(And it's nothing...)
Yeah it's when you die for him
That you're a part of something greater

Yeah, you're gonna have to die for him
To be a part of something greater

A great big part of something grander—
ideas blowing up the confines of your mind!
Supplant your ego with my commander
Hurry up and be the next meat we grind.

Get your faith on (you know we lie)
But get your faith on and everything is fine
So get your faith on (while we embezzle and we steal
(And we bedazzle with unreal)
Just get your faith on (Propaganda!)
Get your faith on (Sweet propaganda!)

Yes, you're gonna have to die for us.
And if you disbelieve our news then you've died for nothing!
We're the only side, so you side with us.
If you kill in our name, we'll let you plunder a little something...

But you're gonna have to fight for this.
Butcher women and children and old men in their own bedrooms
Then you can say you didn't sign up for this
And that's how you get the slice of something greater...

Be a part of something greater...
Get your, get your, get your, get your faith on!
(But you're gonna have to want this bad
Picture Nazis in the mass grave so you don't feel bad...)

If someone's gonna have to die for this
Why should it be you when you've never had your fate in your own hands?
You think you know who the viper is?
Well, now it's you. 
Now it's you.

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Something Greater

once upon a time
there was a fisherman who lived happily
never crossed his mind that he was 
owned by those who’d come to claim his sea

they tapped into his spine, made him
join the choir of "oh, I believe"
he was still kind 
but now his star would take a dive rapidly...

there never was a simpler man
on a simple trip abroad
that simply got completely out of hand 
and then a lot of people got hurt...

his trusty rifle had become his wing
he soared above the wounded and the dead
and evenings he would sing
“oi wa e-eeh, what a storm this has been!”

once upon a time 
there was a fisherman who lived merrily
never realized his card was drawn
by some poorly tuned machinery

it took over his mind, made him
join their murals of firm make believe
he was still kind
but now his body count weighed heavily...

there never was a simpler tale
than the one he almost told to his daughter
of fighting demons on his way home from hell
and some demons had to be killed...

his fishing boat was where he hid the vials
between bottles of cheap escape
and evenings he would howl
“oi wa e-eeh, what a storm this has been!”

there once was a fisherman thrust upon time
he felt honored to fight
to preserve his way of life by the sea
should he have known 
that he was the storm
when he sang his long oi wa e-eeh’s?

Once Upon a Time

Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. 

 Addressing some of the most difficult issues we face in our day-to-day lives, C.S. Lewis’s ardent and timeless words provide an unparalleled path to greater spiritual understanding.

Considered by many to be Lewis’s finest sermon of all, and his most moving address, ‘The Weight of Glory’ extols a compassionate vision of Christianity an dincludes lucid and compelling discussions on faith.

Also included in this volume are "Transposition," "On Forgiveness," "Why I Am Not a Pacifist," and "Learning in War-Time".

The Weight of Glory: A Collection of C.S. Lewis’ Most Moving Addresses, Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

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The bellicose and authoritarian Russian state's propaganda exploitation of the anarcho-pacifist novelist Leo Tolstoy is an obvious and perverse irony. But a less obvious irony also presents itself. Like all fascist regimes, that of Vladimir Putin is stigmatizing and even criminalizing homosexuality and other sexual "deviance." Following alarming reports of "concentration camps" for gay men in the Russian republic of Chechnya, Moscow began to impose an anti-gay agenda nationwide. A 2020 constitutional reform officially enshrined "traditional marriage," while a "gay propaganda law" imposes penalties on any outward expression of gay identity, resulting in police raids on Moscow gay bars. The "LGBT movement" has been designated a "terrorist organization"; media depictions of same-sex love are banned as "deviant content." Yet the venerable littérateur now glorified as a symbol of Russian nationalism may have himself been gay. In Episode 249 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg interviews Javier Sethness Castro, author of Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography (Routledge 2023).

In one sickening propaganda display, Tolstoy's photo was dramatically plastered by Putin's regime onto a barrier fence erected around the Mariupol Drama Theater—a civilian refuge that was bombed during the initial invasion of the Ukrainian port city in March 2022, leading to hundreds of deaths (including many children). By contrast, Marta Albertini, Tolstoy's great-grand daughter, hosts Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland.

Sethness Castro notes that some contemporary Ukrainian ant-war writers are in the actual tradition of Tolstoy. Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian poet and war-crimes investigator who was killed in a missile attack on a pizzeria in Kramatorsk in 2023, wrote the book Dom's Dream Kingdom, narrated from the perspective of a dog who watches his human family struggle over Ukrainian history. This is reminiscent of Tolstoy's short story "Strider," an early harbinger of the animal rights movement, which is written from the perspective of a horse.

Another link to Tolstoy in the news is the British Columbia government's recent apology to the Doukhobors, a Russian dissident religious sect, for forcibly assimilating their children in the 1950's. Tolstoy supported the Doukhobors, who were persecuted by the Tsars for their pacifism, and even wrote Resurrection (1899) to finance their migration from the Russian Empire to Canada. His son Sergei Tolstoy and biographer Aylmer Maude led the resettlement, and Peter Kropotkin (another paradoxical anarchist aristocrat) also encouraged it.

A reassessment of Tolstoy's sexuality is apropos at this moment in light of recent challenges raised against millennia of Christian homophobia. In any case, Tolstoy's anti-militarism provides important perspectives for our current moment, with multiple genocides ongoing, and humanity on the knife's edge due to the risk of escalating regional wars in both Europe and the Middle East.

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Bertrand Russell - Danger of War in Nuclear Age (1959)

"Everything needs an ending. Yours doesn't have to be a good ending."


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Who Would Jesus Bomb?

An original song I wrote and sang all vocals on, and released in April 2019.

LYRICS:

And now it’s twenty twenty-one
Seems like everybody’s done
Putting trust in any one
Maybe the human race is run

You say you don’t wanna buy a gun
But sometimes you feel you gotta
Don’t wanna shoot any one
Just wanna live your life tomorrow

And you say

I don’t wanna buy a gun
Not the reason I was born
Don’t wanna shoot anyone
I don’t wanna buy a gun

God gave us Planet Earth
Then bid farewell his bastard children
Left a note saying, “Good luck
“On your own ’til Armageddon

“But here’s one thing ’til I return
“Greatest gift in the universe
“Music soothes the troubled mind
“Portal to eternal paradise”

And you say 

I don’t wanna buy a gun
Not the reason I was born
Just wanna love everyone
I don’t wanna buy a gun

These days it’s crazy to be sane
Sky streaked white to make it rain
Red or blue it’s all the same
Flying blind in the purple haze

You say you don’t wanna buy a gun
But sometimes you feel you gotta
Don’t wanna shoot anyone
Just wanna sing your song tomorrow
And you say 

I don’t wanna buy a gun
Not the reason I was born
Just wanna love everyone
I don’t wanna buy a gun

I don’t wanna buy a gun
I don’t wanna buy a gun
I don’t wanna buy a gun
I just wanna have fun

Don't Wanna Buy a Gun

Don't Wanna Buy A Gun

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