I am that I am.
I make my habitation on the soil of the sovereign, free an independent State of the United States of America, Florida under the unanimous Declaration of the united States of America of July 4, A.D. 1776 as the first Organic Law of The United States of America.
I choose America.
I never leave America.
Quotes and Fork Tongue:
Who's on first, What's on second, Nobody's on third.
No brainer.
Home is where the Heart is.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a present.
I wasn't born yesterday.
Tomorrow starts tonight.
Nothing else matters.
In the end it doesn't even matter.
Call my name and save me from the dark. Bid my blood to run. Save me from the nothing I've become.
Never gonna give you up. We know the game and we gonna play it.
Hell is for children.
Who is but the form following the function of what.
Nobody is perfect.
Nobody is above the law.
John 10:34 Kjv
Psalm 82:6 Kjv
I'm not really Basil Hallward, he's a character in the Oscar Wilde story "A Picture Of Dorian Grey." The reason for doing the name change and using a very old picture is a private joke. My name is Ian Thorpe, Ian R Thorpe to distinguish me from the Australian swimmer, I retired from a career in Information Technology a few years ago and now spend my time writing and creating internet content. And the picture, from 1983? In the story, the eponymous Dorian Gray never looks any older, while the picture of him painted by Basil Hallward ages. And in the online world I never get any older so it's oappropriate that my avatar shows the person I feel I still am. Age, when all's said and done, is a state of mind. .
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
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