School of Philosophy and Letters, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York City
Graduate College, University of Oklahoma
Shepherd-Montessori Institute
Journalist Tom
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Blaise
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Architect
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Schizophrenia
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Tommy Separdi
Tommy Separdi
Quotations from Tom Miguel Blaise Shepherd:
"As an existentialist, my concern is with the quality of life, rather than with the illusion of an afterlife. My approach is inner-directed rather than other-directed. My mental energy is focused creatively rather than competitively. My preference is to be on an equal footing with other men and women, rather than to compete with either.
"The alcoholic beverage industry and the tobacco industry have traditionally used advertising to control people by suggesting that drinking alcoholic beverages and smoking cigarettes is beneficial to one's well-being. If they told the truth, that alcohol and tobacco impair one's acumen, debilitate one physically and deplete one's economic resources, no one would purchase or consume alcoholic beverages or tobacco.
"While an individual diagnosed with a so-called mental illness may indeed have a chemical imbalance, there is no objective test available to prove such an assumption. However, the building blocks of the chemical neurotransmitters of the brain (dopamine, serotonin, etc.) are the vitamins, minerals and amino acids found in food, not drugs! Thus the only sane treatment of a so-called mental illness would be a prescription for practicing sound nutrition, not a prescription for psychotropic drugs.
"A schizophrenic is an individual who, due to his biological uniqueness, is unable to sustain the lifetime role (of a punching bag) that has been assigned to him as a member of society. He is either the ultimate outsider or he is the ultimate prisoner of self-righteous, God-fearing idiots.
"It is my opinion that psychiatrists share a common delusion--that they know more about their patients than their patients know about themselves."
"Judaism, Christianity and Islam are superstitious belief systems. They are also barbaric fascist-sexist ideologies which defy reason and which are incompatible with true democracy.
"It is ONLY when our relationships with one another are fully mutual and egalitarian that we become fully human, free and balanced human beings. Without economic egalitarianism, true democracy cannot exist.
"A gay individual, as originally defined by the French, is any individual who engages in promiscuous sexual relations, whether with someone of the same sex or someone of the opposite sex. All people have a natural capacity for experiencing both homoerotic and heteroerotic sensations, of which every mature man is blatantly aware. His self-consciousness regarding his own apparent ambisexuality typically generates feelings of ambivalence as a result of years of moral conditioning arising out of Ancient Barbaric Jewish doctrine [i.e. Leviticus 20:13], which is reinforced through Judaism's splinter groups, Christianity and Islam.
"A firm handshake, an abrazo and participation in contact sports, especially wrestling, are the socially-acceptable options men have for publicly expressing their affectional or erotic feelings for one another in a Jewish-Christian-Islamic society.
"The reason civilizations enact and enforce laws forbidding homosexual love is: ALL men are believed to have a NATURAL preference for the company of one another to the company of women. Without the enforcement of such laws, proponents of such laws maintain, the human race would not be able to propagate itself, as if it needs to be further propagated with deluded idiots.
"In a sexist society, no man falls in love with a woman, nor does a woman fall in love with a man; men and women pretend to fall in love with one another because they are required to fall in love with one another. They have no choice. Only in an egalitarian society can men and women fall in love.
"What so-called God-fearing Jews, Christians and Muslims call The Truth is in fact The Lie, the fascist-sexist lie.
"A rich individual who steals from a poor individual is commonly called a capitalist, whereas a poor individual who steals from a rich individual is commonly called a thief.
"A government inductee who kills is commonly called a hero, whereas a civilian who kills is commonly called a serial killer, a murderer or a felon.
"What Judaism, Christianity and Islam consider to be sin, punishable by death, psychiatry considers to be neurosis or psychosis, punishable by psychotherapy and/or by psychotropic drug treatment and/or by electroshock treatment.
"Those opposed to same-sex marriage are opposed to equality and democracy. Those opposed to a woman's right to choose whether or not she bear her own child are are also opposed to equality and democracy. Many of those opposed to abortion are, of course, in the business of trafficking in human flesh. For those individuals, a woman is merely a concubine -- a machine.
"Whereas the exploited Jew, Christian or Muslim is commonly stigmatized with the scarlet letter A, the exploited psychiatric patient is commonly stigmatized with the scarlet letters GAY or SCHIZOPHRENIC.
"The illusion of love is (hopefully) dominant and everlasting; the illusion of hate is (hopefully) just a temporary affliction.
"IQ tests are designed by borderline morons in order to suggest that they are smarter than those whom they are testing. . . . I never knew of a judge, a Phi Beta Kappa, or any other Greek fraternity member (for that matter), that didn't work his or her way through college by sucking up to deviant and incompetent professors and by cheating on exams. . . .
"Is it not true? That Joe Blow indeed was / is a phoney . . . . a multi-millionaire dude that talks and sings about love and peace and equality, while keenly observing (with fashionable, wire-rimmed eyeglasses) the abject poverty that exists outside the doors of his Upper West Side mansion, indeed has his head up his rear end and most probably has his brain numbed with drugs (like wine, beer, vodka, whiskey and cocaine and marijuana, etc. etc. etc.)." However, Joe Blow was / is not alone. He was/is, in fact, no different than Jane Blow or Robert Blow or Vladamir Blow or Fidel Blow or Ahmed Blow or Isabella Blow or Oprah Blow or Angelina Blow.. For they all have lived as arrogant kings or queens -- as King David -- while forever singing songs of love and concern for the plight of the poor that sweep their floors and plow their fields and serve their wine and vodka and clean up their vomit and (Oh yes!) treat their miserable hangovers . .
"She worships and sings praises about Allah, while her Allah-fearing husband beats her in the name of Allah."
"True democracy cannot exist without absolute social and economic equality for ALL people. A fine is the most reprehensible form of extortion of the poor. Jails and prisons do not prevent crime. They are breeding grounds for increased criminality against the oppressive establishment.
"Why are mayors and city managers and governors and congressmen and women millionaires? Because they in effect legislate their own salaries and because they in effect legislate poverty for the masses..
"He/She's a tough, law-abiding, God-fearing, unbiased DA. He/She's determined to nail every dude charged with a crime . . . . and place him behind prison bars . . . . except for his/her own sons and daughters and the sons and daughters of his/her colleagues, all of whom worship and pray together.
"No one is born violent. Violence is learned behavior. The teachers of violence include our school football coaches, our Y boxing coaches and (ironically) our police officers and military training officers. Our society extols violence as a virtue.
OF
EXISTENTIALISM
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