Category: stories of the real

• Dark Days: Leave us alone

  

  Placeholder for a project I am thinking about that is inspired by the movie Dark Days and the music by DJ Shadow with the same title.

  Merit Coba

  04/10/2020

  history, identiy, stories of the real

  amtrak, chris page, dark days, freedom tunnel, homeless, issues, marc singer, mole people, new york, poverty, social, sundance

• Movie thoughts:The Kill Team

  

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2732932/ For who is unfamiliar with the name The Kill Team – we are, after all, not all American citizens -: it was given to themselves by a group of soldiers that were active in Afghanistan around 2010 and subsequently the name was taken over and spread by the media when these men were accused,…

  Merit Coba

  20/03/2016

  movie, review, stories of the real

  afghanistan, documentary, movie, movie review, soldiers, the kill team, whistle blower

• Safety is security is silence…Shut up & Inside.

  

  On my work we suddenly got a sign at the entry that camera’s were about watching the premises. Inside another sigh had been added stating that all the items were marked, either visible an invisible. The we got a notice that company resources were only meant for the use of company purposes. So I made…

  Merit Coba

  26/02/2016

  Art, stories of the real

  company, Dominance, employers, ownership, security is safety, silence, submission

• Relay for life 2015: The future of your money.

  

  This year the American Cancer Society(ACS) organizes another Relay For Life(RFL) charity event in Second Life. The impact of this event can be estimated from their site: “As of July 2014 RFL of SL ranks number 17th out of 5000 teams worldwide in donations receive.We have brought in over 2 million US dollars to help with the…

  Merit Coba

  21/02/2015

  stories of the real, Traces of a Second Life

  ACS, cancer, Criticism, funding, Relay for life, RFL, second life, sl

• What’s on Molyneux’s mind?

  Criticizing the  Bible is all to easy. It might be  a good motivation to write for some, but I don’t find  it interesting by itself. Therefore I am rewriting a post  that I had in the make about the bible, as I want to focus on storytelling and narrative instead of what a colleague of mine called bible…

  Merit Coba

  05/02/2015

  stories of the real

  anarcho-capitalism, cato the elder, fdr, freedomain radio, Molyneux, Philosophy?, rhetorica, taxes, taxes suck, the end of the world, the state sucks

• Ceci n’est pas un prohète

  Ceci n’est pas un prohète It is hard not to say something… One cannot stay silent in a world where silence is demanded by thugs with delude minds and possibly a well founded grudge against the world they lived in. Islam plays undeniably a part in the Charlie Hebdo atrocities, but at the same time…

  Merit Coba

  08/01/2015

  stories of the real

  atrocities, Chalie Hebdo, democracy, fanatics, Freedom of opinion, Killings, muslims, Prophet, Religion, repression, Terrorists, veleda lorakeet

• I am no atheist!

  

  Some days ago I lost a post I was writing about ‘my’ atheism.  Strangely enough it was a wordpress article and normally wordpress saves your work, but I can’t find the post. I did find the picture I uploaded.  Perhaps I lost the post when I turned of the computer while traditionally ignoring all the…

  Merit Coba

  21/12/2014

  Signs of life, stories of the real

  atheism, ayn raynd, early medieval history, history, humanism, jesus, logicked, nordic, steve shives

• Sucker Punch, Tacitus, atheism and Orwell

  ” If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” I don’t like quotes like these, because it feels like mindless repeating something that someone else has thought off and is probably quoted out of context anyway.. I heard  this quote when I watched the movie Sucker Punch, just to give you an idea of…

  Merit Coba

  22/11/2014

  stories of the real

  atheism, atheist, bible, history, jesus, Orwell, Religion, suckerpunch, tacitus, theism

• “Gott mit uns”(God with us)

  I can’t help it to  write this post. I resisted several times and I even have a complete rant hidden as post someplace that addresses this issue, but I decided against posting it. But now it happened again! “What is the issue?,” you might ask. It is the use of the “Gott mit uns” argument. The “Gott…

  Merit Coba

  12/11/2014

  history, stories of the real

  “Gott mit uns”, atheism, atheist, Belt buckle, christianity, German army, German history, God with us, Godwin’s law, Heer, history, Hitler, Jacquelyn Glenn, Matt Dillahunty, Religion, theism, theist, Word War II

• Relay for life: raising funds worldwide for the fight against cancer..

  “Join thousands of Second Life Residents from all across the real globe as they rally today and Sunday for the 10th Relay Weekend of Relay For Life of Second Life.” (Text from the Relay For Life of Second Life website) When I logged on to Second Life today my viewer told me that perhaps the biggest annual…

  Merit Coba

  20/07/2014

  stories of the real

  ACS, American cancer society, cancer, charity, fundraising, Relay for life, second life, sl