The one who controls the past controls the future and the one who controls the present controls the past, and we all who don't control the present don't control anything.
14 Nov 2019 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
Burned skin makes me think of Giordano Bruno. Certainly, in his case it wasn't only the skin that gotten burned, but well, in the frame of reference of this post, it was collateral damage. Like Copernicus and Galileo, Bruno supported geocentric astro...
14 Nov 2019 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
I never drove anything beyond a moped. Yet, even on a moped I was able to be hit by a car, become airborne and get into a hospital. But this is the story for another prompt. I used to like reading about the most ridiculous deaths. One of them happene...
13 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Human life has never been certain. That was in prehistoric times when cave bear or a smilodon could easily have a person for breakfast, in ancient times when once could easily become a salve or be born into slavery, in medieval times during religious...
10 Nov 2019 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Jace looked so content and comfortable with his horse. He wouldn’t sell it for a thousand dollars. Well, “a thousand” could have been a stretch. It was hard to test this hypothesis, as no one has offered Jace a thousand dollars for a horse. He did re...
10 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
A couple of months ago I flew from Florida to our property in Burbank and found it in a pitiful condition. On the territory, we have two tall conifer trees, orange, plum, apple and persimmon trees and the bushes on its entire perimeter. So, the entir...
8 Nov 2019 1 minute read 3 comments mgaft1
Tami had a worried look on her face. Holding the baby in her hands, she scanned through the passengers of the Tokyo-Los Angeles flight. Ten months ago she told her boyfriend Franky that she was pregnant. Franky scratched his head and shook it with un...
7 Nov 2019 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
Late at night, the wife, wanting a cigarette, sent her husband to get it. Unfortunately, all the stores were closed (this wasn't in the United States) and the man went to a local bar, hoping to get the cigarette there. He ordered a drink and started...
7 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Templars, had Jacques de Molay (Grand Master of the Knights Templar) and many other French Templars arrested in 1307 and tortured into making false confessions. When Molay later retracted his confession...
3 Nov 2019 1 minute read 7 comments mgaft1
I was once helping extinguish the wildfires in Taiga (it's a very dense forest in Siberia). Taiga spread many miles around and has a very scares population maybe one person per 100 square miles. Our brigade was working on the construction site buildi...
