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Billy Lee Harman
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Dust, a novel

Dust, a screenplay

Ashes, some memories
Angels, summaries of scripture

Dao De Jing
, a literal translation

Tai Ji Quan (fundamentally
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Annie (how children are)

Singing with Angelina

Space and Light

Scripture of both the least popular of humanity’s six most popular religions and humanity’s most popular religion says the creator of all commanded one race of humanity to annihilate nine or ten other races for their land and promised to help them do it. 

And, while the scriptures of the third through fifth most popular of humanity’s religions say in various ways that all is one and that all differences are what secular mental health professionals now call schizoid delusions, the scripture of the second most popular of humanity’s religions says it confirms the scripture effectually promoting murderous racist greed in the name of God.

But the scripture of the most and least popular religions also says God commanded us not to kill and not to covet our neighbor’s property.  And, while scripture particular to the most popular religion says the only son God begat said the first and great commandment is to love God with all one’s heart and soul and mind, it also says he said the second is to love one’s neighbor as one’s self and that the second is like the first.  So consider the current increase in mass murders.

And consider that it includes children killing other children in their schools,and that parents and news anchors eulogize the dead children by calling them sports fans.  And then consider that the model for sports is war, that the plenty of Earth is more than enough to feed and shelter all of humanity while hunger and homelessness is also increasing, and then ask why humanity’s general notion of winning is making others lose.  And then, considering the phrase “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat”, ask yourself why anyone would enjoy causing agony or pay to see anyone inflicting it.

And then ask yourself why humans use the word “humane” as though it’s a synonym for “compassionate”.  And then look into your heart, ask yourself whether the thrill of victory is from thinking it proves your worth, and consider how much more worthy helping all as well as you can would make you.  And then consider how much more time and money you could afford to spend accepting that responsibility if you didn’t spend it on sports or on the dramatization of murderous violence and greed one calls thrillers.

So the purpose of each of these books is to show the self-destructiveness and absurdity of the literally schizoid notion that making others lose wins one’s being better than others, while also showing how much easier and more pleasant would be accepting responsibility for one another, instead of teaching that desperately disparate delusion at home and in schools and on TV.

And these books’ main means of pointing that out is by reminding the readers bothering to read them of how children are before adults inflict on them the millennia of self-destructive absurdity that’s become humanity’s common culture.

Billy Lee Harman

20 March 2023

"Through desire a man, having separated  himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom."  Proverbs 18:1