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Birth of an Artist The holy light, gravity and chill of the birthing room seeped through Frank’s passive, baby machinery – a blind trickle of wind filtering through the strings of an abandoned harp – emitting a dead melody, true as the atrophied sphincter of a mental patient sleeping off a pilfered tub of shortening; the genuine mindless screechsong of the bewildered primate emerging from the bowels of nirvana into a sandpaper Mardi Gras of blankets and smiles. A Basis for Objective Morality Suffering and Negative Mental States as a Basis for an Objective Morality In this essay I aim to show that an objective morality can be achieved through the universalisability of the experience of suffering. In a Godless universe normative value appears mysterious and elusive, it’s origin unknown and its authority finally under question. I aim to show how normative claims earn their authority and why they are important to respect. Some physicalists and determinists may feel short changed by thi A Peanut A peanut sat on a railway track Little Mind A poem Three Steves Three guys called Steve Say C*** Day Contains profane language Eating i told you before of the bleary eyed mammals who wander in circles like thirsty old camels and surfing the channels suburban sedation in kennels and shackles they’re serving their nation