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Three Steves Three guys called Steve Say C*** Day Contains profane language Little Mind A poem 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 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 Peanut A peanut sat on a railway track 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