For producers looking to make a difference! 3) Alice Visits a Mosque to Learn About Judgement Day ANNOUNCEMENTS Fade to Black - Triumph of the Irrational now available on Amazon and as downloadable PDF AMAZON: USA UK Canada ... Free PDF "All religions are stupid, but Islam is the stupidest of all." Michel Houellebecq Houellebecq is wrong! Islam is not the stupidest, but the smartest as evident by its success at recruiting that leaves other religions in the dust and democracies gasping despite being the most irrational Faith. Archie: [throwing his hands up] You just can't win! Western civilization is about to be defeated by an army of morons. Uzza: You underestimated the forces aligned against you. Your defeat was engineered by the greatest strategist and military mind of all times. He even left a blueprint that, in your arrogance, you could not be bothered to read. From Remembering Uzza - If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub. If you can’t be bothered to read the Koran, read Fade to Black. It’s not that much longer than Allah’s book, and you won’t have to read it more than once to understand what it’s all about. COMMENTS ISLAMIC SCRIPTURES AS THEY RELATE TO CURRENT EVENTS DIARY OF A MAN WITH A BROKEN HEART Latest Regrets November 19, 2024 One evening, a short time before her passing, Lucette and I talked about regrets. She said she had none. I did, one of them being that losing my job and having to start over after a forlorn appeal to the Supreme of Canada meant she missed out on much, including what she loved to do: travelling and meeting people. At the worst of times, and even as her world was closing in on her, she never complained about our life together, and that night was no different. She reached out and placed one hand on top of mine, looked at me with those soft blue eyes, and said, "Don't be sad; that doesn't matter. What matters is that during my life with you, I have always felt loved. What more could a woman ask for?" In spite of everything, she had "always felt loved." I never realized how much I loved her until I contemplated divorcing her. A regret I did not admit to, was about a girl I broke up with after attending her graduation. Shortly after Lucette’s cancer diagnoses, I was diagnosed with a neoplastic cyst on the pancreas. Every year I get an MRI to check on its growth, and 12 years on there is still nothing to worry about. Worried that pancreatic cancer might overtake her lung cancer I destroyed cherished photographs afraid that, after my passing, she would find them and think that she was not the love of my life, in spite of the indiscretions. I parted with a couple of pictures of Joyce, one of Margaret and one of me and Glenna taken by her mother before we left for her graduation ceremony and the party afterwards. After the dinner and dance, rather than drive to our special place where we would kiss and make-out, I drove her home and told her it was over. Was I afraid about what could happen next, and convinced that our relationship had no future deciding that someone else should be the first? I don’t know! The way I behaved, and not talking things over, remains a lasting regret. Then, there is the death of a young woman, when I was a young man living across the hall from her, whose suicide I should have anticipated. To cap it all, a few months ago, a beautiful 30-something woman I had just met wanted us to spend time together. I was putting the finishing touches to my last book and worried that if one thing led to another I might not get it done, I declined. Maybe it’s because I didn’t want her to give me a reason to live, who knows? One last regret—a minor one you might say, considering… but you would be wrong. A regret made even worse by my doctor's observation that the type of activity I feared would interfered with completing my legacy— now a done thing with the publishing of Fade to Black— would not have a caused my aneurism to burst before its time. POST-MORTEM What happens to boreal.ca after I am gone is one thing, my books quite another. In Remembering Uzza, a character is prosecuted under a law that makes it a criminal offence to cause anyone “dogmatic distress” because of something they said or wrote. Under legislation making its way through Parliament that type of offence will likely become reality. While Bill C-63 is ostensibly aimed at what is posted online, under new powers granted the Canadian Human Rights Commissioner by the legislation, they will be allowed to entertain and rule on any complaints filed by anyone alleging to have suffered the equivalent of dogmatic distress, including from what has yet to be said or published. My books will definitely cause some readers to experience “dogmatic distress”, especially my latest and last: Fade to Black. In my last will and testament I have instructed my executor to transfer all my published and unpublished material, including cover art, into the public domain. You will be free to publish any or all of my books under your own label, just give credit where credit is due. To make it easy, contents of all my books is available as web pages and as free downloadable PDFs. Cheers! Bernard Payeur email
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