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Brandon R. Burdette

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31-year-old Indie Author

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Aug 6, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC

Zombie Boy’s Death Accidental?

So now Lady Gaga has given a public apology for wrongly “assuming” that her friend Zombie Boy’s death was a suicide. It is now being assumed and asserted that he accidentally fell from his fourth-sto…

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Aug 6, 2018, 11:47 AM UTC

The Responsibility of Demi Lovato

The following extracts are taken from Demi Lovato’s recent public statement she gave at Instagram. The full statement is easily accessible online in many places. I have quoted specific words of hers…

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Aug 6, 2018, 8:44 AM UTC

Our Suicidal Nation

Here are some of the sufferings St. Paul endured: 2 Corinthians 11:23-28, “… in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times I…

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Aug 5, 2018, 10:08 AM UTC

Rimbaud’s Hunt for Heaven

The following excerpts are taken from my book Martyrs of Art: The Poison of Idealism: “Everything society stood for, Rimbaud opposed. Did it want him to dress appropriately? He would dress in rags, c…

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Aug 4, 2018, 1:47 PM UTC

The Truthful Fantasy of Rod Serling

Earlier tonight I revisited one of my favorite old episodes of The Twilight Zone, in which Donald Pleasence had starred as Professor Fowler, an English teacher who’d become downcast once the school f…

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Aug 3, 2018, 8:09 AM UTC

The Suicide of Zombie Boy

Just 15 hrs. ago, Rick Genest — aka “Zombie Boy” — posted a poem on Instagram before he took his own life. He called it THE WELL. It is a prayer to the Voodoo spirit Damballa. It is a very fantastica…

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Aug 2, 2018, 5:58 AM UTC

On Prenatal Cognition

The following excerpt is taken from my book Keeping a Sound Mind in a Chaotic World, which is a philosophical treatise on the mind, written from a biblical basis: ==Luke 1:41 says, “And it came to pa…

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Aug 1, 2018, 1:36 PM UTC

Caught in the Middle: Baudelaire’s Perpetual Swing

“Rhythm and rhyme answer man’s immortal need for monotony and symmetry, as opposed to the vanity and danger of inspiration.” –Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire mocks order and structure as boring, yet he…

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Aug 1, 2018, 6:13 AM UTC

On Men & Women

The following is from a rant tonight on Fakebook: ==We are living in a time in which the women envy, and are jealous of, men. And I mean men that have knowledge, men that are talented. Guys, you want…

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Brandon R. Burdette
@brandonrburdette Jul 31, 2018, 6:33 AM UTC

Is being blind worse than being dead?

I have been active at the website Quora as of recently, and decided to share an answer of mine which is receiving the most attention. Here was the question: Is being blind worse than being dead? Here…

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