TEXAS MAN PREGNANT!
Gives Birth to a Buddhist Monk
“It’s a Boy! It’s a Book! It’s Supermonk!”
Bangkok, Thailand – November 1, 2007 Texas author A. D. Thompson has astounded the literary world by impregnating himself by spontaneous self-symbiotic conception and publishing the resultant book DINER DHARMA with the Publishing Imprint Lulu.
Thompson absorbed stories on his travels in Asia, Africa, Native and Latin Americas. He gave them to Monk who proceeded to relate them to a cast of local characters and passers-thru the fictional town of Ataboy, Texas who- like the stories- soon took on a life of their own.
Travels with the Fish author C Y Gopinath had this to say: “Thompson should have been on a Harley Davidson riding some arrow straight road in a blue-sky desert. This book is meant to be sipped between destination-free journeys, a few sips at each halt so that its voices may grow on you and become like diner buddies. Dan Thompson's gift is brevity and his wit lies in the words he allows others to speak.” Gary Dale Bulldog Cearley, author of Lurid Tales from Bawdville (also of Lulu Press), added that DINER DHARMA was “funnier than a duck at a cock fight!”
Thompson, the proud father of all this brouhaha, as surprised as anyone about birthing a Buddhist monk in rural West Texas claimed he could not explain and insisted all his acts of creation are safe and consensual, but finally admitted he had broken “more than one pen writing this wild baby!”
Thompson added one document in his defence- DINER DHARMA- and asked that accusers read it carefully. The back cover reads: Monk saw a sign. It was that sign that brought a Buddhist monk off the roads of West Texas to the Attaboy Diner. Not only the sign but the secrets he keeps. The locals soon give him another mystery to solve: the not-so-great train robbery. From chicken round ups to rodeos our bare-backed, backwards-riding Monk is called on time and time again to tell a story. He tells about Issa the Mason who Wouldn’t Be King, about the Death of the Phoenix. He tells these stories to a crazy cast of characters including townies like Isabella, the Queen of the Proverb, and to passers-thru like Bubba the mystical trucker…Come on in and sit a spell! Pull up a booth and settle in. Let Monk tell you a story!
A. D. THOMPSON is professor of English at Thammasat University in Thailand where he is working on his next book about the Falcon of Siam. DINER DHARMA can be ordered through most local booksellers, Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, or at http://www.lulu.com/content/1237146
Islam Needs Paradigm Shift, Not PR, Says Author
Gary Dale Cearley, author of book on the birth of Islam, says Khatami was just a ‘PR man’; "we need action, not words," said Cearley.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (PRWEB) September 11, 2006 -- Gary Dale Cearley didn’t think former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami’s visit would, or even should, change the ever tentative relationship between Islam and the West.
“He’s an apologist in the philosophical sense,” said Cearley, “But not in the literal sense. Any sympathetic intimation was followed up by explaining why the West was at fault for Islamic misbehavior, or ‘terrorism’ as it should rightly be called.”
“For example Khatami gave the example of the US hostages during the Iranian Revolution,” Cearley explained, “He said that he empathized with the hostages and their families, but went on to explain that it was a reaction to fifty years of Iran being held hostage by the United States. It is pure poppycock. Iran’s government before the Islamic Republic was independent and quite often went the other direction of the United States. Either their Islamic government had no control of the situation, approved of the situation, or even worse, was behind the situation. To come back all of these years later and give a speech at the Council on American-Islamic Relations claiming that the United States is fully responsible for the kidnappings is irresponsible of Mohammed Khatami.”
Cearley was happy that Khatami had condemned the September 11 terrorist attacks as an “atrocity” but believed that even though Khatami said that terrorists had done Islam “an injustice” and that they would not go to heaven this wouldn’t slow down the attacks because Islamic governments are not doing anything to change their thinking and change their cultural characteristics.
“Islamic governments are indirectly, and sometimes directly, responsible for the outcomes here,” said Cearley, “By fostering intemperance you foster injustice. These governments are not teaching their children tolerance in schools because in many cases they don’t practice it themselves. They are leading their youth by example. These people must change their culture in order to live with the rest of the world.”
There would be some who might think that it is wrong for an American to tell someone to change their culture but Cearley disagrees.
“In America we used to own slaves and burn witches,” said Cearley, “We changed our ways of thinking. We changed our culture. In America the natives of our land couldn’t have citizenship in a country they owned for centuries. Women couldn’t vote or hold office in the government that made decisions about their own lives. But we have been working on changing our culture. The Muslim world needs this badly right now, and until they get on this train, terrorism won’t stop no matter how many times Mohammed Khatami comes to give speeches. Khatami needs to stress dialogue and co-existence back home. Not in America and the West. We have been for it for decades. It is the terrorism, the killing of innocent civilians, that makes it break down.”
Gary Dale Cearley is an expatriate author who has lived in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for many years. His book, “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness: The Truth About the Vatican and the Birth of Islam”, is a refutation of Jack Chick’s and Alberto Rivera’s Vatican Islam Conspiracy, which is also being propagated by David Icke. It is available on Amazon.com (Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, etc.), Barnes & Noble, and Books-A-Million. Gary Dale originally hails from the small town of Prescott, Arkansas.
