Kevin Slaughter Speaks At Ingersoll Oratory
From Mr. Slaughter’s blog post on speaking at the Robert G. Ingersoll Oratory Contest, Washington, D.C. on the 4th of October 2009:
I’m nervous… in a few hours I’ll be in our nation’s capitol reading a lecture by the great American orator Robert G. Ingersoll… No matter what mundane or crazy shit I’ve done in front of an audience, I’ve always been plagued with nervousness before beginning. From making an announcement in a room or doing an interview over the phone, to being cut open in a blood ritual performance or crawling across a ceiling half-naked covered in silver paint – I’m a bit of a wreck until I start doing whatever it is I need to be doing. I’m not an extrovert by nature, but I’ve been performing in front of audiences since I was in Elementary School. I think I took this chance to help subdue that fear response a bit, but then here I am waking up at 6:30 am when my alarm is set for 8…
Listen to the full audio presentation of Slaughter’s reiteration of Ingersoll’s important words on the subject of “blasphemy” at the blog post linked above.
No comments“In a world of superstition, reason is blasphemy.
In a world of ignorance, facts are blasphemy.
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime,
and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.”-Robert G. Ingersoll
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