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JOSHUA TODD JAMES is the author of THE COMPANION CHRONICLES, detailing the adventures of synthetic person Jacob Kind in the novellas SOME ANIMALS, MINORITY OF ONE, FREEDOM RUN, MAN IN THE BOX, RENEGADE, and DOMO ARIGATO, MISTER ROBOTO.

An active member of the WGAE, he’s written the feature films Pound Of Flesh, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Take Cover, starring Scott Adkins and Alive Eve, among others.

His plays (under the name Joshua James) are also published on Amazon and elsewhere.

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If You Meet The Buddha On The Road...

Answer: Kill him.

It’s a famous Zen koan that highlights the importance of evolving into a better human being, rather than a robot following commands. Link below.

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Everyone’s fave search engine, Google, breaks it down thusly…

Attributed to the ninth-century Chinese monk Linji Yixuan, it means one should kill off any external or internal images of Buddha, whether they are s

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	Some Animals (The Companion Chronicles #1) 4.33 avg rating — 285 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FREEDOM RUN (THE COMPANION CHRONICLES Book 3) 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT, TOO!: A Comic Dialogue On Politics by Joshua Todd James (Goodreads Author), Todd Alcott (Foreword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Write Your Way to $100K: Two Paths to Earning 6-Figures with Your Book for Entrepreneurs & Aspiring Writers

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“Then, the fighting began for real. I don't know how to describe what happened as words alone cannot do our fight justice, but rather than simply being about blood and brutality, our physical conflict became, somehow, beautiful.”
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“Curious, how humanity in the modern era is tested by one's taste and capacity for violence.”
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“Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you.”
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“We only waste energy to have horrible fights with the people we love the most.”
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