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Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?
Are you going to prove that marriage has been around since before organized religion, Qi? Because just saying it has doesn't make it so.
Sep 10, 2005 -
Re: How to Write Critiques
This is a critique of critiques of stories, and outside of some very basic tenets, is practically useless in the realm of poetry. Nonetheless, it should be quite helpful for ...
Sep 10, 2005 -
Re: Rate the Signature Above You.
10/10. But that's because I'm a postmodernist and I love paradox.
Sep 10, 2005 -
Re: a poem (warning, this piece has a lot of adult language)
This may be poetry, but it certainly isn't art, nor does it have artistic merit. It is the standard, normative rants of everyone -- ultimately, it conforms. To conform for ...
Sep 10, 2005 -
Re: a poem (warning, this piece has a lot of adult language)
Two fundamental definitions: 1. Journal entry--Writing in which the writer tells the reader what emotions the writer is experiencing about something. 2. Poem--Writing in which the writer causes the re
Sep 9, 2005 -
Re: Mcdonalds Vs. Obese People
My own disgust (distrust?) of McDonald's, it is the people's fault. Though you could, I suppose, hit McDonald's on misrepresentation of caloric amount, etc.
Sep 9, 2005 -
Re: Cosmetic Surgery
Cosmetic Surgery is, obviously, cosmetic. And the people are usually just as fake on the inside as they are on the out.
Sep 9, 2005 -
Re: reflection in the calm waters of a bathtub
"The image is more important than the plot..." -Jean Baudrillard
Sep 9, 2005 -
Re: Are humans just animals?
1. When a dog does something wrong, the owner tends to spank him. 2. When humans do something wrong, the government puts them in white rooms and small cells. 3. ...
Sep 9, 2005 -
Re: Illegal Drugs
This is all circumlocutory language around the debate at hand: if you want to take pot, that's your own business, but that is not a valid or rational argument for ...
Sep 9, 2005 -
Re: Leadership
A leader should be one who is familiar with tradition -- everything else is orbita dicta and, consequently, irrelevant. Even total chaos, I suppose, has a certain kind of 'traditional' ...
Sep 9, 2005 -
Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?
The real, proper argument against 'gay marriage' is an argument against all marriage. Constitutionally, gay marriage (or the 'normative' heterosexual marriage) is not protected -- nor are your suppose
Sep 9, 2005 -
Re: reflection in the calm waters of a bathtub
Which, in essence, is the very point of this piece. It was written for my Postmodernism class; hence, fragmentation and (dis)connects are rampant. Allow me to paraphrase T.S. Eliot for ...
Sep 8, 2005 -
Re: Life and Death
Death is a gift.
Sep 8, 2005 -
Re: What Reviewers Wish They Could Say, but Don't.
Under the terms of the Clean Water Act, the Stream of Consciousness is hereby declared irremediably polluted . Do not eat any fish caught in these waters. Swimmers: beware.
Sep 6, 2005
