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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Art

    Ahem. He must be quite aware of the obvious fact that art never improves [changes], but that the material of art is never quite the same.

    Sep 19, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Art

    In English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence. We cannot refer to "the tradition" or to "a tradition"; at most, ...

    Sep 18, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?

    Qi -- how is understanding the purpose of homosexuality homologous to understanding existence? That's assinine. I want a link, or an article, or a book that will tell me what ...

    Sep 12, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?

    Read Luce Irigaray's "Speculum of the Other Woman". The purpose of lesbianism, nay, homosexuality in general, is to escape the phallus, in all its symbolic and practical manifestations and contortions

    Sep 11, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate 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
  • Serious Discussion and Debate 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
  • Serious Discussion and Debate 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
  • Serious Discussion and Debate 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
  • Serious Discussion and Debate 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
  • Serious Discussion and Debate 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
  • Serious Discussion and Debate 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
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Life and Death

    Death is a gift.

    Sep 8, 2005
  • Randomosity 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
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Illegal Drugs

    Viagra doesn't endanger everyone, m'dear. If everyone took Viagra, not everyone would be blind. However, if everyone smoked pot, everyone's brains would deteriorate at a higher rate than usual.

    Sep 6, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Illegal Drugs

    Your point is? It was banned because it was proven to directly endanger the lives of those taking it.

    Sep 3, 2005


In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to stay true to one's literary and philosophical principles.
— Lemony Snicket