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Garrel The last Al'aran was on the defensive, as the dragons and their riders closed in on it from all sides. Ian, Thorn and Ciru were using their powers to ...

*takes dagger to the chest* Damn. Yeah I'm a bit of a TNR fan, just because it streamlines the whole process. My lecturers prefer it for my essays and my ...

Madame Bovary. Although I'm sure there are guys out there who like it, and chicks who don't, the general decider on this one seems to be gender. It *does* seem ...

I read "the white man's burden" for english (honestly I would think it features in every post-colonial syllabus around these days), loving the original. I like your adaptation, though it's ...

Wow, that seems quite grand indeed. I've got to say though, that the idea of a peace taking hundreds of thousands of years to form....time doesn't need to scale up ...

I agree with Black ghost, life forms do not obey the laws of classification, they conform to them. As for the parasitic nature of reproduction....parasitic organisms that cannot survive without ...

Hmm we seem to be rehashing the same ideas we brought up earlier... Basically, I would consider smacking a child to be sufficient to teach them right and wrong (in ...

*I've got no issues with her joining. Welcome! Please read the previous posts to catch up on the backstory. I'll post after someone else.*

Raven When he heard the muffled conversation far down the dark road ahead of him, Raven slowed to a trot, before making for the cover of the scrub that lined ...

tnme, does this mean you don't believe the exert's you reference didn't happen as they are literally portrayed?

Raven Tanner Raven was rather dissappointed to have his reading disrupted. He was rather engrossed in the book, one of the few histories of the times of Sir Polonius Hawk ...

Natural rage? I mean, yeah I squished ants as a kid, but there was no rage there. Rage is a reaction to unjust treatment (whatever you conceive that to be), ...

But what if we are taught to measure good and evil by a different standard? By your logic, a man taught that genocide and rape are *good* (or at least ...

Ah but Mantis, do you have to understand an action you commit is evil for it to be evil? It's easier to accept that our environment insills in us a ...

By the very use of the word *evil* (if not the fact that the debaters on these threads usually assume it), I assume we are considering *evil* as defined in ...