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  • Lyric Poetry Re: Galvanize

    This is why I agree with Rigel: make it blunt-er. Graaaaah nononono! Please no. If there's one thing I hate it's associating poetry you understand with good poetry. If you ...

    Oct 14, 2007
  • Official Polls Re: At What Age Did You Begin Reading?

    I'm pretty sure I was reading before I was three, though I don't remember what my first book would have been. I do remember that very early on a had ...

    Oct 14, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Book Banning

    Just as one country's social evil is another's constitutional right, so one person's dangerous book is another's bible. "Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chaine

    Oct 14, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Post Your Pic Here (4)

    Ah, photowhoring some adventures. Good stuff. Nevada Desert: Burning Man paaaaarty: The crew vs. the Grand Canyon: We won. Into the unknown... Ah, summer, how did I love thee? Let ...

    Oct 14, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: If you could meet ten people online in person....

    Ah, how I have missed you folks :) Now, people's lists are getting larger by the minute, so I'm going to be good and try to stick to roughly ten. ...

    Oct 14, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: The "I'm Back" Thread

    So, uh... yeah.

    Oct 14, 2007
  • Research Re: Prostitutes, Lovers, Marriage, and all that fun stuff...

    On Marriage What age is a reasonable age for marriage? 18 What events would have to happen before you would consider marriage? Me personally? Ideally I'd like to get to ...

    Jun 13, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: The Parental Issue!

    I'm lucky in that my parents have encouraged me to write ever since I started making up poems when I was a kid; it's like they understood how important it ...

    Jun 8, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The I-Doser

    Alternative medicine - a wonderful concept. Like a kind of self-prayer, they are things that are proven because they work, and they work because of the immense power people's mind ...

    Jun 6, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate- Crimes

    Hate criminals could possibly receive some counseling in addition to their sentences to aid in preventing any future crimes. Teuf opens up an interesting point - actually, what is the ...

    May 18, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Sarkozy Wins French Election

    It has to do with his actually being the devil. The problem with Sarkozy is that if he does nothing to reform (Chirac-style) then France stays right where it is ...

    May 9, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Sarkozy Wins French Election

    Heard it on the radio. One giant step backwards for Frenchkind.

    May 7, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Worst Ending line EVER!

    "at this point I would like to mention that, as I'm self-publishing this book, it's not like anyone's ever going to read it anyway, so it really doesn't matter one ...

    May 5, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: C.S. Lewis

    Till We Have Faces is a serious struggle, but absolutely worth it, it's so rewarding. I can't believe I forgot to mention Perelandra which is, along with Out of the ...

    May 5, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Worst Ending line EVER!

    "Once upon a time..."

    May 3, 2007


Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko