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I'm reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbera Kingsolver. It's a book I try to read at least once a year, so its power over me never lessens. Because it's one ...

"When you're in our position, the future is whatever you make of it; that might not sound like much, but it's not just our future we're talking about, it's for ...

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Spectacular, one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking Christian-themed books I've ever read. Of course, there's plenty more that's just as amazing by Lewis; Mere Christianity and Till We Hav

To add my $0.02 to this whole "why should I be positive?" thing: I don't understand why there is a "should" and "shouldn't". I think if people want to critique ...

Yeah... Carter's low integrity or America's trying to keep their ally's political skeletons in the cupboard; who knows.

Is it worth watching? Yeah, definitely; I've never watched masses of Anime, though I started loads and often got frustrated, but this is one I loved right from beginning to ...

The point is that there are times when saying "the grammar and punctuation was done well" just doesn't do justice to the horrific nature of the piece as a whole; ...

What do people do besides writing? ... I don't think I understand the question...

Life was different in Unit E at the state prison outside Newton, Iowa. The toilets and sinks — white porcelain ones, like at home — were in a separate bathroom ...

Ah, yes, old Ev... an interesting band. I feel like Amy Lee is the Art Garfunkel for this generation; great set of tubes, but she just needs someone with real ...

I'm with Incan; honesty is the best policy. Some poems just don't have anything to applaud, and there are those of us who aren't in the habit of making up ...

I am firstly a dialectical materialist with an interest in theology: materialists are the only true believers. A Lacanian joke is in order to illustrate the nature of belief: a ...

Tajfel, 1970: Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination . Findings: discrimination can be created simply by creating group membership. No actual difference between the groups is needed. In essence, a h

I don't know if I'd have ever written or even seriously read poetry if it hadn't been for a chance encounter with Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson: reading through that ...