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  • Dramatic Poetry Re: A Prayer to Allah

    Good, good: there are just a couple of things. It needs punctuation if it's honestly going to be a poem - when you read it out loud (especially considering it's ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The american race?

    Just as a person can be a brother, father, uncle, son, student, employee, husband, lover etc, so they can be many nationalities. I'm British, English, Canadian, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Muslim Man Convicted(?) for Converting

    Wrong: what we are saying is not that your point of view is invalid. Rather, we are saying you have no right to force your point of view on anyone, ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Muslim Man Convicted(?) for Converting

    Somehow, this seems to have turned into an eastern mindset verses western mindset debate: we're not here for that. Let's take a look at the basic facts: what the law ...

    Mar 28, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Muslim Man Convicted(?) for Converting

    there's the possibility that some 'values' and beliefs are more just or more natural. So are murderers not to be imposed upon to stop murdering? It's an example that's used ...

    Mar 28, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Favorites in Classic Literature...

    Dante, Snoink? The Inferno or the DC? The Inferno does rock, I must say; when I get my cat, I'm calling him Dante.

    Mar 27, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Muslim Man Convicted(?) for Converting

    Both sides of the coin can be argued. While we believe in freedom of religion, there is obviously a majority in that country who don't. The question is, do we ...

    Mar 27, 2006
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Most Influential Poet(s)

    Tennyson, Heaney.

    Mar 25, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: pro-anorexia/bulima websites and blogs

    @girlwhofateloves: the simple fact is that, with anything, if you hush it up and don't talk about it, people are more likely to get into it. Not only will it ...

    Mar 23, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Stereo types: more or less true?

    Stereotypes are, effectively, the way the mind has of dealing with the overflow of information attacking it: just as we form 'rules' about how things will react (ball will fall ...

    Mar 23, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: pro-anorexia/bulima websites and blogs

    Aye - think about it, fategirl: we raise awareness of the Holocaust (some places even have laws against denying it) so that people never forget how destructive it was, and ...

    Mar 13, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: pro-anorexia/bulima websites and blogs

    Conventional liberal ethics - drawing mostly on Mill - would say, as Brad does, that as long as you are not directly harming someone else, you have a right to ...

    Mar 12, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The Milgram Experiment

    We studied the Milgram experiment. There are some problems with it - sample/validity etc. - but the conclusions are fairly damning. You have to look at it in wider context ...

    Mar 12, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: Hi to all

    Hola. I'm Bob. Nice to meet you. That's all.

    Mar 9, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Primavera

    ... First off, you write with maturity far above your age. I'm very impressed. Seconly, you have a love-hate relationship with punctuation. You use it well within the lines, but ...

    Mar 9, 2006


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