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Life & Deathwhat defines life
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And, my friend, what is the point of not 'anthropomising' life when those that judge life and write it down and think with their minds are themselves not human?
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FLOWERS AND SILENCES
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The dim darkness-the diffused light-dimness of one merging into the other-
imparting more length to the long trees that are standing like stretched out
shadows wearing stars in their hair- silence i... |
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PoetryWhat's so Great about Shakespeare!
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I've written a series of cantos based on William Shakespeare's sonnets.
I believe my cantos are better.
Many of the people I've read here on Captain Cynic today are better than Shake... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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Ethics should be sung, not said. Ethics is the frail raft which the virtuous man trusts through churning seas. It pulls us down, it stops us from angling for the stars, even as it puts solid ground be... |
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GovernmentMy Democrat amigos MUST READ!
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But I can't imagine the great Democratic Party leaders of past generations waiting with their hands in their pockets while a bunch of dithering diplomats decided the future of the world.
Remember it... |
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Religion & HumanityReligious beliefs
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I really do NOT need to defend my faith. I really should not care enough to be a role model.
If there were no God, and no religion to give me the 'Baptism, Communion, Marriage' etc,..I woul... |
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EconomyStock market and social security
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Stock market and social security
1. Winner's gain is from loser's.
A farmer planted a seed. He sold the fruit The famer created a wealth.
A worker produced a car. He sold the car. He... |
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Religion & HumanityReligion fear tactics
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"Did you happen to glance at the inevitable consequences I outlined from your want of socialization? Do you realize the excessive burden everyone has to bear because you don't think... |
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Sweet Husband-Swapping Goddess
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Canto 8
by Wolf Larsen
Music gives birth to a child, and the music dies sadly?
All the wars of joy & delight for war profiteers, the bombs exploding in air.
And why must we labor for the bour... |
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ElectionsJust watched another John Kerry master plan
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Generally people feel disgust towards US in my country. I have spoken with few German young people - the same feeling. I consider this feeling to be nonsense, these people to be stupid. It is obvious... |
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Religion & HumanityReligion fear tactics
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Any system is sustainable to abuse.
...some less so than others. There were necessary precautions that even the founding fathers felt the free-market needed when they drew up the Constitution. Spe... |
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God in ReligionThe Problem of Evil
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So, it seems to make sense that if it is possible for God to make beings that are free of mental and physical anguish in heaven, then it should have been possible for God to make humans free of mental... |
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ChristianityCatholics vs Christians
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Tradition of the church is an important factor.
If you read St John, he tells many times, that he will tell them 'in person' ..towads the end of the text.
He therefore leaves open the oral... |
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Robert Graves' Goliath and David
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Yet once an earlier David took
Smooth pebbles from the brook:
Out between the lines he went
To that one-sided tournament,
A shepherd boy who stood out fine
And young to fight a Philistine
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SocietyPoverty
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With all the debate recently for amending the United States Constitution in favor of recognizing marriage as a union between a man and woman, perhaps a more appropriate amendment should guarantee each... |
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SocietyA New Discovery
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"– ALTHOUGH YOU KNOW IT IS NOT BEYOND YOUR CONTROL AT THIS POINT SINCE NOTHING CAN FORCE YOU TO HURT ME AGAINST YOUR WILL UNLESS YOU WANT TO – you are compelled, completely of your own free w... |
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Creative MusingsCan't We Bleed For Ourselves As Much As Any Other, Please?
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Lay It Down And Let It Teach You A Lesson
It's a beautiful and overwhelming burden you're hiding under, more than enough to deflect the more pointed barbs and criticisms directed at yo... |
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GUYS I NEED YOUR ADVICE, LADIES CAN ANSWER TOO
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Welcome Kind_Heart!
I'll try to answer some of your questions honestly. Bear with me though.... I tend to ramble. :D
First off.... I totally know how you feel. I first had sex the summer... |
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Paranormal & PseudoscienceDeja Vu-Theories
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My theory of deja vú has several levels to it and to me irrefutable evidence for time travel and against extra-terrestial contact.
In the Bible, Ezekial has contact with 'beings' that ha... |
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Creative MusingsPossibly predictable, but far from absent of new wonder
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The Banality: Interest Immediately
Damn, but how typical is this instinct to communicate and attempt to relate with the unexpected? Positively Pavlovian, or only predictably so? I just don'... |
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GovernmentPoltical Philosophy
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In the 1950s Peter Laslett announced that \"political philosophy, at least for the moment, is dead\"; and whatever the protetastions to the contrary, and the fact the discipline experienced... |
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Novels on Terrorism
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And just when you thought you had enough of it. People have tried to imagine what the lives of terrorists, secret agents who stop terrorists, and relatives of terrorists were like. Summaries of these... |
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Creative MusingsDeja-Vu you never knew?
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And We All Have Been Here Before
I keep telling you I cannot stay, not even for the likes of you I'll never hold, not as dear as your particular manifestation...and my feet remain hovering... |
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ChristianityTruth about 666, the beast and seal of the beast
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It's going on two (2) Months and no one still gives a damn about you...
So... what level of what ever have we completed recently...? Or has the role playing and the board games all twisted in... |
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God in ReligionGod in physical form in Africa(Bulawayo Zim)
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Okcitykid,
You assert a certain theism to Albert Einstein in your messages dated 2nd and 7th of this month. Yet you don't specify which god the Great Man worships. He evinced a great admiration... |
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