i enjoyed this story. it's a different and interesting perspective on vampires, as well as truly old-time religion. the conversation of the two angels...
pretty weird story. i think i would probably like it after serious editing. i'm sure there is a cute story buried in all that fancy linguistic choreog...
my impression is that they're nothing like the stone village in which they actually live; they're fantasy houses and her wish is a hopeless desire for...
very interesting story. dare i say conradian? elements of fable, science fiction and exploration. i found it intriguing enough to wish for more : what...
just that ^^^ a terrible story, beautifully told. the language, the imagery, the characterization, the psychology - all first class. this is a small m...
i meant the odd wording. there may be a threat of domestic violence, but i doubt it would be anything remarkable in the circs. not belonging where she...
i get the general idea of a man having an irresponsible one-night stand and eventually having to face the consequences. i find it odd that the protago...
i was fascinated and entranced by the first part. i'm familiar with that painting and have always found it both disturbing and a little off-putting, t...
funny how differently we see things. i, too, was momentarily taken aback by some odd phrases like 'pristine reek of fish' and cut up like garlic, but ...
i was completely immersed in this story. the island has a solid reality - possibly because so much of its furnishings are made of stone. this suggests...
a fascinating modern take on the gift of the magi. two unhappy people who don't know where they belong find a very strange resolution and union in dea...
for some reason, that struck me as the funniest line. i enjoyed the whole thing, from the characters - especially clyde - to the easy unhurried flow o...
it sounds to me like the extreme projection of dr. phil and the like. the producers - and presumably the audience - want drama, more intense drama, da...
once you're in the analysis mind-set, everything becomes a psychological investigation. that's deftly depicted here; it shows fine understanding of th...
me too! sounds as if he'd come all this way for a glass of wine - somewhat reminiscent of amonitllado - then suddenly there is a woman and miles of un...
the finance metaphors are spot-on and amusing, and i like the hymn. but maybe too much of it? i feel the debate should have a larger share of the stor...
The human condition in a square bracket. We have caused most of our own misery - not entirely unknowingly, because there was always at least one 'enem...
Which is exactly what I've been saying. You can stimulate a fetal brain anywhere you wants, and it still won't know what 'another' is, let alone guess...
Ask and it shall be given. Google provides. Now I'm off to find out how many roles Ron Masak has played in the tv series Murder She Wrote. Love trivia...
Who says it has to be unconditional? The normal thinking is: If you help others when they need it, they'll be motivated to help you when you need it. ...
What, then, is the requirement? No they have not. No person of faith living today has conceived of a god independently. They've been told by their pri...
Easily done; his life was very public. Lots of acting out before an audience. Here's one source There should be a few quality picture books in the lib...
Once you put a little distance between your present self and the experience that turned you against a particular religion, you can begin to think abou...
I never denied that humans, as well as other species draw conclusions, or at least surmise, what another sentient being is thinking. I reject the idea...
I could have sworn you did. Reading inward signs is telepathy. To form a guess, conjecture, theory or belief about what's in another mind, we first ne...
Ask the person whose thought they were guessing. He may tell the truth about what he was thinking at that moment, or he may lie, or he may refuse to a...
I have a couple of books, since about 1970. Anecdote; the second year I was working, I saw a pair of minor Dali prints in a Toronto gallery. #175 of t...
All over the place. It's Called Christ of Saint John of the Cross. He was quite mad, you know. Aside from the boundless imagination, he had a reported...
Nothing about Dali was average. He turned things inside-out and merged them with other things. It's also floating in space. Here's a slightly more tra...
Oh, yeah. Christian, Jewish or Muslim, that's clearly stated in The Book. Ignorance, coupled with the threat of punishment, is obedience. That was the...
I did. Once these questions are answered, you can go on to which kind of good you want explore. 'Start with' was a poor choice of words. In some situa...
Good observation! So, think of a definition that covers all of its uses. Something like: that which most closely approaches a preconceived standard. W...
And this is important to you. Why? What does this mean? Malevolution? Man shooting the wrong species? Yes, I can see that. I can also substitute 'prej...
Try: What is the purpose of defining good? That is, Why do I need to make this distinction? To acknowledge that some things are good and some things a...
I don't discriminate between 'sorts' of thinking. Reason is reason, whether it's applied to practical or fanciful subjects. That's been known to produ...
Of course. How else do we draw conclusions about anything? We don't get inward signs of other individuals. So what? A thought is rational or irrationa...
Theory of mind originated with gorillas? Without language? OK - I did not know that 'theory' could be applied to an inarticulate process like watching...
Whose narrative isn't based on their own notion of mind? There is no method to discriminate between what human language less creatures are capable of ...
No kidding! What's the point of a brain, if it's not to generate a mind? But if the word troubles you, turn off the sound and watch the action. Why is...
Yes. But how is that empathy? It doesn't have to be dramatic; people also yawn when they see others doing it; a giggle fit can engulf the entire table...
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