Couple of possibly irrelevant remarks about suicide. It is quite prevalent - and therefore, I suppose, a subject of discussion - in the northern latit...
You might benefit from a change in lifestyle. Volunteer to do something for people or animals who don't need a rational explanation for wanting to liv...
Yes, as I said, over the crumbs off the rich man's table. IF. But they don't raise their heirs at all, do they? Nannies, tutors, private schools and a...
We can each describe only how we see it. Fosse was discussing his own experience - and yet, it sounds to me that he was, in contradiction of his own w...
I haven't been keeping track. According to this site, Luxembourg must, since it's rated highest for quality of life. But we're all caught in the web o...
Your controlling a part of that co-op doesn't prevent anyone else from having the same degree of control; you can all agree to pool land and resources...
Sure. They can all vie for the title of Who Acquired More Stuff for Their Heirs to Sue Over. Within the admittedly poor limits of my knowledge, the ma...
From birth to dotage, for self-esteem, the love of a happy family, the respect of his fellow citizens, the satisfaction of contribution to the common ...
I've heard of good collaborations and read a few examples and actually edited a story that resulted from the contribution of four or five posters on a...
No; it's not about them: some of them are benevolent, some malevolent, some are unintentionally destructive others do it on purpose; some wield the po...
Not my credit, exactly. I gave up several times. But The Old Man - who was quite young, back then - kept nagging that he wanted to read it, and whenev...
I live near a town called Durham (there are 24 of them in North America). This one is pronounced Durram. I guess nobody has much regard for a central ...
Exactly as wealthy as the poorest. They would both own their homes and control enough land to cultivate food for their family and community, have thei...
It varies greatly by book and by author. In my region, there was a charity event where writers spent a single holiday weekend at a lodge and they each...
*swoon!* Classy gobbledygook! I'm retired and the time I waste is coming out of my rapidly dwindling sojourn on this planet. With a novel, you sometim...
in American, 'princess' usually refers to the daughter of parents who have wealth and social status; their children are accustomed to having everythin...
Clarity and concision are important to me in a short story, though I allow longer flights of description and internal monologue in a novel, where the ...
So far, I've encountered nothing in cyberspace or the walking world that could dissuade me from writing. The only reason I didn't enter the last round...
I think, on this subject, two reasons: I don't write competitively as a rule, and because there are no metrics; no set criteria for victory as in a po...
ie adjective describing an action Never "Jack honested to Jill about his gambling addiction.", but rather 'confessed' or 'admitted' or ' revealed' Tho...
Honesty, yes, may be motivated by different influences. But that's not the same thing as an honest person. The one who is only honest because he's afr...
Adjectives can describe both of those conditions, plus several others: matters of taste, like sexy or ugly; matters of happenstance, like sick or luck...
How can you read too much into it? That's the whole point: honesty is a quality. "Honest" describes both a facet of someone's character (the way they ...
My Gr 13 final exam included a list of titles, from which we had to choose one and write a story. It worked out well for me, because one of the titles...
Neither. It's an adjective: An honest person is one who can be relied on not to cheat, deceive or mislead others. Honesty is the characteristic such a...
Survival and subsistence are not necessarily pleasurable - indeed, for many individuals, they are distinctly unpleasant. Also difficult, disappointing...
I hope even primates can evolve out of their savage ways, if the way is shown, not by chimpanzees but mountain gorillas like Ishmael ... but then, isn...
I much prefer a rating system to a Yes/No choice... if it must be a contest. Personally, I would prefer just to say what I liked and didn't like about...
Does that mean each Christian denomination has a separate consciousness because each has a separate organizational hierarchy? And does that account fo...
Who is the proposed standard-setter and arbiter of all these qualifying criteria, child welfare, potential harm, etc? In what sort of environment coul...
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