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Of course it has no boundaries. Where would they come from, philosophy, no? Also I find thee list odd. why is private property any less extreme then t...
December 20, 2022 at 18:10
Sounds like a dilemma more then a story. Well, her love remains the same, but it is directed to someone else. If you can live with another being that ...
December 20, 2022 at 18:07
I'd never resort to torturing physicists.... Geographers perhaps or those pesky biologists, but not physicists, they elicit a deep compassion within m...
December 20, 2022 at 18:02
Yes, a curious coincidence which through a nice little unintended riddle in the two stories :cool: :love:
December 20, 2022 at 16:25
I wonder if you need the bullfighter... for me that is so much screaming of Spain it becomes formulaic. I would have liked it better if it was say, a ...
December 20, 2022 at 15:53
The narrator is egotistical, claiming he can think for her and know perfectly why she acts as she does. One should not do that, not even in a case of ...
December 20, 2022 at 12:57
Penelope is the shortener of names and the mother of werereceptionists. I like how the way P. laughs is in fact irritating, or at least odd, yet also ...
December 20, 2022 at 12:51
I'm actually afraid we have many of them within our ranks...
December 20, 2022 at 12:43
I am really curious who's story this is, but I would not be surprised if it was @"180 Proof". Just like the last lines in Felice left me very sad, the...
December 19, 2022 at 21:13
Yes! I like this one. It is strange but at the same time all too common. Strong. edit: The name 'Garrison Titmouse' already seals the deal for me. I u...
December 18, 2022 at 13:32
No, they are telling their children they can become everything they want. That is not true. It is a lie. It is a hurtful one because now if they do no...
December 18, 2022 at 12:34
Nahhh, overly romantic thinking. You will have a job which does not give that much satisfaction and get paid less. Unless there is something you reall...
December 17, 2022 at 09:10
It is called work. It is rare to be passionate about a job. I am in some aspects of the job I do, but mostly not. A job that pays well is a good thing...
December 16, 2022 at 23:03
He does tell a lie, a lie that does more harm than good to todays students because not only do they believe they can become anything they want, they f...
December 16, 2022 at 23:00
Sometimes things are complex and laden with meaning. More often they are not. It is very cleverly done though.
December 16, 2022 at 10:18
Thanks to all who interpreted the story. It is not an allegory in the sense that the characters stand for more than just themselves. That does not mea...
December 16, 2022 at 10:09
This is so cool... It is even quite hard to write a story with those ingredients that dull... It does go to show the emptiness of a phrase 'to love so...
December 15, 2022 at 15:29
You get teary eyed when it comes to allegories and symbols, but it is the flesh that is absolute Benkei.
December 15, 2022 at 14:47
My guess for the pornshop would be Bitter Crank. And yes, sex is an extremely important subject.
December 15, 2022 at 14:41
Isn't it @"Caldwell"'s call to indicate whether there will be a winner or not? I do not mind either way...
December 15, 2022 at 10:43
This is indeed a good story, though the language and style put me off at first. The plot and speed are very strong.
December 14, 2022 at 20:04
I note down Benkei for the Double Helix by the way....
December 14, 2022 at 17:02
And yet, it is still far, far worse than you just fathomed...
December 14, 2022 at 17:00
second that! :wink:
December 14, 2022 at 16:53
No, has nothing to do with wokeness. It is just interesting that the parable reiterates one of these tacit assumptions in philosophy that are under sc...
December 14, 2022 at 14:43
Well, it seems to be about opposites, but on a more metaphysical level. We tend to divide things into such categories, the untamed nature versus cultu...
December 14, 2022 at 11:59
I think this is an AI story actually. It is asked to write a story about someone who submitted and AI story and won... some sort of self reflection lo...
December 14, 2022 at 09:11
:joke:
December 14, 2022 at 09:09
You don't like the blunt reality of mental or physical suffering/abuse in stories? — Amity No, they can be very effective in stories I think. I do not...
December 14, 2022 at 08:45
When I am sober I spell 'ménage à trois' correctly... when I am not I indulge in it...
December 14, 2022 at 08:40
You mean to say it is part of my my highly evocative, path breaking oeuvre of magical realist urban fiction? I would not misspell ménage à trois...
December 14, 2022 at 08:20
Viva Mexico! :rofl:
December 13, 2022 at 21:53
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December 13, 2022 at 21:47
No... I think it is this line. As if one can just rearrange the equation and start to 'live for oneself'... It is a neo-liberal mantra, but for me rat...
December 13, 2022 at 19:27
Gee, the story reminds me a lot of Spain... :wink: It scream Spain just as much as Madonna's La Isla Bonita...
December 13, 2022 at 11:38
Well, you wrote this: Curiosity became knowledge, she has found herself and you connected it with absolute knowledge. I think that is no coincidence t...
December 11, 2022 at 12:11
Not for me... too heavy handed on the misery ... self mutilation on a Sunday afternoon...
December 11, 2022 at 11:55
It feels to me like a stylistic excercise. It invokes images, especially of cold, wet nasty swamplands. Yet I do not know what is happening there. Imp...
December 11, 2022 at 11:29
Agreed. What I find curious is that the definition of absolute knowledge is self knowledge. However, when it comes to 'forms' or 'ideas', which Curios...
December 11, 2022 at 11:22
Voting did not always disappoint me... However, the ranking will be skewed when stories are not published at the same time. The interest of some will ...
December 10, 2022 at 04:52
Hmmmm, very inspiring Amity... Let's see if I can make something out of the story as well... IT lives by itself now, so I am in no way really privileg...
September 13, 2022 at 05:01
You mean to say people have stopped doing that? :yikes:
August 04, 2022 at 13:44
Well, here you make the assumption that law is a science. To the German mind it is, to the British it is not... the rule "water cooks at 100 degrees c...
August 01, 2022 at 13:46
This is a very good question, central to the philosophy of law. I do think that indeed we must have something of a shared story a like mindedness when...
August 01, 2022 at 13:03
I am hesitant to endorse Hegels writing on history. It is purely speculative in the sense that with Hegel's dialectic in hand I could write a complete...
August 01, 2022 at 07:44
It is indeed as simple as that.
July 29, 2022 at 16:10
Deleted.... inappropriate in this thread, or the questions were no longer relevant?
July 28, 2022 at 12:06
Yes, but the virtue would be entirely without consequence if you would not act on it and that seems wasteful. Being wasteful hardly seems virtuous. A ...
July 26, 2022 at 20:49
Yes, but from that follows that knowledge as perceiving is not enough for virtue because this knowledge is only actualized in action, no? Actually wha...
July 26, 2022 at 17:44
Yes, but is this doing applied to the act of knowing only, or, and that was Hello Human's point I guess, is knowing, even as an act of knowing, not en...
July 26, 2022 at 13:01