god must be atheist

Two words exited the language just as quickly as they had come. They had a spectacular career -- if one can say that of words -- then they fell into o...

For a while. Because for a long while they've started to go south, through the drain. I suggest you watch the movie "Under The Pavement Lies Strand". ...

My strands of hair flow down the drain in the shower.

You don't have to stop at two!! You are doing a marvellous job. Sometimes the analytical commentaries are much better than the story itself. At other ...

Well seen!! However, you can't discount the fact that writers are egomaniacal narcissists. They may not have narcissistic personalities, but they are ...

People are still in the competition mode, I think. They are weighing the ranks of the papers in terms of their own liking. Maybe, I mean. Maybe they a...

You mean the customers, or the inanimate products for sale?

I liked it when the story says:

Brilliant!! This I really liked. This has a philosophical theme, apt for our site. I really liked this un.

It sounds like God has a degree in cost accounting and business management. Love? Emotional attachment? Idolization of a special one? To the heck with...

I thought it was a fly. What was it? And what happened? So we have a story without a hero and without a plot. Brilliant. (???)

I think the story is how the bull jumps over the wall to avoid his tormentors. This has been written by a vegan or by a vegetarian. The story is how l...

Could be. I don't know.

Honestly, I thought Pop was talking about word count for the story. I read it through, and I can't seem to find a logical connection between "not enou...

An unconscionable man laughing at his own demise... I guess when you deal with and dish out extreme pain and death all day long at work, then your per...

You're right. A blood-red sky on Earth is unlikely. And if it happened, it would be scary. Very scary. Unless it's happened during a sunrise or a suns...

The style was superb in its non-conformist word choice and individualistic grammar. I got lost who shouts "Ugly puss thrust outside: "Fuggoff! I'll be...

I thought it was Earth... the Monarch butterfly is most likely indigenous only to Earth. Maybe. And humans were battling the invading warriors... inva...

The narration went a bit too long for a story (of any length; I am talking proportions) and it became a short story in my eyes at the end only. Up to ...

The above was a response to Javi. If you read my posts, really, you'd see that I am not against the type of responses available; I am against AMBIGUIT...

I could not help but think about this "it's okay" thing. Further thoughts to clarify the problem for native speakers, who can't imagine how "it's okay...

In my language Esta bien means nothing. But if "Esta bien" means "This is good", then it's precisely NOT what "It's okay" means. You are completely wr...

Your seeing it differently from me, is just one more point of proof that "it's okay" is ambiguous. I am not opposing the fact that we can't put "I don...

The above post was a complaint, really, in the same vein that I complained on single's sites that they avoided the word "fat" at all costs. Their syno...

Oh, Boy! I will be eaten alive once more, I know. Because I have another question on idioms. What exactly does "It's okay" entail? Does "it's okay" me...

Right. I don't respond well to ribbing, but my response to it may be entertaining enough to others. I sound like a sourpuss, I know. I never mastered ...

I thought it was a beautiful allegory of human struggle, success, and recognition. Actually, not only human, but of other species as well.

No offense taken. I have not drank a drop of alcohol since I was 22 years of age. And that was 44 years ago. My question was genuine.

Applies generally to all forms of creative art.

I take this micro-fiction call is not for a competition but for a display of creations by members?

Methinks, anything. If you like it, say what you like about it; if you don't like it, don't say it. If writers knew what was great to write, AND appea...

What does "... absolutely loyal to the last" mean in this fragment? I am not being funny; I am being stupid. To the last what? There is a reference th...

I re-read my post. Infinity: it is an effable word, everyone knows it, yet its true meaning is ineffable. It can be called a name, but its essence is ...

It is said that each string has two ends. It is sad that each thread has two ends. One of the two ends may be never finished, completed, and final; bu...

Thanks. In light of the above, I voted option no. three in the poll of this topic.

Wow. I am impressed by the quality and depth of the answers. In fact, I shall need several re-reads of the posts on this thread to give justice to the...

Sorry, I left a post that i had thought had been pertinent, but it was not; I talked about the issue of morality vs empathy. Apologies.

Your post history reminds me of the bible: the text could be interpreted in any way, of course for different reasons. In your case, (not in the bible'...

There was an argument, then, not a proposition. At least two peasant uprising has had those: That of Dozsa Gyorgy and that of Geyer Florian. Maybe mor...

It would benefit this community if after publication you'd kindly let us know the publisher, the publication, and the venue (in case it's a paper you ...

What's eating you? You suck the life force out of the debate. I can't do this. Sorry. I don't have the inclination or the energy to argue against unim...

King Mathias was a maverick king. In the eyes of the folklore. I am sure he enjoyed breaking into the wheels (a Hungarian Special in the long line of ...

Spartacus, spare the cuss! Revolutionaries are a breed. A different one. I can't resist the lure of weeping with sentimentality, and I am not joking, ...

Thanks. Then why the poll, and the entire thread? I know you want to find out the answer to: ... but this question was not put in the OP. One can find...

1. Helps the overpopulation crisis. 2. Provides ability to not drive off the highway when there is a low and thick fog, so that you can't see the road...

No problem. The car has many parts; not one of them can be described "this is the speed of the car." The working car, when driven, has a speed contras...

I am not a very careful reader. but I sense that in the first quote you ask us to prove the proposition, or rather, to make a judgement on it (which i...

There are a lot of tales in Hungarian fairy tales that have roots in German- and even Greek fables, based on Aesop, The Grimm brothers, and the likes ...

I read a lot of Hungarian fairy tales, in my childhood, and one Gypsy fairy tale in my readings in my late teens. Hungarian fairy tales have a hero, m...

Careful. Nailing Bartricks to see his own contradiction is like trying to nail a bit of liquid quicksilver to the wall. Like I said, Bartricks is illo...