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Now I think I'm forced to learn to write from somewhere else other than my head ... Thanks so much for encouraging me. :flower: :hearts:
August 27, 2023 at 11:56
Since my first bout of Covid-19 in early 2021, I have, for all practical purposes, forgotten how to write 'fiction'. I've had to relearn how to enter ...
August 27, 2023 at 10:43
It's a symbolic practice heuristically (or algorithmically) effective for controlling behavior and / or the environment despite insufficient time and/...
August 27, 2023 at 06:01
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August 27, 2023 at 04:03
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August 27, 2023 at 04:02
:100: x :100: :clap: (Careful, Wayf, your 'materialist bias' is beginning to show. :smirk:)
August 27, 2023 at 03:59
Ditto @"Vera Mont" above. Anyway, thanks for reading and discussing this rough draft. I wonder if @"Noble Dust" will edit the OP by adding another, mo...
August 27, 2023 at 03:30
I was "deliberately" trying not to spoon-feed the reader. "Her heart raced" adds nothing, IMO, to her being pulled over for speeding. Maybe I my appro...
August 27, 2023 at 01:03
Some (mild) 'reflections' on the last half century of a White Nationalist-Patriarchy movement – backlash to Minority & Women's Civil Rights and Non-Wh...
August 27, 2023 at 00:58
Any suggestions how I can convey the fear behind her "cool and calculating thoughts" more clearly?
August 26, 2023 at 23:33
:100: :rofl: @"NOS4A2"
August 25, 2023 at 19:03
Unmasked years ago ... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64411569 :smirk: :up:
August 25, 2023 at 14:26
Amen. :smirk:
August 25, 2023 at 05:48
Okay. But consider what one can get... :flower: I like to implicate the reader in moral ambiguities or dilemmas (e.g. "Brother Jake's").
August 25, 2023 at 05:06
On the contrary, I "ground" ethics and epistemology and ... "in rationality" (i.e. adaptive inferential-discourse). Maybe this divergence is why we're...
August 25, 2023 at 04:32
I don't think the story is about "the fate of tape guy" or that "the cop's vices or virtues" factor into what happens or doesn't happen, and I don't s...
August 25, 2023 at 04:12
:clap: :rofl: Inmate No. P01135809 - RICO Suave!
August 25, 2023 at 01:20
How old is too old for one to pay for one's crimes? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/23/new-orleans-priest-admits-abusing-minors
August 23, 2023 at 19:34
Yeah, which is why I don't read his actions as "heroic".
August 23, 2023 at 18:48
@"javi2541997" @"god must be atheist" @"Baden" @"Noble Dust" @"Janus" @"Caldwell" @"T Clark" @"Tobias" @"Jack Cummins" @"Vera Mont" @"Jamal" @"ucarr" ...
August 23, 2023 at 10:22
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August 23, 2023 at 07:40
@"javi2541997" @"god must be atheist" @"Baden" @"Noble Dust" @"Janus" @"Caldwell" @"T Clark" @"Tobias" @"Jack Cummins" @"Vera Mont" Thanks very much t...
August 23, 2023 at 06:34
Why did you post this picture in this thread?
August 23, 2023 at 05:51
@"hypericin" – Congrats! :up:
August 23, 2023 at 05:48
:cool: :up:
August 23, 2023 at 05:45
Thanks for sharing your (joy of words - in French) with us, my friend. :flower: :sparkle:
August 23, 2023 at 05:43
Inspite of myself (so sick to death of zombie-shit too), this tale really grabbed me and wouldn't let go until "... I think". :eyes: C'mon, @"Benkei"
August 23, 2023 at 05:30
Yeah, something like that ...
August 23, 2023 at 05:18
My favorite. Zen-like? Even reminds me of lyrical snippets from "Good Morning, Good Morning" & "All You Need is Love" & "I Am the Walrus" Were you in ...
August 23, 2023 at 05:12
A memory of calm or calming memory. Seeing without looking ... except for these missteps into self-consciousness which interrupt the reader's reverie....
August 23, 2023 at 05:03
I'll drink to that! :party: :yum: ~Sisyphus versus the Stupified!
August 23, 2023 at 04:47
@"ucarr" This expression works for me – intrigues me – as a mandala but not as a poem. 'Cosmos as Incarnation of Song' (à la the Ainulindalë) – yet th...
August 23, 2023 at 04:40
https://youtu.be/c4JqvK3Fwn8?si=AgCbCB0wmJa4b3sp "Locomotive Breath" (4:23) Aqualung, 1971 writer Ian Anderson Jethro Tull https://youtu.be/0ufuH4vZ77...
August 22, 2023 at 09:03
Same to you! :cool:
August 22, 2023 at 08:54
:blush: :hearts:
August 22, 2023 at 07:36
Yes, yes! Thanks to you all for reading me well enough to recognize my scribbles. When the threads are unlocked, I'll directly respond to your comment...
August 22, 2023 at 06:46
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August 22, 2023 at 03:40
To slightly paraphrase ... I assume, @"Bob Ross", you will take issue with this paraphrase and so I look forward to you making explicit its problems o...
August 21, 2023 at 00:27
Results of the poll (using %- ratios as tie-breakers): poems: 1st - "this little boy" (8, 67%) 2nd - "My Dog" (8, 62%) 3rd - "Poem #19" (7, 78%) stori...
August 20, 2023 at 23:50
Yeah, well, as the link in my previous post indicates, I'd advocated Putin's Bitch's disqualification last June or thereabouts. I'm encouraged that th...
August 20, 2023 at 23:47
Signed it. Thanks! :up: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/829968
August 20, 2023 at 23:29
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August 20, 2023 at 22:47
They don't know bad poetry either, it seems, even when it stinks up the joint. :smirk:
August 20, 2023 at 18:52
August 20, 2023 at 05:47
Except tautologically, how are you "100% certain" of anything at all?
August 20, 2023 at 05:42
:clap: :cool:
August 20, 2023 at 05:27
When you say "normal situations" are you referring to locales in (e.g.) Western-Northern Europe? Do you imagine the US-Mexico border is comparable to ...
August 19, 2023 at 10:04
https://youtu.be/1x2aETE0c-I?si=Nh8b9CBUExNnVbWt "True radical freedom is not to make a choice ... It's all of a sudden to experience 'this is my fate...
August 19, 2023 at 00:02
I had no idea TPF had two treasures in our midst @"Amity" and now, new to me, @"Vera Mont". Speaking for myself as an 'unpublished novelist', I'm espe...
August 17, 2023 at 18:47