I haven't interacted with you before, so I am glad to do so. I really like the name, 'Magic triangle'. It does seem that you describe the creative pro...
Some people seem to have more interest in imaginary friends than others. Even as an adult I often find that fantasised romances are often more helpful...
I am glad to see a reply from you because I was surprised that you hadn't submitted an entry for the micro fiction, so I was worried whether you were ...
I just read your second post to me from yesterday. I agree about playfulness in relation to imagination. I have always loved playing because my mum en...
It is interesting to think whether the idea of aesthetic taste is evolved or not. Certainly, I have always gravitated to the arts and inner reality. I...
I don't disagree with your understanding based on evolution and even Jung was ambiguous on the matter. He was juggling between biological naturalism a...
I keep the widest possible understanding of what creativity means. It may be subjective. I may have a slight fixation on the notion of creativity as t...
Believe it or not, I can't get into You Tube. I like listening to albums on CD and reading books, especially paper ones. To some extent I think that t...
I hope that you have a good Christmas. In a way, I did wonder if it was your entry. My dad was Irish and he used to say how Ireland had all the best m...
Congratulations to @Benkai and everyone. I do plan to read them and I am not sure whether they will still be open to votes when the break is over. Als...
On the topic of Plato, the question about where images come from is a question which I do wonder about a lot. That is because Plato's idea of Forms or...
What I do remember is having a discussion with you at some point, in your former reincarnation identity, about urinals as art, because I had a friend ...
Aesthetics appreciation is important as well as the philosophy ideas in the arts. I know people who have studied art based degrees and they have looke...
I was probably fortunate in having the English teachers which I had, especially in sixth form. They opened up a world of philosophy in Shakespeare's '...
The scope of the understanding of what it means to be creative may be restrictive, just as the value of other ideals and goals may be. It may come dow...
Of course, all the aspects of business, politics and health are important as aspects of creativity? My own questioning would be how this relates to th...
In a way, creativity can be a blurry concept philosophically. However, the idea of innovation, the 'new, as well as modification of ideas may be impor...
The idea of 'the less trodden' may be important because it may take an important step in innovation to seek innovation. It may correspond with evoluti...
Can't we wait until the end of the month to score to give more time for people to read. I am wanting to read them and type mine onto the site but I ha...
Apart from hot water bottles and strong coffees in bed, as a recommended mode for participarion in TPF, especially the micro fiction threads, mandator...
Yes, it is meant to be enjoyable and it is such freezing weather in England. The summer competition coincided with the hottest ever weather known here...
My only worry about the stories all appearing on the front page individually is they may get lost and buried if there are too many. I just read a coup...
What seems to me to be a problem with your post is that it seems to misrepresent schizophrenia as being equal to lack of rationality. Schizophrenia is...
I like it because it seems to capture the atmosphere of sex shops so well, almost like a postmodern statement, a bit like the statement of Andy Warhol...
I liked it even though it does appear as more of a scene than as a story, and it may be that micro fiction works better for scenes than full narrative...
To some extent it would probably make some sense to view the brain as being like a virtual reality machine. It generates experience but the idea of a ...
I just logged on during my bus journey now and it was rather funny seeing so many little stories showing up on the front page. Micro fiction may becom...
When you speak of confabulations I am not sure that it is that simple. The day to day shared experiences are often seen as the 'real', but that in its...
I really do think that people are being expected to become more and more like robots. What I find recently is that I get 'official' calls from organis...
I always have thought that protected writing time is important and I try to fit it in. When I am was working I used to try and have a day which I almo...
It is hard to know to what extent I would have come to the exact same view if I had not had the particular experimental experiences. Of course, it is ...
Recently, I was reading some of Timothy Leary's writings, in which he looks at aspects of brain in relation to 'bardo' states. Many people are drawn t...
Until reading your post, I was not aware that there was a deadline of 15th December. So, I had been thinking that I had the whole of December to try r...
Okay, that is useful to know, as I am just looking through the main section, especially not being a techno expert. It is probably good that the storie...
The only query which I have about the short stories being on the front page is that they may get lost if there are loads. Last time, with the stories ...
One thing which I find interesting about this story is its title, which may involve 'level' or balance in various ways and how it may even relate to l...
The reason why I liked this story is because there may be people like this. It captures the interplay between hatred and self-hatred so well within th...
I like the build up of emotional drama. It is probably a tricky thing to do in micro-fiction unlike longer pieces but as a descriptive scene it works ...
A striking little story. It is a little bit disturbing with the dead mouse heads, especially as I found a mouse dying on my floor a few days ago. I li...
Yes, I agree with you about 'I like' or 'I really like' being better than one about not liking, which is more about downvotes. Last time, I just voted...
You may be missing the potential of micro-fiction by seeing it as 'limited'. It is a specific art form which probably requires an understanding of min...
I understood from @"the Baden" that there was not going to be a short story competition in December, and it was only going to be once a year, in the s...
The idea of despair and hope is also related to the experience of depression and suicidality. I have experienced depression at times and have nursed p...
The idea of will itself is an important aspect of the free will debate but it often doesn't get much focus, especially in connection with materialist ...
Thank you, as it seems that you realise how difficult the time it is for some. At the moment, many in England and other developed nations have not got...
[reply="Sir2u;759is That is absolutely fine, because unique experiences are part of life experiences. They may be glossed over at times in philosophy ...
It is interesting to think about placing any of our own individual experiences in the wider experience. Today, when I spoke to an advice worker about ...
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