Mass shooting is a suicidal expression of resentment. Many of these kids probably anticipate their own death by self-infliction or law enforcement. Th...
So this thread caused me to buy a Violet Crumble (toffee styrofoam) and I'm revising my evaluation. It was much tastier than I recall. I give it an 8....
Mass shootings by young men are likely a consequence of a kind of social alienation, or a shit life syndrome. Just watch interviews with Trump conspir...
Yes, this is more of what I mean by death is not an experience. Dying is an experience but one cannot be dead to oneself, presumably. If by some stran...
Since death as a total cessation consciousness (nothing) is not an experience, the only alternative is 'what it is like to be something'. In this sens...
Reads like a role playing quest in a modern video game. A very straightforward action sequence of mercenary assassins, suitable for a screen. I like t...
Being trapped this kind of non-sequitur dream sequence would be scary for me. Maybe it is easy for the narrator to relay what happened because she is ...
Confused but will try to read again soon. If Larry murdered his parents, why is it a mystery to him. Is this example of dissociative amnesia from the ...
The narrative transition, from first to third person, combined with the metaphorical exposition (dragons of the fifth stage) left me a bit muddled. Po...
Jack Doe at least got a wife, had kids and paid the bills. He must be generation X. Doe's latest generational counterpart will be wrapped in a tarpaul...
A well written, complex and realistic period piece, which stands out among the short story entries here so far. Fantasy always has a lot more wiggle r...
A short surreal journey of life in unexpected transition, walking through a door/gate, involuntarily leaving the past behind, with an open end. A gent...
I like the creative conflation of two types of fugue. Dissociative fugue apparently can take the form of amnesia, traveling to new locations and takin...
The flow was effortless, as I felt like I didn't have to do any work in reading. It all just slid out. Felt like the tone changed halfway through as i...
As a modern mediocre man, with a short attention span, I enjoy the short shortness of a very short story but agree with others amazing commentary, we ...
Wow, I think you may be right, if the details hold up. This theory of plot unification would give it a bump indeed. The lunar catastrophe would unite ...
Author has great facility for the written word. Glimpsing length of the piece after sampling the first paragraph I thought it was going to be a bit of...
Vera's sleuthing, as a fastidious literary detective, is helpful. The material details breaking of the drain and the quote from guard about the grass ...
There is an interesting contrast between the seriousness of what is happening to these folks and the humorous hokey playfulness and unseriousness of t...
Here they come! Brace yourselves for the wet mystical enigmas of PF fiction. Novel accretions from beyond the outer limits. Colors out of space. Get y...
I think pure chocolate, with no added fats or other additives, can suffer from the ubiquitous waxy problem. I've had local farm single ingredient choc...
Relative to whatever boundary or place marker you're concerned with. Where is the topographic feature, the limit, the declaration, by which we can won...
I like the chocolate covered Payday currently. Peanuts and chocolate married together in harmony, followed by black coffee. Whowza! These candy compan...
Enpuddlement, or to be enpuddled, though I'm not sure how to give it the proper prefix without a professional linguist. Latin suggestions are instagni...
The stuff they put in a Violet Crumble candy bar? This is the only local product that contains honeycomb candy. Only ever had it once. Not great but n...
I vote that the remainder of this thread ought to be devoted to explaining Melvin Vopson's strange hypothesis, that information is a form of matter. H...
A hasty generalization. Though there is plenty evidence of hypocrisy/exploitation of gurus/teachers over their devotees. The worst part is when devote...
A universe full of observers also seems to be ultimately pointless, from my viewing point. Why can't the planet Pluto do its thing without anyone ther...
@"javi2541997" I still don't understand your popcorn ceiling issue. It's all very mysterious. If it isn't on your walls, and you want to put things on...
You know what they say, give a prospective employer an apple and who knows what could happen. Give them a filled out job application and they may or m...
Do picture nails not work on popcorn stone walls? There is probably always a work around for attaching something to a wall. Though maybe filling the w...
The conspiracy slope is a slippery slope. The more facts you'd convince yourself to doubt the steeper the slope becomes, until you can't get out of we...
Unlikely there are any bed bug experts on the forum but I heard you can buy a mattress bag and tape the opening shut. They should make one that comes ...
Yes, now I remember two of those posted from a while back, the crucified animals and the animals approaching Trump. Love the animal line up of the cat...
@"Praxis" and @"universeness" Either of you guys paint ever paint anything dark, grotesque, eerie, or unsettling, or does such subject matter carry no...
Be wary about trying to form intuitions with regard to whatever Shannon information means outside of the technical context in which it is used. Inform...
Good guess, definitely beach in Hau'ula, Northshore Oahu, I'm sure of it, where piano guys also did their stunt. I've seen folks plein-air painting th...
Religions maybe concerned with the conservation of a kind of being in the world over knowing truth (in a scientific sense) that constitutes a unique c...
That looks like Pounders beach, in Hau'ula. Did you paint that from a picture or were you there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzF_y039slk&list=PL7j...
In your scenario there is no reason for killing the dog because it is a random act, which makes it cruel and unnecessary. We would euthanize the dog w...
Antinatalists may fail to consider that because death is not an experience, in the same way being unconscious has no content/memory, that being and be...
This thread opened a few rabbit holes in my local internet spacetime fabric. Never have I heard/seen Ningen Isu until this moment. But I'm not sure I ...
Why not explain the material and or psychological sources of your suffering. Maybe you have chronic gastritis and your stomach is digesting itself and...
Meh, we resonate with whatever tickles our inner pickle. There are blue moons, when for whatever unintelligible reason, the brain attunes to a piece o...
Jeremy England's theory of "dissipative-driven adaptation" is interesting step toward explaining abiogenesis, but probably still a bit of a hunch at t...
You've struck a wonderful or terrible idea. We've all heard of the phenomenon of Santacon. Folks could develop a Trump version of that, TrumpCon. We c...
Don't see much of an issue paying to have someone stand in line for you. What if hiring someone to stand in line is a way to circumvent a rule of 1 pr...
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