praxis

“You’re just in time for the play,” said Jimmy, gesturing to a small stage at one corner of the bar. Ray turned to see a woman wrapped in a toga stand...

On his way home Ray happened upon a sultry streetwalker. Not sultry in a way that suggests hidden passion, it was just that she looked unnaturally moi...

Short story shorter, the pig is revered because it'll eat anything, including annoying twats.

This is actually a boar, a royal bloodthirsty boar to be precise. 100% free. https://designpraxis.biz/img/boar.jpg

He should have used that bow when he had the chance, poor fool.

The Apollonian vs the Dionysian perhaps (I’m currently reading The Birth of Tragedy). Argentine tango can be very improvisational, though I’ve never l...

The story suggests that Tobias may have actual dance training, in tango at least.

Keto shmeto, diets never work! A keto diet, if you can actually live by it, will make your body go numb. Only a lifestyle change, if it can be arrange...

Spill it, @"_db", or persuasion techniques may become necessary. https://cdn.historycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/608px-Klassisches_Radern...

About a hundred calories in a banana, which isn’t too bad, though surprisingly, a teaspoon of honey is only 21 calories. I would have never guessed th...

@"_db" So are the nonad the ultimate nazi’s of the universe or what?

Bananas add the perfect sweetness to oatmeal. :yum:

What about the aristocrats who participated? Did they do so entirely by choice or did it have something to do with status or wealth?

In a word: salvation. Amnesis is the salvation of the universe.

That was my guess but I wasn't too sure. Really interesting story.

I’ve read most of his books, including 4321, which is almost as long as War & Peace.

Well, I’m a fan so it stuck.

Location, style, and it’s kind of Austeresque, an Author that I know you like.

Hmm…

I’m surprised too, you’re name was written all over it. That’s easy to say now of course. I’ve been anxiously waiting to hear what you have to say abo...

:grimace: Ah, in my defense, I haven't traveled in the British Isles or such places much. We say "fuck with" in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I'm well...

That's just wrong. :lol:

The story in American Pie is widely regarded as a cautionary tale whose moral is that it's okay to love American pie but it's not okay to love America...

We have an extraordinary capacity for empathy though, which can even extend to inanimate objects, like a plump pie, for instance. We can imagine a hig...

Stories have a life of their own and are not slaves to those that created them. This liminal time where creator and created are kept separate has prov...

I can settle for that, being the reasonable person that I'm known to be.

I was shooting for profound.

I hate it when that happens. Pro tip: if you kinda close the lid firmly once or twice and hold it down you can get the spinny thing working sometimes.

Trump is an untouchable so any effort to put him down will ultimately be fruitless and only for show. But there are situations in politics where we ha...

Indeed. So no one would care if there wasn’t an upcoming election? The presidential election is three years from now and Americans have a very short a...

Kill them with kindness. If it helped the gun fanatic redneck guy process his emotions it should work just as well for any other emotional idiot. :up:

Yeah, this from the guy that let Leghorn make him look like a fool with his mod note.

The law and order president is sued by police officers. Hmm, maybe, just maybe, Trump ain’t as law love’n as advertised? :chin: https://www.cnn.com/20...

But no one would know that it’s a very very bad situation, or rather that in a different timeline it was a better situation. It would just be the way ...

You shouldn't have to wait. If someone owned a time machine they could travel back in time and manipulate the past to make time machine delivery Next ...

Ah, thank you for the kind compliment. I'm no Saint Telemachus but sometimes a person must take a stand against tyranny and uphold the virtues of trut...

That is not necessarily the case, clearly. What's also clear is that in religion it is exclusively 'nothing more than the tribe of fellow believers'. ...

When I do a search I get this pokeman jellyfish thing and I think to myself “what could Wayfarer be trying to say” :chin: https://www.seekpng.com/png/...

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende. She never disappoints.

Took a glance at Breitbart, as I occasionally do, and noticed a story about the new West Side Story remake by Spielberg. They all... https://c.tenor.c...

Seriously?

Conze describes the necessary basic structure of religion, a hierarchy of authority indistinguishable from a hierarchy of truth or reality. Secular cu...

Of course, secular culture does not rely on authority. The following has already been posted in this topic but sometimes you just can't help hitting r...

Hello, Yeah. Do you recognize an emotional need behind your post?

R: Mentioning it in the same breath as free-speech, it’s as though you’re suggesting that the library putting an old dictionary on the ‘free’ rack is ...

No, it was the French poetry that got me doodling.

https://designpraxis.biz/img/boar.jpg

Whatever you say, Mr. Wonka.

Elementary, my dear Baden, you simply didn’t like it as much.

The mod note is a good step towards fairness. To go all the way I suggest something like the following.