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Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Should women be forced to serve if a country imposes a military draft?

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Well, how do women feel about involuntary servitude? How do they feel about having their freedom taken away for two or more years and being told where to go, what to do, how to do it? How do women feel about being used, about being forced? It's absolutely horrifying to me that a draft is even being thought of again in this c... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: A math mystery

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Characters Rocky Samantha Rocky's Father Hal The deer In Australia it was winter now, rainy and wet, and Rocky was still adjusting to the American summertime. He was fourteen years old and this year his parents' annual expedition to explore another geographical wonder of the world included river-running in the Grand Canyon o... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Heaven, Hell & Afterlife Is Hell a real place or a metaphor to deter evil-doers?

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HELL There is a hell, there is a "devil." It is of our own making. It does not have a dominion separate from God. It is not able to violate the basic laws of creation at its own will. It works and produces results only within the experience we have created for ourselves with our self-will. The power it depends on is the karm... More..

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: The way we were

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THE 60'S This year I'll be 60 years old, and I've been reflecting on the season of my years in the 1960's. Here we are, 40 years after the height of the cauldron's boil in 1968, and now we have memoirs and nostalgic reminiscence of how fine and great and dynamic it all was. Let me tell you something. There are times when a s... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Congress's approval rating is worse than President Bush's

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"Approval rating" is generous here, considering the choices. The implication that Congress and President Bush enjoy an approval rating, no matter how slight, ignores the elephant (and the jackasses) in the room: both enjoy substantial disapproval ratings. What a choice to have to find approval in: the choice between a House ... More..

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: The future

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ROBO-RAT SNIFFS OUT THE FUTURE In case you missed it, researchers have hot-wired the brain and whiskers of a rat to produce a remote-controlled cyber rodent. Robo-Rat has artificially implanted right and left whisker twangers and an electrical chime hung on the wall of his brain pleasure center. Give him a jolt there and he ... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Setting Life Goals Reflections: A new year

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If I don't speak my truth, who will hear it? If I don't ask for help, how will I find it? These two questions are prominent in my mind as 2007 comes to an end. My age, my experience, my humanity, my basic nature, my economic condition, the ongoing demands of practical mundanities, my unfulfilled desires; a myriad of factors ... More..

Arts & Humanities > Meaning of Life The future of mankind

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What is there here, now, in our very real world, that gives us hope for the future? The desperation for hope-for our future, for the planet, for a "new paradigm" of humanity-is evident everywhere, engendered by an ever-widening feeling of imminent doom. Hope grows as doom approaches; it is an axiom of humanity. Is that gener... More..

Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts Understanding the difference between intelligence and wisdom

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When I was young I was intelligent. As I've grown older I've become wise. The difference is simple. Experience. When I was young, a statement like that would have galled me into a paroxysm of indignation. In my mind intelligence equated itself with wisdom. I had been assessed by the quantitative measurements of that time and... More..

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Religion

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There's lots of interesting stuff in the Bible. Did you know that in old times people used to trade eyeballs? Of course this was a primitive concept and the unit of exchange was even money, an eye for an eye, which just goes to show you how far we've come. But it didn't take any more than six thousand years to come that far,... More..

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