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Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes The search for meaning in modern-day music
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There are several widespread attacks slung at the state of music today by people who are resentfully out of the loop. The most common is that it is superficial and lacks any cogent meaning or emotional truth. The second is that it's no longer as cohesive as it was back in the hey days of the sixties. The final attack is usua... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Why atheism and morality are incompatible
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"That's just it, people who believe in things are the problem... People who blow up buildings usually believe in things" According to my Christian friends the Apocolypse has been on its way now for a thousand years and Jesus could be arriving anytime. When his flight plan isn't up for discussion however, the pervasive and de... More..

Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Behind the name: Kenton
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Pronunciation: Ken-ton Gender: Male Etymology: Kenton was traditionally an english surname that was transferred to a given name. It has three possible etymologies. The first and most accepted one is King Town" from "cyne" (Kings) and "ton" (town). It could also mean Bold Town" from Cene(bold) ton (town), and Bordertown where... More..

Food & Drink > Food & Drink (Other) Cuisine as community: How food practices influence how we relate to one another
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A rather famous English Chef once remarked "When you prepare a meal, you're not just feeding people, you're feeding an entire culture", and it's most certainly true that far from merely satisfying our brutish biological needs what we eat and how we eat it serves as a sociological and cultural framework for our lives. And wit... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: A medical mystery
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Angels of Light The gulf war had been hard on all of us, specially for our boys who had gone over there and fought for their country. Arriving in the blazing heat of an oil slung desert to find only the silence of desolation, and the sickness, the sickness from the very heart of it all. My son lay in front of me, his waxen b... More..

Entertainment > Directors & Film Makers Indie filmmakers and their influence on modern culture
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Truffaut once said "The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary." Today his words seem particularly prophetic. With the evolving economics behind film production, high quality cameras available at under 5 thousand dollars the market has... More..

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