Tag: life
member name: Boris G.
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January 15, 2007 08:05 AM EST --
Some time ago, a woman with a gun in her hand demanded of me and my companions that we provide good reasons why life is worth living. Otherwise she was going to terminate us.
I thought to myself: "This . . .
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January 15, 2007 08:09 AM EST --
Some time ago, a woman with a gun in her hand demanded of me and my companions that we provide good reasons why life is worth living. Otherwise she was going to terminate us.
I thought to myself: "This . . .
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January 29, 2007 08:02 AM EST --
A fundamental problem exists with trying to discover the meaning of life.
(Note that when we talk about the meaning of life we always implicitly assume that we are talking about the meaning of our own . . .
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January 16, 2007 10:37 AM EST --
How much smoother our progress through life would be if we had a full-scale orchestra accompanying us everywhere we went with a background soundtrack to our lives.
From the music that they are playing . . .
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January 16, 2007 10:41 AM EST --
An insight has occurred to me from observing my pets.
Sometimes, the doggies lie at the kitchen door and stare longingly at the world through the windowpane. They can see happiness, freedom and sunshine . . .
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January 15, 2007 07:29 AM EST --
My companions and I are in some kind of a building and strange, inexplicable things begin to happen. Every time we open a door to some room, the room and the things in it have changed. People try . . .
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January 16, 2007 10:54 AM EST --
I have recently been considering how difficult it is to overcome habits, how violently our nature rebels against any attempts to break routines that we have settled down into.
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January 15, 2007 08:34 AM EST --
Author's Note: This story has just been nominated for the Pushcart Prize .
You can find more details about the nomination in my article here .
My companions and I realise suddenly . . .
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January 21, 2007 09:11 PM EST --
Alexander was in his late twenties at the time of the conversation, more an acquaintance than a friend, and a distant relative. Our remote consanguinity produced a certain awkwardness in our relations. . . .
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January 29, 2007 07:55 AM EST --
We await our destiny revealing itself to us in the future as if destiny is inextricably intertwined with the future and can never exist in the present, as if an essential and inherent condition of the . . .
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January 16, 2007 10:43 AM EST --
When one thinks about an individual's place in the Universe, one is struck by how infinitesimal his life appears to be.
Compared to the immeasurably large spatial and temporal dimensions of the Universe, . . .
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January 16, 2007 10:53 AM EST --
I have noticed that an interesting disparity exists between how we treat ourselves and how we treat others, and that our society holds a double standard in regards to this.
We have rules, regulations . . .
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