Tag: philosophy
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 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 16, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
When we look back, from our 21st century perspective, on the societies of the past, such as those of the Roman Empire or the Medieval Ages, we shudder at the things that were acceptable in those times. . . .
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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 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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