Tag: choices
member name: Ian B (in Toronto)
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November 17, 2008 09:53 PM EST --
Mistakes were made (one)
I've been enjoying this book so much that I thought I would give some observations of individual chapters. I hope to just generate some interest, and to write out some . . .
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December 03, 2008 09:46 PM EST --
We always hear that our vote is the most powerful part of being in a democracy. But I'm not sure it is. It also means knowing when a vote is not necessary, when it becomes something that hides the . . .
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December 05, 2008 10:18 PM EST --
When someone makes a comment on one of my posts and I respond, I like to send that comment to them. Once or twice, I've had further responses and a dialoge begins. In this case I actually spent . . .
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December 29, 2008 05:17 PM EST --
I was writing a comment last night and noticed something unusual within myself. I must have tried to write the comment a dozen times before I figured out what was wrong. The beginning seemed a bit... . . .
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February 02, 2009 09:16 PM EST --
Have you ever read Fahrenheit 451? It's by Ray Bradbury (born 1920) who is one of the masters of science and speculative fiction in the world: he has been writing for over fifty years. Indeed, this . . .
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April 04, 2009 09:50 PM EDT --
This post is not about abortion. At least it was not intended to be.
I was writing a story this morning, and a fictional one at that. (Yes, I'm trying to develop my fiction as well . . .
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November 20, 2008 10:37 PM EST --
The second chapter in the book goes a little deeper in the methods we use to self-justify our stubborn beliefs, dealing specifically with the subject of prejudices. These are some of the oldest and most . . .
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November 23, 2008 11:19 AM EST --
I've forgotten what I was looking for... but I stumbled across a video on YouTube called: " The Truth About Steroids : a good piece of unbiased info." To begin with, the title struck me . . .
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December 06, 2008 10:39 PM EST --
I read a post recently (well, it was not written recently: the date was August 10, and I'm not even sure I was a member yet). The post was a question about what constituted a lie. I read through the . . .
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December 19, 2008 08:18 PM EST --
I recently read a comment on one of my posts that deserves a longer discussion. It illustrates what I believe is a misunderstanding of the concept of relativity. The comment was:
"The ability . . .
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December 25, 2008 09:52 PM EST --
One of the comments on one of my posts interested me. It said:
"I can understand how Americans and Westerners can simplistically refer to radical Islamics as sub-human, and it is a concern, of course... . . .
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January 06, 2009 11:17 PM EST --
I had an interesting experience yesterday. I was at work discussing a class I will be teaching in a couple of weeks, and at one point one of my coworkers looked down at her pants and said, with something . . .
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January 18, 2009 05:31 PM EST --
A lot of my posts are stimulated... born... inspired... by other things I read on gather. This was one of them. After several weeks away, trying to get ready to teach a class and doing research . . .
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February 03, 2009 09:55 PM EST --
Many of us have heard by now that England is in the midst of its coldest winter in many years; yesterday London was shut down because of a snowfall that stranded people on public transportation . . .
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March 13, 2009 11:36 PM EDT --
The Fifth Estate is one of our news programs that explores and presents news from aparticularly Canadian perspective to the world. It is on CBC, but like anything these days it is available . . .
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March 28, 2009 08:18 PM EDT --
I was reading some posts recently that had me a bit up in arms. In one of them a comment was made, by the author:
Unfortunately AIDS is spread by any close continuous contact as well as sexual . . .
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April 10, 2009 02:32 PM EDT --
I have not been here on gather too long, but have developed a certain set of protocols regarding my comments that I leave on other people's posts. I consider a post to be the property of the . . .
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April 13, 2009 07:01 PM EDT --
I decided to write an intro to this piece. I think it's my longest post. A few days ago I was doing some research and I discovered the website: www.prochoice.com. I wrote a post about that . . .
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March 07, 2009 09:22 PM EST --
In late February, the conservative government in Canada started something of a war against gangs. Prime Minister Harper believes that stronger anti-crime laws and more jail time is a sure fire way to . . .
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April 13, 2009 05:39 PM EDT --
Angela was sleeping when they came to get her. She slept more these days than she had when they had first locked her away; it was her only real escape. At least she was safer here. Her cell was small, . . .
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