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The Beauty of Kindness
Aug 18, 2010

My last article dealt with the various aspects of romantic love. However, value comes in many forms and so does the emotional payment, love. Acts of kindness are pleasant in many aspects and many of the world's...

Love is...
Jun 01, 2010

My answer is that love is... Contemplation. Many would tell you that love is something beautiful and powerful. They might tell you that it is inexplicable and entirely irrational. They would be right on some...

What is it going to take to get the planet back on course?
May 19, 2010

The problem really is crime, isn't it? It doesn't matter whether it's legal crime, as committed by government agents, or whether it's crimes committed by communal garden scumbags. Before we can enjoy the truly peaceful...

Starving Artists - Making Money from your Creativity
May 07, 2010

There are different forms of intelligence. Creativity and artistic abilities are excellent indicators of intelligence. But earning a living as an artist is difficult, especially given today's economic issues worldwide...

I Yam What I Yam
Apr 23, 2010

Who I am ain't nothing of what I am. Who I am, is who you see. Who you see isn't anything of what is me. I am me because I choose to be I am me Because I choose to be. I be the best of what I can be. You don't...

Too Good to Be True
Apr 13, 2010

For too long, our society has been tainted by this adage... this taboo of good things. Why, oh why, is this? A product of our psyche? A product of shared cultural values? Or, is it really undeniably true? We see a...

Our Mother
Apr 11, 2010

Our mother... the dawn of man Our mother Climb my eye upon her many breasts. Succulent are her up most tops. White mothers milk, Which gives us life, Pouring upon her belly we graze upon. Her bottom lips,...

BDSM in Second Life
Apr 02, 2010

When I first joined Second Life (SL), I was like most noobies and started searching different places using the search tool within the browser. I stated finding things that were more than dance clubs and places to live....

Our Most Dangerous Pandemic
Mar 29, 2010

Every act of communication - or non-communication - is a choice of influence. The essayist is confronted with a peculiar difficulty: he will have time to consider how he wants to influence others - which means, how he...

Sci-Fi Fantasies
Mar 25, 2010

I've been a lifelong artist and these days, most of my work is inspired by roleplay characters, sci-fi or fantasy novels and films, and my love of Star Wars . My dream is to become a science fiction/fantasy illustrator....
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Buying and selling sex
Sep 07, 2010

Sex sells. Every advertiser knows this. As human beings, it's a natural desire. There is nothing inherently wrong with sex as it leads to the continuation of humanity. Sex can allow someone without other skills to earn...

Government charity and welfare
Sep 06, 2010

H.L. Mencken once wrote "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." This is an amazing story about Davy Crockett and how he learned what it means to uphold your principles. Why are charity and war...

The war against boys
Sep 05, 2010

Christina Hoff Sommers wrote in her book The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men that "it's a bad time to be a boy." Certainly, government curriculums in schools is misguided and flawed....

Starving cancer with food
Sep 04, 2010

Cancer. I hate this disease. My sister was diagnosed with it at about age 5. She, along with my mother, father, and I, spent the next 16 years in and out of hospitals getting treatments that, arguably, were sometimes...

Big Brother is watching you
Sep 03, 2010

The statist argument is always the same: "If you have nothing to hide, why do you care?" The government can attach a GPS device to your car and monitor your movements, and it's perfectly legal. And now they can x-ray...

America's lights are going out
Sep 02, 2010

Atlas Shrugged was not intended to be an instruction manual. Ayn Rand talked through Francisco d'Anconia about what it took to kill the motor of the world: "He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of...

Thorium - energy's silver bullet
Sep 01, 2010

Nuclear energy was discovered in the context of war (specifically World War II). In the 1950s, the US Air Force tried to come up with an idea of putting a nuclear reactor on an airplane to keep it running. They...

The legal system is criminal
Aug 31, 2010

The Nazis and Joseph Stalin were famous for their show trials , where "guilt" was determined by the authorities before the trial. From the court jester files, we continue to find that the the American justice system is,...

Religion and moral truths
Aug 30, 2010

Can a moral relativist and moral absolutist have an objective debate on morality if you don't share the same core values? In physics, a scientist will say that time is relative, but he will not say that time doesn't...

Dealing with emotional pain
Aug 29, 2010

Sadists are those who enjoy giving pain. Masochists are those who enjoy receiving pain. However, most of us attempt to avoid pain, especially emotional pain. In fact, research suggests that emotional pain can sometimes...
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