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We didn't have these before? I could of sworn I posted some last year.

I was at a shrine/college-like-place with a character from my novel named Solaith, who is from a race that are vampire-like and disliked by the other peoples in his world. He was nervous because he had to hide his fangs there so he couldn't talk much. There was a zombie outbreak or something, and th...

This whole dream just needs to be quoted from the dream thread: I had this horrible dream where I dreamt some people (like a gang) firebombed my old (town)house in Toronto and all that was left was the top floor, and so many people were standing around gawking but I couldn't get anyone to store some...

Eddy wrote:What kind of land, if any, do the trees grow on? And why don't the people just live on that land instead of the trees?

I believe the OP said, in the first post, that the trees GROW IN THE FUCKING OCEAN. But ya know, I could be wrong.

But, aside from the first line, those actions would be immoral for multiple reasons from my point of view, and if you had actually read my post you should be able to understand why. Edit: Actually, you thinking that it's "Utilitarianism" might be the flaw between what I mean and what you think I mean.

it is not a choice between eating animals or letting other things eat them/starving them to death. you just stop making as many and the problem with "leaving them to die" if you don't eat them is solved and so you have one less argument against veganism. This would be a fine middle step, from meat-...

If the only food around was vegan, I'd rather be unhappy than dead. Some think it's worse to "use" animals, I think it would be worse to leave them to die now that they rely on us. Your argument, then, if it is indeed a utilitarian one, would seem to rely on the fact that life, animal life specific...

*Now* apparently you assure me that I snipped out an inconvenient argument you made in which, if I take your last post as a rebuke pointing out something I apparently ignored, used *rights*. Where? You may be implicitly using the idea, but the closest you get to actually *making* an deontological a...

Also, I'd post pictures, but I don't have any to show, and I don't think everyone wants to see me sick if I took picks now, as I currently am.

If someone forced Gulliver to eat meat, that would infringe on his happiness, just like forcing me to not eat meat would infringe on my happiness Yes, just as if you step in to stop somebody from murdering somebody, you likewise infringe on their... HEY WAIT! If only there were ways to tell why the...

What do you think it means, and what is the effect of that on the tone of my post? Hint: Should we argue from nature in the first place? This is your homework for tonight. Your argument against veganism is fallacious, yes. Very clever? Arguing whether to eat a specific thing is natural or not at al...

See, this is why I can't be vegan: If we're going by "natural", eating meat IS natural and done by many species, including our closest animal cousins, so it in itself is not unethical from that point of view. Remarkable! If you consider something from an amoral perspective, it is not immoral! Congr...

See, this is why I can't be vegan: If we're going by "natural", eating meat IS natural and done by many species, including our closest animal cousins, so it in itself is not unethical from that point of view. Humans could treat our food animals better while alive in many cases, but we are the only s...

Thanks, V. Shark. And yes, Southern California. I'm living with my parents currently, and I go to school in town. And I know my dad's schedule for work from week to week, and mom's is the same every week, so I don't see how remembering my schedule at least on a basic level is so hard. But maybe I ha...

Hey, why would you bother remembering something like that? :| It wasn't any bother; otherwise I'd probably have forgotten. Why, why do you think it would be hard to remember? As an example of why we would expect you to forget something like that, my parents don't remember my school schedule. The on...

Just because this was funnier than my dreams, here's a mini-dream my fiance told me: him: You have to stop bringing random animals to our house. Let the chicken go. me: But it's so cute! It has big eyes - I think it has some kind of medical condition - but it still looks adorable. *holding chicken u...

rickardspaghetti wrote:Tomboy? Cute!

More like a male sometimes-crossdresser in a female body, but sure, let's go with tomboy.

I think it's sort of funny that I can be manlier than Nort and Sko while wearing a women's coat. (I got bro'd. And it was velvet. Gods, why can't I find it?)

How can they but untranslatable when they just told everyone what they are?.... In English..... I think what they meant was you can't capture the whole meaning in one word in English. So if you translate to the nearest equivalent, you lose a lot of the meaning. But if you try to translate the meani...

Christopher Schröder wrote: for all the video games I play, made me think of Jurassic Park.

This was what I was thinking in-dream. And fiance was freaking out about the T-rexes.

I dreamed that I was part of some spy group that my fiance started. We were breaking into our adversary's home on an island with dinosaurs, and everyone else in the group was doing things half-assed so I had to fix things so the dinosaurs wouldn't come in and eat us. But it didn't matter, because o...

catberry wrote:I like #1 a lot. But then, I'm a teenager

I also like toska, but I've known that feeling since I was self aware and I like Russian. I don't think it's really a "teen" thing. Not for everyone.

I dreamed that I was part of some spy group that my fiance started. We were breaking into our adversary's home on an island with dinosaurs, and everyone else in the group was doing things half-assed so I had to fix things so the dinosaurs wouldn't come in and eat us. But it didn't matter, because ou...

Chibi wrote:If China's provinces (and municipalities and SAR's) were people...

Lol!