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  1. The Three Trojan Women, and How They Were Killed

    by , 01-16-2010 at 01:19 PM (A Mirror Floating in Water)
    Not now, not ever
    Will my bones shake
    for shameful postulate
    my shameful state

    Bury me, bury me in the sand
    I will be free of sin and filth
    As I settle into purity and tilth
    And I am resurrected in remand.

    The farmer dug his hoe
    In with his mighty toe
    Into the ground
    Making not a sound.
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  2. This is sick

    by , 01-15-2010 at 06:39 PM (A Mirror Floating in Water)
    I'm sorry for kinda flooding the forums, but this is something that I think needs to be known.

    I was doing an essay concerning capital punishment, and I found this.

    There is evidence that child executions are taking place in the parts of Somalia controlled by the Islamic Courts Union. In October 2008, a girl, Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow was buried up to her neck at a football stadium, then stoned to death in front of more than 1,000 people. The stoning occurred after
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  3. An eef-ing rant

    by , 01-15-2010 at 05:12 PM (A Mirror Floating in Water)
    Okay, I'm sorry to any kiddies or mods if some swearing will persist here, but I am as pissed off as hell. WARNING: The following writing is going to be crap.

    As many of you know, I take online courses. Well, even though the work is pitifully easy, it comes in such great quantities and is so tedious and boring that it comes out as very hard. Blah blah blah.

    Okay, in English I had a writing assignment to do. We were supposed to read a novel from a list the teacher provided ...
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  4. The Passion of Joan of Arc review

    by , 01-15-2010 at 12:15 PM (A Mirror Floating in Water)
    My name is Daniel. My mother named me after Daniel in the Bible. I was raised Catholic, but I became an atheist when I was about thirteen and at fifteen became an agnostic. I don't pretend to know much, or even anything about the nature of the universe, and respond skeptically to meta-narratives.

    That said, there are times of in which I reach high levels of consciousness and joy. Whether this arises out of a high level of aesthetic appretiation or something else I don't know, and ...
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  5. Reasons to hate the Oscars and reasons to love Cannes

    by , 01-14-2010 at 12:09 AM (A Mirror Floating in Water)
    It's Oscar season, and I thought it would just be helpful to remind you of some reasons to be skeptical of the Academy.

    Reasons to hate the AA:

    -Great directors who were nominated, but never ever one best director: Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Robert Altman, Akira Kurosawa, Yasuijio Ozu, Ingmar Bergman among many others never won a golden statue, much less win a nomination.

    -Foriegn films are neglected by being put into the much ...
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