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These are some great recommendations, thanks. They've helped me a lot.

Anyone have suggestions for comedic pieces which could be best read aloud or performed either in private or among friends.

Something like a ballad or a lyrical fable would be great, particularly...

I definitely acknowledge the stance of religions, I was just hoping to keep this away from a debate on faith since I know that faith can step beyond the bounds of reason, but that's not to say I...

I think I understand where you're coming from. But isn't there a certain degree to which our feelings/emotions will guide our behaviour, and in a great part our feelings will be determined, at least...

I don't think I'm ready at this point to decide whether the universe is friendly or not, or rather, I think that the answer of such a conclusion is something I am searching for.



I am just...

Not sure I understood that last post. Do you think that life, in such a case, is something merely to be endured?

Sorry if I offended you with my context-inappropriate sarcasm.

How I understood what you've said, if in dire circumstances a person should fight for all their worth to change their situation, and...

This isn't meant to be a religious discussion, though any opinion is of course welcome.

I was just wondering what some other people make of the idea wherein someone could be set upon by suffering...

I'm going to nominate Gargantua and Pantagruel from Rablais

Anyone have any recommendations along the lines of Chomsky, Foucault, Goffman but on Indentity and the Internet?

If you're going to try De Sade the best place to begin would be Justine... De Sade can be pretty sluggish in my opinion. There is something intriguing about the way his scenes are cast and of course...

I think there's something interesting here. Your writing is in some ways mature and I think it's fair to assume you've reached a level where your writing isn't trite. That being said it was my...

Because one feels lost and reads does not necessitate distraction, one could very well be looking into a work of fiction the way they would look to advise of someone they admire.

Fiction can be...

I've read Fathers and Sons by Turgenev and enjoyed it, but I'm not sure where to go next. I am interested in reading First Love and suspect this might be the direction, any other recommendations of...

Even Dostoevsky's last work The Brothers Karamazov is drenched in grotesque elements especially the entire character of Smerdyakov and the behavior of Dmitri and Fyodor. I distinctly remember one...

Quite a lot, my bookshelf has sort of become my lending library. It mostly stems from a desire to read much more than I am capable of reading in a realistic time period. Although I could and perhaps...

When you're saying our behavior has changed, which aspects of behavior are you referring to exactly, though I could surely think of a few. I am just thinking that if we have a gene for learning and...

Do you know if the idea of friends growing apart or friends "changing" is addressed at all? Although I do vaguely see what would follow, something along the lines of the developing environment...

Anyone know any sources or theories of genetic evolution on war and friendship in human behavior? Anyone have any theories of their own in a similar vein?

This response to sHaRp12's comment "On this earth to do only what pleases us." is illogical because if people were to do what pleases them, and it came to a result which was "unpleasant" that would...

While I can't be completely certain, I would assume that it refers to familiarizing yourself with death philosophically. A lot of religions and philosophical practices would have one become...

I disagree with the comment above... I sort of get where you're coming from, in that poetic language and expression can sometimes seemed to be wrenched from somewhere in a person that is near...

Anyone know any good texts, fiction or non fiction, on the history of carnival in europe?

During elementary school I believe I only wrote for school assignments but took a lot of liberties with them. I also made comics and improvised stories aloud to some other kids. I think towards the...

What a strange discussion about moleskin notebooks. I do like these kind of notebooks and I do spend some of my free time frivolously rubbing their textured surfaces and sniffing out their natural...