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    Poll: No, sorry you are missing the point. Your way...

    No, sorry you are missing the point.

    Your way would therefore leave open the door to pray in all the methods of the host sites religious interests: thus a school with say christains, muslims and...
  2. Thread: Vegetarianism

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    I'm not sure I can agree with the our bodies are...

    I'm not sure I can agree with the our bodies are designed to eat both plants and animals bit above.

    First of all, our bodies have evolved, not been designed. This is not just a play on semantics...
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    Poll: This is my first post on this thread and bearing...

    This is my first post on this thread and bearing in mind the above warning I will just stick to the normal method of posting, which is I presume, making your point. I assume that the above warning...
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    I know that we could argue for ever on this...

    I know that we could argue for ever on this subject, from a abasis of philosophy, ecology, anthropology, science, biology, etc.

    Perhaps it's simpler just to work on two premises.

    #1. Bentham's...
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    Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

    Well, I have just finished reading this history. It is fantastic to say the very very least.

    Often being accused of having stone like emotions, I actually shed a tear towards the end (literally)...
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    When I have Fears that I may cease to be ...

    When I have Fears that I may cease to be

    WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be
    Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
    Before high pil`d books, in charact'ry,
    Hold like...
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    The BBC Big Read was great! It is one of my...

    The BBC Big Read was great!

    It is one of my favourite sites to visit still and get inspiration for my next book.

    www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread

    As previously mentioned, the list is a snapshot of...
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    or Ayn Rand..."Atlas Shrugged" etc etc

    or Ayn Rand..."Atlas Shrugged" etc etc
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    Oh! I'd forgotten I'd read Atlas Shrugged! :blush:

    Oh! I'd forgotten I'd read Atlas Shrugged! :blush:
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    Thats a pity. I hope you had your tetanus...

    Thats a pity. I hope you had your tetanus injection prior to your sef harm episode! Or would that be defeating the object?

    Anyway, I have just finished Pride and Prejudice and found it a wonderful...
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    Mr Bennett made me laugh throughout the book.
    The way he handled Mrs Bennett was just superb.
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    The Lord of the Rings(:thumbs_up ) but have...

    The Lord of the Rings(:thumbs_up )

    but have just started Clarissa this week so that would be the longest. I think I read somewhere that Clarissa is the longest book written.
  13. Strange then why children will always go for...

    Strange then why children will always go for fruit before meat until they have be de-sensitized by adults forcing dead animals down their throat.

    Strange also, why kids have to have their 'meat'...
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    Sticky: Hello

    Hi Everyone

    Just a quick greeting to all of you:thumbs_up

    I have just finished reading 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens and have started 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte. Both are...
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    This is a fantastic book. How Sydney at last...

    This is a fantastic book. How Sydney at last found his love before his end was just marvelous writing by Dickens.

    Dickens manages to encapsulate 'The Terror' of revolutionary France brilliantly.
    ...
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    Hi Nancy I think the idea is to convey that...

    Hi Nancy

    I think the idea is to convey that within each of us is the real being which can rise to the surface albeit from within a society that stifles individuality and liberty. I tend to think...
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    Yes, thats how I am finding 'A Tale of two...

    Yes, thats how I am finding 'A Tale of two Cities'. The first chapter sort of befuddled me! But half way through the book, I think it's great.
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