actually it's "rights", not consciousness and not existence- both of which chimps are- even if they don't write.
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actually it's "rights", not consciousness and not existence- both of which chimps are- even if they don't write.
"or invent them?"
There's a conundrum. I suppose by definition anything we think or do or say is, by it's very definition, an "invention" so you are technically correct.
However (one of the...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/sci/tech/1952902.stm
I assume this was supposed to be a clever question kind of post, I'm still feeling my way around what is and isn't acceptable to discuss around...
"The United States is not a "white" country."
Sure.
http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_race.html
Yes, of course, that was only the first 200 years. Rampant unchecked immigration has done...
Nothing like some neo-con war, mongering propaganda for the sheeple out in flyover land to get the cholesterol moving.
"My interest is to find out can Asian Actors rise to stardom in a non-asian territory?"
Why?
Do you go to Asian message boards and ask if Eskimos can rise to stardom in non-Eskimo territory?
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I think it's ironic that people who decry "racism" are so focused on their own race. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that, I just find the blind spot to be large and from my perspective...
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Postcards by E Annie Proulx
World's End by T C Boyle
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Camp Of The Saints by Jean Raspail
"You can all sit around your tables at social functions and discuss this stuff quite candidly. You have no idea how uncomfortable it feels at social gatherings, being German and being asked about...
On Fridays I come up here to the hill at the edge of the driveway and sit with our dog Tuck, and I wait for my wife to come home from work. You can see about a mile down the road from up there and...
Hand Maids Tale and Oryx And Crake are great novels- I love dystopian post apocalyptic worlds where anything can happen and she keeps it human enough that you have absolutely no trouble believing in...
Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye, If The River Was Whiskey (TC Boyle), Welcome to the Monkey House (Vonnegut), The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien), Camp of the Saints (Raspail)
Gravity's Rainbow.
Magister Ludi.
I loved the Fountainhead- probably because at the time I read it I was an ironworker building a skyscraper in Philadelphia and wasn't in any kind of relationship- a loner and iconoclast like her...
I'm stunned by the responses on this thread.
I received an auto generated email from this website today so I came in for a quick look around and stumbled on this thread. It's been some time since...
There is an old saying that "we become that which we hate".
Using animals rather than humans to describe this phenomenon helped Blair (Orwell) to tell the story with a clarity he could not have...