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    "Curating Safe(r) Spaces In Comments"

    Um, where did I say that these people are right on every single issue? If the point you were trying to make is that nobody's opinion can be proven 100% right on every single issue ever, well, that's a kind of obvious statement and I don't think that point really need to be made. So, apparently...
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    "Curating Safe(r) Spaces In Comments"

    I know who you mean. No one is afraid to disagree with them. If someone responds to something you've said and disagrees with you and you're afraid to respond, it's probably because deep down you know you're wrong and you're afraid that if you keep arguing, you'll have something you believe in...
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    Issues with inspiration

    Deliberately creating a piece of art with no message is a message itself. The message the artist is sending is that they don't believe a message is necessary. I know, paradoxical, but what you're quoting clearly states that the blades were created in order to question the meaning of the...
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    Do you understand? (Marilyn Manson)

    Hmmm, I think this is a bit of a shallow reading of MM's lyrics, especially if you hear the guy talk and hear how eloquent and articulate he is. Someone who can speak that poetically but includes so much crass lyrics in his works obviously does it for a reason. I think a lot of his songs make...
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    Issues with inspiration

    Of course, I wasn't trying to advocate "pick a message, write a story about it" as a storytelling method. Not once in my life have I written a story that I didn't just write to tell a story and then mould the story around the themes I create in the writing process (for example, there is almost...
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    Issues with inspiration

    Don't just try to write a story. It doesn't work. Stories for stories' sake are bullshit. What message do you want your story to convey? It doesn't have to be a radical political message, it can be something as simple as "love never dies", but you need a message. All good stories have at least...
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    Do you understand? (Marilyn Manson)

    Doesn't mean I don't enjoy their work though. Marilyn Manson (the guy, not the band) is a lyric-centred musician, so I don't mind that his music is derivative because I think his message and how he sends it out are his own.
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    Do you understand? (Marilyn Manson)

    You must be joking. Bowie rarely kept the same sound for two consecutive albums. He has more "old shticks" than I have fingers. Marilyn Manson is more than just a poor man's David Bowie. He's a poor man's late 70s/early 80s David Bowie, Alice Cooper AND Nine Inch Nails.
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    Do you understand? (Marilyn Manson)

    Not disagreeing that Marilyn Manson is highly derivative but kinda confus at the idea that either Marilyn Manson or David Bowie has a single set sound.
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    Do you understand? (Marilyn Manson)

    See that's silly. Everyone who dislikes Marilyn Manson doesn't think all those things. You're being silly. Silly.
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    Do you understand? (Marilyn Manson)

    Um, this should probably be in Entertainment, yeah, and I'm guessing different people have different problems with Marilyn Manson for different reasons. I'm a fan myself but I think trying to find a single reason why everybody who dislikes Marilyn Manson dislikes him is kind of silly.
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    Why do people dislike Americans?

    Yeah, I don't live very far from Coroxn and the above holds fairly true for the majority of people here, though, in my experience at least, the current generation of teenagers and young adults are rejecting a lot of these old ideas. Also, I feel the same way as Saith; I do not have anything...
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    Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, etc.

    I've got to second UV here, Christmas is basically as much a secular holiday as a Christian one these days in most of the world. I'm a strong atheist, secularist and, to some extent, an antitheist but Christmas is still my favourite time of the year because it's the one time of year that almost...
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    American Censorship Day

    Yes, because the way you were taught it is completely ridiculous. As the Political Compass mentions, Stalin and Gandhi were both fairly extreme leftists but there's obviously no comparison between them. Stalin was a brutal authoritarian whereas Gandhi was a libertarian. Stalin was a radical...
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    American Censorship Day

    This is a ridiculously inaccurate and oversimplified view of the minutiae of politics. I could speak at length about the various reasons why what you're saying is wrong, but it would be easier to just link you to the Political Compass -- which is also somewhat oversimplified (not taking into...
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    Best albums of 2011

    Fair to Midland's Arrows and Anchors is pretty solid. Not as good as Fables but it definitely delivers.
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    Implicit Association Test

    I have a strong automatic preference for Progress compared to Restore. I have a slight automatic preference for Individual compared to Collective. I have a moderate automatic preference for Freedom compared to Security.
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    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Um, I'm not really the walk-up-to-strangers-and-talk-to-them type, so I don't really know what I'd do. I usually don't go to parties where I don't know people and when I do, I usually end up either alone and awkward in a corner or just talk to someone who sits down near me or something. The idea...
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    The Limit of You

    This is really beautiful. I love when topics like maths or physics are used in emotional poetry, I think it makes it more sincere, for some reason.
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    Religion and Lack of Religion

    An institution is an impersonal system of organisation, so I don't really see a problem with disliking it. What I would say to that is that they are offering you their religious beliefs rather than forcing them on you. Also, yeah, I think it's a bit inconsiderate to call to people that early...
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