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    Other Gun Control

    I'm hearing some support for gun control. In Canada, we have a system that is very close to what GojiBean and Cosmo are describing. It's called the Canadian Gun Registry, and it is a government-run program that keeps track of who owns what gun and issues exams and licenses to citizens to...
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    Literature What are you reading at the moment?

    Never really been a fan of Jane Austen. I've read P&P and Northanger Abbey and really there's only so much Victorian-era debutante drama I can stand. When read with respect to its publication date, the novels are quite progressive I guess, but today they seem very dated.
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    Literature Thoughts on Harry Potter?

    Ammoharmlissicus!
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    Literature Thoughts on Harry Potter?

    Absolutely. The divide between sci-fi and fantasy magic is pretty blurry. Trilithium from Star Trek might as well be unicorn hair from Harry Potter. edit: That actually reminds me of in Next Generation at least, and maybe TOS as well the doctor always asks for 'tricordrazine' for everything...
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    Literature Thoughts on Harry Potter?

    How about this then - any wizard that is on a black ops 'hit list' is probably going to know it, yeah? Like, SEAL Team Six isn't going after 12 year old Ginny Weasley, right? In that case, this powerful marked-for-death wizard is going to prepare for the eventual assault. Only unlike drug...
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    Literature Thoughts on Harry Potter?

    There are like a million ways to answer this, and the most obvious one is that Harry Potter is a fairy tale and guns don't fit thematically into the narrative. Saying that seems a little dour though, so in the spirit of your question I'll try to answer in a more creative way. First - why...
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    Poetry Five Words Challenge

    Had to look that one up. Very pretty.
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    Other Random question of the day

    The final battle in a genocide run of Undertale is a son of a bitch.
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    Other My mother bought me a new plant. 😭😭😭

    This exact type of cacti goes wild where I live. I've heard it called 'prickly pear' and 'devil's tongue', which I think is the cooler name.
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    Other Random question of the day

    I think it was called The Oddballs... it was about a poor family that lived in a slum into which all the sludge and pollution from the rich part of town flowed. Because of this all the poor people had genetic deformities.
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    Other What made you feel good today?

    Cook him something nice! The best thing you can ever do for anyone is feed them.
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    Other Random question of the day

    Sex shops. The only place in my town that sells zippo flints and pipe cleaners is the porn store, and even thought I'm an adult, it's still awkward. The guy that owns the place is so well spoken that I believe he must be a reincarnated British aristocrat.
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    Other What made you feel good today?

    My puppy woke up up by sneezing in my face. It's always a trip to think about all the things my dogs can do that I'll laugh it off where if a human tried to do the same, I'd want to have a fist fight with them. Furry little angels.
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    Viewpoint "fiction doesn't affect reality"

    I'm not so sure about it always being about an underlying mental illness. I'm also not so sure that violent media or media glorifying an antihero or villain isn't responsible for some of those mental illnesses. I'm not sure what sort of effects desensitization to violence has on people over a...
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    Viewpoint "fiction doesn't affect reality"

    One can argue very easily that mythology and religion have been the greatest creative work of mankind, and look how that turned out.
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    Viewpoint "fiction doesn't affect reality"

    No, I don't think so. I urge you to be careful with this type of thinking, because empirical evidence of how psychology works (that is, evidence that you collect first hand over things that have happened to you) is not reliable. Let me ask you, are you the type of person who easily bends to...
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    Viewpoint "fiction doesn't affect reality"

    This is a story of a Canadian man who was inspired to kill a guy by the show 'Dexter': Mark Twitchell This is an article about serial killers and their motivations. If you skim to the first instance you see the word 'celebrity' you'll hit the bit that I think is relevant: The social study of...
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    Other Random question of the day

    Pretty much the same. In reality children are already more intelligent than adults across the board due to a function of the brain called neuroplasticity. In short, people are very intelligent up to about age 10, moderately intelligent until 40, somewhat intelligent until 70 and then it's all...
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    Poetry Five Words Challenge

    disfigurement, clandestine, lackluster, poignant, syzygy
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    Video Games Your first video game?

    Pretty sure that game was about making the lemmings fall into deathtraps. ;)
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