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Reply to The Number Three-Quarters in Poetry Stardock Forums

I will miss her. My first best friend, my constant companion, my dog.

The Number Three-Quarters in Poetry JoeUser Forums

A shovel pounds dark earth reaching, wretching through roots, grass a rhythmic hum of slamming and tearing breaks between the faulty shuddering and gasping breaths of a 5 year-old boy reposessing a 21 year-old heart We grew together lived together she, an outcast of ill-fortune I the emotional mewing jabberjaw we were comrades in legs and the number three-quarters hobbling through life together tired and worn do

Reply to On Abandonware in Gaming JoeUser Forums

So you think that if a company is not protecting its copyrighted material due to a lack of funding, it's okay to steal it. The idea that this is "good and right" is be a bit nieve. In this day and age of the XBOX Live Arcade and Wii Virtual Console, is it a far stretch of the imagination that companies that own the rights to old games could still make money off of those games via microtransaction on these consoles? I find it interesting that you consider stealing someone else'

Reply to On Banning Video Games in Gaming JoeUser Forums

First, who is calling for the ban of video games? Secondly, statistics have shown that people who don't play video games are more likely to engage in violence. Loner behavior and seclusion are more of a risk factor than video games, which are largely a social activity. Through that activity, social norms and standards are enforced, causing game players to be less likely to be violent. Certainly, there are violent games, but are there not also violent movies, vio

Reply to Madrid, part IV. in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I've been keeping up with the series. Very interesting stuff :) Continue, please!

Reply to JUWC - few word stories. in Writing JoeUser Forums

The Spanish one was marvelous, and your first one really had me wondering. Good work, I say.

Reply to Gloriously Not Alone in Poetry JoeUser Forums

[quote who="dynamaso" comment="2"] Wow, this is truly beautiful. I feel exactly the same way about my wife and we've been together now for over six years. I hope to feel the same way in sixty years. Ashley is a lucky lady [/quote] Thank you for the kind words. It has been quite a long time since I've done any substantial writing. As to lucky, I think I'm the lucky one. [quote who="Zoologist03" comment="3"] O

Reply to Gloriously Not Alone in Poetry JoeUser Forums

This is dedicated to Ashley. She is my love, my saving grace, my dreamer's spirit.

Gloriously Not Alone in Poetry JoeUser Forums

now we hold hands at the crosswalk to the library, we lace fingers and laugh about stupid question girls and no-name douche-bags her presence dispels the loneliness and brings light like dawn over misty mornings then I lived in a

Reply to My Six Word Story in Fiction Writing JoeUser Forums

One that's more famous that I stumbled upon recently (can't remember the name of the author, if I find it, I'll post it) For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.

Reply to Singing your Anthem in Ethics Stardock Forums

Hmmm. Who is this for?

Reply to My Six Word Story in Fiction Writing Stardock Forums

@ Jythier: Great stories :) I especially liked 2 & 3. [quote who="Tova7" comment="7"] I can't do it without sounds like YODA. [/quote] It may take a bit of getting used to, but from what I've seen at dynamaso's blog, you're doing wonderfully.

Reply to JUWC: Short and sweet (or sour or angry or funny or...) in Writing Stardock Forums

[quote who="dynamaso" comment="4"] Beebles, Your summaries are absolutely spot on (although I don't know "Ender's Game" but I take it you do). Did you get mine? (It is a bit obvious). [/quote] Obvious maybe, but a wonderful statement nonetheless. [quote who="Tova7" comment="5"] Obscure passage, illuminating modification. Suicide affliction, forlorn duration. Butterfly snaps, changes the world. Can't write these thi

Reply to JUWC: Short and sweet (or sour or angry or funny or...) in Writing Stardock Forums

You can also do "summaries" of books too, if you're not feeling poetic or inspired. Their world was changed by lies. - "Atonement" by Ian McEwan Remember, the enemy's gate is down. - "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card One lost leg, one last chance. - "Slow Man" by J.M. Coetzee

Reply to My Six Word Story in Fiction Writing Stardock Forums

@dynamaso: I loved your stories! I don't really consider myself a part of the JU Writer's Club, but I'll have to look into it a bit more. There are a group of really talented individuals in these here parts. @misterME: Excellent. :)

My Six Word Story in Fiction Writing JoeUser Forums

Here's the idea: formulate a story using six words. Any six words. But choose them carefully. My stories: "She died in his arms. Again." "We lost ourselves on an airplane." "I gave my life to die." It's a fun little exercise I like to do when I'm writing poetry and my muse runs dry. Try it!

A Sudden, Inexplicable Change in Poetry JoeUser Forums

This sudden, inexplicable change This switch from having stones to being a stoner I’m the compass bearer wearing a magnetic watch</

The Twenty-First in Poetry JoeUser Forums

It’s the casual careening silence that pulls us from our empty state we clutch at pictures and feelings we cannot remember and our hangover headaches are too much to cure with just ibuprofen and for all the silence, the burden of sound keeps me glued to be

Through The Light In Her Eyes in Poetry JoeUser Forums

Called by passion, we hold to one another forever breaking time zones and rules crushing delusions of mediocrity and just by holding hands we pull our fragile hearts from flimsy cases in order to reveal their splendor and show the world our true selves (between us, we share each other)</

Reply to Video Games Are Anti-Social and Addictive in Gaming JoeUser Forums

I think that the title for this blog article was more for shock value than anything; I didn't really find any good reasons as to why games are addicting and anti-social. Perhaps for you, they may be. But for many people, gaming is an apex of social activity. And while some people are addicted to games (I'm not going to even try to argue that they aren't), there are some people addicted to the internet, to reading, to bubbles or balloons or tobacco. Addiction is the problem here, not t

Reply to Water-boarding, Simple yes or no! in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

yes, Jewish fellow here, old Testament man myself. Interesting to note (although not very relevant), Exodus asks that the guilty party give up their eye if they put out another's. It was not the injured person's to take. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Bo

Reply to Water-boarding, Simple yes or no! in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

[quote]Apologies for anything said that was personal, I just have a real hard time believing people would not water board someone to rescue a loved one.[/quote] Start believing. [quote]Did you know that some of out own highly trained troops go through water boarding to prepare them for what might happen to them?[/quote] This claim has nothing to do with Waterboarding not being torture. If our own government waterboards our soldiers, then that government is just as guil

Reply to Water-boarding, Simple yes or no! in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Moderateman, if treating people humanely is "utter crap", perhaps you need to do some long hard thinking about your personal ethics. I'm loving the personal attacks, by the way. Also, FYI, The federal torture statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2340A, prohibits acts outside the United States that are specifically intended to cause “severe physical or mental pain or suffering.” And waterboarding is torture under that definiton. Waterboarding, as an interog

Reply to Water-boarding, Simple yes or no! in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

No. Torture is never "okay". Even if they've kidnapped your family member, that doesn't give you the right to torture them, especially if that torture can lead to permanent brain damage and death. That the position of "okay torture" is even agreed with (or modulated to some more severe action) shows a severe lack of regard for the sanctity of human life.

Reply to MARINE one! Liberal Lawyer ZERO! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I don't mean to be that guy that asks for citations or tells you what to do with your joeUser account, but honestly, I don't believe you have the rights to reproduce this article in your blog. You took it word for word right out of this BlackFive blog, which, in the academic world (and the regular world too, as far as I am aware), is plagiarism. I'm not making accusations, I just think it would be more interesting to hear your position on the story, your opinions and thoughts, instead o