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RE: Random Thoughts
October 7, 2022 at 1:02 pm
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It astonishes me how many people think they can write books based on nothing more than their ability to read them.
It takes more than the ability to drive a car to be able to build one.
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RE: Random Thoughts
October 7, 2022 at 1:18 pm
(October 7, 2022 at 1:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It astonishes me how many people think they can write books based on nothing more than their ability to read them.
It takes more than the ability to drive a car to be able to build one.
Boru It's just human nature dude, cut them/us some slack.
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RE: Random Thoughts
October 7, 2022 at 3:18 pm
(October 7, 2022 at 1:18 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (October 7, 2022 at 1:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It astonishes me how many people think they can write books based on nothing more than their ability to read them.
It takes more than the ability to drive a car to be able to build one.
Boru It's just human nature dude, cut them/us some slack.
Shan’t.
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RE: Random Thoughts
October 7, 2022 at 3:28 pm
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(October 7, 2022 at 1:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It astonishes me how many people think they can write books based on nothing more than their ability to read them.
It takes more than the ability to drive a car to be able to build one.
Boru A supposition quickly demolished by...you know, actually trying to write one. If I had even a fraction of the talent of the pool from which I've drunk I'd be fucking rich, and I sure as shit wouldn't be wasting my time screwing around with birds and flowers. 62k posts of more than one word each, and not a good 50k word book in all of it.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Random Thoughts
October 7, 2022 at 4:29 pm
(October 7, 2022 at 3:28 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (October 7, 2022 at 1:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It astonishes me how many people think they can write books based on nothing more than their ability to read them.
It takes more than the ability to drive a car to be able to build one.
Boru A supposition quickly demolished by...you know, actually trying to write one. If I had even a fraction of the talent of the pool from which I've drunk I'd be fucking rich, and I sure as shit wouldn't be wasting my time screwing around with birds and flowers. 62k posts of more than one word each, and not a good 50k word book in all of it.
I just delivered the manuscript for an (academic) book this month and writing it damn near did me in. It's been ten years since I signed the publishing contract. People don't realize how much work it is.
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RE: Random Thoughts
October 7, 2022 at 4:48 pm
The forces of Anti Choice love to posture the nonsensical position that " Life Begins At Conception" this is a stupid statement due to the fact the thing in question was never not alive. The sperm and egg are both alive unless you think both are not and some kind of spontaneous generation or Abiogenesis occurs in the womb this statement is nonsense. They generally then jump to asserting that because already living materials combined and became a different form that shows "New Life" Nope mere replication with modification of already living material is not "new life "Unless you can show me where the material came alive from a non-living state you got nothing and this statement is nonsense on stilts.
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RE: Random Thoughts
October 7, 2022 at 5:15 pm
I feel like the only human in a world of gods.
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RE: Random Thoughts
October 7, 2022 at 5:18 pm
(October 7, 2022 at 5:15 pm)Ahriman Wrote: I feel like the only human in a world of gods.
That’s because you are. Now, kneel before Zod.
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October 7, 2022 at 7:12 pm
Abortion is moral and logically correct. Having children is taking an extremely irresponsible and unnecessary risk for a reward that does not even mean anything.
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RE: Random Thoughts
October 7, 2022 at 9:50 pm
To maintain loyal support of your conservative constituents, promise something absolutely absurd.
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