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Believe me, I had three cups of coffee and a shot of espresso at the Watergate coffee shop before I met up with Cassie. I am not usually that discombobulated, unless it's tax season. As Cassie can tell you, the first thought, when we met was me correcting her about the floor and levels of the hotels on the elevator. PS: thanks Cassie for not thinking I was too weird with my number crunching; it's just due to the lack of sleep and coffee.

Y_B don't pull a Sandusky (that will be probably adopted as a phrase knowing how media hype has made it) GA though still has standards and controls from its founders and leaders. I think Cia's kids, once they are old enough, could join and meet her crazy fellow GA writers and readers. Most of us are decent people, we have our fights and disagreements, but at the heart of it, we are sort of a hybrid between social network and a support group, like an AA for gay writers and readers I hate to say bad things about other people's sites, but another "alternative story site" had relaxed its rules in the past and unleashed a huge deluge of issues. They used to have a lot of good stories and authors with a good support system youths, too. I think most GA authors know the site I am talking about and their chat rooms.

I feel old, now. I never heard of Habbo either. Back in my teenage years, I was most active on Neopets (if there are other neotopians around can you check if my pet is dead yet, I stopped feeding him in college like 4 years ago ) I think in any community, there will be a risk, but there is only so much we can do. In the end, once a kid has hit the age of curiosity, you probably should sit them down and tell them about some facts of life, before they discover it from a website with a flash video.

Weeps... I have a soft spot for gay thinkers, from Da Vinci to Turing, the world we know today was born of great minds, who had seen decades and even centuries beyond their time. Maybe one day, we will create an AI, but I don't think human beings will treat them any better than their creative father .

Stupid Microsoft is trying to steal a unique feature of my Asus Transformer Prime, where's the lawyers in the room Although, I hear that a Microsoft 8 version of my Transformer Prime will be out soon (NO!!!!!!!!!!).

Yeah, she's way tougher than me and I like the heat. I think we hit 95 in Boston, probably more with humidity today.

Mortal Kombat !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, might have been Street Fighters without the secret fatalities

This is unfair....He didn't do a seductive strip dance after the goal, when he showed off the underwear, for sex appeal :

I think they're either really neat Crypts or poorly layed out escape exists for the Capitol that we found Great trip

I realized something today, everyone that argues, whether liberal, conservative, or libertarian. Rich, middle, or poor. We are all arguing about the same point. One or Many? It can't that simple, but it really is that simple. On a side, you have people advocating for individuals defining themselves, their actions, behaviors, and even destinies as they choose. On the other side, you have people advocating for groups whether it is a society, a state, a subset of human beings (gay, black, or whatever) defining their actions, behaviors, and fates as a collective based on whatever measure they choose (majority, minority with power, or even a singular dictatorial will). We are stuck in that argument, but I want to add a breakthrough point. To the one's arguing the individual points or "One" point, like Libertarians, tell me, Can a person make a pure individual choice without any input from the outside world or other individuals? If you say Yes, because everyone has free will and can make their own choices, I have a big revelation for everyone. Each choice is made with conscious effort of other people's actions, direct and indirect, around you; thus, there is never a choice based on "One". A simple choice like Cereal brand you eat during the morning is made possible by a million other choices from the farmer in the fields, the factory worker on the line, the trucker on a deadline, and the super-market choices of supplier. I can point to the same factors based on any example you can pick, even choosing going right or left on a road is made possible by a million choices from others. Causality nullifies choice. As for the people arguing the point of the society or "Many" point, tell me, Can a group make a decision without a single person making their own choice? Each person has many choices in how they interact, some desire many things, others desire simplicity. However, each person can only hold to certain choices; thus, without individuals, no group can be created. If a group of politicians need to make a law on increasing taxes of stuffed animals, how does each arrive at their own vote? Each must think about their own experiences with stuffed animals, how fluffy they were as kids or even as adults keeping their childhood toys right next to them. Maybe some have a strong hatred for stuffed animals due to working in a assembly line stuffing these fur balls. That might be an outlandish idea, but it highlights how individual experience affects the group. All these experiences occured to produce a result. Causality nullifies goals. So what does my breakthrough points mean: I think whether you are trying to seek an individual solution or a group solution, one cannot deny that both sides co-exist on many levels; there can never be an ideal Libertarian solution as long as everyone affects each other in how their choices work, nor can groups effectively create lasting laws if each individual can determine their own choices based on experience. The problem between the two is a paradox, neither can be ideal and neither are truly achievable in reality. I have been thinking in terms of Causality a lot lately.

New Hampshire used to be similar outside the major cities like in derry, where my mom used to live, the doors can be left unlocked and it would be safe. (The state also is very free with gun owners too, so i wouldn't go into a random house uninvited ). As for honesty boxes, i used to do it all the time in the office. It was the coffee fund, whenever some one makes a cup of coffee they put some money in. I usually prime it with a dollar and some loose change each morning after a cup. It was stopped and changed to a general donation.

Good i don't need a box of kleenex tissues

In the Chinese Zodiac, I am the hare or rabbit (The smartest and cleverest of all the Animals), Western Zodiac placed me as the Crab (the most emotional and sentimental creature), and according to the Quiz, I am: You are a Owl! (your score: 28) Characters: Etar and Nathas in the Aspect of Crow trilogy Powers: Human lie-detectors Owls are keen, perceptive and skeptical. You're adept at getting to the truth, making you an ideal investigator or attorney. Your insights into the less honorable side of human nature can make you a bit cynical, but your numerous friends appreciate the dark sense of humor it brings. Best matches: Hawks, Foxes, Spiders Watch out for: Wolves, Horses, Otters I am betting if this was norse mythology, I'd be Wodin for sure as most of my aspects seem to hold intellect and out of the box thinking at their hearts

Interesting concept and movie, (basically, it's a gay boy in a girl's body, who falls for a gay boy ) In substance, it's similar to the American "Boy's Don't Cry", based on the true story of Brandon Teena, except the topic and perspective shifts to our own perceptions.

Wow, I am blushing at the compliments. You nailed a lot of points about my story and I hope I had given you some inspiration as well for future stories. I think the point of GA is not merely to be a place filled with isolated stories, but a community that learns and build from one another's insights into storytelling. I can't wait to read your story on life and death

I had a friend in college, who was a diehard Madden gamer and does the challenge each year. One day, he was playing up the league on my console, while I was out of the dorm. I encouraged him to keep on trying the challenge, because he's that sort of guy who needed to keep on fighting, like me. Then when I got back, my roommates were playing Halo 2. They basically politely asked him to leave so they could have some game time. It's not that strange for guys to place their gaming pleasure above others. I felt really bad about it and kind of guilty. It's not that weird that gamers want to play their own way.

Well, the trip was fun and relaxing; no pressure, no hassle, it was a simple affair between strangers, who are equivalent to pen pals of old. Sometimes, I wonder how much people on site actually think about the "real" you as in the actual person behind the avatar. We're all different people with our own backgrounds and tastes. I didn't picture Q being Mr. Dad or how cute lil' Q was in real life versus just pictures. Cassie and I shared a hotel together, it was fun to be traveling companions. (Note, I think you can lift more weight than me with how you handled the luggage up Capitol hill ) Intune, you have great artistic flair and I can't wait to see what you might create in the future. Plus, the weather in DC was perfect all weekend, not too warm, nor too cold. Hope that next year, we can have more people and meet up somewhere accessible to everyone. New York or Boston are on the top of the list and I think planning should probably start earlier to help everyone with other obligations and stuff.

Thanks comicfan, Acceptance is hard and asks for you to release everything in your life in order to be free of mortal burdens. Not everyone can do that, so don't feel like you must force it. Live and see where you end up at the end.

Thanks, the insights are fun to think about and the ideas are free for everyone to interpret and spread out. Life and death, creation and destruction, denial and acceptance, and basically everything from the beginning to the end of the universe is open game in my stories from the smallest acts to the larger players.

Thanks Cassie, my stories are complex and thought provoking, but I wish I had more talent in the area of character creation that you possess.

Thanks you, but I am no Rod Sterling with his morality pieces from the Twilight zone; I wish I could write to that level. The subject is very intense and there is no underlying right or wrong way of thinking, which I am really glad you picked up on.

Thanks for the thoughts and being thought provoked by my thought provoking points (Repeat that last part several times in your head too much and it might explode)

Read my Anthology from last year, if you want futility and "waiting" for death It's the whole of human experience that makes death truly amazing as a subject and I am glad to share my interpretation and perspective with you and my other readers.

sounds you chose acceptance

HA! I actually want to die without regrets if possible