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Wen Scott
Wen Scott
Minden, Ontario, Canada
Member since: Sep, 2008
Last login: 10/13/2009
Last update : 09/13/2009
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  • I fell in love with books at an early age, and realized very soon, that they were time machines, world travellers, and interactive (the words, the plot, my thoughts, my imagination) long before the advent of computers, the internet and all our other digital paraphernalia. They still fulfill all those roles and more, 50+ years later.

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  • Moral Dilemma in an Atheist World

    September 13, 2009

    • I've read a couple of interesting blogs this morning, both of which address the problems of morality in an athiest world, as opposed to a Christian world. The first, titled "Deconstructing the Purpose Driven Life - Chapter 23" is by The Athiest Missionary The athiest missionary poses the question what would Jesus do in two highly charged moral dilemmas: 1) Sophie's choice — choose ...
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  • Organs for Sale

    September 2, 2009

    • Transplants and organs for sale has become a hot topic on TV these days.In an interview, one doctor shrugged when he was asked if he cared where the donor organs came from.Another man told the interviewer that his mother accepted an organ from a poor foreigner, rather than the one he had offered her. The donor, an 18-year-old girl from China, died shortly afterward. When asked if he and his ...
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  • Sex: To write or not to write...

    August 19, 2009

    • Sex: To write the scene or not to write the scene. As a reader, I have mixed feelings. As a writer, ditto. The basic rule of thumb is that if the scene isn't doing some kind of work to further the plot, characterization, pacing, atmosphere, etc., then it has no place in the story.When I read sex scenes, there are times when they are tantalizing, teasing, tense, horrifying, in short any or all the ...
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  • are we ignorant or educated?

    August 7, 2009

    • If you think education is expensive — try ignorance.- Derek C. Bok        http://www.bookreporter.com/community/quote/index.asp What a wonderful quote, short concise, yet heavy with meaning. A provocation to thought, particularly in these times of recession when we argue over the value of sinking our tax dollars into education. What does it mean? We westerners forget, for instance, that ...
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  • The Mysterious Behaviour of Cats

    August 5, 2009

    • Two of my cats have decided to hate each other, transforming my focus on them from affectionate to obsessive, passionate and fixated. Why, you ask? Well...our cats, like most family pets, absorb a goodly portion of my attention during sunny, and currently dull dark stormy days.And why, you ask, are your pets behaving this way? No idea, I respond with a quick shrug. The answer for their ...
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  • names

    Now that's encouraging (I've always wanted to fly without wings lol)

  • That old adage, 'stop and

    That old adage, 'stop and smell the roses' is really true, isn't it? Kids do that without even thinking. They have a lot to teach us old guys.

  • Hello Brian, Ah, the middle

    Hello Brian, Ah, the middle road, as I learned in reading of the Buddha, is the ideal we should all strive for.

  • Charming

    A charming story --- I hope your daughter not only remembers her first shooting star, but carries on the tradition with her children when the time comes. As adults, sharing an event with your childre

  • Well Said

    I agree, it is the extremists that are most dangerous in any form. These particular articles concerned the Christian faith, but no religion is exempt when it becomes extreme.

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