"Losing love is like a window in your heart-Everybody sees you're blown apartEverybody feels the wind blow."My mother died of leukemia when I was in highschool. Losing her was what broke my family apart- it drove my father violently insane, and it drove my sister and I to the extremes of teenage angst... and into meeting all the characters who lurk around its fringes.I sometimes wonder if she...

Well, in my legendary style, I have once again made things worse:To recap, in the wee hours of yesterday morning, I cut off all my hair. And I do mean ALL. And then, to make things worse, I had the bright idea this morning that my ill-hewn carpet cut might benefit from a bit of hair dye... WRONG!!To cut a long story short, I have a new nickname at work- it's 'Beetroot'. :(AND, to top it all off,...

I don't even know why, exactly.When I was younger, I used to have unusually long hair. People always used to comment on how lovely it was, and how pretty I looked. But I don't feel pretty anymore- just useless.My boyfriend went away for the weekend. Not a big deal, you would think, for someone who is in all other respects a competent adult. He is staying in a house with other girls. Friends of...

So here I am, on the first day of school and already on the internet. I had forgotten just what a lazy life being a student is.I'm doing a fitness course at a local vocational college. Sounds pretty mundane, but I actually think I'll enjoy it. You should have seen the looks on my classmates' faces when they found out I turned down a very selective degree to bum around here! Uni is just so damn...

With globalization on the horizon, the possibility of a universal language has come to awareness. English is a major contender for the current dominant language, and some people think we should make it the official global language. Personally, I don’t think there’s much chance of this happening, as world leaders would be well aware of the dangers and many countries would be reluctant to be...

Personally, I see no problem with it, as long as it is done before a certain point in the pregnancy. People always go on about how you are taking a life, but really, a thing that is two inches long and has no awareness or concept of life and personhood is not really a person. Aborting well-devolped foetuses is another issue entirely, and I wouldn't dare to venture there, but I think that very...

People always seem so quick to judge gay couples as not being good for a child's social development. And yet, with the number of alcoholic, abusive and absent parents there are around, I think a child these days would be lucky to have relatively normal, gay parents.Some people say that a child needs a mother and a father to have the best possible experience. But then, I know kids who have been...

This is just what I wrote on the 'morals' and 'good and bad' threads:Morals are a kind of in-built means to an end. They do not come from an ultimate law that floats around in the universe, but rather, from humans. Our morals are a combination of evolved instinct and learned knowledge of what would be best and worst for ourselves and those things important to us in a given situation. Our sense of...

This is what just I wrote on the 'cults' thread:Cults are exclusive societies, generally founded on some kind of belief or tradtion. Often they are structured around a central power or heirachy- this being what seperates them from other religious groups. As such, they can also be quite undemocratic, to which a lot of people object, and thus are the subjects of much prejudice in society.And yet,...

So right now I am trapped in my room, locked up like some naughty child trying stewing on ill-will and resentment.Basically, my house mate and I have an agreement- we don't allow other people to stay- he's cynical and grumpy, and I have a phobia of strangers. My boyfriend suffers this, and we are all in agreement of the exceptions.I am scared stiff of my housemate's sister. She is, in short, a...

HOO-FREAKING-RAY!!!...Sorry, but I just felt like sharing that.I know I don't know any of you, and you don't know me, but a week ago I was knee-deep in credit card debt, and now it's all paid off and there's $3500 in my account! I was expecting like half that much! Now I can pay my school fees and finally start living again, instead of lying awake at night dreaming of not being able to afford the...