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• does anyone know anything about man eating piranhas? posted (2 months, 1 week) ago
  I have been read google obtained articles for a couple of days now and i haven’t really found…

• Who first said “Life is a game”? posted (3 months) ago
  I have googled this and can’t find out - please help.…

• i suspect i may have offended some people. posted (5 months) ago
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• do you ever feel a little bit restricted by help dot com? posted (5 months) ago
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• just found the most amazing video on youtube… http://uk.youtube.com/watch? posted (5 months) ago
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• why do all my responses get submitted for approval? posted (5 months) ago
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• (1 vote) What is truth?
  

  Let me tell you what i think, having read one or two books on the subject. It’s important to distinguish between (in my book) the main definitions of truth, although there are loads really.
  
  Firstly, there is ‘real’ truth, by which I mean the way things actually are - for example, the ‘real’ shape of the Earth.
  
  Secondly, there is ‘perceived’ truth, i.e. the people think that things are - for example the belief in Medieval times that the Earth was flat.
  
  Although opinion is divided among many philosophers, most agree that it is not possible to know the ‘real’ truth about anything. This is because we are limited to direct knowledge only of our own perceptions, which means all truth is really perceived truth.
  
  For example, we believe that the real shape of the Earth is that of a sphere, but very few of us will have direct evidence of this. Instead we rely on scientific evidence which we assume is correct.
  
  There is a third definition of truth, known as ‘a priori truth’ or - more commonly - ‘a priori knowledge’. This is where an item of truth or knowledge is obtained not through either ‘direct’ experience or direct perception but through deduction. It is through this process of a priori deduction that scientists came to believe that the Earth was round many years before we were able to record pictures of the Earth from space and ‘prove’ this theory.
  
  Hope this helps. Happy to answer any more questions on this.
  
  - written 5 months ago – voted for by PomPom

• (1 vote) I’m a writer.
  

  The first things you need to do is read the “Magazine Publisher’s Yearbook” or the “Writer’s Yearbook” or something like that. You can either buy one from most bookshops or, if you don’t feel like parting with handfulls of cash, go into your local library. These will tell you pretty much everything you need to know about getting published.
  
  One of the first tips is to read the stories which are in the magazines you are writing for - and try to match your style to the style of the magazine. This may be why you were rejected previously.
  
  If you have enough material to put together into a novel, get yourself an agent. This is easier if you’re already published, but loads of agents will still accept work from unpublished authors.
  
  One of the cardinal rules of writing is revision - you need to be spending at least as much time re-reading and revising your writing as you are putting stuff down on paper in the first place.
  
  An important point to bear in mind is that there are as many different writers and writing styles as there are readers - don’t get too hung up about whether your stuff sounds or reads professionally. As far as I’m concerned (and a large proportion of the publishing industry) then if someone is willing to pay money to read your writing, then you’re a writer.
  
  Also, you’re only twenty two, for christ’s sake - you have your whole life ahead of you! Some of the greatest writers didn’t get started until they were much older. Just keep writing, and try to enjoy yourself.
  
  Finally, if you want a few tips from a very well known and respected (and popular) writer, try the below:
  
  http://www.kabedford.com/archives/000013.html
  
  - written 5 months ago – voted for by The Astro-Man

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• Who first said “Life is a game”?
  

  it’s alright, i think i’ve found it - it’s J.D. Salinger:
  
  “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
  The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Mr. Spencer.
  - written 3 months ago

• What is truth?
  

  I guess what we’re talking about is our relationship to what we universally refer to as ‘truth’, by which we mean ‘real’ truth. While everyone has their own ideas on what they believe is the fundamental nature of truth, in practice it is unlikely that we will ever really know, because almost everything we experience is filtered through, and distorted by, our very human perceptions of the world.
  
  While the real nature of truth is unknown, we are able to approximate the probable nature of truth based on past experience.
  
  So, for example, if the first squirrel that we ever see is a grey squirrel, we can therefore expect the next squirrel we see to also be grey, although we cannot be 100% sure that this will be the case. If we were then to see another 1000 squirrels, all of which were also grey, then our expectations would have been proven correct.
  
  In this way we aquire the perception that all squirrels are in fact grey, without having tested this belief by checking the colour of every squirrel in existence. If we were to do this, we would then discover that some squirrels are red, and some black. At this stage our previous perception that all squirrels are grey would change, and we would then believe that while most squirrels are grey, some are red, and some are black.
  - written 4 months, 3 weeks ago

• I want to start a revolution - who’s with me?
  

  they are my words
  - written 4 months, 4 weeks ago

• just found the most amazing video on youtube… http://uk.youtube.com/watch?
  

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  whoops
  - written 5 months ago

• just found the most amazing video on youtube… http://uk.youtube.com/watch?
  

  you are all welcome
  
  feel free to check out http://cid-94e51b34b4821ec8.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Short%20stories/Ask %20Me%20On%20Thursday.pdf
  - written 5 months ago

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