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I Never Loved You
If your mother and father told you that they never really loved or even liked you, and you knew it was absolutely true, how would it affect your life? What if you simply overheard them saying this to someone else? I don’t think it would have really affected my young life much at all since…
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Fly on a Wall
If, without being detected, you could spy electronically for the next month and watch anyone, anywhere, anytime like a fly on a wall, would you? If so, who would you watch and how closely? If not, why not? Me, no. I don’t have that sorta kink. If it were for a case or something I…
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American?
Originally posted on The Mind of Nox: Write about how you fit the stereotype of people from your country… or about how you don’t fit it at all. I guess this falls along the same line as the whole New York City Resident thing. I’m American by birth. I don’t really follow the whole patriotic…
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That’s Different How?
If women were just fundamentally smarter and harder working than men, would you support putting rules in place to ensure that men would share equally in the best jobs and fill half the slots at the best schools? If so, how would you explain the fairness of this to a smart, dedicated woman displaced by…
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Fame
Would you like to be famous? If so, for what? What if you knew it meant that within a few years you’d lose all your current friends and never develop new relationships that were as meaningful? The straight answer is no. I don’t want to be famous. Sadly I am. Sadly I was apparently before…
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Again, a Resounding Really?
Today’s is the same basic question as yesterday’s. If the person you were engaged to was in a car crash and became a paraplegic, would you back out of the marriage? If not, what if t hey became a quadriplegic? With a follow up question of: What if you found out that the person you…
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Love of My Life?
If it were the only way you could remain with the love of your life, would you be willing for both of you to wake up tomorrow as native speakers of an unfamiliar foreign language, knowing that within a week you’d permanently forget the languages you now speak and largely be cut off from your…
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Body Image
For $100,000, would you put on 40 pounds and keep it on for 3 years? How much money, if any, would you induce you to put on 100 pounds for at least a year? Um can you say no fucking way! Now you are going to say it’s just your weight. It doesn’t change you.…
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Video Footage
Would you like there to be a law requiring the police to archive video footage of everything they do while on duty? You mean like they do in all those sci-fi flicks. And they use it against you later? I think there was a Black Mirror episode on that where the girl was cheating on…
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Genetically Engineered
If your heart were damaged beyond repair, but you could regain our health for a few more years by getting a heart transplant from a genetically engineered pig, would you? Well, the point is moot for me except maybe if someone pulled my heart out and stomped on it. But then again you should be…
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All In a Day
On a typical Sunday, 10,000 people visit the Louvre in Paris. If a wicked sorcerer threatened to vaporize all the museum’s visitors or all of its art, sparing one or the base on your please, which would you save? Assume the sorcerer will obliterate both the people and the art if you don’t choose. This…
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Reputation
If you could anonymously and safely destroy any one person’s reputation online through various postings, would you? If so, who and why? Anyone who knows me knows that I wouldn’t do this. No one deserves to have their life ruined online or otherwise. I mean I let the guy who hurt me as a child…
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Enhancements
Would you rather watch an Olympics that outlawed performance-enhancing drugs or one that embraced them and let athletes use medical pit crews to jack up their performances? I’m not a big sports person so I really don’t care to watch either. But one is cheating, but if everyone is cheating it’s not cheating. Is it?…
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City or Isolation?
Ignoring all Financial considerations, would you rather spend the next five years confined to an urban mecca like New York City, or a beautiful, isolated town on the California coast? It really depends. On one hand an isolated town sounds great, but I know me. I’d get bored easily. I am a city boy. 5…
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My Obsession
If you had to be obsessed with money, sex, sports, religion, or food, which one would you choose? Now if anyone knows me you know the answer to this. At least I hope you would. Sports that’s a no. I don’t think I’ve played or even watched any. There was that one hockey game as…
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Talking Dolls
What would you do if your 6-year-old daughter’s favorite toy, a talking doll, started trying to convince her that she needed a new friend – the next doll in the company’s line? If Cass ever had a toy that talked I’d be a little concerned about possession. But if it was a company advertisement? Well…
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My Creator
I don’t know how many of you know what AJ actually does for a living. Web Developer. AJ’s not only creative with words, but with art and layouts and coding of course. So the past few days/months AJ has been playing with Affinity Photo and making images for the new author site. The last few…
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Lose a hand? Vehicles? or Tech?
Technology has become a part of us. Would you rather lose the use of all motorized vehicles, all telecommunication devices and computers, or one of your hands? The irony here is that I don’t drive. So the answer is easy for me. I could easily give up cars, buses, trains and fucking airplanes. Boats too…
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Epilogue
The next Monday came and everything felt strange. The Venatori were argueing over who was going to rule them in my stead. Someone thought that if they put the right person in place they could ride me out of the picture. The civilian Venatori they chose had not been difficult at all for them too…
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The True Power
Alex laughed, “You didn’t even need us.” “I did.” I said with the stone still in my hand and blood all over the front of me for the second time that day. As I came near Alex’s eyes grew wider. “It’s brighter.” He said. I lifted the stone and he was right, the closer I…
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Confrontation
The doors pushed open and revealed a large room with a oval table in the middle. The head of the table was an orante chair, and an balding man with grey hair and a pattern so weak in the elements I almost laughed. He was a five, but he was on the low end. Maybe…
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