lykopis

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#1 Posted by lykopis (6103 posts) - 2 minutes, 47 seconds ago - Show Bio

@kfhrfdu_89_76k:

Holy cow.

I loved this story! Had me laughing a few times, really mesmerized in others and teary for the robot character. Why do us humans fall in love with emotionless machines??! (which I did by the way.)

Well done!

@lykopis said:

@pyrogram:

Difference being

you=talent

me=none.

:)

talent is just a shortcut. makes things easier. training and practice can get you anywhere that talent can, and even further. look at me, im not the greatest writer ever, but i at least hope to be good at it. and i try to train myself to be better at it. talent will get you there quicker, but training can get you further.

yay! motivational! dont do drugs kids! unless the cool kids are doing them! man, dont you want to be like the cool kids!

Awh -- thank you! I just need to get back into the swing of things and get used to writing again. :)

#2 Posted by lykopis (6103 posts) - 15 minutes, 19 seconds ago - Show Bio

@laflux:

Will do (about Romania's performance) and yes -- it's true about Turkey and their attempts to appear secular. Their cities (at least in Istanbul) are much more modern in their social practices than the villages in the southeast. The country ranked lower than Iran when it came to gender equality -- not helped when the country's own leader declared he didn't believe in equality himself.

#3 Posted by lykopis (6103 posts) - 53 minutes, 27 seconds ago - Show Bio

Do the characters know of each other's abilities beforehand?

#4 Edited by lykopis (6103 posts) - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago - Show Bio

@consolemaster001:

I wanted to apologize to you for this:

It's too bad that all the effort in the 30's and 40's didn't manage to stamp out those atrocities committed in the name of Islam.

I didn't mean for it to come across the way it did -- all those horrors of which you've described isn't something to referred to so cavalierly. I meant more that the Turkish government should have focused their efforts on the people who committed atrocities in the name of Islam and not on the peaceful citizens who were refused their right to free religious worship. I'm a work in progress and pretty ignorant about Turkey's past, obviously.

@jorgevy:

Pretty much what I was getting at. A country which has yet to achieve the levels of human rights expected by all free, democratic countries shouldn't be traveling along a road that focuses more on something as trivial as restrictive alcohol laws than others. Definitely not something which should be the reason to prevent them membership to the EU -- I should have been more clear.

#5 Posted by lykopis (6103 posts) - 2 hours, 43 minutes ago - Show Bio

@consolemaster001:

Turkey does give a crap. They are the ones applying to become a part of it. As for a country who is led by a religious party -- that in itself is horrific. As for Turkey's past -- I haven't heard of people being hanged for wearing a fez or reciting the Quran in Arabic, but I am aware of the honour killings that still go on and even worse, left unpunished in the rural areas of the country. It's too bad that all the effort in the 30's and 40's didn't manage to stamp out those atrocities committed in the name of Islam.

#6 Edited by lykopis (6103 posts) - 3 hours, 28 minutes ago - Show Bio

Stay out of debates, Emiel. Stay out of them >_>

Buttons her own mouth...

#7 Edited by lykopis (6103 posts) - 3 hours, 49 minutes ago - Show Bio

I saw Richard Dawkins in there.

o-o

#8 Edited by lykopis (6103 posts) - 3 hours, 56 minutes ago - Show Bio

#9 Posted by lykopis (6103 posts) - 4 hours, 1 minute ago - Show Bio
#10 Posted by lykopis (6103 posts) - 4 hours, 22 minutes ago - Show Bio

Ridiculous. I hope the EU is paying attention -- hopefully this country never gets to become a part of it.

Cars kill -- additives in your food kill -- hey -- let's ban sugar as well since obesity is the sole reason the next generation of children have an expected lower life expectancy. If anyone claims this has nothing to do with Islam - they are lying. So much for being "fiercely" secular.

Use your keyboard!

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