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By SethPet BRONZE
Houston, Texas

 The LGBT community have been discriminated for being dissimilar for years now, it is unfair because they are human too, they deserve rights, there are many situations that...
SethPet BRONZE, Houston, Texas
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By Mistraven GOLD
Brookton, Maine
Mistraven GOLD, Brookton, Maine
16 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
Divine help me, I'm An Athenian In a school of Spartans!

Abby McCarthy BRONZE, Wayland, Massachusetts
4 articles 16 photos 2 comments
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theskeptist BRONZE, Colleyville, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 6 comments

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"The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity is that I think it has something very important to offer us... I'm afraid were losing the real virtues of living life passionately in the sense of taking responsibility for who you are the ability to make something of yourself and feel good about life. Existentialism is often discussed as if it were a philosophy of despair, but I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre, once interviewed, said he never felt once minute of despair in his life. One thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance, of feeling on top of it, its like your life is yours to create. Ive read the post modernists with some interest, even admiration, but when I read them I always have this awful nagging feeling that something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more you talk about a person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as being fragmented of marginalised, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses. And when sartre talks about responsibilty, he's not talking about something abstract. He's not taling about the kind of self or souls that theologians would talk about. Hes talking about you and me talking, making descisions, doing things, and taking the consequences. It might be true that there are six billion people in this world, and counting, but nevertheless -what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms, to other people, and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is that we shouuld never write ourselves off or see eachother as a victim of various forces. It's always our descision who we are."

_annabel127 BRONZE, Nairobi, Maryland
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By kateknopp BRONZE
Carmel, Indiana
kateknopp BRONZE, Carmel, Indiana
4 articles 0 photos 9 comments

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&quot;Trade your guns and fire with doves; we fight for love, and peace will find us with harmony.&quot; -Christofer Drew<br /> <br /> &quot;Sometimes you&#039;ve gotta fall before you fly.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.&quot; -Oscar Wilde

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mikkkaaayylllaa BRONZE, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
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Henry Zagarella BRONZE, Ipswich, Massachusetts
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westbraebear SILVER, M, California
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

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&quot;None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.&quot;<br /> - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#1010 Opinion
By UndiscoveredStar GOLD
Spokane, Washington
UndiscoveredStar GOLD, Spokane, Washington
16 articles 1 photo 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
My heart is my own but your free to change that...as long as you can take all the hurt and troubles that come with it.