Joined and have been lurking for a while; here's my first post. Oh, and hi there. :)

Survey of the Non-Garden-Variety Type:

Review the list below. Choose a position and defend it, or state your own position and defend it. There are no right or wrong answers - I'm just interested in what you have to say.

People with abrasive personalities:a) ( Read more... )

I found an interesting article in wired.com. Here's the gist of it. What do you guys think ( Read more... )

It being valentines day and all I thought I would start a discussion on everyone's impressions of it. This is the first year I'm single for Valentines Day and to tell you the truth I don't mind one bit I think this has been my best Valentine's Day ever. I wonder if it is the propaganda about needing someone in your life to "complete you" that ( Read more... )

hi there, i thought this would be an interesting community to join ( Read more... )

i thought this would be a good topic. "INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS". unless its taboo ( Read more... )

In relation to sunday's post by alteus, I thought I would capitalize on the issue of lame pick-up lines ( Read more... )

I've been wondering for the past week this:

What if the continents had never seperated, what if today we lived on Pangea (which was basically all of the coninents combined into one supercontinent.) What would our culture be like? What would be our ideal? Hey! What would everything be like?!

I am an 18-year old University student from Germany and thought this community sounded interesting, so I joined. I love discussing a lot of things, and I especially love to discuss them via internet, because you can state your thoughts and opinions there without being interrupted, and you have the chance to meet a lot of interesting people ( Read more... )

so, the state of the union ( Read more... )

First post here in god knows how long.
I was just reading this article on cnn.com Climate risk 'worse than thought-click hereFor the sake of discussion I was just curious what people's thoughts were. Granted, I'm sure the human race has had an affect on climate. I mean how could we not? We've torn down forests, polluted the air-water, etc etc ( Read more... )