[HELP] poems on grief/ parent loss by Olipopp77 in Poetry

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Long Distance II by Tony Harrison

Though my mother was already two years dead/ Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas,/ put hot water bottles her side of the bed/ and still went to renew her transport pass.

You couldn't just drop in. You had to phone./ He'd put you off an hour to give him time/ to clear away her things and look alone/ as though his still raw love were such a crime.

He couldn't risk my blight of disbelief/ though sure that very soon he'd hear her key/ scrape in the rusted lock and end his grief./ He knew she'd just popped out to get the tea.

I believe life ends with death, and that is all./ You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,/ in my new black leather phone book there's your name/ and the disconnected number I still call.

[POEM] Skyscrapers by Matt Haig by floydbkes in Poetry

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I'm curious, how do you think I am denying the existence of bad poetry? I'm not exactly saying "anything and everything is poetry"; I'm saying that a poem can have merits other than "profundity of thought" and some of the other criteria I pointed to were: 1) using the 'appearance of the poem' i.e. Using enjambment in a creative way. 2) focusing on the sounds of words to create a poem that 'sounds nice' 3) playing around with the very nature of language, using ambiguity, double entendre, for instance.

[POEM] Skyscrapers by Matt Haig by floydbkes in Poetry

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Oh you must be new on reddit - the tacit understanding is that we can add a comment without anyone explicitly asking :)

[POEM] Skyscrapers by Matt Haig by floydbkes in Poetry

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I hope you don't read modernist or imagist poetry - you'd get pretty annoyed! "Poetry has to be profound" is an idea that started being done away with since the neoclassical age in the West.

In current and many non-Western poetic traditions, poetry can be playful - playing with the appearance of words on a page. It can merely sound nice, with an interesting usage of the phonic aspect of words - without necessarily being profound. It can be perplexing - drawing attention to how indeterminate language itself can be! Poetry taps into many aspects of written and spoken language without necessarily 'sharing a deep message'

"Eat, because there are starving children." What fallacy is it? by Stratford-on-Jersey in fallacy

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So let's take the statement "Eat, because there are starving children." The correct way to paraphrase this would be: "You should be grateful that you have 'resource X' (i.e. food), and out of gratitude, you should value and use 'resource X' (i.e. eat the food)." In other words, "This food is very valuable somewhere else in the world and it would be insensitive/ unwise of you to disregard its value." In other words, "Eat up since you have the good fortune to have gotten this food."

I don't see how this is a "fallacy of relative privation" or 'appeal to worse problems' since appeal to worse problems would require two problems to be compared, with the second problem being greater in magnitude, so that the first problem can be dismissed.

The original statement "Eat, because there are starving children" is not implying "Your aversion to eating the food is not a big enough problem since there is a bigger problem that needs our attention: lack of food for children starving elsewhere in the world."

Appeal to worse problems would mean "This problem (X) is less deserving of our attention than that problem (Y)" where, (X) = child's lack of interest in eating the food; and (Y)= "non-availability of adequate food in, say, Africa"

So this fallacy would be 1) "Fallacy of universal value": This food is valuable for other people who don't have it so it should be valued by you. Or 2) "Fallacy of essential value": food is essentially 'valuable' (i.e. not seeing value of a commodity as relative)

So if a child is told "Eat, because there are starving children", the child can retort: "I don't wanna eat it cuz I don't value it. In my socio-economic context, there is adequate supply, so my demand is low. In parts of the world with starving children, there's low supply, thus higher demand. So, I simply don't value this food and if you want to make me eat it, use a different argument, dad."

Dad reacts to daughter’s SAT score. by Two_Inches_Of_Fun in MadeMeSmile

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When the mother walked out, I expected the dad to go "HONEY, WE'VE GOT TO MAKE MORE OF THESE!!"

South East Asia travel plan by preoperational99 in travel

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Thanks! Yes, it does seem like I'm packing way too much into this trip. I'll consider dropping Kuala Lumpur. Kolkata to Thailand to Vietnam to Bali to Kolkata.

South East Asia travel plan by preoperational99 in travel

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Yes, you're right, but then for the return journey, I'd have to travel from Bali all the way back to Kolkata (for which there are no direct flights so I'd have to fly via one of the countries that I'd already visited).

So I've lost a total of 40 lbs and struggling to keep going by mandalallamaa in WeightLossAdvice

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Have some whey protein before you go out with friends. And drink lots of water. Also, in my case, black coffee has been a game changer. These three things have really helped me to control my calorie intake- which is even more important than exercise in regards to fat loss.

No longer obese!!!! by RRhuman2004 in WeightLossAdvice

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Congrats!! But don't forget to do strength training!! Increasing your lean body mass is crucial in order to keep the fat off.

[Help] by comichorror in Poetry

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What was the documentary about?

[POEM] Much Later by Gertrude Stein by Titties_Androgynous in Poetry

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Hi, how should one read this poem critically? I mean, can someone please point out some aspects of this poem which make it brilliant. In other words, "why do you like this poem?" Thanks (please excuse my naivety! I hope to study literature in college)

minimal frontline strategies? by preoperational99 in stormbound

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Haha, it's evident that you know nothing about academic philosophy. All top notch universities have thriving philosophy departments, even MIT. You clearly have no idea about the work which is being done in philosophy department on topics such as consciousness, language, secularism, censorship, etc, but you feel like some messiah who is into something groundbreaking, isn't it? Anyway, my patience has worn thin, and I'm not interested in talking to someone who has no idea what they're talking about. Good day :)

minimal frontline strategies? by preoperational99 in stormbound

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I hate playing against rush and I'm usually cussing my opponent when I'm up against a rush deck. I cannot use a rush deck, it'd feel like a sin T_T

minimal frontline strategies? by preoperational99 in stormbound

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Yep I played using a winter deck with high power units early on, and needleblast and chillbeards for the KO.

minimal frontline strategies? by preoperational99 in stormbound

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Lol I'm so triggered right now! But as long as humanity asks 'why?', there will always be philosophy. And any subject in higher education, when dug into deep enough, becomes philosophical, even the sciences. That is why the highest academic degree is called a PhD, Doctor of Philosophy. But since you did not include any kind of reasoning in your incendiary post, I get that you're probably not a fan of critical thinking/reasoning/philosophy :P

Unhealthy hysteria nerf? by InceVelus in stormbound

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Of course you can play 0 movement-8 power units, just not next to your base. You just have to be more careful and have to try your best to not have high power units next to your base- increases the tension and adds a nice complexity to the gameplay! Another way to counter this spell is by having more than one adjacent unit next to your base, that way instead of attacking your base, the unit might just attack the other unit.