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Terror at School - Prologue

     Zain got up from the sofa after tying his shoes. He picked up his backpack from the shelf across the room in the open kitchen and made his way toward the front door of his house.      A moment later, he was past it and out onto the street. It was a sunny Autumn day, with a slight bit of overcast. Leaves rustled on the pavement, which was otherwise thick with dust. Patches of litter also dotted the street all the way to the road junction several meters away. It was towards here that Zain was looking, hands tightly clenching the straps of his bag, and only a moment after he had exited his home, a bus arrived, its engine howling in the otherwise quiet morning.      The monster of a vehicle screeched to a halt near where Zain was standing, and the door popped open; the bus conductor, a tall, lean man, turned his gaze at him. Zain hopped onto the bus through the steps at the entrance and looked towards the back of the bus, its rows of seats f...
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In this ethereal moment, I feel you

The dew falls, the air feels cold, In this ethereal moment, I feel you, Then later, twilight falls, painting the sky, In that brush of nature, I trace you. The neighborhood is old, the restaurants familiar, Among these dwellings, I remember you, A wonderful play; the characters are ancient, Yet in Sappho's Aphrodite, I see you. The stars above shimmer, their light eternal, In this brilliant tapestry, I imagine you, The mountains are serene, the lake placid, Ghosts of eternity! I am haunted by you. The wind whispers through the trees, In every rustle, I seem to hear you, The flowers bloom with timeless grace, In their irresistible scent, I breathe you. The rain falls gently, such a soothing balm! With each drop, I growingly miss you, The days are passing, the nights restless, I don't have dreams, but when I do, they are of you... -------------------------------------------------------------------- NAVIGATION Home  
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Why there is No Objective Free Will

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     Suppose you throw a tennis ball in the air. The assumption would be, given all the other laws of nature, that the ball must come down. But was this inevitable? Was there some way, in which the ball could have remained afloat, or continued to go up indefinitely? Was there really no other way? As absurd as it might seem the mere exploration of alternatives to the ball coming down, I argue that it is no more absurd than to challenge the notion of everything being predetermined in the same way. The 21st century has witnessed the widespread acceptance of many scientific theories considered revolutionary or absurd at the time of their inception. Perhaps it is the same for all great things. But here I would call your attention to one particular scientific explanation for the origins of the universe; the Big Bang Theory. While we need not go into the details of how it works, or its many flaws and the consequent new unanswered questions, suffice it to say that it provides a p...
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