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« Last post by ChrisKoz on October 31, 2018, 01:38:33 pm »
Halloween is a time when children dress up as a witch, wizard, skeleton, vampire or ghost.
What costume they choose depends on what they like most.
They carry a carved pumpkin with a lit candle in.
Come on everybody, fill up your sweet tin.
You'd better stock up on your sweets.
They go round all the streets.
They go round all the houses calling "trick or treat".
They play a trick if they don't get a sweet.
If they don't get a treat they will play a trick.
They play the trick & then they run quick.
Nice! Quench demons with sweets! That tradition is relatively new to me (I first learned it when moved to US). To be honnest, it does not feel "right" down under at this time of year, where spring blooms, days are longer, everything brighter, whole nature starts to reproduce, pumpkins are not here yet (unless imported from US). But talking about scary stories, my childhood dragon was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawel_Dragon from Krakow. He used to terrorise people, until he was given spicy food, so hot that the dragon started drinking water to relieve spicy sensation, and he drank and drank until he burst. So, my childhood memories are: fight demons with spicy food! (not with sweets)
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« Last post by ChrisKoz on October 31, 2018, 01:17:39 pm »
This is a story I wrote for Halloween but it's only a 1st draft. I haven't proof-read or edited it yet.
In a dark, dark galaxy far away lived some aliens who were very intelligent & psychic & azure. They didn't speak to each other because they didn't need to as they always communicated using E.S.P. Their planet was all made up of different shades of red. Everything on their planet was red except the people & their cheese which was green. Their moon was green. They were always looking up at the sky to the nearest planet to them. This planet was blue & green & was made up of all different inhabitants. This planet had woods & seas. On this planet were countries. 1 of these countries had a dragon living at both ends in caves. At 1 end of this country was a red dragon who was wicked & breathed fire. Near his cave lived a wicked witch who had a big, black cat. She was married to an ogre. At the other end of the country was a green dragon who wasn't wicked but he didn't realise he breathed fire & was very upset when he hurt people by breathing on them & burning them. Near his cave lived a good witch who tried to help people. She was married to & lived with a wizard. They used to heal the people the dragon burnt & make him feel better about himself. In the middle there lived lots of normal people, ghosts who were nocturnal & huge, green monsters as well as gorgons like Medusa but with all different species of snakes. These were worse than Medusa as some of them could squeeze you to death like a python, hypnotise you & spit venom on you so you'd die, spit venom in your eye like a cobra & bite you. They were all venomous. There were also mines in this country. Down mines there lived a devil who terrorised people too. This country was always at war because the good witch could never get on with the bad witch.
Ouch! That story is really scary. I like everything in it, especially gorgons with hair like snakes. BTW, I'm proud to be one of the very intelligent & psychic aliens, be cause I also communicate using ESP (English for Specific Purpose), although here down under it's called ESL (English as a Second Language). Well, not anymore, but I used to when I learned it at uni. And I learnt it very seriously, because virtually all literature related to my job was in English (translations to my mother tongue were poor and far in between), so I had no choice but to learn my ESP. Yeah, that changed somewhat now as I grew up & English became my main language. But I still remember those ESP times, when I felt almost like a kid, scared of everything.
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« Last post by Horsa on October 31, 2018, 08:54:24 am »
Halloween is a time when children dress up as a witch, wizard, skeleton, vampire or ghost.
What costume they choose depends on what they like most.
They carry a carved pumpkin with a lit candle in.
Come on everybody, fill up your sweet tin.
You'd better stock up on your sweets.
They go round all the streets.
They go round all the houses calling "trick or treat".
They play a trick if they don't get a sweet.
If they don't get a treat they will play a trick.
They play the trick & then they run quick.
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« Last post by Horsa on October 31, 2018, 08:53:27 am »
This is a story I wrote for Halloween but it's only a 1st draft. I haven't proof-read or edited it yet.
In a dark, dark galaxy far away lived some aliens who were very intelligent & psychic & azure. They didn't speak to each other because they didn't need to as they always communicated using E.S.P. Their planet was all made up of different shades of red. Everything on their planet was red except the people & their cheese which was green. Their moon was green. They were always looking up at the sky to the nearest planet to them. This planet was blue & green & was made up of all different inhabitants. This planet had woods & seas. On this planet were countries. 1 of these countries had a dragon living at both ends in caves. At 1 end of this country was a red dragon who was wicked & breathed fire. Near his cave lived a wicked witch who had a big, black cat. She was married to an ogre. At the other end of the country was a green dragon who wasn't wicked but he didn't realise he breathed fire & was very upset when he hurt people by breathing on them & burning them. Near his cave lived a good witch who tried to help people. She was married to & lived with a wizard. They used to heal the people the dragon burnt & make him feel better about himself. In the middle there lived lots of normal people, ghosts who were nocturnal & huge, green monsters as well as gorgons like Medusa but with all different species of snakes. These were worse than Medusa as some of them could squeeze you to death like a python, hypnotise you & spit venom on you so you'd die, spit venom in your eye like a cobra & bite you. They were all venomous. There were also mines in this country. Down mines there lived a devil who terrorised people too. This country was always at war because the good witch could never get on with the bad witch.
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« Last post by Horsa on October 31, 2018, 08:52:11 am »
Happy Halloween everyone!
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« Last post by Horsa on October 27, 2018, 10:50:22 pm »
I've just read that "although there have been many attempts to define art in the past none have been satisfactory though almost everyone has some idea of what it is" & that "the function of art is to bring pleasure to humans". I also read that "speech is the expression of thought in the same way that art is the expression of emotions". The last 2 quotes left me with a few questions.
1.If the function of art is to bring pleasure to humans, does art bring pleasure to all humans?
2.If not, why not?
3.Does all art bring pleasure to humans or is it just certain pieces of art?
4.What pieces of art bring pleasure to humans?
5.Do the pieces of art that bring pleasure to humans differ from person to person?
6.Why?
7.If speech is the expression of thought do all speeches express thoughts?
8.If not, why not?
9.Does all art express emotions?
10.Are there any cases where speech expresses emotions & art expresses thoughts?
11.Why?
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« Last post by Horsa on October 27, 2018, 12:03:46 am »
It is believed that horses were domesticated not only for their power but also because in some ways they have a similar intelligence to humans. The ways that horses have a similar intelligence to humans which our ancestors utilised are:-
1.They remember things
2.They have the ability to follow a line of reasoning
3.They have the ability to make decisions based on what they know.
Our ancestors knew that horses didn't have human language skills so communicated with horses through touch though later on it has been found that some horses have been taught some human words & understand what people are saying. Humans taught horses culture. An example of this is when horses were taught to dance to music.
Horsemanship is a skill that has been learnt, taught, wrote about & perfected for millennia. Although Simon of Athens was the 1st person to write about horsemanship, his book was destroyed so the oldest surviving book on horsemanship was Peri hippikes (Good horsemanship) by Xenophon. Xenophon believed that good horsemen were clever horsemen & rode their horse with intellect & respect for the sentient being they were riding. He also believed that all horses had different personalities & you had to choose the correct horse for the purpose you intended it for. You couldn't get a sensitive horse & send it to war for example. A chapter of his book was called Hippikes gymnasia which means horse gymnastics.
Unfortunately, horses aren't just used by humans for riding & transporting people & goods. They're also used for hunting (which I disagree with as it's not only cruel to foxes but to horses & dogs too & many horses & dogs have died in the process), bull-fighting (Which I also disagree with as people & horses get killed as well as bulls for no purpose whatsoever except some people are sick enough to enjoy watching it) & meat (which I think is dreadful & shouldn't be done but people still eat the meat so butcher's still kill them).
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« Last post by Horsa on October 26, 2018, 11:59:39 pm »
Ferrets
Ferrets are domesticated Northern European polecats. They belong to the foumart section of the marten family. Fou meaning foul-smelling due to the fact that when they feel threatened they let off a foul smell & mart short for marten. They're also related to stoats, weasels, otters & badgers in the animal classification group mustelid or mustelidae. They're obligate carnivores which means they can only eat meat or else they can become very ill. They're similar to pups as in they get a bit nippy in play but they're like that all their life. You know they're only playing if they dance & make a laughing (dooking) sound before they nip. If they dance & then let off a smell by scratching their scent gland you know to get out of their way as they're angry. They have been used for rabbiting & ratting for centuries. There are some myths that go around that put people off these beautiful animals that make good pets. These myths are that they're rodents. They're not. They're mustelids. They're rats. They're not, they're ferrets. They catch rats. They're nasty. Not if treated properly. They warn you before attacking. They smell. They only really smell if angry. You keep them happy & they don't smell. In the wild they're nocturnal. When you keep them as pets they mould themselves to your schedule.
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« Last post by Horsa on October 25, 2018, 02:30:30 pm »
Criminology by Tim Newburn
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« Last post by Horsa on October 25, 2018, 02:23:22 pm »
You're welcome. It's o.k. I understand. You're free to do what you want to do here. Thank you very much. I'm planning to write a horror story & a poem for Halloween, a sci-fi story & a crime-fiction story. I hope you enjoy.
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