Turns out I’m going to be doing these every other week, as work, school, the elements of chance and fate, and the incapacity to be creative on a weekly basis have come together in a maelstrom of non-posting.
Situation:
Dr. Pourhritch was perhaps the greatness social engineer to have ever lived, of this there can be no [...]
Situation:
You finally got what you want, you crazy libertarians, euthanasia is now legal. It’s legal and it’s regulated: they’ve got commissions, documents to sign, lawyers that need to be contacted, senators who bring up minutiae concerning the when, where, and how of the whole procedure, and about every hurtle you could throw at it including [...]
Situation:
Barry didn’t post an Analog Dilemma last week. I really look forward to those things. He posted one every week, just like he said he would in his first post. I came to expect him to post one every week and yet, last week, there was nothing.
He broke his promise. Ok, maybe he didn’t break [...]
Situation:
Two lovers in a park. Children swing on swing sets, others play with their dogs. Parents look on. Two lovers on a bench in a park. A public park where all are allowed in. A couple of “bums” (they are homeless, however, the current vernacular labels them as bums) are digging through a trash can, [...]
Situation:
Evolution is a true theory. Homeotherapy is pointless. There are no UFOs. Man has landed on the moon. One man shot JFK. There is no 9/11 conspiracy, just psychopaths and heart break. There are no psychic phenomenon. Ghosts aren’t real. Tarot cards is an expensive form of Uno. Dianetics is pointless and harmful. As are the [...]
Situation:
It’s all the rage. Skin. Human skin. Being worn by people, not their owners. I believe it started with hand skin gloves shown at an underground New York fashion show last winter, though many contend it was a chest vest from Dolce & Gabbana’s spring line that started the trend. In any case, it’s all [...]
Situation:
The world no longer experiences pain. Stub your toe, skin your knee, bump your head. You won’t feel anything close to what you would have called pain. You’re also pretty sure the world doesn’t experience anything akin to the normal psychological pain it once did. Threats of violence seem laughably impotent.
This is because the people [...]
Although this response does not encompass the (count it) 20 questions asked in the previous analog discussion, I hope to give my opinion on the matter of animal rights.
As Americans, we have inherited a certain expectation of equality under the law where no man/woman/president/policeman are neither above nor exempt from its rule. Also known [...]
I have decided to start a weekly series involving certain situations that involve philosophical, moral, or logical dilemmas, riddles, or puzzles pertaining to many facets of life that many of us have either brushed by the wayside in our never ending search for the truth or simply ignored altogether. These situations or parables or stories [...]
