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Veronika Decides to Die: Love above Wisdom
One of the passages that stopped me in Veronika Decides to Die is the explanation Edwardo came with about the painting of The Lady (Virgin Mary) standing poised above the world, with her hands outstreched to the Earth and with rays of light streaming from her fingertips while standing on a live snake. His explanation:…
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Veronika decides to die: Miracle of life
In a second, Eduard remembered everything that had happened the previous night. There was a woman lying curled in his arms. ‘She… she’s dead.’But the woman moved and opened her eyes.‘What’s going on?’ asked Veronika.‘Nothing,’ said Eduard, helping her to her feet. ‘Or rather, a miracle happened: another day of life.’ I finally finished this…
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American Psychological Association: Homosexuality
Some people refuse to see the sun even when its rays hurts their faces. I know that many refuse to hear science when it conflicts with their own set of beliefs. Like in religion, people take a selective approach in believing what they want to belive. I will do what I have to do and…
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Freedom Quote
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865) After all the heated debate about homosexuality in the past few days, I wake up to read this quotation of the day on my blog. I guess Abraham Lincoln said it all. I have no comment. *sight*
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Gays and Marriage
Yesterday I addressed Gays and Femininity in a post where I argued that Gay men are not necessarily femininie and Gay women are not necessarily masculine which has and still been helping them in staying covered from the outward society. A comment by Mohammad stopped me, and remind me of my social pressure short story…
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Gays and Femininity
After posting yesterday about The first Gay Jordan blog, I got several messages where some felt for the guy, some didn’t, and some even attack homosexuals as whole. One comment by Tala stopped me, she said: imagine a head of an arab political party who is gay! it is possible but not credible, i wont…
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First Gay Jordanian blog
Jordanian gays find the internet as their only means of communicating their internal feelings to the outer society of Jordan that percieve them as immoral people. I came across this interesting blog for a Jordanian guy from Irbid who is trying to explain out his struggle of his homosexual feelings through his blog. He said:…
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What goes around comes around
What goes around comes around? God punished Adam and Eve for eating from the good and evil tree in heaven by moving them out of heaven and condemning them and their descendents to death. A couple of thousands years later. The descendents of Adam and Eve, who were inhabiting earth, condemned God himself (according to…
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Amman Municipality: Parking Slots Fee!
Me and my friend are still struggling with Ammman Municipality in order to get the licence to start our new little project which I will hopefully talk about later in more details if we managed to get through with our application that is stuck now at the Municipality because they want us to pay for…
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Nudity and Honesty
While writing my short story The Nude Man, that I posted a while ago here, and later on discussing it with some bloggers who posted comments and some friends offline, it made me wonder about the real link between Nudity and Honesty that was represented in the story. The idea is how much can a…