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KennEnder

Obviously, "how we are raised" has some repercussions on later attitudes and actions, and sex/sexuality/masturbation is no different. The difficult part is determining what that effect will be! As you made clear, both friends grew up in very different households, but eventually ended up ve...

KennEnder

If you use the word "than" when you mean "then" and it wasn't a typo, I will judge you and quite severely. I recognize that this is a relatively trivial item and I will not be outwardly mean to you, but I'm always keeping score in my head. This is not something I'm proud of. My ...

KennEnder

Okay. Talking about something in class doesn't necessarily make it acceptable discussion in "polite society." I'll bet the teacher got more than a few giggles from the students, some perhaps even uncomfortable ones. The way I was taught, if you wouldn't say it in front of your grandma, you...

KennEnder

Judgment (and hence responsibility) is at most only half intellectual, the other half being emotional. And at 11, even a genius has a lot of development left in both... otherwise we wouldn't have age requirements, we'd have IQ requirements or knowledge requirements instead. (Of course, age requireme...

KennEnder

Pastwatch, Songmaster, Treason, Enchantment, Treasure Box... all great choices!

KennEnder

It's a Star Trek thing... Captain Jean-Luc Picard was abducted by her and she is the "face" of the Borg. "Resistance is futile!"

KennEnder

Looks interesting, DP. (On another note, it's a lot like a book I wrote myself... which means I'll probably never be able to get mine published because their concepts are too similar. Darn it!)

KennEnder

I would say "it's impossible to make a 'real' lightsabre (like in the SW movies)" but people were probably saying the same thing about "communicators" and such from Star Trek... and look now at cellphones. So, perhaps YOU will be the one to make the leap and invent the impossible...

KennEnder

Which happens to be quite a confusing change for some of us...

KennEnder

We have a dissenter! Someone disagrees that phone sex is cheating! (Or at least, so says the poll... where's the comment, though?) Does anyone think that sometimes our values are a little mixed up? I mean, in the US (and Canada?), it's okay for a 14-year old to see/know gory details of murder, blood...

KennEnder

Funny, it always reminded me of the Borg lady... still scary though.

KennEnder

Well, skipping the "Just about anything by OSC is a great read" routine (because I enjoy his 'style' of writing), I'd say you might enjoy: Seventh Son (series) of course there's a long list of great alternates. But genrally I'd wait before trying: Hart's Hope Saints Memory of Earth Series ...

KennEnder

Funny, I was just looking at the Alex Rider books in the store yesterday... would you recommend them even to "old people"?

KennEnder

id say its still a bit cheesy like online sex only you talking not typing

ahh heck what would i know im 14 years old

Having to type would definitely kill it even MORE... at least on the phone you can HEAR her (or his) voice.

And at 14... oh, never mind... TMI

KennEnder

please tell me that this thing happens in australia if its only in europ im gonna be very very pissed off! Well... it's not ONLY in Europe. Or perhaps not at all in Europe! It's in Battle School, which generally is in SPACE. Although there is a bit that happens in the USA. Not Europe. But, not Aust...

KennEnder

I have a couple questions, does anyone here think masturbation is a form of cheating when you have an S.O. with whom you are sexually active? I never been in the situation myself, but I know some of my friends get angry when they know their S.O. masturbated. An interesting situation that I have run...

KennEnder

Short stories would be cool... but isn't he sort of doing that with the IGMS on Hatrack? I actually haven't read any of them, but I get the idea that every issue has a short story about an Enderverse character.

KennEnder

Okay, while roaming the store, I came across a new OSC book entitled "Invasive Procedures." I didn't see anything here on P-web about it (at least not in THIS forum, and nothing turned up in my search). He co-wrote it with Aaron Johnston. George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in...

KennEnder

Thanks (albeit belatedly) for the heads-up, Luet!

KennEnder

Well, I saw "A War of Gifts" (aka "Christmas at Battleschool") at Borders the other day so I actually sat down in one of those cushy chairs right in the store and read it... I had time to kill. Anyway, to make a short story short... it was not as bad as I had expected, but then a...

KennEnder

Just to set the record straight, I have nothing (personally) against pornography (or phone sex, although the appeal of that eludes me, for the same reasons Wil said). Then again, I'm single, so right now it could hardly be considered "cheating." But even in a relationship, I can't seem to ...

KennEnder

To illustrate: Is fantasizing about someone else (especially while "entertaining yourself") being unfaithful? If so, then I'd have to say that viewing porn is also a form of cheating... one normally views porn to "escape" (or expand?) the relationship you are in and there is a go...

KennEnder

And that view (that the US is a childish bully) is, by-and-large, entirely correct. I mean, what bully (or child) actually THINKS of themselves as a bully (or child)? So "we" (and by that I mean "a few Americans, particularly those in power, but certainly NOT ME) deserve the reputatio...

KennEnder

What Jayelle said.

KennEnder

I'm addicted to traveling. And Ender's Game.

KennEnder

Ender. I can't even say that it's really close.

KennEnder

Hey, I think I can still hear someone at the door. Turn up the music!

KennEnder

My interpretation of "in his likeness" has always been "with intelligence" or perhaps "with self-awareness" (since some animals are very intelligent but, as far as we know, have no self-awareness). And language translations have always bothered me, being somewhat of a l...

KennEnder

but "snare" does sorta sound better, kinda...

KennEnder

I'm working on it, but I may not finish it until around the time the movie gets made. (Which is also about the time we will develop nuclear fusion, by the way...)

KennEnder

But there IS a lot of really cool history in and around Philly. I have been a tourist there, I know!

KennEnder

Actually that's kinda funny. I didn't notice it either!!!! (It was a typo, and 'n' and 'h' look quite a bit a like...)

KennEnder

Thanks, Mich... True enough, the avatar needs some work, but in the meantime I learned a few things about how to do it, where to upload it, and all about linking it to the site - and those were the MAJOR hurdles! Now it's just a matter of sitting down and actually trying to make it look better! I us...

KennEnder

a new Bandaid wouldn't be so bad, so I imagine this ban is for the... used ones...? Yuck.

KennEnder

I guess that's why they had to include a "non-lethal laser" mode for this model. Normal rifles don't quite weigh 30 pounds, so the whack is a little less traumatic than this beast's would be.

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