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Hey writers and all,

I wanted to help everyone out here by laying out some guidelines for posting work they want critiqued. It's very hard for a reader to just dive into a piece without any sort of preparation. We all have difference styles of writing and sometimes it's hard to engage with something drastically different than what we're used to reading.

1: Introducing your piece before posting it. Describe how the idea came to you, and if it's longer maybe a summary. If it's poetry, give as much info as you can. What direction do you want to take this piece in? Do you have future plans for it? What plans?

2: Make sure it looks good and readable before posting. That means you should paragraph your pieces appropriately so your work isn't just a mass of text.

3. Ask for specific advice. What worries you most about your piece? What do want help on the most?

And if you can, give a working title.

Thanks,

Happy Writing!

Just to be clear, is this a monologue meant for an acting audition?

At 6 hours ago, DeftAndEvil wrote:

At 4 hours ago, JohnEndel959 wrote:

At 1 hour ago, BubblyMac wrote: Anybody else stockpiling work for this?

This guy! Since the people who frequent the Writing Forum are really the only people who are going to care until it comes out, it gives us a chance to prepare for it. We'll make a strong appearance when it does come out, unlike the submissions from random people seeking attention. Stockpile EVERYTHING!

You shouldn't be stockpiling; you should be refining or consolidating. When the Lit Portal comes out, there will be a bumrush of half-finished, poorly thought-out pieces. The last thing you want is to contribute to the flood or have most of your work buried by your own insistence.

I am focusing on one work and I am polishing the hell out of several of my flash fiction pieces and combining them to a loosely associated collection of very short stories; these will be my first two posts in the Lit Portal when it gets here.

What Deft said. In fact, there's going to need to be a lot of give and take between the portal and the forum. I think there's going to be a certain amount of finesse required. I wouldn't mind a scouting system like the one implemented by the art portal, but I would rather see just more self-control on the part of authors to demo their pieces on the forums before submitting them. For my part, I want to basically copy down the extensive handouts my professor has given me over the past two years, with the intention of forming a sort of tutorial base. I'm still not sure how that would take shape. I suppose either by forum posts, but perhaps through a digital lecture series on the portal.

Either way, it looks like the Anthology will be out before the portal, so the message should be pretty clear.

My problem with this is that there's absolutely no basis for search and seizure of personal property here. There's no reasonable suspicion because drugs are used equally amongst all Americans. Therefore, if it is the state's policy to drug test those who receive taxpayer dollars, then every official of the state government on the tax payroll must do the same.

In this case, it has to be all or none.

Question: If we're moving towards a one-vote-per-user system does that mean scores will have to keep track of people's voting power. Otherwise, if I'm only allowed one vote, I would withhold so I could vote when I have more power.

The last story for the Anthology is in and now we're onto the cover art. Then the kickstarter campaign. April publishing date is still the plan

I'm surprised there isn't a thread dedicated to this game yet.

I'm checking out the multiplayer demo, it just came out on the PSN

SO MUCH FUN!!!

At 1/31/12 04:24 PM, morefngdbs wrote:

At 1/31/12 02:42 PM, Camarohusky wrote:

First of all the framers of the declaration of independence & the Constitution said
" Politicians may not substitute their personal views for the Constitution"
The writings of Thomas Jefferson are quite clear & the US Government at the federal level has long since over stepped itself & IMO should be forced to go back to the ideal of the Founders (& its why I framed the throw the Constitution in the Garbage thread)
" Whensoever the general government (Federal Government) assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unathoritative, void & of no force " T. Jefferson 1798

The basic tenant of modern governing is that the central government is given the ultimate power of keeping itself in check. In our representative democracy, we elect those who we think will best perform this duty. But in fact, the central government is the protector of the constitution as well as protector of the rights of individual states. The government can change the constitution. The fact that states must ratify the passed proposal only suggests the further submission of states to the protection of the central government. If three-fourths of the state legislatures ratify the amendment, the other fourth has to deal with it.

the good of themselves & have twisted the concepts of the Constitution, which makes it difficult for them to do what they please (which is exactly why the founders of the Constitution framed it that way)

Absolutely not. The constitution was framed with vague language in order to be a living document.

Feb 26/10 Greta asks Charles Krauthammer
Whether people we send to Congress should vote their conscience or ours (their constituents)
Krauthammer answers - "That's the great question since Edmond Burke. He thought you should vote your conscience or conception of what the National need is "
Krauthammer went on to say,"He thinks Obama is allowed to go forward with health care reforms & respects the Presidents right or ability or notion that he needs to act int he Nations interests as he sees fit"

None of them understand That it is a politicians Sworn Duty to obey the Constitution reguardless of what he thinks or what his constituents want.
THere has been no appeal of the Constitution & it is why it is still being used to swear elected officials to office.

Again, that's because it is a living document and subject to change. We have processes in this country dealing with this issue.

All the bullshit pulled by politicians over turning this documents limitations & allowing subjective opinions to rule is why your nation is in the mess its in!

that those with vision like Ron Paul get a chance to fix it ( chances are I'll win all lotteries in Canada next week first!

consistency is the only aspect of Ron Paul's "vision" that is worth admiring. His political mindset is to deny the role the central government had in molding the country (like mandating healthcare and gun ownership back in the 1790s). And then to further discredit himself, he claims to be a student of economics while championing the gold standard, give me a break.

At 1/31/12 04:22 PM, Deathcon7 wrote: To avoid sounding self-important, I will preface this post by saying I in no way see myself as vital or important to the continued success of this forum. I only see myself as an individual who made promises to people and left them unkept. Not only that, I ninja'd when I shouldn't have. A lot of things have brought me to this point, brought me full circle, and I recognize these things. More importantly, before I let myself get too involved, I want to address my past transgression.

This apology is aimed at EKublai and AdamCook primarily, but also anyone else who was upset by my sudden dissappearance and apparent abandonment of the Anthology: http://deathcon7.newgrounds.com/news/pos t/686434

While I'm sure my absence may have went unnoticed, and, as stated, I won't be so arrogant as to believe it hasn't, this apology is owed, and I link to it here so that it can remain immediately prominent on my profile. I apologize if this is melodramatic, or maudlin, but it'll bug me otherwise if I simply ignore it. Thank you for your patience.

Class act. Thanks for those kind words and I'm glad you decided to make them public. In my mind, you don't have to apologize for anything, but reading your post is still very touching because it touches on what I think is most important part about developing a writing culture on Newgrounds, which is that writers feel the social burden of being part of a community.

Your departure from the forum was felt, Deathcon, primarily because we lost someone willing to turn their mind from their own writing to ours. As much as I would have liked your participation in the anthology, I was less concerned about that than I was about being down a recognizable face. It was the equivalent of you saying you couldn't come to my birthday party versus saying your family was moving out of my neighborhood. Either way, you can't be blamed for it though. For some, "moving on" is arriving and for some, leaving.

"Give and take" is what Newgrounds is all about. Even after a decade and more, Newgrounds is still ahead of the times. Not only does it blur the line between creator and consumer more intimately than other sites but it has Tom's face, a human face, at its storefront. To be a member of Newgrounds you need an identity and when you interact with others on here, you exchange identities as well as ideas. Hopefully, that's the direction the writing forum and the lit portal will take.

Again, thanks for the post. The plan is for the anthology to be published in April so if you're in the neighborhood.... (Okay that was a bit mawkish)

I may respond more completely later, but was this inspired by Deus Ex?

At 1/30/12 12:40 PM, morefngdbs wrote:

At 1/15/12 07:53 PM, Korriken wrote:

How can the President sign the National Defense Authorization Act into law. Which allows the US Government to suspend due process of the law & use the military to arrest & detain Americans on vague & opportunistic "suspicions"
Then your Presdident goes on to publicly state " He nor his administration would allow this part of the law to be carried out"

WHICH IS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE for the President of the USA to publicly state he will refuse to enforcing the laws of the USA !
Obama-" This Administration will not carry out these specific provisions of the NDAA "
But he just signed it into law !?!?!?!?!
SO why isn't there an impeachment charge making its way through Congress ??

What the hell are you talking about? The law you just quoted even says that it's not a requirement. It grants the authority, does not demand that the authority be used.

I don't mean to be a downer, but fan-fiction/parody scripts fare poorly on this forum. There are a lot of difficulties in critiquing fan-fiction, the most obvious one being you have to have someone critique it who knows the source material. By the same token, you are also limiting your audience, though that's less of a worry since quite a few people have played Skyrim.

But the real problem is that fan-fictions are generally works of passion (or more likely, impulse), produced because you want to show the world what your individual experience with the game was like and find an audience that can relate. In the end, even a good critique would run into problems since the heart of the script has to come from the author.

My suggestion is either find a Skyrim community forum, or really just go with what seems good. I will say, that flash parodies seem to work well when they're short and centered on a single joke. At the same time, you need to make sure that your script isn't piggybacking on the ideas of other parodies. People who watch your parody will probably have watched others like it, so you want to stay away from the same joke someone has already used.

At 1/22/12 02:29 PM, TheMason wrote:

At 1/21/12 06:41 PM, EKublai wrote: I don't get anyone on here. Obama did so much DESPITE not having a congress fully in power.

Factually incorrect. For the first two years he had a supermajority in the House of Reps and for the first year a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate. When he lost the fillibuster-proof majority he still had a 58% Democratic majority.

Notice I said that I didn't say "Democratic Congress" in power, but speaking of congress as a whole. Congress as it stands, is composed of individuals who spend 30-70% of their time campaigning. Money in politics guaranteed that the filibuster-proof majority meant nothing and a simple majority vote doesn't do anything these days. It's irrelevant what party any one is affiliated with. Congressional Dems fled from being identified with Obama come midterms not because they didn't support is views, but because they had no chance in hell in getting reelected if they did show such signs.

The problem wasn't Republicans. It was Obama would rather be right than govern (the opposite of Clinton), so he couldn't even keep the various parts of his own party together on major issues like Healthcare.

Gays are now allowed to serve in the military. THAT'S A BIG DEAL!

This was pushed through while he had Democratic control. Furthermore, it's not as huge as you think. As someone who joined the military in 2000 and supports gays serving in the military OPENLY (they could serve, in the closet, since the 1990s)...it was gonna happen. Conservative opposition to it was starting to wane. The military was discussing it amongst ourselves.

Actually, they could serve in secret at anytime. And I don't see how you can be so sure about its inevitability since one of the most hysterical critics of the repeal was none other than John McCain. Obama made the repeal a priority in his campaign and first days in office. I can't see the alternative presidency doing the same.

A huge something that he had to fight his own party for! It also remains wildly unpopular with the public, with people on both sides of the argument. Let's say Romney wins in November and the Republicans take the Senate. Congress could repeal it and Romney could sign the repeal...with very minimal political backlash.

I'm not satisfied with what-ifs, especially any what-if that includes Mitt Romney. Romney is a businessman whose healthcare system in Mass. reflects a business mindset and has very important similarities to Obamacare.

Osama bin Ladin is dead. THAT'S HUGE!

Not really. The "bin-Laden bounce" in Obama's approval rating is over. Furthermore, it was not like a) he actually pulled the trigger or b) his anti-terrorism policies led to discovering where he was hiding. In fact the intel trail started with Bush...using techniques Obama opposed.

I'll "not really" you there as well. The last two years Bush-era terrorist-hunting were characterized by Bush's very words "Bin Laden isn't important anymore". Obama was the once who reinvigorated our efforts.

Getting out of Iraq. BIG!

Again...not big for Obama but Bush. The timeline was established under Bush...all Obama had to do was...well do nothing. So why would he deserve credit for inaction? I mean we're not talking Nixon making unpopular decisions with both the left and right to end Vietnam.

But in fact, that was part of the reason we elected a democrat, because the democrat promised to follow the timeline while the republican did not. War timelines are often compromised during the exchange of power from one hand to the other. Inaction, long-term planning more like, is the kind of consistency required of successful governments otherwise every election would be the equivalent of a policy-driven coup.

Obama did nothing.

The recession is over and the recovery seems to be working now. ENORMOUS!

* GDP is only growing at 1.8%, far below what it should be to really count the recession over.
* Unemployment is also very high even though it is dropping. Right now it is 8.5% (15.2% when you include those who are discouraged from looking or underemployed), it had a bump going into Christmas. The question is will it continue past February? If the unemployment rate settles at 8.3-8.5% Obama is in trouble. If it goes up...he's out of office. He needs to consistently trend down from now to the election and get to 8.1-8.2% at least.
* While the government says the recession is over...the median income of US households have dropped while Obama has been in office.

I won't touch this anymore, we need to see what happens in the coming months. I have high hopes.

That's because he didn't really promise much. He took FDR's campaign tactic of being "not-Hoover" (Obama of course being "not-Bush")...and ran on "hopes and dreams". He didn't lay out how he was going to transform America...he just said he was gonna make things better. People like me hoped he'd turn-out to be like Clinton: a moderate Democrat whose going to 'triangulate' to the center. Others hoped he'd be the messiah of the Left and usher in a radical progressive agenda.

The thing is...he is neither. He is a community organizer whose never produced anything and is used to be an advocate (ie: adverserial) instead of building consensus. He doesn't know how to make public policy work in the real world.

WIthout any of understanding of what a community organizer is and does, I don't get how you can characterize his presidency as a "community-organizing" agenda.

Journey

I am so ready to play this game..... I can't contain my excitement. So nice.

The Last of Us

Finally, a zombie game with an actual narrative.

Twisted Metal

Haven't played this series in a while, ready to get back on board.

I hesitated slightly at the doorway, staring through the glass into the inky dark of the shop. What if... I wondered. I knew Al. Al was my friend which might be hard for some to envision. Most people think of gun store owners as white red-neck libertarians going on all day about their second amendment rights. But Al wasn't like that, not at all. He was a businessman. He got his license to sell because guns was good business. But me and Al went back all the way to elementary school. All the trouble the cooler and braver kids got into by the rock piles while we sat at the edge of the quarry, sipping Juicy Juice. As I looked into Al's place of occupation, I couldn't help but be struck by the fear of God, the fear that life was about crash my past and present together in a way I wasn't prepared for.

"Get down," Johnathan whispered and we got down. "Even if there aren't zombos, anyone hiding in here's probably scared and ready to blow away the first thing that comes into view." Thoughts crossed my mind, slow and hot like razor burn and I felt my face get red with the stress. I felt Johnathan's impatient sigh on the back of my neck and, still kneeling, I opened the door to electronic bell sounds.

We duck-walked quickly behind the preliminary row of certified angus beef jerky. We took turns making quick glances around our respective corners but neither of us could see very far into the shop. This was a problem, because we could distinctly hear movement near the back cash register.

"Hello!" I called to no response. "If there's anyone in here, we are not zombies!"
Again, no sound other than the indecipherable scraping of something against the floor. Slowly, my eyes adjusted to the darkness and I was able to see a shadowy moving shoe by the counter where the sounds were coming from. Slowly, my eyes identified and a quietly thrashing leg attached to the shoe.

Johnathan, who had also identified the leg, said, "I'm gonna see."
"Alright," I said, "I'm behind you."

As we crept down the aisle, I kept glancing through the glass cases, wondering if any of the handguns on display would be better than the glock. But I guess what mattered more was how many guns and shells or rounds you had.

"Shit," I heard Johnathan say. He stood up quickly and rounded the counter. "Shit!" he exclaimed more loudly.

I sprang up from behind the counter. "Aw... Oh no."

It was Al and though he moved, it wasn't because he was alive.

"He's got that hunger in his eyes," said Johnathan.

"Why's he tied up?" I asked, and I could feel the panic in my rising. "Who did this?"

"Who cares, they did because they had to." Johnathan raised his rifle.

"Wait, don't point that at him," I said, and already I could feel the tears well up. "Don't you fucking point that at him. We used to go to school together. I've known him for years."

"He's not your friend anymore," Johnathan said, though I could the quavering in his voice. He didn't look at me, but kept starring down the thin barrel of his rifle into Al's growling face.

"I can't let you do it," I said.

"It's gotta be done," said Johnathan angrily.

"Then... fuck! I'll do it, just... turn away please."

Johnathan backed off, went behind the counter, and started looking at ammunition. I started to raise the glock. I stopped though, when I saw a piece of paper with some handwriting on it by Al's foot. Shivering, I bent down and picked it up, ignoring Al's feeble kicks at my hand. I read it:

Hi,

My name is James McGrady, I am from the town of Osage. If you are reading this, then you are he unlucky person who needs to finish off what I could not do. You see, I knew this man. His name is Al Kliese and he was a good man with a family and kids and now none of that matters anymore for him. He needs to be put out of his misery, but I couldn't do it. I have too many memories of this man from my childhood, and to fire a bullet through those memories just...I can't do it, I'm sorry. Please right my wrong and send this poor soul to Heaven, whoever you are.

With the love of God,
James McGrady

"James McGrady?" I whispered. I knew that name. He was... he was... He used to bully me, right around the time Al and me started drifting apart. He didn't really say all that much, he just used to punch me. And then, when it was all over and I got taller than him in eighth grade, James offered me a cigarette as a peace offering. I remember being so ecstatic that I forgot I had never smoked before, ans so choked badly on the first drag.

So James was surviving. For some reason, I felt a sudden urge to find this man. I was angry at him, angry for leaving me to do his dirty work for him. But at the same time, this was a man from my past. His memories in many ways were my memories and in that way I felt a kinship to him.

I must find him, I thought. I will find him... and then... I don't know.

As my finger curled around the trigger, Al moaned through the tape covering his mouth. For a moment I thought he was pleading. Pleading for himself, but also for me, for James, for his wife and kids. As I stared at him I started tearing up and I felt my resolve waver. I shook my body several times to get my guard back up. I stared fiercely at the body before me.

"What do you want me to do, Al!?" I cried, "What the hell should I do!?"

Al growled.

I don't get anyone on here. Obama did so much DESPITE not having a congress fully in power.

Gays are now allowed to serve in the military. THAT'S A BIG DEAL!

The U.S now has a federal mandate for healthcare (pending Supreme Court decision). Whether you agree with the actual law is not the concern. IT'S A BIG SOMETHING!

Osama bin Ladin is dead. THAT'S HUGE!

Getting out of Iraq. BIG!

The recession is over and the recovery seems to be working now. ENORMOUS!

According to Politifact, he has outnumbered his promises kept vs. promises broken 3 to 1. Which means that the overwhelming majority of his presidential campaign in 2008 wasn't based on lofty promises that he could not keep, but on lofty promises he's been fighting for and has been able to accomplished.

I'm not saying the sun's shining out of his ass, because he has failed at ending partisanship in Washington, but it's frankly ridiculous to say he hasn't brought many of the changes he proposed in '08 to fruition.

That's why I'm giving him four more years.

I agree that increasing hunting on them would probably be best since they could export the meat. But the birth control idea isn't a terrible one.

I actually have to bring up the (absurd) supreme court decision that corporations are people. If the government mandates that people/corporations must provide healthcare, then doesn't that mean that weve been mandating healthcare to individuals?

Maybe I'm not remembering my civ lib class correctly but isn't vulgarity in school specifically unprotected speech ie bong hits 4 Jesus?

At 1/15/12 07:13 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 1/15/12 02:26 PM, EKublai wrote: First they mandated ship owners to provide their seamen healthcare.
Then they required seamen to purchase healthcare no matter what.

Correction; they required the ship's Captain to pay for the health insurance, not all seamen.

Captain =/= all seaman, as all seaman are not captains. Ergo, this argument = huge bucket of barnacle shit, ya scurvy nave. Argh.

And just attached to that article is also a law that mandated the purchase of firearms.

I think we've pretty well got that covered.

I'm not sure you're considering the real thrust of what this entails . It's historically significant that the U.S government had in it's earliest years, found that it passes constitutional muster to mandate the purchase of healthcare. So the so-called broccoli argument, that the government cannot require a health insurance mandate or otherwise they could force us could force us to buy frivolous things is unfounded while the opposite is well- documented and as the firearms mandate is concerned the government can force individuals to purchase things not just proprieter or employers.

And George Washington signed it into law

I thought this was a pretty cool fact to learn about since it directly contradicts a popular talking point that our founding fathers are rolling in their graves at seeing the expansion of government extend to healthcare mandates.

First they mandated ship owners to provide their seamen healthcare.
Then they required seamen to purchase healthcare no matter what.

And just attached to that article is also a law that mandated the purchase of firearms.

So I just find it really interesting because honestly I was starting to actually believe that the framers of the constitution WERE really all about small government, but they voted to pass these acts of legislation.

And not to mention George Washington signed off on all of them.

At 1/14/12 10:41 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote:

argue that these things are caused perhaps by a lack of gun control, but it has nothing to do with medical care per-say.

Finally, [and feel free to call me a racist for bringing this up.] there is another issue about life expectancy statistics that exonerate certain aspects of the US healthcare system, but are perhaps more disturbing. And I'll put it this way, the life expectancy of African americans in the US is not much worse than the life expectancy of Blacks in other european countries. Likewise the life expectancy of whites in the US is not much worse than the life expectancy of Whites in other European countries. But the life expectancy of Europeans, aggregated, is better than the life expectancy of Americans, aggregated.

That's not racist. African Americans have higher chance of cardiovascular disease.

Just to put my opinion out there, I believe that the only way for America to be strong is for its population to be healthy and covered. If that means universal healthcare, then that's the way it has to be. I'm tired of being shorter than the Norwegians anyway.

That's... pretty brilliant. I wish I had time to animate this.

At 1/11/12 02:25 AM, Rig wrote:

At 1/11/12 02:08 AM, EKublai wrote:

At 1/11/12 01:32 AM, Rig wrote: About $600 to $1000, I'd say.

While I have your attention. Do you have any idea how that process works? Do I basically send them a word document that explains to them the timing of the sound effects and direct them or what?

Are you looking for sfx creation as well, or just mixing? If you're asking for custom sfx, I'd add another grand to the price. Keep in mind this is hollywood-grade stuff I'm talking about, and it's probably even more expensive than that.

When I do mixing and sfx stuff for films and the like, I ask for a list of things they're looking for in the overall feel as well as specific moments they have in mind. The timing of the SFX is usually self-explanatory. I do a lot of back and forth with the director, pass drafts back and for for review, etc.

I'm good enough at foley that I think I can do the sfx that I need custom myself. Basically it would just be the mixing that I need to pay for. I guess the helpful thing about it being an animation is that I need the audio ASAP and so will be have a ready-made proof with all the timing by the time I need the mixer.

Do you have a portfolio handy by the way?

At 1/11/12 01:32 AM, Rig wrote: About $600 to $1000, I'd say.

While I have your attention. Do you have any idea how that process works? Do I basically send them a word document that explains to them the timing of the sound effects and direct them or what?

At 1/11/12 01:32 AM, Rig wrote: About $600 to $1000, I'd say.

Damn, that's alotta bakesales.

Hey guys,

So I'm a Film Studies major, heading into my senior year in college. My upcoming senior thesis film will be a twelve minute animation that will be full of original audio and I plan on breaking my back over it over the once summer begins for eight months or so.

Basically the film will be animated by me and voiced by members of my school and the local town (not my decision, department rules). Therefore the production cost turns out to be $0 as opposed to the perhaps thousands of dollars facing my peers.

That is, until I consider audio. I noticed that alot of senior thesis films tend to be very quiet. Perhaps this is because they're so focused on visual editing, but the little audio they do have is often sourced out to a company or an sound expert in the school.

What sort of price should I be looking for for a professional sound-mixing of an audio-heavy 12 minute film. Audio includes regular dialogue, sound effects, and possibly music throughout?

At 12/27/11 11:49 AM, DeftAndEvil wrote: Honestly, if you are seriously trying to improve your writing, I'd recommend not writing fanfic. It's important to be able to come up with your own setting (or universe) from which characters, conflict, and plot are derived. The process of creating these elements are fundamental for a writer and cannot be overlooked.

If Lord Jaric is as old as he says he is, then you're probably right. However, I think fanfiction can help with younger writers just as a way of getting them engaged with their own writing.

Unfortunately, this is same thing that happens with less broad issues. People don't start thinking from within the same sphere, so how can we hope to understand why we each believe we are so right. To some, life is complicated and that's the way it should be. To many, including myself, everything is so clear that it's hard to see life when one reaches so far back.

At 1/3/12 09:12 PM, Insanctuary wrote:
Our Logic And Anti-Logic: This world is riddled with smoke and mirrors.

I too have problems with this section. This has to do with your writing itself. You have to make clear, before you begin arguing, what grounds people must first accept to accept the extension of your argument. For instance, one must believe in God to believe that stories in the Bible were true events.

People can hide behind their belief systems that rests on the illusion of ''you can't prove it or disprove it'', but if you can't question the belief system; question the person who supports it. What if you can't question me, nor my vision?]

I'm going to take a hyperrealist stance here, and say that questions from a stranger cannot move an individual to change their beliefs because the only reason the individual exists is because the stranger makes that person exist. People who believe in God believe that their life is run in simulation, where their existence is tied inherently to the existence of a greater power. But the thing about the belief system is that the stranger does not understand that his life is al

This world is full of paradoxes that already elaborates the potential crisis of our world's strange 'reality'. Not everything is what it appears to be. Every word we use, of any language, is a label made by our human race;

You should read Rousseau as it almost seems like you're plagiarizing him here. I'm not suggesting you are, but you have almost written verbatim was with written in the 1757 discourse.

which is quite flawed.. How humans believe their clothes make them into another person.. How humans think minerals from Earth actually has value.. How humans try to play the logic and mature game.. when if you recall.. our human race was dumb enough to burn our race to a cross.. to segregate each other through difference.. We all should be ashamed of ourselves the moment we pretend to be something we are not just to survive in this world.. The moment we cower in fear.. The moment we lie to ourselves just because we don't want others to see that 'other side' of us. Why hide it if it will be there until the day you die? Just look at adults.. They can be just as childish as any little kid.

No. Because you make childishness to be a good thing.

The Children And The Adults: No. Just no. I cannot even fathom the reason why adults think their ideas are better than a child's when the only thing they have going for them is more time to hone their knowledge. Their clothes mean nothing. Their body is just an older version of a child's. Their ideas and their imagination are still there.

I think you're too easy on adults here. Many of them reject imagination altogether, for very sane reasons.

It's an interesting philosophy, but it's not very hard to see that it's not that unusual a one and is almost a regurgitation of Rousseau. Now, what would be unusual is if you showed how this philosophy has a practical application, because what the basic problem of philosophy is is not that it attempts to change people, but that it doesn't attempt to apply itself to real life.