Bright, I'm not going to keep going back and forth here, but I will direct you to a good source: http://www.buddhanet.net/nutshell03.htm...
You're right. Little children do not understand all that being another sex entails and neither do many adults. Kids and most young people tend...
Perhaps you were surrounded by weirdos? Buddhism is not a religion. Definition: Religion: a : the state of a religious <a nun in her...
People may or may not be "born that way" and have to obtain a fairly long period of psychotherapy before getting any medical treatment, at least...
As I always say in these threads people with these kind of situation are extremely, EXTREMELY, complex beings and you shouldn't write about them...
I know a lot about Zen Buddhism, and it's not a religion it's a philosophy of life. Something like Tibetan Buddhism is more like a religion, and...
I'm sure there's some marketing formula for the cover. For instance, I've seen covers compared where the figures are in the same poses and...
Yeah, but your brother was being tricked out of real money in a scheme to do just that. In the thread we're talking about people with aspirations...
When I was a kid in the 80s there was a big British New Wave music trend in the US. I noticed that media people liked to say that Band X is going...
I saw on the news that people are requesting "elf ear" surgery, and that's a bit caught up in my opinion.
That last sentence is key. Someone like JK Rowling is a great example of someone who wasn't born into position and when she was on welfare I'm...
I've pointed out how much money has been made by Lucas and off of comicbook characters. Had the people who created all of that gone a...
William Gibson. He's very famous SF author who used to write Earth bound SF and he's credited with predicting the internet. All of his early...
I think he's a good real life example. However wanting to be in a band, be famous, etc is very conventional. I don't know what was marketing in...
1. Social Institutions: Say he's a very smart guy but he thinks going to college is absurd! He'll make his own way or just give the hell up....
Separate names with a comma.