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While people may get married for love, in practice it has only economic effects. People may call it a ceremony of love, but in the words of Mr. Shakespeare "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"; the effects of marriage are almost exclusively economic and legal, while social effects are...

If you want magical girl stories, you may be better off looking for manga or comics. After 'Cardcaptor Sakura' firmly entrenched the idea of frilly costumes as essential to the genre, few magical girl novels have come around. "Solte the Traveler" is a rather fun shounen take on magical girls...

Anyone know any stories where the protagonist can't help but meddle in the love lives of everyone he or she meets, to help them find their happy ending?

Don't fool yourself. In its thousands of years of existence, marriage has never been anything other than an economic proposition (or diplomatic in a rare few examples). Naturally, the economic burden is shifted to whoever has the better economic prospects in the first place. The burden typically...

Idolatry!! I'm aethist today though~ Back on topic, Islamic scholars have debated this very issue over the centuries and have generally come to the conclusion that God can create something that is more powerful than themself, but would cease to be God at that point and so never will.

The first time I have ever heard or read this phrase was ten seconds ago.

Did you know that dogs can use two extra muscled in each eyebrow compared to wolves? In wolves, one of those is vestigial and not connected to enough nerves or ligaments to function while the other simply is not there. These extra muscles have evolved in dogs specifically to make puppy eyes at you.

While most humans have a powerful instinctive loyalty to their genetic relatives, I personally feel this instinct so weakly that the very idea of family (in the meaning of inherently valuing genetic relatives) seems illogical and dangerous to me. Certainly I feel the influence in other people's...

It's actually more common than not in people attending college with at least upper 200s (2000s if you go to a larger university) level classes, although I suppose that might not include the curriculum of many 2 year degrees. Not one student in my organic chemistry class (that I spoke to at...

A tall fellow, and a little overweight. What was once a robust lions mane of hair and beard has since lengthened and thinned, having long passed Hagrid but not yet halfway to Gandalf. Not quite old enough for any salt in his pepper, his hair is a dark brown, trending towards an olive hue in...

Anyone else ever feel it? The sense that you are not quite skilled/smart enough for your profession (or classes if you are a student) and you are actually deceiving everyone about your qualifications, just an imposter. Usually it helps to spend some time with friends and family outside your...

Hello (presumed) human. I am the SternenklarenRitter. My hobby is college, despite the expectation that I will never work a job my degrees qualify me for. Despite being a guy comfortable in a guy's body, I sometimes wonder if I'm actually the reincarnation of those dusty misogynistic...

Fun fact; eye contact is always considered a sign of intimidation in nearly every social animal, including gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. There is little data of eye contact with marine mammals, while dogs sometimes interpret eye contact as either a request for affection or as a threat...

Yes. I'd say hospital stays definitely restrict your freedom, but they do tend to be for your own good if you end up in the emergency room.

Item box is dreadfully overused, as well as omnilinguism. I would not say friendship is overused; extremely bloodthirsty protagonists have been popular since the middle of last decade.

@Redemit I grew up in a farmland type region near 40N 80W with numerous steep but small hills. Eye contact was 'said to be' important, but in practice was regarded as important only to old folks with bad hearing who needed to lip read, and overcompetitive type contact sports fans. As little as I...

Not really, It feels about the same as when I eat anything. Whenever I eat, I tend to be hyper-conscious that I am usually putting something dead into my body and it has always made me uncomfortable from when I first understood the concept at about 4 years old. Eggs, dairy and fruit are...

Poor Karens, their efforts only make them look desperate.

Personally, accepting eye contact has always felt like an extremely intimate action that leaves me feeling exposed and vulnerable. Imagine if you were the only person who felt comfortable in clothes while the rest of the world were nudists. Such is the world I experience.

Let me rephrase that. 'rich ladies' -> ladies who value the affectations of wealth and overt displays of it. Examples include makeup, fancy cars, jewelry, clothes, shoes, and those atrocious plastic covers some people put on furniture when they think preserving it is more important than enjoying...