Art is such a personal experience for both the creator and the audience. Each person walks away from a piece with a glimpse into the creator's soul. Which media do you prefer to use to express yourself and how does this reflect upon your personality?

Poetry?
Prose?
Essay?
Images?


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In order to appreciate the things we see as art, we must use our conscious mind. How and Where it comes from is a mystery that scientists and philosophers have struggled with for years, neither counting the other's theories.

Where do you think consciousness originates? What are the limitations of consciouness and why would you place them there? It has been said that humans are the only beings on earth capable of conscious thought, do you agree? Why or why not?

Greetings, all. My pardons to the members of this group. I was called away for a short time and it seems that DA must have eaten the notes I sent to the other admin asking if they could take the slack that it would unfortunatly cause. My deepest apologies that while I had to be away this group was left unattended. I am back and will be maintaining the group. Please note me with any questions. Thank you, and again my apologies. Now...on to a new topic. I have decided to put up a poem instead of an open ended topic and would love to hear everyone comment and expand upon the meanings it brings and how you would continue it yourself. Please be specific in your meanings.
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We will meet.
We will fall in love.
We will hurt.
We will cry.
We will survive.
We will breath life.
We will die.
We will lose.
We will gain.
We will enjoy.
We will disagree.
We will frolic.
We will hide.
We will run.
We will kneel.

All of these and more we will each experience in turn. Such is life. You know what I say and you have felt it within you. Yes, there are dark days when you will feel that yearning for sunlight and there are others when you cannot get the blankets to close around you tight enough.

There are some losses in this life that you will never recover from. They will remain as ghosts inside your soul. Choices will haunt you and situations will repeat themselves within your mind over and over destined to have all wrongs righted only in your thoughts.

Some bulls have no horns to grab and some horses run away before you can jump back up.

in·tan·gi·ble ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-tnj-bl)
adj.
Incapable of being perceived by the senses.
Incapable of being realized or defined.
Incorporeal.
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Exactly how important are intangibles in our lives? Must something be proven for it to exist to us? How do you define the limits of an intangible?

Although no doctor, psychiatrist or scientist of any standing in the world today would risk his reputation by denying the existence of hypnotism and the reality of its phenomena, nobody can say exactly what it is. There are still many ignorant and foolish people who are prepared to scoff at hypnotism and deride its usefulness. Even the most hardened sceptics, however, cannot explain away the phenomena of the trance—unlike the famous French physician and scientist who maintained to his dying day that the telephone was a ventriloquist’s trick and the phonograph a fraud!

The fact that nobody knows the true nature of hypnosis does not detract from its usefulness. After all, nobody knows the true nature of sleep or electricity, but few would deny their value.
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How easily can a person be put "under"? Do you think it mearly a position of mind over matter?

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