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Plagiarism – is unacceptable

darkthorn — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:14:04 +0000

Recent contact with my university has revealed that a number of visitors to this site have been using material I have published on here without referencing it. This is unacceptable, and has lead to a number of my notes being removed from the site. I am complying with the university fully, and if required to give evidence such as statistics of visiting I will not hesitate to do so. Please refrain from plagiarism, YOU WILL BE CAUGHT.

A reminder that there are a number of copyrights on works published here, which can be found at http://darkthorn.sorrowfulunfounded.com/copyright/.

Thank you.

loner

darkthorn — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:58:30 +0000

Quiet Loner Soul

You are a quiet, solitary kind of person. You probably rely on your few close friends or family members to get you out of the house occasionally, or you would probably forget to leave. You don’t like big crowds of people, or being in new social situations, because they make you feel uncomfortable and you get tired very quickly. You need to spend some time alone in front of a computer, book, or television to recharge after expending all of that social effort! You have a lot of personal projects that you like to spend time working on.

You don’t spend much time talking about yourself or your emotions. Your close friends and family probably have to try and remember to ask you directly about your feelings, and even then you probably just smile or shrug a lot of the time. People who don’t know you well probably forget that you even have emotions at all, because you never get angry or upset. Really, though, you just don’t think of your emotions as being important. It doesn’t even occur to you to call someone and complain about your day, or to retaliate when someone insults you. You march to the beat of your own drum, and you don’t really care that much when other people think. You are calm and logical in nature, and reacting emotionally to things simply doesn’t come naturally to you. Perhaps you have been hurt or embarrassed in the past, which makes you afraid to share your feelings. Or maybe you are just naturally that way.

At the same time, you are not uncaring, and you are aware of the feelings of other people around you. When a close friend or a family member is going through a rough time, you are sympathetic and probably wish you knew how to make it better.

Your daemon’s form would reflect your solitary, calm, logical nature, but would not be aggressive or intimidating in appearance. He or she would probably spend time talking to you constructively about how to solve problems, or simply watching over your shoulder while you indulge in your hobbies.

Suggested form: Lizard, Gecko, Manatee, Tree Kangaroo, Grass Snake.

Gah

darkthorn — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:35:59 +0000

So, camp was fun yes. Work I have to catch up on however, not fun. So much work, and so little time. Packing is going to take a long time, but we now have less than 8 weeks. We have a lot of stuff.

Also, have so submit tax, and did so today, but think it may have suffed up. Stupid e-tax.

No time to write anything decent, so soon it will just be the main story. Sorry.

~ Darkthorn

What would you do?

darkthorn — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:00:17 +0000

Are some lives more important than others?

Should anyone have to make a choice like this?

What if you had to choose between saving your own life and that of someone else? Our answer should of course be, save the other person. I dare say you might reply, of course, I would save the other person, it’s only right. However, in this world of selfishness and hate, how many of us would actually be that self-sacrificing?

If a man was holding you and your best friend at gun-point, would you say, “No, don’t hurt them, kill me.”? I don’t think that most of us would. Human instinct says to preserve your own life, it’s evolution. Would it change if it was between you and a random stranger?

If you could save thousands of people by giving up your own life (no Jesus references thanks, I mean actual salvation) would you do it? Do you have the right to save their lives? What if they want to die? What if some of them are prepared to take your place? Would you let them?

If it was a child, would you save their life? Children have their whole lives in front of them, they have room to grow, so we should save them so that they have a chance to reach their potential. What if they were mentally disturbed, autistic for example? Do you think that it’s only the fit that should survive?

Do we have the right to make that choice? The mothers of those children would want to save them. Parents want to protect their children, it’s more of nature. Surely sometimes though, they have thought about just ending it for the poor kid, thinking “They will never get anywhere in this world, I should just take matters into my own hands. Save them the indignity.”

Shouldn’t we all have the right to decide on our own lives? Those people out there wanting to end their own lives, shouldn’t they be able to make that choice for themselves? It shouldn’t be a question of whether they go to hell or not, just whether they want to live.

I hope I’ve made you think. Keep thinking. Some day, you might have to make these decisions for yourself.

Hello Again

darkthorn — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:17:43 +0000

Well, I think it has been a while since I blogged, you know, aside from the normal work that I do to keep you entertained. I’m currently too afraid to check Google Analytics, I don’t want to know how many people are not visiting, thank you very much. It appears that my email drive halted very quickly, as far as i can tell. Also, not many people are returning to view updates on the novel.

One more week of holidays left, and I still have one news story left to write. Am very unmotivated, being that I have ages to write more on it. I mean, it’s only 300 words, and I can write a thousand in less than an hour when I’m feeling inspired.

I’m still attempting to write a short story every morning, which is going ok. Unfortunately, parents like to talk to me in the morning, which often means I forget what I was planning to write.

I now have facebook, sigh, as well as MySpace. I odn’t know why I bother…

~ Darkthorn