Ingsoc Aaron

Now I don't mean literally...

But the Catechism is the book outlining the official beliefs, justifications, ideas, rituals, ect. of the Catholic Church.

Similarly Jews have the Talmud which outlines their beliefs.

Muslims have the Koran which is pretty straight forward unlike the Bible.

And I'm pretty sure that Orthodox Christianity has something along the same lines.

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Anyhow do Protestants (any group of them) have an official book, list, something that details everything they believe in? Like something that goes through each of their opinions on moral issues? ect. Something to at least keep varying Churches of the same denomination uniform?

And I don't want the Bible as an answer.

It's too shoddy to be used as a sole guideline. Mainly because it's vague but most importantly because it doesn't concern around 60% of today's moral issues... (like contraceptives, nuclear weaponry, industrialism/socialism/worker's rights, War, ect. And there's a lot of various other things that need to be defined past their Biblical definitions.)

Because this is what Democracy is based on.

But some people out there are kind of dumb...

I didn't really know which section to ask this in, but felt that Philosophy might be the best area for discussing human rights.

Anyhow do people?

Because I can think of some people who shouldn't be having children. And I mean past extreme forms of Eugenics, like not sterelizing whole races. But more along the lines of people who are significantly mentally ill, or people who can't afford to have more children, and people who already have 20 of them (like the Octomom and various other people).

Anyhow that's it.

Oh and do you think forced sterelization could ever be considered just or moral?

Two things.

1. What exactly do you learn in those courses?

I mean I can understand learning grammar.

And I can understand reading various books.

But is there anything past that? I mean that doesn't seem like it could be enlarged enough to make a whole major out of it?

Secondly.

My AP test scores allowed me to skip what is called "College Writing". Which is essentially basic English that all students are forced to take. Anyhow my question is, do you think I actually missed anything important?

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That's all.

Personally this doesn't really concern me because I'm getting my Ph.D. in Physics. But in my quest to be a "well-rounded" individual, I was just curious.

No I'm not asking for ideas!

I just want to get a head count.

You know, see how many people actually have faith in what they're writing.

So who's out there?

I don't need to know any details, I'd just prefer to know why you feel what you're writing has merit. Or what drives you to write. Or how you feel different from every other person who's tried to write before you?

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For example me,

I feel what I'm writing has value because I'm the one writing it.

Yes, with my megalomaniac style mentality and superiority complex I've got a high level of self confidence.

Okay so what if I nearly got held back in high school for failing English. And so what if my grammar's atrocious, I enjoy writing because it's fun! I mean I can make myself laugh and that's what keeps me going.

That and the fact I'm partially divine.

Okay does anyone else have a better answer than me.

It's probably not good to ask questions that I can barely answer myself...

You know, characters that are less defined by the book than by their stereotypes. Or characters that fit into conventional categories based on their social group/class/race. Like the wise old person, the chinese guy who's good at math, or the black who talks like he just walked out of the Ghetto.

Anyhow first in general. Ordinary books you've read.

How do you feel about them? Do you notice them? If you're aware that they're there does it bother you? Is there any justifiable reason to use stereotyped characters?

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Now why I asked.

In my writing I simply wanted to create a character who didn't talk to anyone past what was necessary (slightly asocial, a loner). Thus secondary characters aren't of much value to the story overall, and secondly after outlining I realized past the second chapter three fourths of them aren't going to show up again until the end. And even then they only show up because I intend to kill them off...

So do you think I could get away with stereotyping most of them? This way the reader could essentially fill in the blanks, and I could describe them with the least amount of wording. (And thus I could get the effect that the protagonist doesn't know people well, and two that when they die the reader would feel generally uncaring and uninterested. Any idea if I could even pull that effect off?)

Anyhow that's all thanks.

In summary: Stereotyped characters how do you feel about them?

Now I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get an unbiased answer.

So before answering I'd like everyone to state what side they support.

Anyhow I don't have a ******* clue.

So what's happening? What are they trying to pass? And why are people angry?

Now I'll assume a large portion of the population who frequents the "Books and Authors" section of Yahoo answers, are probably writing something (or have written something).

And because most of you are writing something, I simply want to know what genre you prefer writing in and why.

And some other things like...

1. Why you choose that genre.

2. What you like about that genre.

3. And why you feel qualified to write in that genre. (I mean what part of your person compelled you to write in this category/style.)

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Here's a simple example.

I prefer writing dystopian literature.

Mainly because I view the general population as dumb and incompetent, and thus my views don't have to change much while writing.

This is just a general, broad question.

But when writing, what amount of "offensive", "intolerant" material is acceptable? What is acceptable? What wouldn't be acceptable? And how do you determine when you've crossed the line?

Furthermore should I even care?

And how do you think publishers would react to something really... um... extreme?

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Now I probably should clarify why I'm asking this.

See being the superior White Caucasian Male I am, I like to assert my racial superiority. (And that's just bullshit by the way.)

Simply put, I'm narcissitically interested in being superior over my peers (That's in terms of mental, physical, moral superiority). Thus I like to poke fun at them with bigoted unsupported claims about my racial quality. Now people who know me well understand this, however I'm not sure how well I could get away with it with new, foreign group of people.

So that's just my question, how far can I go?

How far should I go?

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Oh and just as an example of this, one time in my Senior year of High School my English teacher made us write a persuasive paper. So I wrote about the values of sterilizing some groups of people...

And she took away 10 points for "immorality"...

That's part of what provoked me to ask this question.