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Interestingly, this is exactly the argument used to explain why reading books is better than watching TV: TV gives too much of the ready context, while a book allows the reader to fill in the blanks with his own imagination. The empty books just go one step further. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.11|108.162.246.11]] 22:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 
Interestingly, this is exactly the argument used to explain why reading books is better than watching TV: TV gives too much of the ready context, while a book allows the reader to fill in the blanks with his own imagination. The empty books just go one step further. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.11|108.162.246.11]] 22:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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I write short stories all the time but nobody reads them.
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Maybe I should get a printer?
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"Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you're not, because you want their money, isn't just lying--it's like an example you'd make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong."
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I think it is worse when vets do it to cattle and sheep. You never get to hear the farmer saying "Bah!"
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though. Odd, that.

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I would totally buy a blank book. I could hollow them out to make boxes, or wire up the insides to build a revolving door, or hire an artist to draw wonderful images in them to put on display for anyone who comes over to my home. Davidy²²[talk] 08:21, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Interestingly, this is exactly the argument used to explain why reading books is better than watching TV: TV gives too much of the ready context, while a book allows the reader to fill in the blanks with his own imagination. The empty books just go one step further. 108.162.246.11 22:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

I write short stories all the time but nobody reads them. Maybe I should get a printer?

"Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you're not, because you want their money, isn't just lying--it's like an example you'd make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong."
I think it is worse when vets do it to cattle and sheep. You never get to hear the farmer saying "Bah!"

though. Odd, that.