fact or fiction
Is it a fact or is it merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores relationship myths and truths to get your head out of the clouds and back into romantic reality.
Roots and Fruit
Roots and Fruit Photo by Lukáš Kulla on Unsplash Most people evaluate life by what shows. Results, behavior, success, failure, growth, collapse. Fruit is easier to measure than roots, so it becomes the focus almost by default. When something goes wrong, attention rushes to what is visible and immediate. When something goes right, credit is assigned to the most recent action. But this way of seeing consistently misreads causality. Fruit is never the beginning of the story. It is the result of something that has been growing quietly, often unnoticed, for a long time.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 days ago in Humans
"Come Back to reality". Content Warning.
Once upon a time humans lived and died happy. Despite the challenges of requiring hunting and gathering to eat and survive their workload was quite light and the majority of their time was spent frivolously socialising, playing, and exploring the vastness of Gods green and spectacular earth full of rivers, streams, beaches, mountains, tundra, forests and cities? no, no cities, no mental health struggles, every type of individual had a purpose and place within the tribe... At some point agriculture was invented and things begun to escalate but people once gave freely as the earth gave freely and provided them with food and water that was clean and not too difficult to attain. Sharing was the norm as every member of the tribe was valued.. Elders shared wisdom, guided, and taught. Young men hunted, young women gathered happily. Everyone could do all jobs, but certain people were more specialised... The modern-day schizophrenic would have thrived as a spiritual guide, the psychopath thrived as a hunter and warrior. Depression as a permanent disorder hadn't come about yet. Certain plants were loosely agriculturally utilised and there was a respect for nature and the land that gave freely in a symbiotic manner. The spiritual teachers kept the psychopaths from possessing the land or each other, the psychopaths kept the tribe strong athletic and safe from predators, and the tribe stabilised and looked after the spiritual teachers and learnt from them and adopted their visions and truths as their own.. Someone had an idea that food could be grown, controlled, harnessed, and ensured during some times of scarcity due to environmental factors.. Slowly but surely the psychopaths and alike found themselves more adept at the ability to organise and control the farming process, distribution, and resources and fed off the spiritual leaders for solutions to the problems this had caused. People became much more dependent on the psychopaths who had steadily depleted the natural abundance of the earth and controlled the food and used it to labour the tribes people... They found that by keeping people dependent enough to work for them, for just enough to survive from food and spare time, they could maintain an exponential growth that made sure that the increased amount of workers required to feed the children, that would become more workers, that would produce more children and so on, they would never go hungry and they could have luxuries such as protection from predators and abundances of mating opportunities.. This continued for a considerable amount of time before the psychopath's unquenchable thirst to tame the land, the people, the minerals, then the rivers, the animals, the spiritual leaders they eventually in their impulsive hubris decided to make even then earth itself work for them. Once the what they once thought was endless land became crowded and populated and the control and harnessing of all the previously mentioned became more difficult and resources were spread thin, the metals and ores and coal and humans became factories and factory workers... they had also invented this thing called money some time back which was initially used as a placeholder during scarcity for trading to signify using a "note" that someone owed you something particularly with seasonal foods etc.
By Connor Mudie9 days ago in Humans
Meteorologist
February, the month of love, black history, and then there is the rat. Adults, looking to a rodent for predictions in weather and the future of winter and spring. When on earth did that become a celebrated thing? It’s ridiculous, and yet some take it seriously.
By Alexandra Grant10 days ago in Humans
Cruel Paradise
Looking at the burning candle made me realise that everything fades away as it burns and becomes light for others. Though your names might stay behind. But at what cost? The cost of burning yourself? And still, if someone accidentally gets burned, all your struggles to light someone’s life would be in vain in their sight.
By Mubarik Ahmad 12 days ago in Humans
The Last Train Home
The railway station in Rahim’s town had always been a place of movement, noise, and constant goodbyes. Trains arrived with thunderous roars and left behind trails of smoke, carrying passengers toward cities filled with opportunity. For most people, the station was a transition point. For Rahim, it was a reminder of everything he had avoided. At twenty-two, he had spent years postponing decisions about his future, afraid of failure and unsure of his purpose. But on a cold autumn evening, standing beneath the dim yellow lights of Platform Three, he realized he could no longer remain still while the world moved forward.
By Sudais Zakwan12 days ago in Humans
A Stranger at Platform 9. AI-Generated.
Platform 9 was never anyone’s final destination. It was a place people passed through—briefcases in hand, headphones on, eyes fixed on digital boards flashing arrival times. The trains came and went with mechanical precision, carrying stories that rarely crossed paths. For Sameer, that morning was supposed to be ordinary. He was traveling to the city for a job interview he wasn’t sure he would pass.
By Sudais Zakwan12 days ago in Humans
Think for Me. Top Story - February 2026.
"How do you calculate the circumference of a circle? Submit your answer when ready." [Pause] "Excellent! Every student was able to call up the answer electronically very quickly. If I, as a robot had feelings, I would express pride. You may break for lunch. Return to this cyber room in 45 minutes."
By Julie Lacksonen12 days ago in Humans
