evergreen
on Labeled Retarded by Beyond_Dreams
27 Mar 2005, 1:52 AM
i liked it very much. hon,you have to have a thick skin to let other people read your stuff :-)
::gasp::
in the best possible way. some of this has been done before, and bits done better, and some of the phrase could use tweaking. as a whole, it's damn near perfect and that's my opinion.
touchingly ten
tis the lenten season. for catholics... the cross actually symbolizes redemption. i just find it kinda ... ironic. you have to keep things in perspective though. you need to know you're readers sociology and orientation. i think resentment or perhaps just a hint of escape ... that's my opine.
This is a good story right up to last few lines where I think you blew it. I saw the point without your telling it at the end.
Open mindedness does not help me to distinguish truth from non-truth. It merely allows me to consider more possible truths, and having more to consider I have a greater chance of finding the real truths among them.
http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Robert_Graves/4757
Robert Graves - In Broken Images
He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images.
He becomes dull, trusting to his clear images;
I become sharp, mistrusting my broken images.
Trusting his images, he assumes their relevance;
Mistrusting my images, I question their relevance.
Assuming their relevance, he assumes the fact;
Questioning their relevance, I question their fact.
When the fact fails him, he questions his senses;
when the fact fails me, I approve my senses.
He continues quick and dull in his clear images;
I continue slow and sharp in my broken images.
He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
That's a good poem 10
If you wish to define dogma that way, then yes. I don't.
I do not accept the one-to-one correspondance of valves as you describe them insofar as they are remotely connected to anything real. This is a nice little game you wish to play, but frankly, I'm not interested.
you have to be kidding me...
that poem is now labeled...retarded
You are assuming that the sets of open valves and leaky valves have the same cardinality.
*slaps knuckles*
That is to say, "A one to one correspondence between the set of all possible valves letting through G gallons of water per second and the set of all possible closed valves letting through G gallons of water per second, for all possible amounts G".
No.
I did not say the valves are "of the same kind." That's something you just invented.
Stop imagining that I am talking about a single valve, or a single type of valve, that is identical open and closed. That seems to be the main source of your confusion.
I am simply saying that there is a one-to-one correspondence between two sets. You can't seem to fit that into your head. Do you know what a one-to-one correspondence is?
Think about the set of positive numbers, and the set of negative numbers. For every positive number, there is a negative number with the same absoulte value. For every negative number, there is a positive number with the same absolute value. Therefore there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two sets.
Do you accept that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of all possible open valves and the set of all possible closed valves?
and because this site is a poetry site. Check out 'In Broken Images' by Robert Graves. His words are both precise and restrained.
because you have failed to grasp the contradiction. You are open minded and therefore seek out more representations of truth, however you are unable say with any certainty whether something is true or not (because you are open minded).
The acceptance that truth exists is itself a dogma.
Let me see, hit on twice, integrated zilch. Not bad.
My open mindedness allows me to receive more truth than my closed mindedness does. A lot of rehash is going on here.