Duly noted. It's all good sonny boy.

Ah, atleast you've made it clear that I've neglected to keep my quill point sharp and adept at forming verse.

Really? I seem to have been oblivious to my popularity. Had thought that I'm mostly ignored in general except for the occasional flare of frenzied chatter, like the racial debate not too long ago.. Now I'm confused and feeling more pompous Prose, verbose, self-regarding, yes, I won't dispute that-- but again that was how my thoughts flowed, there was no intention of expressing detail or conveying my "insanity" in any fluid or linear pattern, lyrical or convincing. I feel like a queer cafe-court lawyer with this talk of being convincing. You offer little beyond that to correct or improve, not that I feel that you are somehow obligated to extend any such aid, but I am compelled to ask... an anal inclination, mostly.

You ask as if I had a reason or purpose in mind for skewing the rhyme scheme. It just sort of came out that way in my head really, plus I was not aware that some sort of "formal" point had been expected or assumed by default... It jars, yes, thats pretty clear- any suggestions on where to begin straightening its spine?

Just a grammatical pun - thought it rolled of the tongue quite well.My Grandma's name was Hazel - she was my childhood god. She loved me so much but I kind of drifted from her.She died before I could tell her how much I cared about her.I did'nt lose her - she lost me when I ran away.All my fault....that's why I'm sorry.

Envy is the wrong word for what feel when I see religious people comforted through their religion. Envy implies ill will because of another’s advantage. I wish to have their comfort, but know that because of my reservations I cannot. Among my misgivings is the fear of hope such as an ostrich has when its head is in the sand. (Actually, I don’t think ostriches do that.) People want to believe — to hold a position on something. It does not have to make sense. Discrepancies are expunged for them by faith. So religion provides substance for their faith, and in so doing, it gives its parishioners psychological advantage in the storms of life. Your argument for applying real solutions through research and philanthropic funding (instead of spending money on cathedrals and such) makes sense. But people have always looked to gods and probably always will. There’s advantage for them; we might as well acknowledge it.

I thought lobotmised people just wobbled around the place feeling happy. Some people think comfort is just the lack of grief, so they would disagree with the idea that lobotomised people feel no comfort. Anyway, my point was that I don't envy religious people, even if I feel grief, because, like you, I don't share their faith, and it seems silly to envy someone who is comforted by a belief that you think is cobblers. If you were an antelope fleeing from a hungry lion, would you envy a passing ostrich who had stuck its head in the sand? Of course the ostrich may not be as terrified as you, and you're right to envy the state of not being terrified, but to envy the ostrich itself is folly indeed! Praying to Vishnu to heal your wife's buttock cancer may make you think she'll be alright, but it isn't going to do anything about the buttock. You might think religion has done good by giving such people hope, but it is that very aspect of it which can prevent people from trying to find actual solutions to their problems. Rather than relying on Vishnu to heal the buttock cancers of this world, why not spend millions of dollars on research into this terrible, and debilitating disease?

I read it again that way and it makes a lot of sense, even the Yoda voice. I raised it to 9.

The aborted foetus flung it. It's revenge because the foetus was well pissed off at being aborted.

Then who flung it, and how is that revenge?

Yes, lobotomized people feel neither grief nor comfort, I am told. So, why not have your frontal lobe severed when in grief? I don't think the procedure is done anymore. And if it were, that ends all emotion. This seems like way too simple a question, and too simple an answer. You must be asking something else. Or do you belong to the First Church of Lobotomy?

By flinging the aborter through the windshield, of course.

During your times of need and grief, do you envy religious people more than lobotomised people?

Besides the reasons wilco gives, religion is important for its magnificent churches where I can go on a hot summer day and sit for awhile contemplating its long history, the craftsmen who planned and carved, and the peasants who thought it important enough to give their money for its construction.