Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	3-Jan-06/9:07 AM
"ME: Not true. For example: Under conditions such as those existing in a laboratory on Earth at the present moment, objects falling in a vacuum will accelerate toward the Earth's center at a calculable rate irrespective of their mass = true, logical, and proveable." First you have to determine when the object started falling. You can't. You can only give a relatively practical number or word to describe when it started falling. It could be that for the first incalculable moments the object is falling that it actually falls at a different rate than the calculated moments. It probably doesn't fall at a different rate because that would be inconsistant but at a quantum level all sorts of strange things happen. What allows you to make such grandiose assertions as to say you know things at a quantum level that nobody else does. YOU: Logic. ME: + Faith.
Re: a comment on Nightfall by Niphredil	Niphredil 132.68.49.52	3-Jan-06/12:17 AM
Pretty much for flow, yes... I guess I can find something different if the word is overly problematic.
Re: a comment on Nightfall by Niphredil	Niphredil 132.68.49.52	3-Jan-06/12:12 AM
*curtseys*
Re: a comment on Body & Earth by PoeticXTC	PoeticXTC 205.188.117.13	2-Jan-06/11:01 PM
In reality the poem is not suppose to rhyme. you jus use six words, any words in a specific order ever stanza
Re: Body & Earth by PoeticXTC	celticskatermatt1 68.8.219.40	2-Jan-06/10:54 PM
pretty swell.
Re: a comment on Body & Earth by PoeticXTC	PoeticXTC 205.188.117.13	2-Jan-06/10:51 PM
Thank you. Yeah it was difficult. It took me two years to finish it. I wrote this in High School.
Re: a comment on Body & Earth by PoeticXTC	PoeticXTC 205.188.117.13	2-Jan-06/10:50 PM
umm, lol, lmao, very funny ummm, yeah it's even funnier that I meant to do that. But, it's kool.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	zodiac 70.109.13.79	2-Jan-06/9:32 PM
1) "Fuzzy logic" is a term used by, oh, fishmongers and politicians. No person who'd ever studied logic, proof, or nearly anything else would ever say "fuzzy logic", except in the most tasteless of jokes. 2) Yes, of course most people use some mix of logic and (blind) faith to get through their lives. I've not suggested otherwise. I personally don't think it's as healthy to use faith as it is to use logic, but then most people are awful at logic, so they're just as well off using faith as sullying the good name of logic. Which they do anyway. If it's any consolation to the faithful, they'll get to go to heaven and I won't. I think if you got down to it, you'd find that logic and faith aren't as often as odds as you'd expect. Actually, I believe the logical conclusion matches the faithful conclusion in almost every instance where logic applies. In a case where your dog dies and you feel his presence somewhere in the bow'lsphere or whatever, logic doesn't and can't apply. Anyone who has told you so is a bad logician, and disqualified. Ergo, I consider myself a pretty logical person; at least, I base most of my decisions on the best of my logicking abilities; and I think you'll find we agree on most matters not 100% related to faith. Here's what gets me - YOU: Nothing can totally be proven to make it complete logic nor disproved to make it a matter of complete faith. ME: Not true. For example: Under conditions such as those existing in a laboratory on Earth at the present moment, objects falling in a vacuum will accelerate toward the Earth's center at a calculable rate irrespective of their mass = true, logical, and proveable. 2. I feel bored = true, logical, unproveable. 3. God exists = possibly true, unlogical, proveable. 4. There possibly exists a Being who can do everything = true, logical, unproveable. What allows you to make such grandoise assertions as "nothing can totally be proven to make it complete logic nor disproved to make it a matter of complete faith"? YOU: Faith. ME: Okay. Well, then... Um...
Re: a comment on Construction Lot (edit) by zodiac	zodiac 70.109.13.79	2-Jan-06/9:29 PM
What can I say? I like made-up compound words, rhyme, and pentameter. This is the oldest of my poems I still read. Given our recent debate, it seemed fitting. Do you see how?
Re: a comment on Construction Lot (edit) by zodiac	zodiac 70.109.13.79	2-Jan-06/9:28 PM
Good suggestions. Thanks. I've been trying for about 10 years to think of a better oddball/reasonable word for "mirror". If you think of a better one, please let me know.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	zodiac 70.109.13.79	2-Jan-06/9:02 PM
You're blathering. You have no idea how badly you're coming off here. Please stop now.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	zodiac 70.109.13.79	2-Jan-06/8:52 PM
Because most people, myself included, are compelled to find or make some meaning for their existences. Compelled by what? TV, I'd say.
Re: Construction Lot (edit) by zodiac	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	2-Jan-06/6:52 PM
Sunspangled? Maybe you mean sunlight spangled. What about something like this: It is a dizzying day in the city. A March-wind flirting sings in a standpipe in a lot I'm passing by where children used to play. Now the sun flickers behind a fence. And in my heart I yearn to cross that lot, and again on my return, but don’t, knowing in my heart its current kings are cold and stern. I remember when I was younger and wished I could change the world and how the commonness of American complacency drove me crazy. If you wanna beat the system, buy some stock in NC construction Co.s and when you get rich buy yourself a lot for children to play in.
Re: Goodbye Sad Door by woodstock20000	Dovina 69.175.32.104	2-Jan-06/4:47 PM
I like this a lot, up to near the end. Try ending it like this: and so I continue to knock at the iron door I don't think the rest of it helps.
Re: Construction Lot (edit) by zodiac	Dovina 69.175.32.104	2-Jan-06/4:39 PM
The comma in "across the lot, the city sways" seems misplaced, as if it should be two sentences, either a period after trash, or after lot. The dash in march-wind can go I think. In the last verse, you start with "we" and switch jarringly to "I" as if the collective opinion affects what you believe. The mirror makes it feel like flying away to something no better that the city with its faults. Maybe that's what you wanted, or maybe another word, not mirror. Also, "could step out and away" seems cluttered and reducible without ill effect to "step away . . ."
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	2-Jan-06/2:56 PM
First this:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fuzzy%20logic Now I'll cut through all my BS. I'm sure you'll reply bullocks to this but all forms of human conceptual thought involves both elements of faith(assumption) and logic(truth). To assume that we think entirely through logic or believe entirely through faith is delusional, at least in it's practical use in the real world. You can not seperate the two from any human concept as nothing can totally be proven to make it complete logic nor disproved to make it a matter of complete faith.
Re: a comment on ghost host by elderking	elderking 209.79.199.91	2-Jan-06/2:41 PM
Thanks, Paul S, I appreciate your comments.
Re: a comment on ghost host by elderking	elderking 209.79.199.91	2-Jan-06/2:38 PM
thanks and you're right about the title. I didn't put much thought into it.
Re: a comment on ghost host by elderking	elderking 209.79.199.91	2-Jan-06/2:35 PM
thank you!
Re: a comment on ghost host by elderking	elderking 209.79.199.91	2-Jan-06/2:33 PM
Thanks for your comments, Dovina. I admit punctuation and I aren't the best of friends.