Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	31-Dec-05/11:26 AM
We have more in common than you think. But that aside, all the Afrikaners I know think South Africa is still pretty much run by English buisnessmen. This is why many of them migrated north and became Muslim and swore off custard forever. They hated you guys that much. Now they're talking with the Chinese about joining forces, going south and killing all the englishmen and dragging their bodies through the streets. They plan on calling the great raid "Custards last stand".
Re: ghost host by elderking	Prince of Void 213.207.224.156	31-Dec-05/10:58 AM
ur poem has haunted my mind like a ghost ..good job
Re: a comment on when i met sky alone by Prince of Void	Prince of Void 213.207.224.156	31-Dec-05/10:46 AM
u are right ....thanx for ur comment ...can i ask ur ? what makes u interested in the first line
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 81.151.148.245	31-Dec-05/8:18 AM
I'm not as English as you think. I was born in Africa, left when I was four, but still return regularly to see how the old place is getting along now that the British Empire has gracefully withdrawn. I might even have more claim to being legally (as opposed to ethnically) African than you, despite not being black. As for my Englishness, it's true I live in England, was educated there, speak with an English accent, drink tea, have a butler, approve of the Gold Standard, and abhor ethnics of all kinds, but you have to go back a couple of generations to find an Englishman in my family. My mother's side is Irish to the 10th Century, with a few unfortunate dollops of French and German aristocracy, and my father's family is Scottish. Above all, I consider myself a Gentleman. As for the tale of how Africans came to have black skin and white palms, I heard it in South Africa, needless to say, from a white Afrikaner.
Re: a comment on AIDS in a van by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Dovina 69.175.32.104	31-Dec-05/7:07 AM
You left out servant-hearted in your description. Oh, I know, you have it, she doesn't.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	Dovina 69.175.32.104	31-Dec-05/7:02 AM
Alchemy, she is saying that God is real to her because she feels his presence and sees his action in her life. You are saying that you do not feel him and do not witness his presence in your life. Therefore you want logical reasons for God. You cite Jusus' logic when He was here on earth. And you recall the bad actioins of people who claimed to be following God as they flew airplanes into buildings. But Amanda has found the true God, while the 911 terrorists have not. I know this because her God brings love, joy, and peace, while theirs brings hate and war. You could argue that Amanda's God brings tsunamis and earthquakes, and maybe he does. Maybe Amanda has an answer for that, I don't. And to say that everyone who claims to follow the true God, really does, is ludicrous. But listen to Amanda because she comes closer than most.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	Dovina 69.175.32.104	31-Dec-05/6:43 AM
Just one of your many logical mistakes in this arguement is deducing that anyone said that God exists because things are logical.
Re: The Darkness of Eternity by forestchild7	Niphredil 192.114.44.176	31-Dec-05/6:40 AM
it's = "it is". All your uses of this word should be replaced with "its".
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	INTRANSIT 152.163.100.138	31-Dec-05/6:30 AM
No one who has seen the princess bride should be touched. in any meaning of the word. that is my decree.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	zodiac 70.109.13.79	31-Dec-05/6:27 AM
"1 + 1 = 2" is Platonic and eternal because one thing and one thing always makes two things. The implications of "1 + 1 = 2" is that there is some real thing that one of and one of makes two of. Platonic, eternal, and implications are just language describing one thing and one thing. So is my language, except mine is simpler and doesn't lead to mistakes like thinking it's evidence of God. PS-Please take note of the God exists because things are logical, God exists if things are illogical comment.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	INTRANSIT 152.163.100.138	31-Dec-05/6:26 AM
I disagree. Anyone who is anyone in the poemranker universe knows a queen always carries a good chainsaw. <~> has an Husqvarna. I've seen it. It's chrome!
Re: a comment on AIDS in a van by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	31-Dec-05/5:44 AM
You left out "mamby pamby" in your description.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	31-Dec-05/5:34 AM
I've always wondered. Being that I work with actual Africans(you know, born and raised in Africa) I can tell you I've still got no argument against you. Tell me do you think American Black people work so hard and have so many jobs because we trained them so well. It might be a hard call for you to make because you're English and if you stumble across a black person over there 9 times out of 10 it'll turn out to be that guy from Fine Young Cannibals.
Re: a comment on AIDS in a van by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 81.151.148.245	31-Dec-05/5:20 AM
It is you who needs to grow up. Honestly, your reaction to this poeme was the default 10-year-old-girl reaction to anything they know mummy wouldn't approve of. I can't bear to imagine the look on your face as you knowingly informed me about your uplifting and educational AIDS presentations. My God don't I look silly now? Here I am poking fun at AIDS, while people like you are out there confronting the realities of this terrible disease: martyring yourselves at the local hospice, confronting AIDS prejudice wherever it rears its ugly head, handing out AIDS fun-packs to all the kids, telling people that "gays aren't the only people who get the AIDS!" You're an incredibly babyish person.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 81.151.148.245	31-Dec-05/4:50 AM
Long ago, all people were Black. Then God made a special lake which would turn a person's skin white when he bathed in it. God sent an animal to each tribe, telling them where the lake was. To the Africans, God sent an iguana. If you've ever seen an iguana walk, you'll know how slow they can be (they move each leg back and forth a couple of times before taking the next step.) By the time the iguana had reached the Africans, the lake was already drying up. Add to this the fact that Africans were a naturally lazy people, and it comes as no surprise that by the time they got to the lake it was but a mere puddle. In desperation, they walked over to the puddle and bent over putting their hands flat on the ground to mop up the remaining splodges. That's why Africans are black, apart from the soles of their feet and the palms of their hands. It's also why they hate iguanas.
Re: a comment on philosophy of a new age by crazyknight	Niphredil 192.114.44.176	31-Dec-05/4:46 AM
Thank you. Haikus have a very rigid pre-determined structure; not *every* three lines comprise a haiku!
Re: Desperate Season by Sisterwolf	Niphredil 192.114.44.176	31-Dec-05/4:24 AM
I thought the last stanza was excellent :-) and the poem as a whole is great. a little criticism: I don't care for the stanza before last. It adds no additional feeling or tone to the poem, changes its descriptive flow, and I feel it could easily be dropped altogether. I enjoy reading your work, Sister; keep writing!
Re: ghost host by elderking	Niphredil 192.114.44.176	31-Dec-05/4:12 AM
Good job. I don't really care for the title, though; it detracts from the rhyme in the last stanza.
Re: Shadow's Stride by D. $ Fontera	Niphredil 192.114.44.176	31-Dec-05/4:02 AM
Last stanza is nice. I don't get the first two...
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	31-Dec-05/2:33 AM
Yes but my statement about what God might be and why I might believe is feasible or in other words logical. Truth really is that I believe I live in 2 dimensions. The first one is one where logic reigns and God is in the less fancy role as "The Undiscovered". The second dimension is one where logic takes a back seat and God is a baby dreaming and we are figments of his imagination. This place I call Googooville.