zodiac
on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina
1 Nov 2005, 11:38 AM
PS-The metaphor breaks down where you have God wearing pants.
PPS-Also where you have Sponge Bob Square Pants' followers be "Square Pants Bobbers". That would make the followers of Jesus Christ King of Kings "King Kinged Christers".
Ooh, nice dig!
No, wait - I DO want to be zodiac in heaven. I don't even want to be zodiac-that-God-makes-a-million-times-sm
Screw that. I already spent the last seven years becoming an expert in something EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD thinks he can do without experience or qualifications. If I had it to do again, I'd become a fireman.
Then I've overestimated you; you want to be just as your are in heaven.
I thought a lot of this was good. The first two lines need to go, though. A total absence IS a void. That's what void means.
I would like this poem more if more of it was in shizzle. For example:
I shizzled many an egizzle
Who flizzled as hizzle as bald eagizlles
With trizzles so hizzle to digizzle
That I could not lizzle at rizzle
Hizzle in makizzling pizzle to pizzle
Mentizzle pictizzles the izzles wizzle to izzle.
Good for you for stopping at worldwide conspiracy of mere humans. So many of us have lost that ability.
Sounds fine to me TJ.
Which comes to no surprise that abductees are often sexually abused by the aliens. Gives a new angle to that old "My Favorite Martian" show. "Uncle Martin what's that probe for?"
Recently I watched on WinAmp this guy David Icke talk about the illuminati conspiracy quite convincingly I might add for 4 hours only to hear him finish the last hour talking about how they were alien lizzard people from another dimension. It's a wonder the audience didn't kill him on the spot. I sure wanted to after sitting through all that. But apperantly these lizzard people in disguise have become a phenomenon around the world.
Don't apologize. I hear he's good.
One of my specializations in English Lit grad school was African American Literature. Naturally, this required identifying certain writers as black. Still, I think I'll maintain that race is a social construct invented by groups who stand to benefit from it. My other specialization was feminist lit, though, where I learned that gender is a social construct too, so you're entitled to tell me to blow off and stop talking such craziness.
Or how about this: If I accept that there are races, I still say the specifics of division are totally social. African Americans (ie, Dovina thinks they're a race) are as a whole much less purely genetically black/African than Arabs and Jews (Dovina thinks they're not a race) are purely genetically Arab or Jew. I'll give Dovina her distinction between the religious group Muslim (ie, mostly Pacifican and not Arab) and Arab, but can't give her Jew as a merely religious grouping.
I'll also still say cockneys are a race, if only by the non-meathead standard "most people think they're a race."
:) you
I often babysit my niece and nephew. It's either that or Dora The Explorer.
The worst part is I misspelled cancerous. The best part is your version sounds like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs ("It puts the lotion on its skin and puts it back in the bucket again.")
My aunt says it was a mix-up on my birth certificate, but my birthparents insist the interposed R is reminiscent of the traditional Latvian spelling: Jéuanaethroÿon.
That's all nice and Fiona Apple of you but as long as mankind can differentiate between things (especially animals) than race at some level will be considered into identification. You sound like the priest in the story who thinks he's not racist until a man beats him or rapes his wife or kidnaps his children, then has to describe the man and the first thing he tells the police is he's black. (albeit in the story he uses an old southern bastardized version of the spanish word for black) I dare you to say that you never described anyone as black, latin, middle eastern etc. based solely on exterior traits. No? Then include yourself among mankind and our meatheaded standard.
Is there any consensus about the psychology of alien abduction? Prior research has yielded a few insights, some of which are hardly surprising: People who believe they've been abducted tend to be fantasy-prone and eccentric, for one. On the other hand, they don't tend to be crazy. Most abductees are regular Joes, with decent jobs; though they have varying levels of education, they are predominantly white and middle class. In addition to an appetite for fantasy, researchers have identified several mental phenomena that often accompany a person's belief that she's been abducted: One is sleep paralysis, a relatively common experience during which the brain and the body desynchronize briefly before waking up. The body remains paralyzed (as it is during REM sleep) while the mind enters a state between sleeping and waking, in which some people hallucinate. The theory goes that a subset of the hallucinators, primed by popular culture to believe in visits from otherworldly kidnappers, interpret their experiences as abductions.
The second contributing factor is the mind's capacity to create false memories, particularly under hypnosis—which is how many abduction "memories" have been retrieved. In fact, it was the study of false memory and trauma that led Clancy to the aliens. She started graduate school in the mid-'90s, as psychologists were duking it out over the validity of "recovered" memories, and signed on to assist two professors with a study of sexual-abuse victims. The professors gave subjects lists of words to memorize—"sugar," "candy," "sour," "bitter"—that were all related to another word, "sweet," that was not on the list. People who had allegedly recovered memories of sexual abuse while in therapy, it turned out, were more likely than a control group to remember "sweet" as having been on the list—that is, to produce false memories in the lab.
Of course, this did nothing to prove whether the women's abuse memories were themselves false, and Clancy and her colleagues were roundly attacked by victims' advocates and other scientists. So, the researchers went looking for another set of subjects—people whose memories were assumed by most people to be false—and they wound up with alien abductees. Again, their work revealed that abductees were also more likely to misremember words than a control group.
www.slate.com
Innocence is overrated. And yet, if you think your life's ruined without it, you still have it.