Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	Niphredil 192.115.60.89	11-Oct-05/11:06 AM
Hip-hop? I don't think so. I mean, out of all the rappers you've ever heard, how many of them were saying something? (all of them, you'd think?) No. Most just sing about how they're the biggest gangsta in the mothafuckin' hood and have all the best bitches and weed. That's not poetry or anything like it, it's simply ludicrous and an excuse for music with no content. I've heard very few hip-hop songs that made me stop and think. Maybe it's degenerated and I admit that in Israel rapping on the corner is pretty rare, but I don't have much appreciation for hip-hop as a genre. Sorry. ~ (hey! I loved Gargamel (still do)!)
Re: Loss by <{Baba^Yaga}>	Caducus 172.202.128.95	11-Oct-05/9:24 AM
still brings a tear to my eye
Re: a comment on In the berth by INTRANSIT	INTRANSIT 205.188.116.198	11-Oct-05/9:24 AM
No harm done.
Re: Sleep by ALChemy	INTRANSIT 205.188.116.69	11-Oct-05/9:20 AM
Don't worry about the title clashing with mine. two different sleeps. You have more periods than you need. I would: Line 6-comma,line seven-delete period,9 delete period,11 and 12 delete periods. Till then? I think that can go too. Let the reins out a little.
Re: a comment on In the berth by INTRANSIT	INTRANSIT 205.188.116.198	11-Oct-05/9:09 AM
Considering it's a CATerpillar engine, yes.
Re: The nymph steals the farm-son by <~>	richa 81.178.144.102	11-Oct-05/7:44 AM
The lathe of fact indeed. :(
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	zodiac 212.38.134.51	11-Oct-05/6:22 AM
Whatever. Add and retract half-witted attacks all day. I assume you're done saying I've "defined" philosophy as such and such. Considering I'm the only one involved in this who's ever claimed a distinction between "I hold X to be true" and "I believe X", weak argument. And besides, who ever said belief is philosophy? A philsopher doesn't say "I philosophy X". You do. That's why you're not a philosopher.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	zodiac 212.38.134.51	11-Oct-05/6:19 AM
Balls. Balls, balls, balls. I had more respect for you than this.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	zodiac 212.38.134.51	11-Oct-05/6:18 AM
Oddly, that's a perfectly coherent argument. Dovina could have said that a week ago and saved us all boredom-related impotences.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	zodiac 212.38.134.51	11-Oct-05/6:17 AM
You disregard my arguments because you think I "can't understand the wording". What you've failed to realize after all our poemranker debates (all of them essentially about this same thing) is that wording has a big effect on the meaning you convey. What you mean to say is you wish I understood your thoughts instead of the words you use to express them. I CANNOT believe that in some poorly ventilated back corner of your mind you're not clinging to some inexpressible ill-formed notion that evolution is a coherent process with (to exaggerate just a little) a goal of producing creatures with certain characteristics, such as continuing their species better and formulating complex philosophical muckamuck. That's because aside from constantly saying "Don't believe that", you've given me no reason not to. If you really did think evolution was essentially a theory for rationalizing chance phenomena, then you would have realized along time ago that it's utterly pointless to add "we have faith because evolution made us that way" to every conversation you've ever been involved in.
Re: a comment on 10/8 by cronus	zodiac 212.38.134.51	11-Oct-05/6:08 AM
The line should have read, "Not that different from some of David's poems," AND HE'S DEAD. I considered changing it, but I'd already clogged your email with slight revisions and, appearances aside, I actually do love you better than that.
Re: In the berth by INTRANSIT	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	11-Oct-05/4:05 AM
I just posted a poem with the same title (guess I shoulda checked first). This one's better in some ways but also much easier to write.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	11-Oct-05/3:20 AM
And to think this all started with a Tadpole.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	11-Oct-05/3:19 AM
Your thinking religion. Your thinking too big. Faith is trust. Trust starts in the psychy. It may need something outside to effect it but like all other human perceptions it starts in the brain and is effected by your own psychological preferences.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	11-Oct-05/3:08 AM
Actually God made us through the process of evolution. (and by God I mean Vin Diesel)
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	11-Oct-05/2:53 AM
Your right. People who say they have blind faith are full of shit. I quoted the Summa because their idea is so simular to mine and they wrote it down first. I also was able to expand my idea a little based on their idea. So I thought I'd give credit were credit is due. I have gained some credibility by not lying and saying it was all my idea. I know it's a bit Beaver Cleaver of me. ADDENDUM: This is a philosopher: "I believe only because it makes common sense" This is religious: "I believe because it feels right" The idea is that a philosopher bases what he believes on common sense, scientific knowledge and plain old logic. Yes it probably feels right but feelings aren't the basis for his belief. Religion sometimes makes sense and sometimes doesn't but it is always based on the feelings of its believers. I don't think I ever disagreed with that third comment.
Re: a comment on The Enigmatic Pentagram by ObsequiousGem	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	11-Oct-05/2:00 AM
Yeah, but you can't learn much about the devil reading the bible. Enough but not much.
Re: The nymph steals the farm-son by <~>	Dovina 216.117.239.186	10-Oct-05/6:43 PM
Verse 2 is especially nice.
Re: In the berth by INTRANSIT	Dovina 216.117.239.186	10-Oct-05/6:41 PM
Nice, but do you really hear a cat's purr from under the hood?
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	Dovina 216.117.239.186	10-Oct-05/6:32 PM
The key words are "religion should be found by . . ." Most people bet their souls on the word of a Cardinal Stinkyfingers as written in some ancient text. Even then they take the word of some interpretor of Cardinal Stinkyfingers' writings, of which there are many. Thus Christianity is not a single religion, but an array of denominations and interpretations. You are wise, my child, in heeding the Gospel of Dovina, for she has the one and only true message. Affectionately, Dovina, General Manager of the Universe