Re: 10/8 by cronus	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/8:47 AM
If you sacrificed all that you loved then you can't love god. You can't blame him for not caring.
Re: a comment on 10/8 by cronus	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/8:45 AM
King David?
Re: 10/8 by cronus	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/8:44 AM
Why do I think of Bon Jovi's "Dead or Alive" when I read this? We may never know.
Re: His Secret in the Woods by TLRufener	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/8:38 AM
Starts off like a Garth Brooks song. Repetition can be good in poetry but in some places it's a little annoying. Lots of potential.
Re: a comment on dictates of whose travel agency? by A. Nomaly	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/8:33 AM
"and anal people still get laid, apparently." You really left yourself wide open on that one my friend.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/8:18 AM
Eggs-fucking-zactly! Thank you for saying that. You'll get rich writing rhyme or prose faster than any of the other forms. Just ask Stephen King or Emenem and they suck at it. I'm guessing you opted for prose. Good choice. The most lucrative of them all. Rhyme was really big when there weren't a lot of people who could read or had access to literature so poems easy to memorize became popular. Then everyone was reading and rhyme faded and fell by the wayside. But nowadays people are busier and more distracted so short poetry and rhyme for their quick fix and quickly memorizable qualities are coming back into the limelight. By the way don't you think Hip-hop may be the only form of poetry (if it can be considered that) that actually achieves most of the goals of poetic movements. ie. Changing common language, social behavior, youthful attitude, philosophy and most important getting women to dance in their underwear. "All smurf the holy Smurfhammed." Bush would make the best Gargamel.
Re: a comment on Escape by Heather Dee	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/7:23 AM
Ah the Rorschach approach to song writing.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/7:09 AM
Faith comes naturally. The caveman sees that the sunrises and falls like clockwork and with it comes and goes daylight. This is comforting to him. He can plan around this. Philosophy, science, and religion all seek to give that same comfort and where we are comforted we find faith. This is what I mean by (within) it starts in our minds and maybe hearts. Doesn't that seem obvious? The sun didn't invent faith the caveman did. Secondly, I think you are talking about blind faith. Less just say faith is believing what you wish to be true or like you said hold to be true. You can have faith in something consistantly proven like a devoted wife. It's funny. I have faith in God and Jesus but no religion.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/6:28 AM
Good sex for instance.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/6:27 AM
When Jesus asked God to change his mind about the crucifixion he was questioning God's orders. Your right that isn't faith that's questioning someone elses word you have faith in. See how that works. Even hypnotists and brain washers must first somehow break in to your inner psychy before they can control what you believe. The crux of religion is a gut feeling.
Re: a comment on Gnarly Knees by Dovina	INTRANSIT 64.12.116.138	9-Oct-05/6:26 AM
couldn't help it. sorry. :)
Re: a comment on Gnarly Knees by Dovina	Dovina 209.247.222.96	9-Oct-05/6:23 AM
And I know what you mean by "adventures," you naughty man.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	Dovina 209.247.222.96	9-Oct-05/6:20 AM
What if it feels right and also makes sense? Then you have the ultimate.
Re: a comment on Gnarly Knees by Dovina	Dovina 209.247.222.96	9-Oct-05/6:18 AM
Yes, may it all come true. Trouble is my knees are smooth now, having given up all that rough soccer and all. Hiking and biking are still good though.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	Dovina 209.247.222.96	9-Oct-05/6:15 AM
The King language does that to people. Perhaps the Greek meant something like "Faith is the knowldege that what you hope for is really true." Moldy food is seldom hoped for, but an afterlife is, and so is a god in control of things, so these are the things people have faith for.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	ALChemy 69.134.78.74	9-Oct-05/6:15 AM
I believe niether. I just think the Summa had a good theory. If I believed Nietzsche would it be religion? The things I believe whether scientific or religious in nature are effected by personal preference although mostly on a subconcious level. This is a philosopher: "I believe because it makes sense" This is religious: "I believe because it feels right" Philosophers believe in a philosophy too.
Re: Gnarly Knees by Dovina	INTRANSIT 64.12.116.67	9-Oct-05/6:14 AM
With knees like those, you will attract a handsome and rugged man and have many a great out-of-doors "adventures".
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	Dovina 209.247.222.96	9-Oct-05/6:08 AM
Therefore, philosopher = religious, because X could be a philosophy.
Re: Between the Edges by woodstock20000	ObsequiousGem 24.255.44.236	9-Oct-05/2:34 AM
Love the ending, punctuation, and flow.
Re: my head is a madhouse by daggatolar	ObsequiousGem 24.255.44.236	9-Oct-05/2:30 AM
Beautiful flow, choice of words, language, and verse.