At age 78, the new pope can't last long. I think it's a giving-in to old dogma just long enough to gain the support needed for a pope with sense. Declining mass attendance, in Ireland for example, should help to this end.

Get some rest, or head for Damascus, get a load of Christians, haul them to Rome, or well, try to.

It's hardly surprising they elected a fundamentalist. Whenever there's the slightest hint that people are better off following more liberal doctrines, the church recoils in on itself, doing everything in its power to hinder what can only be described by Sensibles as "moral progress." Eventually, when enough people have died of the AIDS, and enough ethnics get parped to the max by over-population, the church's stance on issues such as contraception will become so blatantly harmful, and so blatantly ridiculous, that further resistance becomes counter-productive, and then some radical new Pope Dave will come along and say "Hey guys! You can wear rubber johnnies!" and we'd be like "Yeah we already do, you prick. The ones who didn't are all dead."

Oh yeah Zodiac, just checked out your recent comments. I belive you have no right to say anything to anyone, most of your comments were full of offensive irellivent (sorry for spelling) remarks. I notice you enjoy putting people down (wow what an assumption) and love a good argument (another assumption? I'me getting good). heres a few extracts, also I think people should check your voting history, you have an average of 6.25 or something. Utterly discusting. Congratulations, this is the man you just called a brainiac: http://rockmage.com/biograp... Get bored and leave soon. Re: 15 Minute poem by Damien* 18-Apr-05/10:37 PM Just think how much better this poem would have been if you'd spent 30 minutes on it instead of 15. What were you so busy doing that you couldn't spend another fifteen minutes and made it twice as good? I'll bet you were whacking off to either the blonde daughter or the gothish daughter, or both, on Rosanne. Re: Snap by rockmage 17-Apr-05/6:07 AM "rotates a swirl", what? Do you really mean something like "swirls a swirl" or "spins a spin"? Seems like a waste of precious haikullables to me. Re: Why The Spinning Top Appears Too Beautiful To Touch by PsydewaysTears 17-Apr-05/6:05 AM Drop the line at the end if you want this to even start being considered as a real poem. Also, write about a real situation. I know you think you are, but you're not. Make your hero/narrator/whatever walking somewhere, doing something, having a realistic conversation - something to tie things together and be more than just whatever goth cliches popped into your head as you were writing. So you've got a dinner party in there somewhere; use that. Start with a person cleaning stains out of the carpet. Really. Start with the line, "She/he scrubbed stains in the carpet" and go from there. Drop 90% of the lines in this poem that aren't about getting ready for dinner parties. I'm absolutely serious. Even Eliot made his rambling egos WALKING somewhere. Re: Reincarnation by Dovina 17-Apr-05/6:00 AM Not to be irrelevant, but I've always wondered what's the point of reincarnating if you don't remember your past lives. Do you think some people do? If not, how do you think a past self affects somebody's present self? If it doesn't (or doesn't much), isn't it pretty much the same thing as not being reincarnated?

Here you go again. Zodiac I have read your poetry, Its good, I like your style, I want to be friends. Are you a skitsophrenic (how I think its spelt) as you have offered some very constructive comments. Say what you want just please stop replying like this is a fucking argument.

2) I have a lot of experience with blacks and my ways of talking about them are more appropriate than yours because I understand them better.

OK: Seeken spiritual development classes attended Karate classes Read lots of self help books Practiced Nunchucks at home Practised Bokken at home Read a great book once "understanding the subconcsious" Pass the same homeless person on the way to work and give him something from the shop every time. Really this is silly. Who are we proving ourselves to.

You're a spaz. This is all things YOU'VE SAID.

What pahtetic rambling for an adult.

Oh. I don't see why you'd want to be. And you're not, as far as I know, a bamboon anyway. But hey, thanks. Now Damien can think I just made this all up.

GHASTLY

Spelling young man. Aloud: With use of the voice; orally. Allowed: To let do or happen; permit. Which of these do you think best fits your comment?

I pretty much agree, quite a talented young man. The problem being that those who wish to imitate him only see the angry young man type stuff and don't explicitly pay attention to the elegance with which it is constructed. Hence you get loads of angry teenagers thinking that if they shout 'fuck' enough times someone will give them a record deal.