Re: Hell is spring by INTRANSIT	12-Oct-05/5:41 PM
I like the kinky comparisons: kawasaki green > buds, vile snapdragons, flowers of construction barrel orange. But why would you vow to be knocked cold by her? Maybe you're too into the mechanized unreality of spring.
Re: dictates of whose travel agency? by A. Nomaly	12-Oct-05/5:34 PM
Travel agencies don't dictate; they sell. Doesn't matter, I don't see what you're talking about anyway.
Re: Adelaide by wilco	12-Oct-05/5:30 PM
Lyrics are so hard to understand without the music. I'd say lose the "up" in line 5, but maybe some twang of string requires it. And Adelaide is such an old-time name that I'd expect a song about her to follow the old-time patterns. Oh well, maybe I just don't get it.
Re: a comment on Rocky Road by Dovina	12-Oct-05/5:27 PM
Are your flaps decorated? The comment seem vaguely personal. In any case, I hope your flaps are the semi-rigid kind that don't flap uslessly in the wind, waving goodbye to every rock your tires lift from the road. I picture you as one of those kind-to-little-people truckers who don't try to terrorize us.
Re: a comment on Rocky Road by Dovina	12-Oct-05/7:19 AM
Yes on the “of.” Thank you. See edit. Then kindly replace your vote. That would be the groovy thing to do.
Re: a comment on Rocky Road by Dovina	12-Oct-05/7:18 AM
You’re right about the rogue “as” in the last. I was tired last night writing it. You know how a poem stews all day while you’re driving. See edit. Then kindly replace your vote. The first flaps line has them waving goodbye to the rock. The second is the driver’s recollection of buying them and refers back to line 4. Same with the drowsy driver lines. The first has him drowsing, the second has him recovering.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	11-Oct-05/9:04 PM
You simply will not give up the notion that I think evolution has a mind. It does not! We have faith, and a possiible source of our propensity for faith is evolution. Perhaps we surveve better with faith than without it. I see nothing non-sensical about saying that. I keep saying it because you keep not getting it.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	11-Oct-05/8:59 PM
But I had a better thing to say, which you chose to ignore for trivial pursuits.
Re: a comment on 10/8 by cronus	11-Oct-05/8:13 PM
Whenever I untangle some strand of the ball that is how you think, I find ten more mismatched, twisted and exasperatingly funny.
Re: The nymph steals the farm-son by <~>	10-Oct-05/6:43 PM
Verse 2 is especially nice.
Re: In the berth by INTRANSIT	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	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
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	10-Oct-05/6:21 PM
You began by saying, "This is a philosopher: 'I believe X.'" But belief is not philosophy, and there you go astray. Add and retract addendums all day, it won't help.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	10-Oct-05/6:16 PM
The point is, (and it should be obvious) that you're argueing about nonsense while I'm trying to make a serious point. You argue with a statements like "Evolution made dogs" because you can't understand the wording. It's the same as saying "chance made dogs," dogs were made by chance" or "by chance, dogs were made." These statements all mean the same thing. Can we leave this trivial aside at that?
Re: a comment on 10/8 by cronus	10-Oct-05/6:06 PM
God or David?
Re: a comment on The Enigmatic Pentagram by ObsequiousGem	10-Oct-05/6:05 PM
Really?
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	10-Oct-05/5:18 AM
Why are so absurd as to say that I think evolution is intelligent. I simply said that it might have made us that way. Not on purpose, because it has no purpose. But it might have done it anyway. It's the same thing as saying it might have occurred by chance to anyone but you.
Re: Just Before My Shift Ends at The Uptowner by jessicazee	10-Oct-05/5:14 AM
I laughed and and sympathized. Bar talk is almost spiritual at times, almost like church.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	10-Oct-05/5:05 AM
No, the whole addended idea sucks. Philosophy is not "I believe X." Philosophers argue about the definition of philosophy, but yours is definiteloy not up for contention.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	10-Oct-05/5:00 AM
Yes, I thikk it might have gone something like that. All it proves is that we're built to develop faith. Maybe pure evolution made us that way. It doesn't imply intelligent design.