Re: a comment on Rejuvenation by Dovina	25-Sep-05/10:34 AM
First, (not firstly) I realized before you mentioned -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I.'s obvious misrepresentations, that they are sarcasm. That is not the thing I was answering. Please read again. Second, all species must reproduce to continue, making this their purpose, expressed by them or not. Evolution says so, because it is a theory made by humans to say things like that. Surely you get this. Maybe you want to argue about the meaning of the word “purpose.” We have both stated that we believe humans have purposes other than reproduction. I hope you will someday realize yours by making me see an error of my ways. I look forward to that.
Re: a comment on Rejuvenation by Dovina	24-Sep-05/7:56 AM
First, allow me to express appreciative humility on having so affected your life that your esteem of me has reduced to becoming ashamed. Such feelings don’t arise from casual acquaintance over an internet exchange, but rather from deep affection such as between brother and sister or father and daughter. God does indeed know what I use hammers for, as do I. That’s because we both understand the context, wider or narrower as you wish, of my purpose in using them. It’s kind of like the way a worm understands the purpose for its existence. It may think of the next meal or the next intercourse, but really its purpose as God and I see it is to reproduce. Granted, God may see other purposes, being wiser than I. I’m sorry you cannot understand this as well as the worm does. To God, our purpose is to worship Jesus, as you say, but not for a ticket to Heaven. In fulfilling our purpose to the glory of God and in the continuance of mankind, it is necessary for us to reproduce, to eat, to live long enough to reproduce, to keep from freezing, and other purposes. I realize this is an incomplete description of life, and hope its brevity will encourage you to seek more knowledge.
Re: From Dust To Flesh To Texas by Caducus	23-Sep-05/2:10 PM
Very good until the last two verses. Then you seem to shift into another gear. It's like two poems.
Re: The Last Suburb by unknown	23-Sep-05/2:07 PM
More like a letter than a poem. Try using half as many words.
Re: a comment on Rejuvenation by Dovina	23-Sep-05/1:52 PM
The context, obviously, is the array of living things on the earth. Evolution does state things, again obviously. And it states that the those species which are able to reproduce survive. Your banning is banal in the extreme.
Re: my friend beth we wear by jessicazee	22-Sep-05/2:21 PM
In a flow of thought ramble like this, I still think punctuation is good. Or at least put each thought on a separate line.
Re: a comment on Divorcing Tennessee by Dovina	22-Sep-05/2:18 PM
That it is. The hill country of middle Tennessee can grab hold on you after a few months there.
Re: a comment on Rejuvenation by Dovina	22-Sep-05/2:16 PM
For a species to continue, it must reproduce. Evolutioin states that that is its purpose - to continue. I agree that we humans can have other purposes, but these are of our choosing and are not needed for species survival. So such a view is as odds with evolution. I find a lot of truth in evolution, but can't believe it's the only force in human continuance.
Re: a comment on Seekers by Dovina	22-Sep-05/2:03 PM
The Erie Canal, built in 1817-1825 was designed much like a beaver would. Without professional engineers, people with practical sense and determination built 400 miles of canal, with locks and aquaducts, an amazing feat even for today's technology. I wonder if the tree in my poem looks at today's structures and asks how they are better.
Re: a comment on Seekers by Dovina	22-Sep-05/1:57 PM
Unlike a mouth plum, plum here describes a vertical surface, the side of a church. The tree with its irregular shape seems to say to the church, "Why are you so square and rigid compared to us natural things?"
Re: a comment on Elmer's Last Try by Dovina	22-Sep-05/1:54 PM
Trucking accross country like us I guess. No time for satire. I,ll be doin' Philadelphia to LA soon.
Re: a comment on Elmer's Last Try by Dovina	22-Sep-05/1:52 PM
Did you try to resist voting and succeeded.
Re: a comment on Elmer's Last Try by Dovina	22-Sep-05/1:51 PM
Not as much as a proud child's derision. But it's not about parent-child, but rather husband-wife.
Re: Light by Quarton	21-Sep-05/1:32 PM
A good comparison.
Re: a comment on Rejuvenation by Dovina	16-Sep-05/1:04 PM
It's a moot arguement, and all about words, not about reality. We both know that to reproduce is the goal of man and all his organs.
Re: a comment on Seekers by Dovina	16-Sep-05/1:02 PM
Beaver dams are much more random-looking tham people dams. We can't seem to get the nack of flowing with the moment.
Re: a comment on Seekers by Dovina	16-Sep-05/1:01 PM
No, its wall is stucco, flat and plum.
Re: a comment on Rejuvenation by Dovina	16-Sep-05/3:48 AM
But eyes have many other functions. What other functions do flowers have?
Re: a comment on Seekers by Dovina	16-Sep-05/3:46 AM
No, I only meant that the church is flat and erect.
Re: Leaving Song by wilco	14-Sep-05/3:13 PM
Funny - so incongruent it's funny.