Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	11-Apr-06/2:27 PM
Oh, that's what you meant. You left off the kicker line of my comment to Alchemy: "Raise a glass to God. Tell me if I’m getting carried away." Well, I was getting carried away! I would not have said that directly to you. It was a kind of barroom cheer for the home team. Sorry that it came accross smug. It is admittedly exaggerated. Your arguments have not been condescending or smug, which I appreciate. I think you place too much faith in human logic, but that's an acedemic proposition, not a criticism.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	11-Apr-06/1:25 PM
You're calmbering bearded on some other clambake.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	11-Apr-06/1:11 PM
At this moment I have a beard I have no idea what that should mean It's invisible except in a magnifying mirror Fuzzy insipient fur Useful as male nipples To an atheist - ignored
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	11-Apr-06/12:55 PM
"Dovina's smugness": I suppose it's because I used a smug rooster for comparison, and called myself a hen. Perhaps I should have explained that they are animals incapable of human reasoning, and that I used them as metaphors for possible incapabilities of humans. We just might be incapable of certain undefined mental processes that go beyond our treasured logical abilities. Smug? - Yes, I suppose it is in an unknown way.
Re: Letting go by Caducus	11-Apr-06/12:45 PM
I almost laughed at the ending - the old-time style of it. The rest has some pretty good lines, but I don't think the funny spacing helps.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	10-Apr-06/7:25 PM
Both are incomprehensible, speaking as a hen.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	10-Apr-06/7:15 PM
How do you beard an invisible guy?
Re: Narcolepsy by Sunny	10-Apr-06/7:11 PM
I think it’s best to avoid the “there is” construction, especially at the beginning. Try, “Red sky peers through the shutters.” Maybe you really mean “Shudders” but I find it difficult. Also, it’s a bit wordy. Try “He nods off to my tense afterthoughts” in S2, for example. Many phrases can be shortened and thereby made stronger. At first his uncontrollable urge to sleep, per the title, came through, but the meaning faded til the end.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	10-Apr-06/5:49 PM
Yeah, it's the science-touting, logic-claiming atheists who shoot their own feet. You'd think they'd have learned from a thousand years of science that some of the most preposterous-sounding propositions turn true. Raise a glass to the ones who don’t throw out the impossible, who go where no one has gone. Raise a glass to God. Tell me if I’m getting carried away.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	10-Apr-06/5:22 PM
I forgot to say thanks. Thanks.
Re: a comment on Maybe I Wasn’t Born on a Fool’s Day by Dovina	10-Apr-06/4:09 PM
When John Henry was a little baby sittin' on his mama's knee he picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel said "this hammer's gonna be the death of me Lord, Lord this hammer's gonna be the death of me" - a folk song I used to sing in college.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	10-Apr-06/3:57 PM
I did enjoy it. But I think it's poorly written. That would be alright, but it also takes a certain predefined view of God, which makes your gift kind of like a necktie that somebody gave you, and you didn't like, and now seeing my April Fool's Day birthday has passed, you have giftwrapped it for me. That's ok, it's the thought that counts.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	10-Apr-06/2:58 PM
"I have great faith in human ingenuity to comprehend.": Isn't that a bit like a rooster strutting about the henhouse, obviously thinking he's the smartest thing going, and will soon have all the perplexities of his surroundings figured out? I'm not calling your intelligence that of a rooster. It just seems that faith in human ability has a parallel in animal's faith in their abilities.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	9-Apr-06/8:32 PM
It’s funny. I can believe something without sound reason. It just seems right, so I go with it. It’s almost scary sometimes. I base critical decisions on unfounded beliefs. Today, I drove through a green light because I trusted drivers coming at right angle to stop. I did this at least thirty times, believing that people I have never met will do the right thing. I based my life on a belief in what usually happens. If I had never driven through a green light, I might respond more cautiously. I might stop until no car was approaching on a collision course. Trouble is, we have to keep trucking, most of the time, and only what feels right works in the moment. So, by habit, I suppose, I look at all the reasons for God and for not-God and, finding no clear logical answer, proceed onward with a feeling that has worked on an emotional level. I think sometimes that’s all we get.
Re: The One by deval1516	9-Apr-06/7:48 PM
Like a diary entry. Nothing wrong with the feelings you have, just that they are not expressed so as to be interesting to anyone who is not poersonally involved with the situation.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	9-Apr-06/7:29 PM
lol
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	9-Apr-06/6:42 PM
I knew there was no point. I'm bored. So long.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	9-Apr-06/6:38 PM
A chicken can ask, "Why am I here in this cage, being fed?" with about as much capability of getting an answer as we can ask, "Why am I here?" In either case, even if the one in charge gives an answer, the one in the cage is not likely to understand it.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	9-Apr-06/6:24 PM
Most recently, discussing April Fools's Day.
Re: a comment on The Battle of Fort Bragg by Dovina	9-Apr-06/6:21 PM
I do not mean to bring spiritual experience into it either. On that I agree with him.