Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	17-Dec-05/6:07 AM
Incidentally (sorry for changing the subject), you say, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for today, and he shows up to be fed again tomorrow, resenting you because he needs you. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime, and he goes away your friend. " Isn't this a contradiction to your claim that people shouldn't be over-educated? I want to educate all the people so that they have the tools to support themselves and their families, i.e, learn to fish. You say, "don't bother, they're not intelligent enough, and they will only harm themselves." I can't help seeing a glaring contradiction here, sorry.
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	16-Dec-05/4:57 AM
this was for LittleMsLady, zodiac, sorry.
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	16-Dec-05/4:56 AM
Just out of curiosity, how exactly do you plan to go about educating an individual past his/her intelligence level? If they don't understand a concept, would you just say, 'I guess you're simply not smart enough to grasp this, let's move on to something else?' Incidentally, Ayn Rand never said anything like that. What she states is that each individual should strive to create the best he could to the best of his ability. "Over-education for the un-intelligent" necessarily places bounds on the limits which a person can achieve, and is therefore diametrically opposed to what Ayn Rand is stating. P.S. And it's "intelligent", with two 'i's.
Re: Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	16-Dec-05/2:42 AM
Heh. Jabberwock was the first thing that came to mind. Very nice :-)
Re: Light within darkness by Caducus	3-Dec-05/3:30 AM
"braille", not "brail".
Re: Colorbars by wilco	25-Nov-05/6:04 AM
Brilliant. *10*
Re: a comment on Bluegrass Blueshield by T. Jonathron Remp	11-Nov-05/6:55 AM
Ew.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	11-Nov-05/6:07 AM
Jeez. I wonder where you guys get these ideas of college girls. I'm studying electrical engineering, and not one of the girls I know are sex-crazed nymphomaniacs. They're more likely to be ponytailed geekettes in a predominantly masculine environment.
Re: a comment on brave new world still a bit timid by FreeFormFixation	30-Oct-05/2:32 AM
No, he means 'feely' - a play on 'movie', in which the viewer can also feel the sensations that correspond to the scenes projected on the screen. It's a term introduced in Huxley's Brave New World.
Re: Remember me she said by Caducus	28-Oct-05/10:11 AM
rised = rose.
Re: Remembrance by Caducus	28-Oct-05/10:10 AM
I knew I was going to read something good just from the author and title, and I wasn't disappointed. Great work :-).
Re: The cold shoulder by <~>	28-Oct-05/10:05 AM
Lovely work.
Re: MOMENTS From A Madman's Mind by PsydewaysTears	28-Oct-05/9:53 AM
I would change 'Can not you taste' to the more correct 'Can you not taste'.
Re: when i make sculpture by ay deee	26-Oct-05/11:20 AM
stalactite or stalagmite, not stalagtite. :-) Good work!
Re: Farm animals by INTRANSIT	20-Oct-05/6:57 AM
This is a beautiful poem; I love it more each subsequent read. However, I don't really think this is a 'ghazal' by definition, at least by the links on this site. The opening couplet doesn't rhyme (or does it?), and the last lines of each couplet definitely don't rhyme.
Re: Loving An Angel by Brego	18-Oct-05/5:39 AM
but why do you keep the pointless capitalization? It's not even uniform... in a sentence like this, for instance, 'If it was just a dream or a Foolish fantasy,' there's absolutely no necessity to capitalize within the sentence.
Re: There is a journey tree by ALChemy	17-Oct-05/4:49 AM
I don't feel that the dove and the pigeon make any contribution to the theme. My questions are, why pigeon? Why dove (and please, let it not be purity and peace, cause that's way too hackneyed...) and what is the significance of exchanging feathers?
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	16-Oct-05/9:08 AM
I'd like to comment, if I may. You are talkng about an abstract concept know as 'faith', where someone who believes in God has 'faith', and someone who is an atheist does not. I'd like to extend that concept and change it a little. What I believe is inherent within human beings is not the capacity for faith but the prayer for deliverance - or hope. Any human being has prayed for help at least once in his life; for example, you walk around the corner and see that your house is on fire and your family is inside. The first thing that whips through your mind is, 'Please, let them be all right'... Most events in life can't be controlled. Hoping for something to turn out okay is essentially the same as a prayer to God, Luck, or the laws of physics; and this is, in my opinion, a trait common to all living beings, on different levels. I'd like to argue that this, in fact, should replace the concept of 'faith' that you are disputing. Change it to 'prayer for deliverance'. Do animals 'hope', or 'pray for deliverance'? Why shouldn't they, in the sense that I described? In fact, the entire concept of 'God' is, basically, just an extension of this tenet based on the fact that humans have superior, more developed brains; allowing them to develop this *extremely* basic idea along with the development of their brains over time, or evolution, if you will. So in my opinion, what I would say is: The hope of being delivered from trouble is a universal trait and common, on one level or another, to all sentient beings. Humans, having superior brains, have developed from this a concept of 'God', 'religion' and 'faith' as an outlet and a reason for hope - we will always hope for the best, because God is with us. However, since most phenomena can be explained perfectly well by physics, faith is no longer a necessity in modern life, and has been spurned by atheists; however, every human (faithless or not) continues to hope.
Re: It’s getting dark by Prince of Void	15-Oct-05/4:42 PM
I really don't know what you are trying to say in this poem, sorry. On a more practical note - I find the 'But' at the beginning quite awkward.
Re: a comment on Waking at night by Niphredil	15-Oct-05/12:59 PM
Thank you! Much appreciated.