Re: a comment on The copper man and Labrador by Caducus	1-Dec-05/6:54 AM
Sometimes I even scare myself.
Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina	1-Dec-05/6:48 AM
Really though. Mark was just a child at the time of the gospels and although Peter or Paul may have taught him reading and writing, it's unlikely either him nor his teachers were literate enough to write something like the gospels. John was likely to be illiterate. Many scholars agree Matthew was written by a second generation follower after 90 A.D. Luke was a physician and the only one educated enough to likely be the original author of his version of the gospels. The earliest he might have written it was between 60 and 80 A.D. but as far as I know he only met Jesus once and that was after he was resurected. So only one of the authors was even around most of the events of the Gospels and that was John and many scholars think that he didn't write the Gospel according to John.
Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina	1-Dec-05/5:41 AM
I think the only gospel written before 70 A.D. was the one Jesus wrote. He posted it once here on Poemranker but everyone made fun of him and called him gay, so he deleted it and quit the site. That's pretty much why all of us here are doomed to an eternal damnation.
Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina	30-Nov-05/7:40 PM
I have that effect on some people.
Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina	30-Nov-05/7:36 PM
Yes I guess I am bias towards the logical.
Re: The copper man and Labrador by Caducus	30-Nov-05/8:23 AM
A bum dies (head tilted) in either a refrgerator or cardboard box filled with polystyrene packing. I thought it was in the alley next to a Versace store seeing that the odds of so many people walking past a dead bum while wearing Versace are quite slim odds. The copper is pennies. The Lab goes blue(sad). Neon reepers(ambulance). Muzzling(sirens) his grief. Medal from King George(quarter). The pauper box is planed.(His casket's ready) Lets just bury him he's shrapnel for our conscience and I'm late for my meeting.(Forget about him. It'll only bring us down. I've got better things to do. How'd I do?
Re: Focus by MacFrantic	30-Nov-05/7:50 AM
The only thing I would change is that I would space the lines and the words even farther apart.
Re: it's damp after closing by hendrimike	30-Nov-05/7:44 AM
It seems like every stanza is missing a line.
Re: a comment on leah by T. Jonathron Remp	30-Nov-05/7:29 AM
I mean your poems. I'm sure your a very nice boy.
Re: a comment on leah by T. Jonathron Remp	30-Nov-05/7:12 AM
Now see, if you could do this in your poems then people might actually like you.
Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina	30-Nov-05/6:59 AM
"When two things are placed together in a sentence, and the two seem unrelated, I have to wonder why the writer put them together." Isn't that sometimes called poetry?
Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina	30-Nov-05/6:56 AM
I shit you not. Ver-fuckin'-batim.
Re: a comment on Picking Up Sins by BrandonW	30-Nov-05/6:52 AM
See there truly is something flamboyantly offensive about the word.
Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina	30-Nov-05/6:40 AM
Most scholars think John didn't even write John. Many think none of the three wrote the gospels. Show me a non-religious scholar who says they were written before 70 A.D. I could argue why your argument is totally religously bias but I think this guy does a better job. http://www.geocities.com/questioningpage/When.html
Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina	30-Nov-05/5:58 AM
I'm guessing they couldn't find anyone to translate it into the King James version.
Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina	30-Nov-05/5:52 AM
And that's not the only quality we share with black guys. I think it’s probably just a compensation thing. Like how blind people’s senses become more highly tuned. I'm not sure why rhythm would be such an important mechanism for dyslexics but it seems to be that way.
Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina	30-Nov-05/5:34 AM
Is that line a quote or one of your inventions? Should be a quote.
Re: a comment on leah by T. Jonathron Remp	29-Nov-05/4:27 PM
I guess I could criticize your fragmented sentences too but that would just be anal. Then again maybe anal is your thing. Why don't you delete your comment again and spend another week thinking up some smart ass thing to say.
Re: a comment on Picking Up Sins by BrandonW	29-Nov-05/3:46 PM
Whore.
Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina	29-Nov-05/3:42 PM
On the contrary. I have faith in what is valid. Did you know there is something like 50 Gospel books of Jesus. Most were lost in history but they did exist. So I suppose you'd rather go with the popular choice than go with a Gospel who's people were called heretics for believing in logic and the equality of women. You were the one who claimed one gospel more consistant than the other. Isn't that what you mean by textual criticism.