Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	9-Oct-05/6:15 AM
I believe niether. I just think the Summa had a good theory. If I believed Nietzsche would it be religion? The things I believe whether scientific or religious in nature are effected by personal preference although mostly on a subconcious level. This is a philosopher: "I believe because it makes sense" This is religious: "I believe because it feels right" Philosophers believe in a philosophy too.
Re: a comment on Escape by Heather Dee	7-Oct-05/2:13 PM
Yeah I considered those but I thought you'd say "Yeah but those aren't real words". It's nice to see someone loosening up the grammar noose every know and then. You mean you can actually understand what Thom Yorke is saying.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	7-Oct-05/2:03 PM
I believe what I had said in previous comments was that the Summa may have been on to something when they theorized about the origins of the universe and that I didn't believe in the religion or philosophy or whatever it was that came after it. If my interpretation (I don't think I ever said I was 100% sure) of one little thing said by a semi-ancient race of people is to be called religion than your interpretation of what your reading right know is to be called religion too. Philosophy can also be borrowed from some vague semi-ancientness, exaggerated, and so totally changed to meet your needs.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	7-Oct-05/1:42 PM
Surely you jest. Your definition of faith is an unhindered one. Which doesn't really exhist in human nature. Even Jesus had apprehension the night before the Crucifixion according to the bible. Faith starts from within not because someone says so and most certainly involves either emotion or logic but not necessarily both.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	7-Oct-05/1:21 PM
All together now: La ilah ila allah... Ahyippyyippy mowmow. I think the quality is something akin to the primal feeling that rhyme equals reason and I think that is because repetition has a simular effect. I hate to say it but Poe might be right about poetry being mostly a mathmatical effect.
Re: Small Furies by Enkidu	6-Oct-05/7:19 PM
You might as well use "done did" if you're going to use "did" that way (like you were answering a question). "knobs-a-turning" and "bulbs-a-burning" a case of style juxt-a-posing. Some good stuff though.
Re: Sex Object by Dovina	6-Oct-05/7:01 PM
Don't worry Dovina we still think your a sex object.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	6-Oct-05/6:48 PM
Poetry ; also the criminal act of forcing words into feelings. The rest of your comment is incomprehensible. What gives poetry or any art form feeling is composition. It is not feeling it is an evoker of feeling. Rhyme is a poetic device like metaphor or alliteration. All used to help make a lasting impression on the reader. What does poetry do that prose can't? Poetry can be memorized more easily and tends to be shorter, that's all.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	6-Oct-05/6:11 PM
But not religion. That's reserved for deities and Joe Pesci. Recipe for Religion: Take 5 parts previous believed things 10 parts exageration 4 parts promise 6 parts fear Sprinkle a dash of common sense Mix until resembling a compelling story and voila Faith depends on personal preference or devine intervention. I have faith that the scenario in your comment has never truly taken place in anyone save for those who met God.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	5-Oct-05/9:52 AM
Forgive my spelling I'm quite sleepy.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	5-Oct-05/9:48 AM
The bible quotes were a silly game I was playing with an even sillier man. The summa in my mind is philosophy not religion. The bible is hearsay. God spoke to men who then spoke to people etc. until someone finally wrote it down. A record of God and his teachings. Is Socrates talking to you when he teaches Plato? Of course not. I'm sure their both happy their teachings are being retaught by mankind but it's still not same thing. If you read the bible and the actual spirit of God does not come to you and speak to your heart in a language unspoken, unheard, and that only your heart can decipher than you are simply reading a book about God and his teachings. A book that's been manipulated by greedy men so much that I'm supprised it still packs a punch. "What is wrong with God using things or people to speak to us. . .to our hearts even?" What's wrong with it is what the poems about. I mean how do you know if God ain't there to say "Yep I sent him" or "Yep I said exactly what he wrote in that book."? Well formulated question by the way, tadpole.
Re: a comment on Escape by Heather Dee	5-Oct-05/8:50 AM
New one: "take a moment to flex your sphincter now stick your finger in it's cincture"
Re: a comment on Escape by Heather Dee	5-Oct-05/8:39 AM
"take a moment to flex your sphincter Play a song of great destincture" Best I could do. I think cliches still have use in small amounts like in irony but otherwise I agree with you more than ever on this.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	4-Oct-05/2:20 PM
So the genius stricken are the only ones allowed to rhyme but Elstupido is given a free pass to write non-rhymes. Bad poetry is bad whether it rhymes or not. Maybe your friend just likes your rhyming poems and wanted to hear more. If you don't snub your nose at rhyme (which I don't believe you do) then why post this poem. Have any of us told you to rhyme more? You too good a writer for such triviality.
Re: a comment on A Meadow, Among Other Things by Enkidu	4-Oct-05/1:49 PM
I wonder if Rosanne Rosannadanna celebrated Ramadamadan.
Re: a comment on Why I’m Homeless by Dovina	4-Oct-05/1:44 PM
Are you talking about the houseless or the apartmentless or the caveless or maybe the cardboard boxless. :P
Re: I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	3-Oct-05/9:54 PM
What happens when genius doesn't strike you and you don't rhyme?
Re: a comment on Without my Glasses by Niphredil	3-Oct-05/9:39 PM
Sounded familiar. Any movie that kills off Macaulay Culkin gets a 10 from me.
Re: I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	3-Oct-05/9:26 PM
Even Picasso said he had to learn to draw like Michelangelo before he could learn to draw like a 7 year old. The latter took him about 40 years. End in the Rhyme Poetry with it's flashy plume and flowery scent is but a simple tool to recall a precious event. Dare I say many a fool has often came and went who forgot this simple rule and so will not end in the rhyme. If you wish to write poems sublime to spand the changing seasons (For man's memory fades with time if it's not given a proper reason) Fear not that it be called a crime nor claims of poetic treason to historically rhyme in the end.
Re: a comment on Escape by Heather Dee	3-Oct-05/8:25 PM
As are non-rhyming poets.