Re: a comment on The mountain has come to Mohammed by ALChemy	13-Dec-05/10:14 AM
I am writing the U.N.! I want a separation of church and war...like the separation of church and state!
Re: a comment on The mountain has come to Mohammed by ALChemy	13-Dec-05/10:12 AM
Sorry, all I have is gold bouillon, and I hoard that. Care to barter? :) (BTW, is this (gold) bouillon spelled the same as, say, 'beef bouillon'? It does seem it should be 'bullion'!) My favorite lines> But in the land of sand and dust Their blindness, like ours, is begotten from the words "In God We Trust".
Re: a comment on Indian Song by ALChemy	13-Dec-05/9:42 AM
I went and read, and thought...nope! Not the same thing at all. You get credit for two languages, that is all, Zodiac. What Alchemy did is different, and intellectualy very stimulating for all involved. :>Intellegence versus education. Creativity versus regurgitation. Art that involves and engages the looker-on versus art for display purposes.
Re: a comment on Due Consideration by Dovina	13-Dec-05/9:30 AM
Crap...ignore the typos...that DO exist...I admit that much, since they are there, and they do exist. No amount of not admiting will make them not exist.
Re: a comment on Due Consideration by Dovina	13-Dec-05/9:25 AM
If it exists, then it IS..there fore it IS whether you admit it or not. And wether you instist that it IS or not. A is A.(Because you acknowledge A to begin with.)
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	13-Dec-05/9:14 AM
I'm sorry, but when I see the words 'socialism and civic responsibility'...'institutions' that 'collectively' mandate you help a worthless neighbor, that you OWE something to anybody who has his hand out, that your sweat, labour, and reward should be used to raise 'the collective' of people needing your assistance...well...I stop listening. Responsible citizenship, to me, does not mean "responsible to and for the citizens".
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	13-Dec-05/8:59 AM
Please do! I do not believe good fortune (ie: wealth, money) is the Cause of intellegence. I couldn't disagree more!(If you mean:I have had the good fortune to be raised in a family with good fortune and money, therefore it has afforded me an intellgence above average.") (If you mean good fortune to mean fate, genes..then yes...as in: "I have had the good fortune to be born into an intellgent family.") That staement would apply. Bad fortune is the cause, means, and ways to gaining experience and intellegence. When one fails, stumbles, and questions, then one learns something new. (The exception being those who literally live in a survivalist mode, as they have no time for thought past the food or need they must procure for themselves for the day.) Good fortune (ie: money, wealth) pays for EDUCATION (the generically produced, propoganda-laden one sponsored by the collective forces that be), but money can not buy, nor breed intellgence! Comfort, via good fortune, does not compell one to investigation, experimentation, innovation, invention...etc. When all is said and done, genes play the bigger part in intellegence than any other one marker. And anyone who is inherantly intellegent will be driven to educate one's self.That drive and curiousity, being a distinct marker of that intellegence. I am of the firm belief that educating a man past his intellegence level is a dangerous thing. It creates monsters, who know they are given the position of power that surpasses their inborn capacity and intellectual worth, they know that those under them many times are actually above them....not a good thing...they become caustic, to themselves, and to anyone around them who hold the real power of intellgence. Ever read Fountain Head, or Atlas Shrugged? Point made.
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	12-Dec-05/9:48 PM
Like This conversation that really took place: (Southerner):"I was carrying my friend to the store and as soon as we started walking across the parking lot the bottom fell out." Me:Why did you carry your friend to the store? "Because he don't have no way to get there." But why did you carry him? "'Cause he's my friend, and besides, he wanted to ride in my new truck." But I thought you said you carried him to the store. "I did." I thought you just said he road in your truck. "He did, and I carried him to the store." Oh, so he road in your truck, then you carried him into the store? "No, to the store." Huh?. Never mind, Oh, and what fell out? "What d' ya mean?" You said something fell out when you were going to the store. "Oh, yeah, the bottom fell out when we got to the store, and we got soaked through." You got sucked through? "What?!, We didn't get sucked anywhere; Yeah, the bottom fell out!" The truck? The bottom fell out? "No, we were goin' to go in and then the bottom fell out." The bottom fell out of WHAT?! "What?" What fell out of where?...???!!! "What?! The bottom FELL out, there!" What do you mean? "Man! It just fell out and we ran!" (I gave up and later relayed this to someone else, who told me what we had been talking about!) A downpour of rain...apparently here in the South, the bottom falls out of the sky and dumps rain on you!) (Which, having lived here for some years, I have to admit it is not a far stretch to say such a thing to describe the torrential downpours!) Disclaimer:This was an actual, f'r-real, North-westerner and Southerner exchange. No part of this is fiction, but the identities of said parties will be protected, as only in the South they can be.
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	12-Dec-05/9:18 PM
I admit...I am not the English marm! So you'd better double check what I tell you as far as punctuation goes...it is my weak point!
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	12-Dec-05/9:15 PM
yeah, I know...my spelling is fine...it's my typing that suffers when I'm tired!
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	12-Dec-05/9:14 PM
Yes...but Zodiac pulled it out of his funny little hat...to insert here. "The principal cause of disparities in the fortunes of men is intelligence." he asserts, (by the fact that he stated it or quoted it.) He does not go on to state how said intellegence creates said disparity...perhpas his assumption is that intellegent men have less fortune? I would be most amused if one day he threw out a thought, such as this one, and then backed it up with a thought or analysis of his own.
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	12-Dec-05/9:08 PM
Okay...I gotta say it>druuuuummmmm rooooole....women! LOLOLOL!
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	12-Dec-05/9:06 PM
...Reaganomics? ...Bush Policy? ...The dog-eat-dog mentality embraced by said men?
Re: Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	12-Dec-05/9:03 PM
This reminds me of some childrens poetry. The premise is cute; I know a Bri, who is a bit of an artist with stuff everywhere. But, that said...even childrens poetry should not be mundane...keep working at it and you'll have something of quailty to give them!
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	12-Dec-05/8:59 PM
Notice he said MEN...*smirk
Re: Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	12-Dec-05/8:53 PM
First...disclaimer:I have an affinity for the Celtic, but that said...I love this piece! And since I am in rare form tonight, I am suprised I took the time to pick around on this one and to let you know what bugged me alittle. (Feeling cynical and snide tonight...sorry.)I did give you a 9 on it, perhaps just 'cause you gave me something Celtic, with an olde feel to it, that so applies right now. Perhaps because nothing else piqued my interest tonight. Perhaps because it speaks from a time....never mind. Yeah, fix it up just a tweak, and I might just throw my first 10 out there! Filigree.(,)~ That, that will and that, that be.(,) Are dressed both in a fellow down.~ angry men.> I would change to better the rythm/flow right there.~ Plato(.)~ turned and runned> (an') would flow better and follow the language used. (runned? >and ran? to run?) Galveron(.) for we are so few (too few? we're?) large. (,) girthly span.(kinda awkward right there, interupted the flow. ?shorten it, change?)
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	12-Dec-05/8:29 PM
Well...call me dim as well! I didn't see it either...and now I've re-read and re-read, and am not sure how one would deduct that at all...still. Maybe it is a guy-thing?! (see my comment to poem)
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	12-Dec-05/8:25 PM
Zodiac...does that mean bigotry IS psychosis? Or only if it is 'extreme bigotry'? Is 'non-extreme bigotry' not, then, considered psychotic? Could you please define 'normal bigotry' as opposed to 'extreme bigotry'? Or at least inform us to what extent of bigotry one would have to exibit to be considered considered 'extreme', and therefore warrant the use of said psychotic drugs? Is the implication that only inmates are capable if 'extreme' bigotry? Or only that they should be given anti-psychotic drugs for it? (AND, did they know they were being treated? And, if so, has the placebo affect been ruled out?) Could you please define "relieved"? Does this mean that we should put anti-psychotic drugs in the water supply in the South? I am sure it would be covered under the 'patriot act', and no one would ever have to know...and then we could all live much happier... and more relieved.
Re: War (edit) by zodiac	12-Dec-05/8:12 PM
? "as new graves, as a bombed field? I was loving this up to and after that...but I got lost there. What does that have to do with the rest? I could relate to this as one who keeps a 'food storage', well-stocked with provisions...and am driven to stock up on things I may need. This describes my large utility room full of such things, and the times when I had no bread, but I had plenty stored away, "in case". Winter rolls around and I am driven to start stock-piling. I related to the woman in this piece...but you refer to her as girlie (Girly), as if in put down. If one has ever truly gone hungry, then one probably can relate to such things and the need for self-sufficiency, and the little quirks one gains from that experience. Based on that long winded comment, think I'll give it a high score...I like the strange flow of it. For lack of better words, it just hits me good.(Except for the bit about graves and bombs, which I am still lost on...but I'm not breaking my own rule to see the comments before I vote and post!)
Re: a comment on The Legend of the Crow by TLRufener	12-Dec-05/8:01 PM
Well, now I look, after I post...someone was either more generous than I, or more lame than you...and gave you a 4. I don't mean to be rude, truly. I just get tired of wading through pieces like this one, by the dozens, before I find something that qualifies as substantial brain food. I am in a rare mood tonight...(disclaimer)