Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	18-Feb-05/1:13 PM
In an examination, if you concealed a text book somewhere on your person, and attempted to cheat by looking in the text book for the answers, but failed because you brought the wrong text book by mastake, then you'd still be punished if you were caught doing it regardless of whether or not you were actually able to obtain the information you wanted from the text book. It follows that any attempt to pray during an examination - with the intention of asking God for the answers - should be forbidden, regardless of whether or not God answers, and even if you're praying to a God who doesn't exist (like -=Muslim=-). The only known method of preventing prayer transmissions from an individual is to wrap his hands in tin foil - the hands, when clasped together as is customary during the prayer ritual, act as a spiritual beacon, relaying your thoughts to God (but only if you say "Amen" at the end, obviously) and receiving His responses.
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	18-Feb-05/1:03 PM
Black people don't necessarily have dark skin. I saw an albino Black person once (true story). But it is still true that an individual Black person is significantly more diverse than an individual White person, even if you include Black albinos. I mean what could be more diverse than a Black albino?
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	18-Feb-05/6:09 AM
I'm not talking about conducting research into other people's prayer habits, I'm talking about prayer as a form of research in itself. For instance, if you wanted to know the answer to some question, is it a valid form of research to ask God for the answer?
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	18-Feb-05/6:07 AM
:(
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	17-Feb-05/3:48 PM
Do you consider prayer a form of research?
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	17-Feb-05/9:51 AM
P.S. If you computed the AVERAGE DIVERSITY of every Black person, then did the same for every White person, would the average diversity for Blacks BE EXACTLY THE SAME as for Whites? That is the question you should have asked the old man.
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	17-Feb-05/9:46 AM
Are all Black people black?
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	17-Feb-05/9:27 AM
The answer to that is NO. It's impossible for a black person to be a racist.
Re: a comment on A Sinner’s Prayer by Dovina	16-Feb-05/3:53 PM
Don't give up the fight! As a very young child, I was unable to wipe my bum. Grown ups had to do it for me. But I kept at it, and one day I managed to do it all on my own, with only a 15% residue! Knowing you're plastered in shit is the first step on the road to becoming less plastered in shit. And you never know: maybe in a year or two you'll be able to wipe your own bum just like me! Now that's a cause worth fighting for if ever I saw one.
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	16-Feb-05/3:38 PM
Dear me, I've never read anything quite so tenuous in all my life. The last, desperate struggles of closet racist lashing out at those noble enough to expose her for what she is: a deluded sham living in a homemade maturity cocoon. We'll leave her now, lest we be caught in the crossfire -- the death throes of a crumbling regime are every bit as savage as they are indiscriminate.
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	16-Feb-05/9:27 AM
There was an old man from Dunfirth Who had quite extraordinary girth He lodged his fat wiener Inside poor Dovina And stretched her from Kildare to Perth!
Re: a comment on Ceylon Cries by Mona Lisa	16-Feb-05/9:08 AM
There was an old duffer named Charles Whose eyes were obscured by his jowls He wandered off course In pursuit of a horse And proposed to Miss C. Parker Bow'ls :(
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	16-Feb-05/8:57 AM
Hiding behind a wall of nonchalance won't help you, Dovina. I know full well you've deliberately avoided saying you find any particular race generally less attractive than any other. For my own part, I do discriminate on the basis of race, because there are characteristics - some desirable, some undesirable, some neutral - that are generally associated with a person's race. And I generally find members of my own race more attractive than members of ethnic races :(
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	16-Feb-05/8:41 AM
Yes but being a roseist isn't naughty because roses don't have feelings. Only being racist is naughty. So your 'point' isn't really a reductum ad absurdum, it's a failure. You're a failure.
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	16-Feb-05/8:18 AM
I don't think all Black people are the same. But they all have two things in common: 1. They're black 2. They're diverse And how dare you attempt to sully Verizon's good name? Having trawled through their website, it's clear that Verizon is by far the most DIVERSE organisation in the world, and that is something to be commended, not scorned. It is initiatives like Black History Month http://www22.verizon.com/ab... that put Verizon at the very summit of Mount Diversity. A place so diverse, so excellent, so black, that you will never ever be allowed to go there in your lifetime because you would pollute it with your lack of diversity and appalling spelling mastakes. Get with the times, al-naafiysh. All men were created diverse, but some are more diverse than others. Think about it. That's not a doublethink, unlike its "All men were created equal..." counterpart :(
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	16-Feb-05/3:07 AM
Yes well rather sensibly MY definition COINCIDES with the ACTUAL definition: racism n. 1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. 2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race. And NO, asserting that polynesians are mostly attractive does not make you racist. But if you had the INTEGRITY to admit that you find polynesians MORE ATTRACTIVE than other races that would indeed be a discrimination based on race, and therefore racist.
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	16-Feb-05/2:56 AM
Guff hard.
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	16-Feb-05/2:55 AM
Yes, but it is not innately a form of discrimination based on race. If you marry a black person then that means you're not racist. It means you're diverse. Black people are really diverse. That's why marriages, companies and institutions become diverse when they employ black people. Diverse, diverse, diverse! They're just so damn diverse gawd bless 'em!
Re: a comment on Bleed ,Rip and Tear by NoSage	15-Feb-05/3:57 PM
I don't think that's what they mean by "Show don't tell," not that I have ever condoned that most overused of comment templates. I've always thought it basically meant "use imagery." You can write a poeme that both SHOWS and PREACHES. I imagine it would look something like a parable with line breaks :(
Re: a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina	15-Feb-05/9:01 AM
Do you think it's racist to find some races more attractive than others? I think it is. It's a form of discrimination on the basis of race. In your poeme, you seem to be suggesting that you are unmoved by physical appearance. Is this true? Or is it just that handsomeness holds rather a lowly administrative post in the corridors of your heart? I have to say that physical appearance dominates the truncheon of my heart.