Free verse № 130802
Rejuvenation
She sat before the easel,
mixing oils on a palette.
The scene we both were looking at
was the scene I wrote on pad.
Her strokes and colors by impression
from somewhere in her mind.
My words described the daffodilâ
hard, like yellow polished steel.
Together we made our impressioned strokes
for so delicate a plant.
Both had said before we started,
a flower has but one true role.
But with so many other traits,
letâs give it something more.
Weâre past the stage of bearing kids,
letâs take the flowerâs goal,
And change the two from making seeds
to making weak things strong.
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2) Pure prettiness.
3) To provide something to compare pretty girls with.
4) To give Jesus a better metaphor than "consider the coniferous trees of the field, they toil not."
5) To provide olden poets with rhymes for bower, hour, and power.
6) To make crowns and garlands out of.
I'm not even being silly yet. Seriously. At the very least, if flowers weren't pretty, comparable to beautiful women, and easily-rhymeable, you'd have written your poem about something else that was.
Wisdom teeth are relics from times when people ate grass. Here in Jordan, where people actually do eat grass, most people retain their wisdom teeth and lose the rest. True story. Extra grass-chewing ability allows grass-eating humans to survive to fertility and reproduce. But that's nothing like the eye argument. PS: Note the spelling on argument. You've gone on too long with your vestigial 'e's, frankly.
To even more wit, it's all kind of backwards anyways: All existing species survived by reproduction, so you say that the purpose of existing species is survival by reproduction. If a species didn't reproduce or, consequently, survive, would you say that it failed at its purpose or that it excelled at a totally different purpose, like going extinct?
And yet people always talk about their 'purpose' without reference to a wider context. "The purpose of living things is to reproduce." Ok but in what context? "In the context of living things on the earth." Yeah great but that's not a wider context (and therefore is not a context at all, since all contexts must be wider contexts). And it goes on: "What's our purpose?" Well, purpose to whom? To God, our purpose is to worship Jesu, thereby obtaining a free ticket into Heaven. "Yes but what's our purpose to US?" I don't know about you, but if praising Jesu is a good enough purpose for God, then it's good enough for me. The fact that it isn't good enough for you is why I'm so ashamed of you, and why my banning you was not an act of banality, but an act of mercy.
God does indeed know what I use hammers for, as do I. Thatâs because we both understand the context, wider or narrower as you wish, of my purpose in using them. Itâs kind of like the way a worm understands the purpose for its existence. It may think of the next meal or the next intercourse, but really its purpose as God and I see it is to reproduce. Granted, God may see other purposes, being wiser than I. Iâm sorry you cannot understand this as well as the worm does.
To God, our purpose is to worship Jesus, as you say, but not for a ticket to Heaven. In fulfilling our purpose to the glory of God and in the continuance of mankind, it is necessary for us to reproduce, to eat, to live long enough to reproduce, to keep from freezing, and other purposes.
I realize this is an incomplete description of life, and hope its brevity will encourage you to seek more knowledge.
Second, you're still not getting it. This, if I may, is your argument: The purpose of specieses is to continue. The purpose of specieses is to fulfill their purpose of continuing by reproducing. Who says so? Evolution herself says so.
Now, please consider: Who or what REALLY says the purpose of specieses is to continue? Yes, the theory we've made up to identify features PRESENTLY EXISTING SPECIESES have in common (i.e., the theory of evolution) says so. Obviously. A theory made by the cleverest people around in order to describe reality actually holds true for almost every situation. Especially when it's such a simple theory as "All creatures currently surviving on earth have in common that they survive, and have certain specialized skills that have allowed them to do so."
Even if you don't get the forgoing, get this: I do not believe the purpose of human beings is to reproduce. I certainly don't believe my purpose is to reproduce. I believe my purpose for living is to someday make you see the error of at least one of your ways. This can change at any time. I also believe that if humans were designed specifically and only in order to ensure the continuation of humanity, we'd do a lot better at it.
Second, all species must reproduce to continue, making this their purpose, expressed by them or not. Evolution says so, because it is a theory made by humans to say things like that. Surely you get this. Maybe you want to argue about the meaning of the word âpurpose.â
We have both stated that we believe humans have purposes other than reproduction. I hope you will someday realize yours by making me see an error of my ways. I look forward to that.
Saying the purpose of a species is to reproduce in order to continue is THE SAME THING as saying the purpose of a species is to continue.
If you're going to argue with something, argue with that, at least.
Or on second thought, don't. Just please, please, please for once in your life listen to either -=Dark_Angel=- or me. The "purpose" of a hammer is to drive in nails - we all know that. However, I own a hammer which has never driven in nails but has, for the entirety of its existence, been a doorstop. Does this mean the hammer's existence is wasted? Does it mean the hammer has failed to accomplish its purpose, or that it has bumbled off the path in pursuit of a WRONG purpose? No, of course not. Especially since, as far as my house is concerned and probably even farther, the only thing determining a hammer's purpose is I, me, zodiac (and Mrs zodiac, of course. She rules.)
Are we agreed to this point? Good. Now extend the metaphor to a human living in the universe. Questions:
1) Who is the "zodiac" in the larger, universal metaphor?
2) That is, who is defining species' purpose like I (or hammer manufacturers, if you will,) define my hammer's purpose?
3) God?
4) Do you really think so?
5) If no one except the person living in the universe (or me using my hammer) decides what the purpose of life (or hammering) is, can it not really be anything we want it to?
6) If an evolutionary scientist (or some hammer expert) tried to tell me what the purpose of my life (or hammer) was, I'd probably hammer his fucking eggy head. I know this isn't a question.
7) In short, don't you seem kind of off your rocker on this?
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