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Blessings (Free verse) by amanda_dcosta Blessings flow in various ways
Itâs there for you to see
That He the Maker in His wisdom
Made Eternity.
One gentle smile is all you need
To freshen up your day.
Or hear a word of comfort
For when you go astray.
What makes the world go round and round
Or stars be in their place?
What makes the rain fall from the sky
Or forest fires ablaze?
Itâs not important what we see
As long as we know that
There is a hand thatâs marvelous
Like a magicians hat.
For, out of it pops loving hearts
So unexpectedly
Yet we do not see them around,
We look for wealth with greed.
Priorities on worldly things
Is what captures our hearts
And eats into each of our souls
Shredding us all apart.
If only we could all focus
On love, the greatest gift!
Then all our worldly problems
On heavenâs wings will lift.
For in the end material wealth
Will fade in loveâs bright light.
As we with unison will sing
To our Makerâs delight.
Up the ladder:
The recovery room
Down the ladder:
I Shall Fight
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Posted: June 12, 2006 11:21 AM PDT; Last modified: June 12, 2006 11:21 AM PDTWeighted score: 5.0 Overall Rank: 7697 Comments:
Here's the atheist argument against the existence of god:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/q Here's the apologist response: http://www.tektonics.org/guest/kalamber. Funny how they use the same idea against each other. The "why does evil exist if god is all good and compassionate" argument by atheists is silly because good and evil are just positive and negetive. It's like saying a perfectly positive thing like the number 2 can't exist because negetive numbers exists. If god destroys all evil he becomes unidentifiable as an all good being because everything else becomes perfectly good. He'll have to carry a sign or something when that happens. Evil is a counter balence of good, good is a counter balence of evil. I suppose it's part of our purpose here on earth to figure out exactly which is which.
Well, I see, after a long absence that we're all back in form like goslings after a long-necked mother. This god / no-god debate is always fun and good for slander. Amanda finds God in the slightest natural change, while Dark Angel finds Him not even in the biggest of bangs. I think He's the lovliest entity I can imagine.
Poemranker seems in the throws of death, like some great beast becoming extinct for lack of adaptation. And Edna Sourlove is no help. We need the rank smell of blood around this place.
I'm sure DA's been banged by some of the biggest and the littlest of things make Amanda say "Oh God" ;D
DA's only been banged by a door post on the head while blundering through the simplest of responses to Poemranker comments.
Too bad it seems he'll never return. Maybe if we say his name 3 times like Beetlejuice...?
Last time she showed up, the battle between you and her was messier than when I ran zodiac through so fatally he's never returned.
Her? Maybe but certainly no lady.
I don't think that was really her either. I meant before that when you two got down and bloody and screams of agony could be heard accross the net.
I'm getting confused now. Do you mean the battle between me and D.A. or the great religious debate that ended in Zodiac and ecargo no longer talking to me and eventually leaving the ranker?
I just didn't think Dark Angel was a girl and I don't remember having a battle with Amanda. -or has D.A. now changed his name to Sweetlove.
I don't seem to find Sweetlove in the user list. Give me one of her/his poems.... to find on search
Okay..... do you mean Edna Sweetlove?
Yep.
:-)
Alchemy........ ??? ( and Balence?... or do you mean balance)
Hmmmmm.. I never expected you to start off this way... anyhow, for the follows. I presume you read the contents of the links you enclosed. And first of all, all their nonsense about existence coming into being through evolution and about the Big Bang and stuff.... it's also in the Scriptures. Depends on how one looks at it. Genesis has it that God made different things on different days. (The order of creation according to scripture is the same as the order in evolution.) Evolution states that all things were created over thousands of years at a time. And the Bible also claims that its over a long long period of time. Check this out. 2 Peter 3:8 "With the Lord, a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day". Think about it. What ever one sees as one day (in creation) could perhaps be a period of thousand years. And we do not know what method God used to create things..... He could possibly have used the process of evolution. Who knows? And P.S..... I was expecting you to critique my poem. :-)
Good to see you again.
Stanzas 4 and 5 get a little too "Frosty the Snowman" with their metaphors for me (with the magician's hat thing) and I'm not sure if Eternity should be capitalized but the rest of the poem is a really nice sentement and the rhythm is spot on.
The fact that he chose to use the notion of evil as an argument against God just shows him to be an utter moron; having previously resorted to Hawking's theory in order to give a vague conclusion that God doesn't exist just reinforces that.
Whatever God does is morally good. Morality stems from God, ergo whatever He does is perfectly justified. There isn't a system of morality external to God. I don't have time for a proper rant, sadly. Maybe later.
Al.... you heard that?
And RAnger..... how are you. You don't seem to be having much time around lately. Hope to see you back in top form soon. As for the God-existence topic.... I don't think anyone ever gets tired of it. So many theories about existence and non-existence that people are really forgetting what's important.....love and life.
Oops...I just realised how that could have been interpreted. I meant that the Quentin whatshisface chap is the moron, not ALChemy.
I have been abandoning the Internet in general recently. My soul is being eaten by work and the World Cup (not necessarily in that order) at the moment. And when I do get online I'm either too tired to read poems properly, or I can't stay long enough to read them as they deserve to be read. I will be back properly though, as soon as is possible - particularly if you keep writing poems like this!
Thank you.... I take this as a compliment. Hmmmm.... Let's see what I can cook up.
No, I got it the first time. I only hope you don't interpret the sarcasm I used on Edna Sweetlove in one of her poems as anti-English. To think I'm always warning everyone else about written sarcasm and there I went doing it.
I wouldn't interpret anything you said as anti-English. You're too enlightned to resort to those sorts of attitudes. If you said that we were all a bunch of cucumber sandwich-munching, pretentious, arrogant fools mixed with a portion of football hooligans I'd assume it was irony (although you wouldn't be too far from the truth). I didn't read the comment though; I don't read her poems since the first couple. They just make the insults I've received from her about my poetic failings all the more difficult to swallow.
If only our atheist friends were here. Right now it's like a soccer match with only one team playing. It is funny how "facts" can be interpreted in so many different ways. makes it hard to argue that they were facts in the first place.
How'd the exams go?
Exams went swimmingly, I actually wrote a paper about the problem of evil and more or less annihilated the argument above. It was the most fun I've ever had in test although I had to forcibly stop myself writing "of all the logical turds I've ever come across, this is the brownest".
You're spot on about the way in which facts become almost as vague as theories when reinterpreted. It also depends a hell of a lot on assumptions made. I was told of a theory which says that if mainstream assumptions in physics and evolution are correct, then it also entails that the planet can't be as old as it is. I don't know the name/proposers of the theory, so thus far my attempts to research it have been in vain (not that I've tried much) but I think it goes like this: If the world is as old as it's supposed to be, and its rate of spin has been slowing at a constant rate since its creation, then at the beginning of its life the world would have been spinning too fast to hold itself together. Again, that's dependent on various assumptions - and I wouldn't try to use it as an argument until I actually knew more about it (can anyone point me in the right direction?) but it's an intriguing take on history. Also, England could do with being the only team in their next couple of games. We should beat Ecuador, but then it's either Holland or Portugal...and right now I'm not confident. Damn football. My nerves have been systematically shredded over the last couple of matches. You keeping up with the USA's progress?
That's not fair Ranger. While you guys take on the world cup, poor us who are non athlethic have to take on poemranker, struggling to give it a lift. :-)
Spare a hand here... won't you, plz.
Would love to read your paper some day.
Evolution has a problem without mutation. Evolution without mutation will mathmatically and of course logically reach a platue at which there is no more room for improvement/change. But what is mutation? Some kind of accident or an act of god or niether. What causes a rhino to be born with an extra horn? Well ramblings aside- Last time I checked the US was gettin' whooped, But it's not as big over here at least not yet.
It's an uplifting verse for church and friendly settings like greeting cards. As such, the rhythm and rhyme should be consistent, which they mostly are.
Thanks Dovina.... it's good to see you back.
Really, I like this sort of thing. It's just that I like to see a little more insight in the way words are put together. For example, a hand thatâs marvelous like a magicians hat would look kind of funny. Your overall message however is good.
Dovina..., if I'm right, I sense a bit of disappointment in you...probably you expected a bit more response from me. Sorry.
But I was so tired in the afternoon when I logged in and commented. I'm up very early as my kids have to dress, eat and leave for school too very early. School bus doesn't wait. And honestly, I like seeing you around my pages. Kinda nice to know you read my stuff. As for 'the hand that's marvellous....hat', it's just an image which is reasonable reference for what one can relate to. Ithought it fitted in well.
Worthy of William McGonagall.
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Anyhoo, must dash - I'll catch you later, for sure.
This is most encouraging. I appreciate it.