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Crappy (Free verse) by drnick
Light rain slides down the window Sky painted a sloppy gray And if you fool yourself You'll walk with smile on your face Slimy rock and dirt your path Not a friend along the way You know not to kid yourself In fear of looking lame All you can imagine is some life So boring, sober, sane No need to kill yourself If existence has gone to Frey Sure you could rewrite the world Would that make you happy? And if you'd fool yourself You'll find you became too sappy

Up the ladder: SO LONG MY BELOVED

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Arithmetic Mean: 4.2
Weighted score: 4.904638
Overall Rank: 9841
Posted: October 16, 2006 11:48 PM PDT; Last modified: October 16, 2006 11:48 PM PDT
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[n/a] drnick @ 24.176.22.254 | 17-Oct-06/12:00 AM | Reply
This piece of shit was inspired by Dovina's poem, "A Scientist's Prayer". So thanks, Dovinator(that's my new name for you).

Jesus was a pussy. I love pussy. => I love Jesus.
[n/a] Dovina @ 70.38.78.229 > drnick | 17-Oct-06/12:12 PM | Reply
“Jesus was a pussy. I love pussy. => I love Jesus.”
Jesus is God. I love God. => I love Jesus

Each of these conclusions is as good as its premise and its underlying “love.” One is facetious, the other possibly sincere. One mocks theism the other embraces it. I am “Dovinator,” you say, one who makes people like Dovina – as you wish. Allow me to Dovinate you with a question: Why did the rain slide down the window? In case you are planning to mock the question with a simple cause-and-effect one-liner, consider the cause’s cause.
[n/a] drnick @ 24.176.22.254 > Dovina | 17-Oct-06/1:31 PM | Reply
I will explain both the cause and the cause's cause.

Cause: The rain sliding down the window is caused by a force, particularly gravitational force. The attractive force of gravity between the earth's mass and the rain's mass is allowed to acclerate the droplet because it has a greater magnitude than that of the force of static friction in the opposite direction. The gravitational potential energy the droplet has is now transferring to kenetic and thermal energy. This is why the rain slid down the window.

Cause's Cause: I'm not sure what you mean by "cause's cause" so I'll answer both ways...#1 The gravitational force was caused by both the droplet and the earth having a non-zero mass. Without mass, there is no grav. force. #2 This question is inherantly a theological one as you are assuming there is a reason for gravitational force. For it to have a reason, it would have to benefit from it's action: attracting masses together. As of now, I know not of any benefit to any law of physics for existing. You are trying to place human qualities on something that is not human, not living, not material.

I wouldn't mock a question like that, it was a good question.
[n/a] Dovina @ 70.38.78.229 > drnick | 17-Oct-06/1:52 PM | Reply
You have gone beyond my request - by not only considering the cause’s cause, but by considering also reasons for the cause’s cause. You have considered whether any benefit derives from gravity, and have asked whether it is reasonable to apply “human qualities to something that is not human, not living, not material.” It’s like asking how these things came to be. It’s almost like asking who made them. But as an atheist, you do not ask that. Instead, you believe that they are, and emerged somehow. My faith is less than yours.
[n/a] drnick @ 24.176.22.254 > Dovina | 17-Oct-06/8:42 PM | Reply
I do believe that they are, but I do not believe they "emerged somehow". That would imply that I believe that they once did not exist, which is not true. Like the universe, they have always existed and always will exist. They will exist whether the universe congregates into another "big bang" or if it expands infinitly forever. Perhaps this view is not very poetic, but then again neither is my poetry (zing!). May I ask as to what your opinion may be? I find it hard to less than no faith at all.
[n/a] Dovina @ 70.38.78.229 > drnick | 19-Oct-06/11:26 AM | Reply
You believe that the universe is eternal. You have no proof, but it seems to you most likely, and that has given rise to your faith that it is true. Though you did not mention it, you probably also believe that intelligent life developed naturally from processes inherent in the universe. To not believe these things is to consider the possibility of God.

I do not hold a belief in the eternalness of the universe. I can accept it as having started at some point in time or as having been placed in eternity by God. In either case, it is God, operating on a level beyond my comprehension, in whom I believe. I don’t know much about God, but I have more freedom to think about the universe and consciousness, and about my part in all this, by accepting God’s existence, than I do by rejecting Him. That is why I said that my faith is less than yours.

The only ones without faith are agnostics. I used to be one. You’ll see from my early comments on poemranker that I’m on a journey. To where, I don’t know.
[8] Ranger @ 62.252.32.15 | 17-Oct-06/3:58 AM | Reply
Heh.

Line 5 needs punctuating, and the final rhyme is too direct - all the rest are loose/half rhymes.

'Sure you could rewrite the world' makes me think this was written about a computer programmer/serial gamer.
[n/a] drnick @ 141.218.60.36 > Ranger | 17-Oct-06/8:05 AM | Reply
the final rhyme was meant to be too direct, as I thought it would be "sappy" to end that way.

the rewriting of the world line just means this person could really make a difference in the world, change things.
[8] Ranger @ 62.252.32.15 > drnick | 17-Oct-06/3:02 PM | Reply
My point exactly. If you're a programmer, you can change anything you like within a certain world. It just happens to be the computerised possible world.
[2] Edna Sweetlove @ 85.210.220.187 | 17-Oct-06/6:57 AM | Reply
Puerile. Unamusing. Not witty. Not clever. Badly punctuated. And those are some of the better aspects.
[5] Shuushin @ 63.167.136.250 | 17-Oct-06/7:24 AM | Reply
It isn't really clear what this is about (in the poem - the commented reference makes it, if not meaningless, inconsequential).

rain sliding down the window is approximately as primitive as one can get when describing rain sliding down a window.
[n/a] drnick @ 141.218.60.36 > Shuushin | 17-Oct-06/8:09 AM | Reply
It's about being atheist, and how nothing is this world is all that great without the meaning that we create for it. Just as rain sliding down the window is not all that profound unless I had made it (which you pointed out i did not).
[n/a] Dovina @ 70.38.78.229 > Shuushin | 17-Oct-06/12:18 PM | Reply
Thanks Shuushin. I can’t get back to you on the deleted one, but if my world were treating me well, would I be hanging out here? I hope yours is well, but if not, pull up a chair.
[n/a] drnick @ 24.176.22.254 > Shuushin | 17-Oct-06/1:41 PM | Reply
Perhaps you have some advice(since that's what comments are intented for)???
[6] howl @ 81.178.72.28 | 24-Oct-06/8:38 AM | Reply
you seem to keep missing the verb to be out all the time. If you see the verb to be as naughty use different verbs.
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