god'swife
replying on Homeless by gavinduff
6 Jul 2004, 7:49 PM
lol
What can I say but a ten. If I wasn't me, I'd even have a good laugh. (actually, I had one anyway.)
I love limericks. Hear is one you might like:
There was a young lady from Bright,
who traveled much faster than light.
She departed one day, in a relative way
and arrived on the previous night.
A dead, bloated cow lying in a meadow, high summer.
Unrefutable evidence of a mind unstrung.
This is the worst poem I've seen this evening. Try saying something normally.
Too many 'I's. Also the language is boring.
I will try one more time in reference to reality and give you another chance to ridicule me. But, this will be my final post on the subject.
The basic oneness of the universe is one of the most important revelations of modern physics. At the subatomic particle level, all things are interrelated, interconneted and interdependent. Reality is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorizing intellects. To believe our concepts of separate things and events are realities of nature is an illusion, plain and simple. If you don't believe me, then you don't believe in quantum mechanics, period, and all of your arguments have no basis in fact. If you don't know this basic truth, then you should avoid the subject rather than expose your ignorance which so far, has been considerable.
Difficult form; I've got a crown I've been working on for about 2 years.
Keep at it.
Not all of them.
Do they have to be really sentences?
Looks great.
The huge variety of words, syntax, and yes the vowel sounds, you could compare dark words straight out and they just don't feel as ugly as there English counterparts, also the fact that they haven't changed much over the centuries. Also the expressions that are used are very dear, tied up in tradition. In Spanish culture the emotions are rarely controlled, the language reflects this. Everything's a passion, good or bad, love or hate.
You're absolutely right about Russian. I have a poet friend who recites in Russian, she was born there, moved here when she was 14. I also enjoy Russian folk music. I think it's a very emotional language as well, from the little she was able to translate for me. They also have similar vowel sounds to the Spanish, I do believe that makes a difference. I'm no linguist, it would be interesting to do some research on the subject.
It's hard to answer from with this cloud of assumptions, like Galileo might have felt when asked about the sun's rising. I'm not anti-science, and think your outline is interesting.
Opps. My comment was supposed to be a reply to Dovina's.
What still amazes me is how easy things become if you just start with the assumption that logic and proof are bunk. It means YOU'RE ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!!
They are the same, except if you say the second one you are gay.
You're wasting your time. There is a class of people on poemeranker who have decided that the only things worth knowing about science can be gleaned from popular science magazines and dubious philosophical manuals.
For them, true understanding of the universe comes in spending half an hour reading a jazzed-up, non-technical popular summary of a recent scientific experiment, leaping to whatever wrong-headed conclusion suits their fancy, and writing a poeme about it.
The idea of actually really trying to understand the experiment in a technical, mathematical way, is completely preposterous to them. They consider anything beyond the contents of a typical New Scientist article to be minor details, unimportant in comparison to the grand, overarching poetic understanding they've gained from reading the summary.
I conjecture this is because they weren't very good at maths or physics in school, and faced with the choice between admitting they're thick or telling themselves that science is BAD, and scientists JUST DON'T GET IT, they make the obvious choice.
Thanks.
Because I checked the details of my electron story on a dozen websites with animated gifs of dragyns and hilarious titles like "Scientists Prove Science Doesn't Know Anything!!!!"
I just... well, I just don't want you falling in with that crowd. They're smelly and do the pot.
Please tell, then, what's the difference in meaning between "Ian (non-platonically) loves Felicity" and "Ian is enamoured of his darling Felicity?" Do they have different falsification conditions?
Do you mean that wasn't the news story you'd heard about or that it wasn't your intent to make it an anti-science poem? Because in all honesty, I've imagined it turning into a sweet poem about a scientist trying to balance his work and home-life with his secret identity as a crime-fighting superhero who uses science for good, rather than evil as you might expect.