AnotherNothing
replying on O Death by lastobelus
21 Jan 2004, 5:12 PM
But that is life, running into the middle of a field and being hosed down by 3000 rounds of pink paint.
Learn to read douche bag, it says haven't been writing for awhile
Excuse me Professor (Stephen Hawking) I think your computerised mouthbox is jammed stuck on arse.
Why don't you fuck off, with your generic, nasal European accent, and your tedious intrigued facial expression. You make sure to ask a question in every lecture in your thin whining voice, and smile. You make sure to nod whenever the professor says something you agree with. IT'S A FUCKING MATHEMATICS LECTURE. STOP NODDING YOUR HEAD YOU FUCKER.
It is most unkind of you to make me reach that far from my pot to find my teeth. Therefore, pack your things, you're fired from poetry. You are aware that your poem would have been much better if you'd have only repeated the word "Bermph" outloud indefinately.
ABORT ABORT ABORT
hmm. imagery is intense, at any rate. for whatever that's worth. ^_^
hmm yes. know what you mean. what about constructive interference?
Personally I think toilet poems are a valid art form.
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.j
aura-ific.
First line's not pentameter. Otherwise good.
zodiac
replying on Gethsemane (or, Jesus learns what's up with dying) by zodiac
21 Jan 2004, 11:34 AM
I'm just screwing around. Of course there's death. But not for me. I'll never die. Unh-unh. Nope.
Everyone
replying on Gethsemane (or, Jesus learns what's up with dying) by zodiac
21 Jan 2004, 11:22 AM
What do you mean when you say you "don't acknowledge the reality of death"?
"You can ask me to punish you with turds, you can ask me strike you into the ground with my cane, you can ask me to slaughter your children with an axe, you can ask me have your name slandered at the bi-monthly Cheesesmith's Convention, you can ask me withdraw your trouser allowance, and you can ask me to ride you into towne like a donkey. You can even ask me to return you to the dung-heap I found you on. But there is one thing you cannot ask of me; one thing that is beyond all my powers as a Gentleman to endure...
You cannot ask me to forgive you. For that is something no man can do."
Earl Proud-Stocking XV to his butler, upon catching the feeble manservant parading around the Bedchamber in his Master's Jodhpurs.
zodiac
replying on Gethsemane (or, Jesus learns what's up with dying) by zodiac
21 Jan 2004, 11:03 AM
I posted in the wrong window. The comment I was responding to was "She (CLS/lydia) is quite young."
zodiac
replying on Gethsemane (or, Jesus learns what's up with dying) by zodiac
21 Jan 2004, 11:01 AM
As far as I can remember, nobody who gets brought back to life in the gospels ever talks again, except Jesus. Robert Browning (An Epistle of Karshish) says it's because they were happier in heaven, and not that pleased to be brought back to earth for Jesus' magic show. Buncombe. Notice that even Jesus is kind of flaky and wild-eyed after he comes back. He disappears, he reappears, he rambles a bit. The idea is that there's something so terrible about the experience of dying (or the experience of resurrection,) separate from the actual physical pain or whatever, that it can scare Jesus. It really screws you up. This is probably not what lydia evelyn hears every week in Sunday school. Don't worry, lydia - personally, I don't acknowledge the reality of death (ie, 'people die,' 'death is a part of life,' 'I was sad when my puppy died,' etc.) It just doesn't hold up to proof or prolonged thinking.
Everyone
replying on Gethsemane (or, Jesus learns what's up with dying) by zodiac
21 Jan 2004, 10:44 AM
What shows?
Ahh, but could not the same also be said of a freshly laid stool, glistening like dew in the morning sunlight?
When I woke up
The sun was hot
It shone upon
My chamber pot
And then I saw
A coil of brown
And felt I'd best
Inform the towne
On other days
The things I dump
Are mostly grey
And not so plump
But this young brown
So sleek and proud
Is sure to draw
A mighty crowd!
You said "dump with love".
I raised the issue of why Jesu "prayed to Himself" in Gethsemane, and why He asked for an alternative to crucifixion when He should have already known the answer to His question, with a Christian, and the Christian said that when Jesu swooped down to planet Earth and took on humanoid form He was subject to the same fears and pains that humans feel, and that whilst in humanoid form He may not have been omniscient. What do you say to that? I don't think you can say Jesu IS God at the same time as saying He wasn't omniscient whilst in humanoid form, because that would make Him simultaneously identical to God and different from God. The best you can do is say Jesus was PART of God, but as far as I know no Christians endorse that view, and it is not backed up by the Bible. In short: buncombe.