We are talking about our perceptions of God, yours and mine. My perception is not the typical Christian God of the Bible, though I respect the Bible. I mix in my emotions about God, some logic, philosophy, and ideas from Buddahism and other faiths. Call it Dovina's god, if you wish, but I think there is only one God. Heck, I've even begun to consider some aspects of Alchemy's God.

Smart people don't have to make sense either.

I am teetering between thinking you are joking with me and thinking that you are totally serious. Our differences are small - really, that's what I think. And I don't think I have changed any of my statements to make a better argument. I think my position has been the same all along. I hope you have not taken the absurd things I have said as serious. I'll point them out for you if you ask, but in the past, you have usually known when I am joking.

Where did I change what I said?

David did it in the Psalms, why can't I?

Wow, “scales” used as a pun for crocodile scales, which reminds of crocodile tears. And crocodiles smile too, did you know that? So smiles, tears and scales are crocodile puns. Then chords can also the bonds that tie up the monster. But you push me too far with “harm(onies)” – cheesy indeed. Then there is jazzed and jagged, the beginning and the end. Thanks, that’s what Poemranker should be.

Waves move because the wind drives them, but the water in the waves only moves in little circles, with a small amount of foreward motion. So this edit is an improvement. The word "always" isn't quite right though, because sometimes waves are created by a long fetch of wind in a particular direction, but then they keep going after the wind changes or because the waves move beyond where the wind is. And the last line is troubling with "all" for similar reasons. Some life is not brought from the waves.

It's great to see someone reading these old poems. Thanks.

And a fine pun it is. But could you tighten up on those out-of-tune strings just enough to show me what you mean.

God can do what God wants. No rule prevents Him from doing this as far as I know. I was saying that in my humble judgemant, I would be very disappointed in God if I knew he had done something so egregious. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

I fail to see why this has gone on so long and why you object so much to what I have said. Both of us have said that we do not understand God, and both of us have speculated on what God might be like. Hopefully, I have not presented my speculations as something I expect you to believe, thereby preaching to you.

Surely, you take as jest my asking you to put ashes on your head and repent, or telling you should go to hell to retrieve a woody. If I have preached, I must appologize.

The thing that bother me concerning your statements about God is simply this: You keep saying that God MUST follow rules, covenants and the like. Correct me if I have misunderstood you. Also correct me if I am wrong in saying that if God has to follow rules, then who, really, is God? If you answer that God made rules, and MUST obey them, my response is simply that God can change any rule He makes.

Title: "Jonah"

I played on the teeth of an alligator once because I liked his smile.

You probably say that every time.

I could ask the usual questions that make atheism look more like belief than theism. Let's skip that; it's all been done.

Thank you for supporting me. We may be insane, but we agree.

Tough truckin' eh? The fort held despite onslaughts from the Allen Boy. Lower the drawbridge, Rudyard, I see a Gimmy in white.