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- November 11th, 2011, 2:09 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: The Polling Place
- Replies: 4
- Views: 335
Re: The Polling Place
Today is Armistice Day, the eleventh day today, the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the day that was set aside for my father's war. the war against the Germans I wish we would have stayed out of, the war to end wars, the war we should have been too proud to fight. Now we call Armistice Day veter...
- November 11th, 2011, 1:57 am
- Forum: Constantinople – (A collection of Constantine's poetry)
- Topic: chance encounter
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1970
Re: chance encounter
it is a hard job being a minor poet but somebody has got to do it
I once drove three hundred miles in search of a stray cat.
I guess they need us, I am pretty sure we need them
enjoyed the poem thanks
I once drove three hundred miles in search of a stray cat.
I guess they need us, I am pretty sure we need them
enjoyed the poem thanks
- November 11th, 2011, 1:23 am
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: "a story is where the heart surprises the the head."
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1162
Re: "a story is where the heart surprises the the head."
footnotes to a story According to the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), "Rahel always showed the greatest interest in her former coreligionists, endeavoring by word and deed to better their position, especially during the anti-Semitic outburst in Germany in 1819. On the day of her funeral Varnhagen sent a...
- November 4th, 2011, 10:03 am
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: Body Autonomy, Kierkegaard, Dread and Outhouses
- Replies: 13
- Views: 759
Re: Body Autonomy, Kierkegaard, Dread and Outhouses
Yes life is good again. Thank God for governor Perry's Texas miracle I found two jobs. I hardly have time to scribble here anymore. But thanks to some idiot I have had a few days off to scribble here. Some idiot went around a curve at eighty miles and hour and dinged up my car so bad I had to put it...
- August 10th, 2011, 7:58 am
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: Body Autonomy, Kierkegaard, Dread and Outhouses
- Replies: 13
- Views: 759
Body Autonomy, Kierkegaard, Dread and Outhouses
Body Autonomy and things worse than death Is there anything worse than death? five am and I just woke up from a dream about intentions someone in the dream asked me what my intentions in life were and I said to keep on wiping my ass as long as I can and when I can no longer wipe my ass let me die wi...
- August 9th, 2011, 4:57 pm
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: "a story is where the heart surprises the the head."
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1162
Re: Mystic
JEWISH MYSTICISM - KABBALA by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner Mysticism is the nagging suspicion that the apparent brokenness, discord, and discontinuities of everyday life conceal a hidden unity. Just beneath the surface, everything is joined to everything else. To a mystic, what we call reality is really ...
- August 9th, 2011, 4:55 pm
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: "a story is where the heart surprises the the head."
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1162
"a story is where the heart surprises the the head."
The Future of a Delustion or maybe it is an Illusion so much fear these days fundamentalists need something to cling to "just give me one thing that I can hold on to. To believe in this living is just a hard way to go. make me an angel that flies from Montgomery" All I know for sure is that if G_d h...
Re: weather
Please pardon my question but
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- July 18th, 2011, 10:05 pm
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: the demon's eye
- Replies: 4
- Views: 836
Re: the demon's eye
Sorry about all that steve. I need to sort all those links out one day Who ever used it first I am partial to the Greek I suppose I should fear the supernatural more than I do. It is nature that spooks me Human nature Divine Nature I don't know what that is, it all mystical and cloudy mysterious as ...
- July 18th, 2011, 9:09 pm
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: talking to my muse about what's happening
- Replies: 0
- Views: 155
talking to my muse about what's happening
small talk about slit throats insult and injury I been a fortunate son so far It amazes me to still be here. peace of mind pieces of peace fractured glimpses of clarity and amor fati love of fate no one to hate this too will pass nothing lasts slide into the past jump to the now always living in the...
- July 13th, 2011, 6:22 pm
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: south padre island
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1878
Re: south padre island
The Priest-Physicist Who Would Marry Science to Religion John Polkinghorne leads a disparate group of scientists on the controversial search for God within the fractured logic of quantum physics. by Zeeya Merali Quantum physicist Antoine Suarez of the Center for Quantum Philosophy in Zurich argues ...
- July 13th, 2011, 6:16 pm
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: south padre island
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1878
Re: south padre island
Science and Spirituality editors note on The Priest-Physicist Who Would Marry Science to Religion Polkinghorne zeros in on the baffling behavior of the quantum world—on the same sorts of experiments that so confounded Einstein. I say “baffling” because quantum events appear to unfold in a statistica...
- July 12th, 2011, 9:01 pm
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: south padre island
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1878
Re: south padre island
"Stop telling God what to do with his dice." — Niels Bohr A response to Einstein's assertion that "God doesn't play dice"; a similar statement is attributed to Enrico Fermi http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr#Quotes Quote____________________________________________________________________ Bohr,...
- July 12th, 2011, 8:47 pm
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: south padre island
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1878
Re: south padre island
The Universe was a damned silly place at best… but the least likely explanation for its existence was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that some abstract somethings "just happened" to be some atoms that "just happened" to get together in configurations which "just happened" to look ...
- July 11th, 2011, 4:36 pm
- Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
- Topic: south padre island
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1878
Re: south padre island
deleted and moved to here from here connect the dots be fruitfull and multiply live in hope die in vain it all went by in a blur watching a grackle on the balcony Mr or Mz Grackle have you full filled your function have you passed on your dna? Malachi Constant The sirens of Titan I have a message If...