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huck
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Why is it ok to talk about everything about religion? Sex, boozing, partying, but no religion? It's a fascinating subject. Is it because someone doesn't agree with your own views? |
Religion actually isn't that fascinating....Too many people believe too many different things, and whether you're right or you're wrong, there's no way to prove it.....It's like we're looking at a box that is sealed up, and then we debate forever about what's inside....but we can never open it and find out who's right. How's that fascinating?
However, sex and dating and traveling and drunken posts....these are mostly relevant to the people who are living and working here. That's why we enjoy them. I just think that if you want to share thoughts about religion with other people, then find a place where people will appreciate you and maybe even care about what you're thinking....go to a christian forum..... http://www.christianforums.com/
Here's a question for you....Do you consider yourself more of an ESL teacher, or more of a Christian? You could go to that board and start talking about what life is like as an ESL teacher. But then, they'd probably respond how the posters here respond, like "Why are you talking about those fucking, annoying things here?" There's a proper time and a proper place for everything....Chat here about life in Korea, and chat there about worshiping a real/heathen god. |
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bignate
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Location: Hell's Ditch
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window
Sunday, I am eating a
grapefruit, church is over at the Russian
Orthadox to the
west.
she is dark
of Eastern descent,
large brown eyes look up from the Bible
then down. a small red and black
Bible, and as she reads
her legs keep moving, moving,
she is doing a slow rythmic dance
reading the Bible. . .
long gold earrings;
2 gold bracelets on each arm,
and it's a mini-suit, I suppose,
the cloth hugs her body,
the lightest of tans is that cloth,
she twists this way and that,
long yellow legs warm in the sun. . .
there is no escaping her being
there is no desire to. . .
my radio is playing symphonic music
that she cannot hear
but her movements coincide exactly
to the rythms of the
symphony. . .
she is dark, she is dark
she is reading about God.
I am God.
Charles Bukowski |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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The Jolly Old Bishop of Birmingham
The jolly old Bishop of Birmingham
He buggered a boy whilst confirming him
The boy knelt before God
And excited his rod
So he pumped his episcopal sperm in him |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Asa! Now it is getting entertaining.  |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:11 am Post subject: |
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The Rector of Wadham
There once was a Rector of Wadham
Who approved of the folkways of Sodom,
For a man might, he said,
Have a very poor head
But be a fine fellow, at bottom. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| I don't mind the religious posts. You know those football and sports-related threads? I think I glanced at one once. They don't bother me because I'm not the least bit interested. Religion is different because people still read the threads even when they know they're not going to like them. I recommend people that don't like them to imagine me skimming over a football thread. Just get into that mindset and you'll never see a Christian thread again. |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
The Rector of Wadham
There once was a Rector of Wadham
Who approved of the folkways of Sodom,
For a man might, he said,
Have a very poor head
But be a fine fellow, at bottom. |
There once was a rabbi named Keith
who circumcised men with his teeth
It wasn't for leisure nor sexual pleasure
He just liked the cheese underneath |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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There was a young girl whose divinity
Preserved her in perfect virginity,
'Til a candle, her nemesis,
Caused parthenogenesis -
Now she thinks herself one of the Trinity |
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seoulunitarian
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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It's not the worst poem ever.
But I do think in general that Christian poetry reeks. Maybe it's just because themed poetry seems too forced? Or the metaphors are basically revealed before you've even begun reading?
Perhaps if a poet wanted to make Christian poems using creative imagery rather than recycling the same trite allusions we've all heard before, it could work. As of yet, though, I remain unimpressed with 100% of what I've read.
Keep trying, though, Rock. Bad poetry is better than no poetry.
Q~ |
You're right. In general, Christian poetry does suck. I think one monumental exception to this rule is the poetry of T.S. Eliot - brilliant!
Peace,
Daniel |
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seoulunitarian
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject: Eliot 1 |
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Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars.
THE JEW OF MALTA.
1Polyphiloprogenitive
2The sapient sutlers of the Lord
3Drift across the window-panes.
4In the beginning was the Word.
5In the beginning was the Word.
6Superfetation of to en,
7And at the mensual turn of time
8Produced enervate Origen.
9A painter of the Umbrian school
10Designed upon a gesso ground
11The nimbus of the Baptized God.
12The wilderness is cracked and browned
13But through the water pale and thin
14Still shine the unoffending feet
15And there above the painter set
16The Father and the Paraclete.
. . . . .
17The sable presbyters approach
18The avenue of penitence;
19The young are red and pustular
20Clutching piaculative pence.
21Under the penitential gates
22Sustained by staring Seraphim
23Where the souls of the devout
24Burn invisible and dim.
25Along the garden-wall the bees
26With hairy bellies pass between
27The staminate and pistilate,
28Blest office of the epicene.
29Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
30Stirring the water in his bath.
31The masters of the subtle schools
32Are controversial, polymath. |
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seoulunitarian
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject: Eliot 2 |
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Whispers of Immortality
1Webster was much possessed by death
2And saw the skull beneath the skin;
3And breastless creatures under ground
4Leaned backward with a lipless grin.
5Daffodil bulbs instead of balls
6Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
7He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
8Tightening its lusts and luxuries.
9Donne, I suppose, was such another
10Who found no substitute for sense;
11To seize and clutch and penetrate;
12Expert beyond experience,
13He knew the anguish of the marrow
14The ague of the skeleton;
15No contact possible to flesh
16Allayed the fever of the bone.
. . . . . . .
17Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye
18Is underlined for emphasis;
19Uncorseted, her friendly bust
20Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
21The couched Brazilian jaguar
22Compels the scampering marmoset
23With subtle effluence of cat;
24Grishkin has a maisonette;
25The sleek Brazilian jaguar
26Does not in its arboreal gloom
27Distil so rank a feline smell
28As Grishkin in a drawing-room.
29And even the Abstract Entities
30Circumambulate her charm;
31But our lot crawls between dry ribs
32To keep our metaphysics warm. |
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