tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post113787933777117515..comments2023-05-16T09:10:25.020-04:00Comments on Don't Shoot The Messenger: My RaptureAlicia Goransonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17961184296805806251noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-61904484825755653232011-01-03T11:51:59.892-05:002011-01-03T11:51:59.892-05:00Love it. Word.Love it. Word.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-84836265664512512182010-01-10T23:40:56.524-05:002010-01-10T23:40:56.524-05:00jesus would be a badass person to toke with loljesus would be a badass person to toke with lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138977451241887872006-02-03T09:37:00.000-05:002006-02-03T09:37:00.000-05:00Lecy,You guys are awesome, this is better than an ...Lecy,<BR/><BR/>You guys are awesome, this is better than an old movie, like Errol Flynn and Maureen O'Hara. Much better than the soaps. I have to look up half your words in the dictionary. I looked up 'letters' in my Webster's and under the 8th def. it says <BR/>a. leterature in general b. the profession of literature c. learning, knowledge...esp of literature<BR/><BR/>thqats prob what he Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138925210229391402006-02-02T19:06:00.000-05:002006-02-02T19:06:00.000-05:00Not a man of letters? Why thou hast written me fo...Not a man of letters? Why thou hast written me four-and-twenty!<BR/> Thou, silent form, dost tease me out of thought/ As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!<BR/> Very well then. As thy crimes are driven by Virtue's wont, I acquit thee.<BR/> But stand not in awe of my scholarship: The misspelling of "exculpate" in my last letter is deplorable, and due to the duplicitous law of Alicia Goransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961184296805806251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138895721802125742006-02-02T10:55:00.000-05:002006-02-02T10:55:00.000-05:00Then noble be your judgement, true! 'Tis not my b...Then noble be your judgement, true! <BR/><BR/>'Tis not my bent to rate at all. For, I am not a man of letters, my shallow mind I did search and struggle. To cull, but, these few nom de plumes from my barren memory was a task, indeed! Why must m'lady rebuke me, so....I stand in awe of one so learned! <BR/><BR/>Emulation, my intent, does be....One would not abscond with thy knowledge.....in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138820554412911692006-02-01T14:02:00.000-05:002006-02-01T14:02:00.000-05:00My poetic judgement doth not discern according to ...My poetic judgement doth not discern according to sex. Though going along with thy suffragist's bent, why rate Bronte over Browning, Millay or Bishop? At least thou choseth right in Dickinson. <BR/> I might expulcate thou were thy crimes petty and had they cursory effects. <BR/> Vindicate thou I shall not until seest thou to righting those actions which have resulted in injury.Alicia Goransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961184296805806251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138773276972991892006-02-01T00:54:00.000-05:002006-02-01T00:54:00.000-05:00to the unknowing, Sept thru Dec are 9 thru 12........to the unknowing, Sept thru Dec are 9 thru 12.....yet there root, speaks 7 thru 10.....when one is aware of March as first month it lends itself to why....<BR/><BR/>it dost seem, 'on occasion', that your pen is a release for some inner turmoil.....<BR/><BR/>yet, as said afore, also have you shown 'great' compassion...see(MLK)<BR/><BR/>it apperars, then, that i obfuscate.... having yet, not read, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138764634348717192006-01-31T22:30:00.000-05:002006-01-31T22:30:00.000-05:00It's ah-LEE-sha. And I'm not sure why Septemb...It's ah-LEE-sha. <BR/> And I'm not sure why September through December seems "out of place."<BR/> But the great Lords of the Abyss know you have you're own particular logic.<BR/> And I'm sorry that you think my words do not emanate peace. <BR/> It is not necessarily my bent, peace, yet something that I consider inevitable, ideologically.<BR/> But Bronte-as-poet? Please.<BR/> Alicia Goransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961184296805806251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138692363086928652006-01-31T02:26:00.000-05:002006-01-31T02:26:00.000-05:00hey you, what have we here? poems? poems is it? t...hey you, what have we here? poems? poems is it? the lad fancies himself a poet!!! <BR/>(pink)Floydian slip<BR/><BR/>stunned i am, by your inquiry....<BR/>i have occasioned to put pen to paper, tho never would i utter the word poet in conjunction with my words....never could i blaspheme the likes of Bronte, Burns, Shelley, Dickinson.... ad infinitum.....<BR/><BR/>writings have i, but just a few, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138578609429441792006-01-29T18:50:00.000-05:002006-01-29T18:50:00.000-05:00Thank you for your comment. Throwing down's a g...Thank you for your comment.<BR/> Throwing down's a good thing (And you're doing a lot of it).<BR/> I forgive your so-called "lack of eloquence"--a far second offense to your interesting use of the ellipsis. <BR/> That, too, is forgivable and sort of charming. It's kind of like morse code. <BR/> Are you a visual artist or poet?<BR/> As far as my "inner beauty" is concerned, at Alicia Goransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961184296805806251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138509186975556342006-01-28T23:33:00.000-05:002006-01-28T23:33:00.000-05:00Alicia...not joy veiled in cynicism.....what i see...Alicia...not joy veiled in cynicism.....what i see is a beautiful spirit overwhelmed by a cynical world....<BR/> <BR/>a mechanism is in effect that protects the "vulnerable" magnificent part of you <BR/><BR/>a debate or protestation was never my intention, merely a sharing of thoughts and ideas<BR/><BR/>i shall never be your intellectual equal, i put pen to paper and often the ink refuses to flowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138499840200963662006-01-28T20:57:00.000-05:002006-01-28T20:57:00.000-05:00Thank you for your comments. Perhaps you may ...Thank you for your comments. <BR/> Perhaps you may take solace in the science that we only utilize a fraction of our "finite" minds.<BR/> Thus, it is possible that there is, indeed, a part of your mind that can accept, if not relate to, the notion of a constant universe.<BR/> I wonder, however, why you may freely lament your finite mind, but when I do as much (See: "Happy Worst Day") youAlicia Goransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961184296805806251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138497052669714552006-01-28T20:10:00.000-05:002006-01-28T20:10:00.000-05:00you have taken me to task...so be it!yet, my missi...you have taken me to task...so be it!<BR/><BR/>yet, my missive was not one of self-aggrandizement or elitism whatsoever....<BR/><BR/>it is one of confusion....i have studied many sides of the question and have heard no "sound" argument for any<BR/><BR/>raised Christian i often resort to such tenets embedded in my pshche, however, i allow, also, for other possibilities, including those unknown to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138479600162517192006-01-28T15:20:00.000-05:002006-01-28T15:20:00.000-05:00A lacto-ovo vegetarian, I have to go with "Egg." ...A lacto-ovo vegetarian, I have to go with "Egg."<BR/><BR/> Apparently you believe that when you die, the universe will end. Perhaps it will. But that has never happened before.<BR/> And while the mind, though physiologically finite, needs not accept an "Always was, Always will be" mentality, it is our nature to relate to a universal continuum by means of speculation or faith. <BR/>Alicia Goransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961184296805806251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138436882252895632006-01-28T03:28:00.000-05:002006-01-28T03:28:00.000-05:00Chicken or Egg??Homage to the magnificence of the ...Chicken or Egg??<BR/><BR/>Homage to the magnificence of the living thing, awe inspiring is the scope of the Cosmos, no atomic fusion or evolutionary luck can be responsible. Still, my finite mind will never be able to accept the theory of "Always was, Always will be".........help meAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138061079289399252006-01-23T19:04:00.000-05:002006-01-23T19:04:00.000-05:00I like Jesus, too. I bet he's a fun guy to smoke ...I like Jesus, too. I bet he's a fun guy to smoke grass with.Alicia Goransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961184296805806251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138060943465313512006-01-23T19:02:00.000-05:002006-01-23T19:02:00.000-05:00The Thumpers in the Dune novels? Isn't that the S...The Thumpers in the Dune novels? Isn't that the Scientologists?<BR/><BR/>I agree with you on the father figure point. Good thing God isn't a woman: Who would associate heaven with one's mother!<BR/><BR/>Liking who I see in the mirror when I brush my teeth is another thing all together. I'll work on it.Alicia Goransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961184296805806251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138039739973290532006-01-23T13:08:00.000-05:002006-01-23T13:08:00.000-05:00Hi Alicia, I enjoyed your article. Unfortunately ...Hi Alicia, I enjoyed your article. Unfortunately the growing crowd of people claiming to be "christians" have given those who believe in the Jesus I believe in a bad name. I confess that I love the Jesus that I have personally read about in the bible. At the same time I confess that I am sickened by the religious world we live in today. It appears that there are many different "Jesus" in the Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20498616.post-1138039610346348382006-01-23T13:06:00.000-05:002006-01-23T13:06:00.000-05:00I really think the Jesus-Thumpers, and the Allah-T...I really think the Jesus-Thumpers, and the Allah-Thumpers, and the Buddha-Thumpers, and any other Thumpers you can name (maybe even the Thumpers in the <I>Dune</I> novels) believe in the rapture for one purpose only:<BR/><BR/>As a consolation prize. To allow themselves not to be victim-identified with <I>life</I>.<BR/><BR/>The thought most of humanity can't handle is: (and mind you, I have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com