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Reply to The Naivety Of Tony Blair in International JoeUser Forums

I could not agree more. I've watched Britain, via online editions of the British press (mostly the Guardian and the Independent) since I arrived in the USA. You couldn't pay me enough to make want to live there again. While I lived in Britain (I lived there for 43 of my 46 years) I voted Labour from the moment I gained the franchise. I voted Labour throughout the years of Thatcher's misrule; I voted Labour while I was forced to watch the economy of my hometown utterly destroyed d

Reply to My Ungentle Darling in Poetry JoeUser Forums

To: jennifer1 A different take on the 'jesus' you referred to (may it make KFC and her ilk vomit). We All Have Our Jesus Too. We all have our jesus too That’s the darkly shining, impish Bitchjesus, Loki’s Brother, That I still sometimes see and think that I believe in. If my jesus ever wept he did it in acid over a Grin as he bucked on some fat Niggahs cock. I’ve seen him in s

Reply to My Ungentle Darling in Poetry JoeUser Forums

To: jennifer1 Am I correct in seeing this as Jesus pouring his guts out in a vile spew of distate for mans constant deniel of him? It's more a case of a worshipper raging at the gods for their incompetence and deceit... and at their 'followers', for failing to see that the feet they wash with b

Reply to The Internet tells me it's so, so it must be true, right? in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: both Then go do Ritual. Start with 'The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram'. Accounts of it are widely available on the net.

Reply to My Ungentle Darling in Poetry JoeUser Forums

To: jennifer1 It's in me this raggedy thingthat hides its teeth behind a quiet smileand every rock that causes me to stumble is just one more rock - fit only to sharpen the claws I drag behind my raggedy self. This is a deliberate reference to Christianity, and to the Tentmaker's reference in e

The Internet tells me it's so, so it must be true, right? in Misc JoeUser Forums

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Reply to My Ungentle Darling in Poetry JoeUser Forums

To: jennifer1 I wrote it last weekend. It took about twenty minutes, because I've had bits and pieces of it floating around in my head for months. Sometimes I'll have an idea and the poem will take shap almost instantly. But there are also times when ispiration is thin on the ground and then whatever I eventually write comes in dribbles and spurts. It's like squeezing blood from a stone, some times. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" al

Reply to My Ungentle Darling in Poetry JoeUser Forums

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My Ungentle Darling in Poetry JoeUser Forums

I'm still waiting for the rough beast that ragged monster to slouch it's way to the moment when others will say what's this that's come to us? It's in me this raggedy thing that hides its teeth behind a quiet smile and every rock that causes me to stumble is just one more rock - fit only to sharpen the claws I drag behind my raggedy se

Reply to Is it Just me? Or has Joeuser become boring as hell? in Blog Communities JoeUser Forums

(lw here) I haven't been writing much either, (at least not here) and for me it's a combination of being busy with work, resting up for/from work, a general disinterest in the same-shit-different-day drag that JU has become, and the crux of the biscuit (as zappa would say) is this farked up new forum layout. I'd suggest we petition the owner for certain changes to be undone, but I'd only be harshly reminded that this is not a democracy and told to eat my ice cream or stfu. (sa

Reply to Is it time for Profiling yet? If not now, when? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Oderint dum metuant. It's latin for "let them hate, so long as they fear." would this be a good time for some phone sex? Sure, why not?

Ontario lacks Goats - so Swiss Drivers Speed Up in Misc JoeUser Forums

Some people are truly original in their excuses for not obeying the speed limit - wherever they happen to be. A Swiss cititizen visiting Ontario took advantage of the regions lack of goats to put the pedal to the metal. As the arresting officer commented: "I've never been to Switzerland but I guess they have a problem with that [goats] there." Which

Reply to 1st entry in Living in Cyberspace JoeUser Forums

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Reply to Want Namely Advice in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Either name makes the boy sound like a raging faggot. The only good thing to be said about them is he'll learn to fight early. Or spend his days getting his ass kicked.'Maximus Ethan'? That's not very far from 'Giant Dick Joe'. As for Ethan Russel, it conjures up images of some prissy little kid that spends his time wetting the bed. Why not go the whole hog and ensure the brat's life is a misery from the off - call him 'Maximus Ethan Russel'. Do it, and then he'll have a fighting chance

Reply to The Role of Fate and Free Will in Fantasy Literature in Books JoeUser Forums

And what are you saying, exactly? The only 'fate' that drives these characters is that of the will of the author who created them. In each case, that will is to present as a parable the world-view of the author. Tolkien dreamed in terms of hierarchical orders of being - one, to which elves, dwarves, men and hobbits belong, is essentially virtuous; the other, to which belong orcs, and all the other creatures that in one way or the other do the Bidding of Sauron, is essentially vicious. B

Reply to "Relevant Religions dealing with Irrelevant Maters" in Religion JoeUser Forums

All the religions in the world came to existence to give a better life to the humans in different parts of the World. I'm afraid I have to disagree. All religions came into being in order to demonstrate God's sense of humor. They all preach love, and are the source of hate. They all preach tolerance, but only for those who believe in accord

Reply to Love Me Or Leave Me! in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Dear me. What cowards your friends are. Your female friend is a coward because she requires the words to be said. The male in question is a coward because he refused to say the words even though he 'cared deeply'. Love is not a state of mind that is easy to mistake. Either you love someone or you do not - and we all, in our heart of hearts, know the difference. Only those who are afraid to risk rejection 'demand' to be loved. Only those who fear the act of commitment refuse to say that

Reply to Sometimes I miss England in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: jennifer1 Those green hills of England be calling you! Yup. And the rain (the rain in Virginia is always warm). And the beer. And the fish n chips (I miss that weird phosphorescent yellow sauce) and the cold grey stones of England. I miss them. But there's nothing on Earth that could persua

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Sometimes I miss England in Misc JoeUser Forums

Sometimes I miss England. Not the people I knew (though I think of some of them fondly) nor the places I lived and worked in - with one exception, the City of Hull and its University - but the light, the weather, the landscapes I knew. I was born in a small steel town called Scunthorpe, on the north east coast. I remember driving with a friend through the dereliction

Reply to What's your favorite Season? in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

In England - Autumn. In Virginia - Winter. I've never seen an American Autumn (I've never liked the use of the word Fall - though that's certainly descriptively accurate) in the places famous for it so I can't comment. Here in Virginia there's so far been very little to distinguish Autumn from Winter - though the two seasons taken together are blessedly less humid than Spring and Summer. Some leaves do fall, yes. But not that many. The temperature drops, but not to a really significant degree -

Reply to I Want A PenPal in Misc JoeUser Forums

I agree that something in the ways we used to communicate has been lost. When I was courting my first wife (she lived in Nottinghamshire and I, at that time, lived in what was then known as Humberside, on the south side of the River Humber and almost opposite Hull) I would begin a new letter to her immediately after I'd received one from her. I wrote, off and on, for three or four days at a time (so each letter was a mini-diary) - if I was working on a

Reply to Have you ever considered Suicide? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I thing of being (as in being a human) as better than not-being (as in being dead or never having lived). I believe that being is a gift. It may not be a gift I like, at times. But it is still a gift. It's crude, churlish to throw away a gift because at some given moment we don't or can't appreciate it. I'm prone to depression and sometimes my outlook is very bleak. As an adolescent I thought of suicide almost every day. I used to think of the process itself as something secondary to th

Reply to The Giger - Being a Romance in Four Parts - Part the Fourth in Art JoeUser Forums

To: cactoblasta Well yes. No one so manifestly untrustworthy as your character would be tolerated for long in such an influential position when hardwired and obedient slaves are so easily obtainable. It makes no sense to do so and it's certainly an expensive waste of funds and manpower. But she