tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post7646577555141070236..comments2024-03-12T04:51:46.468-05:00Comments on Blue Gal: Coding, coding....Fran / Blue Galhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293627981248346055noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-83552442286255453072007-04-11T02:05:00.000-05:002007-04-11T02:05:00.000-05:00(I had a dream where Pam Atlas said something abou...(I had a dream where Pam Atlas said something about Sanjaya being an immigrant who was stealing the job of lousy singer <I>clearly</I> meant for an American... And then all the GOP candidates sang on American Idol but were voted off... Oh.)<BR/><BR/>Betmo, I agree. <BR/><BR/>Rock on, Blue Gal and Poetry Man!Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-63642600638195050882007-04-10T18:32:00.000-05:002007-04-10T18:32:00.000-05:00Anything worth knowing about my notions on God are...Anything worth knowing about my notions on God are contained in this simple dialogue:<BR/>________________________<BR/><BR/>QUESTIONS FROM ANOTHER GOD<BR/><BR/>ANOTHER GOD: Where is the light emanating from your living?<BR/><BR/>TPM: Snuggled tightly to our ashen mother of sustenance, her concrete cloth lashed tightly `round our mouths while decaying organs clang upon their rusty pipes; a reverie to the stone dragons sleeping in our dark.<BR/><BR/>ANOTHER GOD: Where are the soft, milk-filled breasts of your suckling mercy? Have they too been punctured by the weight of your sins? Oozing out offerings at the foot of tyranny’s trough?<BR/><BR/>TPM: All’s been drained, shipped away in barrels.<BR/><BR/>ANOTHER GOD: How do you endure, pitiful as you are?<BR/><BR/>TPM: We are homeless upon these darkened streets. Homeless and hungry in our unremarkable dwelling, begging that we might buy back scant drops of her nectar.<BR/><BR/>ANOTHER GOD: Above the granite facing of shadow yonder stands your emaciated lady. She stares eyeless toward the spanning ocean, might she not save you?<BR/><BR/>TPM: No. Her light has long been gone, spent, sold.<BR/><BR/>ANOTHER GOD: Was she ever beautiful?<BR/><BR/>TPM: Her light once spread out over the world.<BR/><BR/>ANOTHER GOD: She’s nothing to offer you now?<BR/><BR/>TPM: Just her prostituted limbs rising lightless above the water.<BR/><BR/>ANOTHER GOD: No light? No dawn? No curve of fervent hope?<BR/><BR/>TPM: Hope?<BR/><BR/>ANOTHER GOD: Yes. Hope.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Copyright © 2006 mrp /thepoetryman</I>Mark Prime (tpm/Confession Zero)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04683863540465969835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-89586419979511867552007-04-10T08:05:00.000-05:002007-04-10T08:05:00.000-05:00spirituality is separate from religion for many fo...spirituality is separate from religion for many folks- others entwine it with their faith. the one thing that has always united us has been the constitution. may it ever be so. thanks for everything bg.billiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206096509976316141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-44637866174988657852007-04-10T07:14:00.000-05:002007-04-10T07:14:00.000-05:00As someone who has lost their own faith, I applaud...As someone who has lost their own faith, I applaud yours BG.annabkrrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08033268173660347898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-7501630734267387562007-04-10T05:01:00.000-05:002007-04-10T05:01:00.000-05:00Blue Gal,Great job with the blogswarm. Keep your i...Blue Gal,<BR/>Great job with the blogswarm. Keep your ideals and give your fingers a well deserved rest!List with Laszlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923152175274460350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-81882291347013727992007-04-10T00:35:00.000-05:002007-04-10T00:35:00.000-05:00How many ways can I say, "You got me"?I was raised...How many ways can I say, "You got me"?<BR/><BR/>I was raised as some variant of <BR/>Christian, (I don't know! Presbyterian, Anglican, United Church), but lost anything to do with faith in the holes of the Falklands War and the Gulf after that. That's me and I know you accept me for what I believe. <BR/><BR/>Until today I can never say that a believing modern Christian had ever written anything which, literally, moved me. <BR/><BR/>You've done that. You are a beautiful person for having done that with taste, distinction and humor.<BR/><BR/>I love you for doing it. (No. Mr. BG may not kill me. It's an expression over distance of feeling for your willingness to share.)<BR/><BR/>It is the words you wrote which affirm in my mind that I would defend your right to worship to the death. (Please don't ask. I've done it and I truly don't like it.) <BR/><BR/>But I would if that's what it took to preserve that simple human right. <BR/><BR/>I thank you for taking the lead. Following was one of life's great pleasures.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-18758059912151049342007-04-09T18:10:00.000-05:002007-04-09T18:10:00.000-05:00Blue Gal, Great job with the B.A.T. I'm inspired ...Blue Gal, <BR/>Great job with the B.A.T. <BR/><BR/>I'm inspired by the way you blend christianity and progressive politics without diluting either one. <BR/><BR/>Also, I'm new to the south and give a little shout of glee every time i find another progressive christian here.Abbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155955440652107586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-9214359279530182262007-04-09T16:50:00.000-05:002007-04-09T16:50:00.000-05:00and i meant that they are anti-tolerence not us, i...and i meant that they are anti-tolerence not us, i get to rambling you understand. : )Sherry Pasquarellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107407102753464356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-87338312328817430632007-04-09T16:48:00.000-05:002007-04-09T16:48:00.000-05:00i love the poem.i loved the bat.i can not understa...i love the poem.<BR/>i loved the bat.<BR/><BR/>i can not understand how anyone could say any of the writings was anti anything unless it was anti-tolerance and THAT i think is what sticks in the craw of the right wing fanatics among us.<BR/><BR/>thier understanding of christianity leaves no room for tolerence.<BR/>tolerence is a sin to them. <BR/>to them , everyone must convert, and convert to THEIR narrow beliefs.<BR/><BR/>you did a very good thing with this blog.<BR/>be proud.<BR/>be happy.<BR/>be strong.<BR/><BR/>in other words, stay as you are.Sherry Pasquarellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107407102753464356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-54523430576584893992007-04-09T16:35:00.000-05:002007-04-09T16:35:00.000-05:00Thanks, BG, now *I* am crying.Thanks, BG, now *I* am crying.Bratfinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18199795989064872696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-81264665521880653732007-04-09T16:18:00.000-05:002007-04-09T16:18:00.000-05:00Thanks for taking on this task. I know it's close...Thanks for taking on this task. I know it's close to your heart, but that doesn't make the time and effort any less. Or less meaningful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-10202991774321863192007-04-09T15:50:00.000-05:002007-04-09T15:50:00.000-05:00Art o'any sort brings a message with it. There be...Art o'any sort brings a message with it. <BR/><BR/>There be artists an' then there be <I>artistes</I>, Me BG. Ye be definitely in th'latter category.<BR/><BR/>Ye produce a message with flair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-54066664223809023092007-04-09T15:29:00.000-05:002007-04-09T15:29:00.000-05:00Thank you for the opportunity, BlueGal!Thank you for the opportunity, BlueGal!Pepperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09893044552078225374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-33464710563062370402007-04-09T14:52:00.000-05:002007-04-09T14:52:00.000-05:00Blue Gal, I want to thank you for the tremendous e...Blue Gal, I want to thank you for the tremendous effort you put into the blogswarm.<BR/><BR/>As I read the posts, I kept scratching my head at the reactions of the "religious right" - because I didn't see one blog that was anti-religion; I didn't see one person attack Christianity in specific or religion in general. There were any number of paths that people take, and everyone said the same thing: keep Church and State as separate entities, just as the First Amendment states. <BR/><BR/>One of my dearest friends is a Jehovah's Witness - I love this guy. We absolutely do not agree on anything religious, but I still adore him. Why? Because we give each other the dignity to be different.<BR/><BR/>The religious right does not want people to have the dignity to think or believe independently. And what the blogswarm did was to show just how strong dignity can be.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your efforts.DivaJoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02534571327558009753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-65019239287941916222007-04-09T14:40:00.000-05:002007-04-09T14:40:00.000-05:00A woman stood at meeting yesterday and said that s...A woman stood at meeting yesterday and said that she, too, was thinking about Christ dying for our sins. And then she talked about how she feels like we're killing him over and over and over agin every day, with all the killing that we do, some of it in his name. And how she wonders how much forgiveness he might think we're still entitled to.<BR/><BR/>First "Thank you, friend" responses I've heard in a while followed.<BR/><BR/>And, BG, just remember: this swarm didn't get done without someone organizing it.QuakerDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10727729821155579518noreply@blogger.com