From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

Wind,<BR>
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       No offense...but this place is about Romantic love...<BR>
and some have gone seriously overboard in their expression of religious fervor. There are sites for such...but this isn't it.<BR>
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                                      Gala
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

i'm sorry for the confusion wind  but it got pretty bad here a while back, with dubal, to the point of creating a lot of hate and discontent, he was never banned but did promise to limit himself to poems and not using the comments section as a box to preach from... what i most recently objected to was his using the title block of a poem as a new platform to preach from. like i say there is a lot more history here than just a rash comment  and im sorry to create confusion in an otherwise wonderful place to post  ....jack
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=29">~Harem~</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

To Kaleal1969 ~<BR>
About your question - as you fall asleep - you go into a poetry mode.... Yes, for me it kind of works that way.....<BR>
I have had nights, that poems woke me up out of a sound sleep.... and if I go back to sleep - I often lose them...<BR>
So, now, instead of running downstairs- half asleep - <BR>
to key them into the computer, I keep a pad of paper and a pen, next to my bed, and I jot them down, when they wake me up.... and then I can go back to sleep.<BR>
One night, I gotten woken up at least twenty times....and each time, I jotted the words down, piece by piece. When I got up in the morning, I took the pad with me to work..... Low and behold, I had the makings of five great poems....  *giggle.....<BR>
Do poems wake you up in the night, begging to be written?<BR>
I even wrote a poem about that.... look at the new submissions page.... and see.... *sigh...<BR>
~Harem~
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

Thanks Violet! I was inspired by 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath, which I finished reading last night.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

BK: and 'cause I'm a super geek, I know that you thought it was better to lead from the back and not from the frontlines, and you're not a harsh a negotiator, same as me. On the other hand, You wanted to meet with the troops instead of plan, and you preferred to have a detailed plan instead of relying on your troops to be flexible, unlike me.  (I actually have the tree of possibilities on the wall of my cubicle at work, as a decoration.)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

scqueen - I adore <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.07.26.17.08.17702">Spirits Blue</a>.  Beautiful. <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

Thanks Madi ~ I guess it was sort of a bump to yours :-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

dubal, I see you've finished that "How to Turn Friends and Strangers Off to Religion" book.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

Kirk; Wow, you are correct all the way, you really do have it figured out. That was fun to do, sort of like chess in a way, you know how your opponents mind works by the way they attack. I guess real guns would take it to a terrifying level, so I will just stick with chess. HA But, its given me a whole new light on the history of war games.<BR>
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bk<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=78">TheDubalPoet</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

Du'Doll,<BR>
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First look at their spiritual qualities.. Does he match what God says a man should be to a wife... Does he fit the standards you have for a guy?...And when you pray, does the Spirit lead you to this guy? If you consider all of these things you will find out if he's the right guy.<BR>
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Love<BR>
Dubal
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=41">Du'Doll</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

Dubal,<BR>
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There is more.  But I don't know if you know how to see that.  Everything isn't a question of Christianity.  There is something else that is involved.  It is called love.  It is like a entirely differant demention.  One I never knew before.  <BR>
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Love,<BR>
Du'Doll
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=277">HMS</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2001<P>

Du Doll - You can decide for yourself whether the fact that I'm divorced makes me less or more qualified to answer your question.  The one thing I wish I had read BEFORE I got married is a quotation (I think from Oscar Wilde) that says something like, "marriage is what you should do only when nothing else is possible."
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