These are two poems I wrote while in a discussion thread on Amazon.com. The name of the thread was, NeuroScience, The Latest Frontier in the Battle Between Religion and Science. Guess that speaks for itself, but at least now you know what I've been doing for the last 45 or so days. If the idea of convergence has any validity, it's predetermined that both sides of this fight will eventually kiss and make up. Maybe all these battlers in threads should just give in, lay back, and enjoy it.
But before you read this, if you do, you can help prepare for the next entry by going to Change.org to sign the petition for Healthcare Reform. Your children's lives may depend on it...
Let me introduce some more "frame of reference" ... I became a poet because of an innate belief in the principal of least action. Poetry, at it's best, boils complex ideas down into simple imagery...understandable and interpretable by anyone. Then, i became a stoner, and really got lazy...least action personified. Later in life, i cried when I first held my son in my arms after nearly killing my mother in law in the waiting room with my statement..."there's more important things in life than money.."
so...for anyone new to the discussion,here's a gestalt version... i've refined 28 pages into a poem...;) Thanks to all the people who responded or noted me, perhaps my next synopsis will be entitled "Evidence is in the Eye of the Beholder"...(by the way, green eggs= the True Self that can be found thru meditation, and Ham=God, or the Universal Constant, lol.)
On the Various Ways to Prepare Green Eggs and Ham
IFF: I come to sing the praises of Green Eggs and Ham. I sincerely like them, of that, certain i am...I eat them with Chutney, morning, noon, and night, cause their nutritious and healthy...with that i am right. So eat your green eggs and ham, and you will see, too, that it effects you in every thing that you do...
MA: I do not like green eggs and ham, i do not like them, certain i am...
RS: Now wait a minute, let's give them a try...let's be respectful..."frames of reference"... etc...etc..
MA: I do not like them, this i say, I do not like IFF, saying it's the Only Way.
Iff: i do not say the only way, there's endless ways to cook 'em. Try them and you'll see, i say, just like all the people who partook 'em.
Scobenja: if you like green eggs and ham so much, why don't you just let your house burn down...
MA: I've tried them japanese style... didn't like them then, and still don't like them now.
IFF: You tried them, great! Now try some more! Try an omelette, try souffle, try them each and every day! Boil them, broil them, fry them on a bunsen burner if you must, by try them, try them, and you'll see.
Chorus: he said, she said, etc ad infitum...
DogmaToxin: western chefs have been stealing their recipes from the east for years...
ST: "I is" who "I is"
various gullible voices: that's just bad grammar...he said, she said...etc.
RL: i invented a philosophy of going beyond evolution. i've always liked green eggs and ham, american style: snotty side up on a bed of toast w/ good old American Cheese!
chorus: evidence, smevidence, blah, blah, blah...
IFF: try them and you may, i say. Not everyone "gets" green eggs and ham, but try them and you may...
RS: i hear there's new advances in machines that will slice and dice them, and cook them however you want...
Professor Humbug: Humbug!... i was going to defend IFF, but now i think a truck should hit her!...
ST to the chorus: What came first, the egg or the big bang?...
Chorus: babble babble, he said, she said...
Wakecowboy: i love green eggs and ham...however you cook them!
Nikki: oh, so do I,but Bajastyle is best. It's similar to green eggs and chutney...would you like the recipe?
wakecowboy: perhaps we should get together for breakfast sometime...;)
IFF: repeats her mantra....chorus repeats the babble...etc.
Well, that's about it. If i left you out, misunderstood, or otherwise offended you... i apologize and beg for patience w/my poetic license....Peace, Light, Love...Nearlysilentbob
Evidence is In the Eyes of the Beholder or Even Gods and Bacteria Fornicate!
When does an anomaly become a miracle? What magic turns correlation into causation? Evidence abounds, for those who would percieve it...
Imagine if you will, two biologists
Lounging in the lab, running their
Daily slate...when suddenly one of them
Jumps up from his seat and exclaims,
"By Darwin's Beard! Did you know that
Bacteria fornicate?
"Preposterous!" says the other, "everyone knows
They're asexual beings... Were you
Asleep in Bio 101, you dope?"
"Everyone's wrong, then, 'cause I saw it
With my own two eyes,...under the
Electron Scanning Scope... Come See!
Those two in the top left corner.
They're exchanging DNA, or I'm a
Monkey's uncle!!"
"Holy Test Tube, you're right! Break out the
Champagne... I wouldn't exactly call it
Fornication, but something unseen in this
World is happening there, that's for sure."
But he was right; the little buggers were,
For lack of a better word, fornicating,
And science was ratcheted forward one more klick.
"A little nonsense now and then, is
Relished by the wisest men." or so I
Contend. So when i say that even the
God's fornicate, just remember your
Greek mythology. Every myth contains a
Kernal of Truth, canni getta amen?
Call it communing, call it meditation,
Call it walking or wrestling with God.
I prefer fornication, for it's better
To fornicate than not. I do it with the
Utmost fear and respect and trembling.
Because something is created by
Effing with God and all His equations.
I won't even try to read Hawking's
Brief History of Time, but i feel free
To fornicate the synopsis and conclude
What I will 'bout the Nature of
Creation and all the critters within it.