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Archer Opteryx
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Message 7 of 39 (361450)
11-04-2006 11:23 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by U can call me Cookie
11-03-2006 6:48 AM


Retro Night (Globalistic Graffiti)
Welcome back, cats and chicks! Ya got The Bowman here, cominatcha live from the Big Bamboo. Got a song dedication now for The Cookieman over in Jo'burg.
The gang at the EvC Bar & Grill says "Congrats, Skullface! Here's hoping 'U' don't over-analyze the recipe while you keep things 'Cookin.'"
Oo wah oo wah
Oo wah oo wah
Oo wah oo wah
Why do fools fall in love?
Why do birds sing so gay
And lovers await the break of the day?
Why do they fall in love?
Why does the rain fall from up above?
Why do fools fall in love?
Why do they fall in love?
Love is a losing game
Love can be a shame
I know I'm a fool you see
For that fool is me
Tell me why
Tell me why
Why do birds sing so gay
And lovers await the break of the day?
Why do they fall in love?
Why does the rain fall from up above?
Why do fools fall in love?
Why do they fall in love?
Why does my heart
Skip a crazy beat?
For I know
It will reach defeat
Tell me why
Tell me why
Why do fools fall in love?
Tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me why
---
F. Lymon / G. Goldner

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Archer
All species are transitional.

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Archer Opteryx
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From: East Asia
Joined: 08-16-2006


Message 9 of 39 (361501)
11-04-2006 1:42 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by 2ice_baked_taters
11-04-2006 12:48 PM


having your cake and eating it, too
It is only possible to love two people at the same time by intention.
Oh, come on. You know better.
Picture a corny, wholesome family of four. Two parents and two children. The parents love each other enough to die for each other. But they love the children, too. They would die for the children.
If they have more children they will love them, too. Enough to die for them. And this, without diminishing one bit the love they already feel for each other.
Conclusion: it's possible to love more than one person. We do it all the time.
And--if you really peel the folds of the heart back and take a look--you'll find they love more people than that. There's that old college friend. There's that friend at the office.
They might not even think of their feelings for these people as love. They will likely have some safer word for it. After all, they have contracts to keep, things to protect. Love is a powerful force. Elemental. Potentially dangerous. There are times to let it gush as it will and wash you away in the flood. But there are times to dig channels for it--try to tame the element and steer its course and use it to irrigate worthwhile projects. Let it nourish things rather than flood the landscape and destroy something already worth protecting.
So they will give these other loves some kind of structure. Some category. But the truth--hidden away so far even they don't see it--is that they feel something powerful. They would still take a bullet, if need be, for that college friend. They would take the hand of that friend at the office, if need be, and leap together from a burning skyscraper.
Love is a cake, true, but a special one. Most cakes require you to cut thinner slices as you bring more guests to the table. Love expands. The cake feeds everyone, yet there's always more for new people who come to the party.
I question whether anyone who knows how to love can only love one person.
We're all polygamists at heart, you know.
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Archer
All species are transitional.

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Archer Opteryx
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Message 20 of 39 (361694)
11-04-2006 10:27 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by 2ice_baked_taters
11-04-2006 5:56 PM


Re: having your cake and eating it, too
It was specific. I answered it as such.
Ok, I can understand your taking it that way. As I read the question we were asked about the nature of love, not the origin of sexual partnerships per se.
All of us have the potential for multiple partnerships, though, as my post implies.
It works better sequentially than all at at once, but we do.

Archer
All species are transitional.

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Archer Opteryx
Member (Idle past 3597 days)
Posts: 1811
From: East Asia
Joined: 08-16-2006


Message 21 of 39 (361701)
11-04-2006 10:49 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by ringo
11-04-2006 10:04 PM



If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
-- Ernest Hemingway

Archer
All species are transitional.

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Archer Opteryx
Member (Idle past 3597 days)
Posts: 1811
From: East Asia
Joined: 08-16-2006


Message 27 of 39 (361843)
11-05-2006 1:33 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by joshua221
11-05-2006 12:41 AM


Never question my rhymes
Then I won't mention that people doesn't quite rhyme with steeples, line 9 doesn't scan, and line 12 doesn't rhyme with anything.
I also won't mention that you've got a tight rhythm in lines 1 and 2 conveying strong images. Sustain it and the whole thing could have a great sense of inexorability.
Shame to end with the narcissism, though.

Archer
All species are transitional.

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Archer Opteryx
Member (Idle past 3597 days)
Posts: 1811
From: East Asia
Joined: 08-16-2006


Message 28 of 39 (361855)
11-05-2006 2:09 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by ringo
11-04-2006 10:04 PM


love and loss
I hope you understood my earlier response as an expression of empathy, Ringo.
Cancer took someone special from me, too.
More precious was the light in her eyes than all the roses in the world...
Edna St Vincent Millay
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Archer
All species are transitional.

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Archer Opteryx
Member (Idle past 3597 days)
Posts: 1811
From: East Asia
Joined: 08-16-2006


Message 34 of 39 (362072)
11-06-2006 3:42 AM
Reply to: Message 33 by U can call me Cookie
11-06-2006 2:33 AM


Re: love and loss
The loss of love, in whatever form, is a bitter pill to swallow.
One loses the person. One never loses the love.
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Archer
All species are transitional.

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Archer Opteryx
Member (Idle past 3597 days)
Posts: 1811
From: East Asia
Joined: 08-16-2006


Message 35 of 39 (362074)
11-06-2006 3:53 AM
Reply to: Message 30 by U can call me Cookie
11-06-2006 2:05 AM


Re: Retro
Errr....thanks, i think
Sorry. Lost my mind, just for a moment.
You know you're feeling something, U. You experience something powerful, elemental, and real.
Whatever ambiguities this presents, you know for sure you are alive.
In that, there is reason enough for joy.
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Archer
All species are transitional.

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