A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities
Viewing comments for Chapter 208 "Live and let live"A collection of poems showcasing unusual words
13 total reviews
Comment from Mustang Patty
Hi, Craig,
Oh. You have trampled into the area of my pet peeves. I am considered by some to not be a 'good' Christian because I do not attend church regularly. (Well, let's face it, not at all.)
They point and make me feel awful. Gee, why wouldn't I want to join them for their gabfests on Sunday mornings? I have much more fun drinking coffee with my hubby and discussing life, God, and world problems.
Life is too short to be cornered and boxed in to someone else's belief system,
~patty~
reply by the author on 28-Jul-2018
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Hi, Craig,
Oh. You have trampled into the area of my pet peeves. I am considered by some to not be a 'good' Christian because I do not attend church regularly. (Well, let's face it, not at all.)
They point and make me feel awful. Gee, why wouldn't I want to join them for their gabfests on Sunday mornings? I have much more fun drinking coffee with my hubby and discussing life, God, and world problems.
Life is too short to be cornered and boxed in to someone else's belief system,
~patty~
Comment Written 28-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 28-Jul-2018
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100% agreement from this end, Patty. Thanks for reviewing :) Craig
Comment from Y. M. Roger
Wow - you took a really odd word (my brain has trouble pronouncing it, much less my tongue!) And penned an awesome message! :) :) Great job!
Thanx for sharing today!! ;) ;) Yvette
reply by the author on 28-Jul-2018
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Wow - you took a really odd word (my brain has trouble pronouncing it, much less my tongue!) And penned an awesome message! :) :) Great job!
Thanx for sharing today!! ;) ;) Yvette
Comment Written 28-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 28-Jul-2018
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Thanks for the great review, much appreciated. Craig
Comment from Pamusart
Hi Craig. The last part of your notes are hilarious. I knew the prefix miso meant to hate because of the word misogynist. But I had to guess the rest. I would have given this a dix if I had any left. Nice fun write. Thank you for sharing
reply by the author on 28-Jul-2018
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Hi Craig. The last part of your notes are hilarious. I knew the prefix miso meant to hate because of the word misogynist. But I had to guess the rest. I would have given this a dix if I had any left. Nice fun write. Thank you for sharing
Comment Written 28-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 28-Jul-2018
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Thanks very much, Pam - the virtual sixer and great comments are equally appreciated. Craig
Comment from Gloria ....
LOL, that one line is most clever about those obsessed with wrong and sin then feel quite free to not join in. That one really is a bizarre nastiness. I always thought the most strident among them were closet homosexuals.
Gasp, so you expect us to engage in self-introspection so we become better people? But what about those bad people? Who's going to condemn them? lol.
Excellent post, Craig and a good reminder for people to tend to the giant log in their own eye.
Excellent and a fun read.:)
Gloria
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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LOL, that one line is most clever about those obsessed with wrong and sin then feel quite free to not join in. That one really is a bizarre nastiness. I always thought the most strident among them were closet homosexuals.
Gasp, so you expect us to engage in self-introspection so we become better people? But what about those bad people? Who's going to condemn them? lol.
Excellent post, Craig and a good reminder for people to tend to the giant log in their own eye.
Excellent and a fun read.:)
Gloria
Comment Written 27-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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Thanks so much, Gloria. I guess you're probably right - we perfect ones can't neglect our duties :) Mush appreciated - Craig
Comment from BeasPeas
Hi Craig. I DO like this POV. We are all entitled to the things we think, live, like, do without interference unless it's against the law. What bubbles my kettle over are those who deny others the same freedoms they want for themselves. Marilyn
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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Hi Craig. I DO like this POV. We are all entitled to the things we think, live, like, do without interference unless it's against the law. What bubbles my kettle over are those who deny others the same freedoms they want for themselves. Marilyn
Comment Written 27-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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Thanks very much, Marilyn - agreed, that gets somewhat irksome. Cheers - Craig
Comment from --Turtle.
Morning, Craig. : )
I'm probably a bit of a misocapnist, but not for others so much as for myself. As long as I don't have to breath it, or see the butts fly out a window onto the ground as if every part of the world is a personal astray, then I don't make a fuss. Unless I really like the person, then I might nettle a wee bit of a reminder that I'm really going to miss them if they die early and unnecessarily, as so many of those I cared for have been lost to lung and throat cancer.
When I was a young and silly girl, my male had to sit through a power point presentation (I'm such a nerd) on his being a closet smoker and my charting how it affected me and my decisions (it's one thing to date someone knowing they smoke and then expect to change them... but having to find out a year in, that was like... hold up, wait a minute now. I just went through this and this wasn't a mentioned part of the package when I signed on. But ultimately I'm a selfish misocapnist. I don't care what others do, until it directly effects me, then I'm all about mitigating damage to me. Smoke if you like, just don't make me pay for it, or breath it, or have to clean up after it. And, depending on the situation, I might have to remove myself... but that's my choice.
But, that being said, the pleasure policing ... needing to worry about everyone elses vices... be it too much pop, drugs... recklessness, smoking, candy, sex, shopping, who they love, who they worship, be it if they put their toilet paper over or under for rolling... or opt not to use toilet paper at all...
It's a mixed bag of get out of other's peoples business to... crap, other people's business affects me, too. We are all linked together by these invisible chains of society, and it's difficult to always find the right place to draw the right lines. Many times, people draw those lines too close to ... not their business.
Like it being illegal to drink versus it being illegal to drink and drive. (you vomiting on a saturday night in the safty of your own basement... don't care. You running me over with your car while trashed on the other hand) I guess that's the gray area... as it's already illegal to run someone over with a car, who cares if they are drunk or not.
Then maybe it boils down to arguments on if the ends justify the means. The ends of if making something illegal saves victim's lives, not just the one taking an action. But I am babbling.
This poem did a lot to stir some thoughts in me. Thoughts on the lines of tolerance, and intolerance, and when and where people are beyond worrying about their own personal space, to worrying about other's personal space that do not directly concern them.
Kind of makes me smile the biblical ref at the end... don't throw stones, and the splinter seen around the post, and one finger out, three pointing back...
I also thought about a story I once heard, it might have been from the Jehova witnesses... about how a biblical instruction to wash hands before eating becomes twisted into throwing stones at people who didn't completely submerge themselves before approaching a food table, and those submerging themselves are washing everything but their hands. Doh!
What a topsy turvy world we live in at times devoid of sensibility.
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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Morning, Craig. : )
I'm probably a bit of a misocapnist, but not for others so much as for myself. As long as I don't have to breath it, or see the butts fly out a window onto the ground as if every part of the world is a personal astray, then I don't make a fuss. Unless I really like the person, then I might nettle a wee bit of a reminder that I'm really going to miss them if they die early and unnecessarily, as so many of those I cared for have been lost to lung and throat cancer.
When I was a young and silly girl, my male had to sit through a power point presentation (I'm such a nerd) on his being a closet smoker and my charting how it affected me and my decisions (it's one thing to date someone knowing they smoke and then expect to change them... but having to find out a year in, that was like... hold up, wait a minute now. I just went through this and this wasn't a mentioned part of the package when I signed on. But ultimately I'm a selfish misocapnist. I don't care what others do, until it directly effects me, then I'm all about mitigating damage to me. Smoke if you like, just don't make me pay for it, or breath it, or have to clean up after it. And, depending on the situation, I might have to remove myself... but that's my choice.
But, that being said, the pleasure policing ... needing to worry about everyone elses vices... be it too much pop, drugs... recklessness, smoking, candy, sex, shopping, who they love, who they worship, be it if they put their toilet paper over or under for rolling... or opt not to use toilet paper at all...
It's a mixed bag of get out of other's peoples business to... crap, other people's business affects me, too. We are all linked together by these invisible chains of society, and it's difficult to always find the right place to draw the right lines. Many times, people draw those lines too close to ... not their business.
Like it being illegal to drink versus it being illegal to drink and drive. (you vomiting on a saturday night in the safty of your own basement... don't care. You running me over with your car while trashed on the other hand) I guess that's the gray area... as it's already illegal to run someone over with a car, who cares if they are drunk or not.
Then maybe it boils down to arguments on if the ends justify the means. The ends of if making something illegal saves victim's lives, not just the one taking an action. But I am babbling.
This poem did a lot to stir some thoughts in me. Thoughts on the lines of tolerance, and intolerance, and when and where people are beyond worrying about their own personal space, to worrying about other's personal space that do not directly concern them.
Kind of makes me smile the biblical ref at the end... don't throw stones, and the splinter seen around the post, and one finger out, three pointing back...
I also thought about a story I once heard, it might have been from the Jehova witnesses... about how a biblical instruction to wash hands before eating becomes twisted into throwing stones at people who didn't completely submerge themselves before approaching a food table, and those submerging themselves are washing everything but their hands. Doh!
What a topsy turvy world we live in at times devoid of sensibility.
Comment Written 27-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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As usual, you bring a great sense of balance to things, Turtle. I can agree with almost everything you had to say. Note, I said "almost" - going "under" with the toilet paper is THE unforgivable sin ;-)
Many thanks for a terrific review. I wanted to give you a nom for the last one, sadly, I'm not allowed any more.
Most grateful,
Craig
Comment from Teri7
This is a very true and very well written post my friend. There is no perfect human being on earth and we are not supposed to judge. There is only one true judge and that is the Lord. We do at times feel like we need to judge, we think, but the part about the beam in our own eye is so true. thanks for reminding me my friend! Teri
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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This is a very true and very well written post my friend. There is no perfect human being on earth and we are not supposed to judge. There is only one true judge and that is the Lord. We do at times feel like we need to judge, we think, but the part about the beam in our own eye is so true. thanks for reminding me my friend! Teri
Comment Written 27-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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Thanks very much, Teri. We probably agree on lots of stuff :) Cheers, Craig
Comment from Barb Hensongispsaca
You forgot to tell us where to send our contributions.lol
Very nicely done but I do not think it will ever change, there is always some narcissitic person ready to tell us what to do. Great aabba.
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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You forgot to tell us where to send our contributions.lol
Very nicely done but I do not think it will ever change, there is always some narcissitic person ready to tell us what to do. Great aabba.
Comment Written 27-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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Many thanks for the lovely comments. Human nature being what it is, I suspect you're right. Cheers, Craig
Comment from lyenochka
You are so right that people tend to swallow camels and strain gnats when it comes to telling people what to do from a legalistic view. Those are the ones who had the hardest time accepting Jesus. Good word to know. I don't like the effects of tobacco but it's not my call to tell others about its use. Sorry that televangelists made it there. Perhaps I would opine to avoid them if possible.
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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You are so right that people tend to swallow camels and strain gnats when it comes to telling people what to do from a legalistic view. Those are the ones who had the hardest time accepting Jesus. Good word to know. I don't like the effects of tobacco but it's not my call to tell others about its use. Sorry that televangelists made it there. Perhaps I would opine to avoid them if possible.
Comment Written 27-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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Surprisingly, I don't devote a lot of time to watching their performances, Helen. Many thanks, Craig :)
Comment from Alcreator Litt Dear
This speaks vividly your own view, viewpoint about living, you are free, you have not burdened readers with your own thoughts to believe in, you speak the truth, your feeling and understanding of living, people have right to live as they do as they get the benefit or loss for such living, you know you cannot control other's righteousness; it is good - live and let live others; well said, well done. Keep Writing -- DR ALCREATOR
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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This speaks vividly your own view, viewpoint about living, you are free, you have not burdened readers with your own thoughts to believe in, you speak the truth, your feeling and understanding of living, people have right to live as they do as they get the benefit or loss for such living, you know you cannot control other's righteousness; it is good - live and let live others; well said, well done. Keep Writing -- DR ALCREATOR
Comment Written 27-Jul-2018
reply by the author on 27-Jul-2018
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Thanks very much for the kind review. I appreciate the support a great deal. Craig