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Published: 2009-06-12 00:26:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 1207; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 5
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I've decidedthat if Jesus came to Earth now,
he'd probably smoke cigarettes
and always fall in love
with the wrong person.
If we wake up at night
and can't get back to sleep,
I could teach him
how to un-love his neighbor
and he could tell me
what the salty water feels like
under his feet.
He might wear his hair in a ponytail
and his eyes would crinkle when he smiles,
and I would smile too,
then pause
and in a small voice ask him what hell was like,
and is there any way to get someone back
if they've already gone too far?
He would take a drag on his cigarette,
nod kindly at the two boys holding hands,
and say that hell is more a state of being
than an afterlife, and no amount of love
can rescue someone from their own mind.
I thought so, I would say, not mentioning
the nights I've cried myself to sleep
trying anyway.
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Funny, I think Jesus would smoke, too.
This is awesome.
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Your fantastic work has been featured here !
I'd really appreciate it if you could give some love to the other features and 
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I really love this. I read this over a few times. Very good job. Imagery is spot on. Narration is lovely. I'm feeling like you have some run- ons. I wasn't sure why you mentioned the gay couple. To give Jesus an accepting light or to play on the theme of love? Or both 
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It was both, but more to show his acceptance of people. Her trying to teach him how not to love someone was sort of based on her own experience with falling in love with people who are not good for you, and trying to help him get over the girls he fell in love with. Not really not to love people, just not to love the ones who hurt you, to be able to let those people go. The hell concept was her being afraid the person she loved would go to hell, and that she couldn't get them back, which, yes, was contradictory to her telling him not to love people who are bad for you. Interesting concept by Rousseau, I'm intrigued by your interpretation of this poem
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Welcome. Reading poetry is what I do best 
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Oh and not blasphemous,just your interpretation of Jesus. It seems like if the Bible was set in 2010 or the 90's this would be it. Rolling with the crowd but guided by his own moral compass.
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I don't think it's blasphemous. It's honest. Things like this I think are exactly what God would do because it makes Him relateable. I don't know how to explain what I'm thinking and feeling about this without sounding like a moron or a hypocrite, but it's a lovely piece.
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It is definitely honest. I suppose blasphemous would depend on who you are. Feel free to give it a try, there's not judgment from this quarter.
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Thanks. 
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Why would someone consider something like this blasphemous? I don't get it. God is love. End story. Loving a homosexual is no different from loving a murderer. It's a sin yes, but it's no different from any other sin. God doesn't hate sinners, he just hates sin. -shakes head- I don't understand. This is a perfectly acceptable and beautiful rendition of who and what God is.
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Some people might. To each their own, I suppose it is. I think they might mostly object to God being made out to seem like a normal person, more so than the homosexual aspect of it. But how would I know?
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I don't think He does either.
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I think it's highly possible. We are told that he loved Lazarus and that he was one of his closest friends. It also says that when he was a child he reasoned as a child, so I think it's highly probable, but he also was unlike any other man, so who knows. 
True...-squirms- Though I'm uncomfortable with the term religion because it's so much more than that.
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I guess we never will. Mystery is as fun as anything, I suppose, and is definitely more inspiring.
Ah, sorry. Spirituality? Relationship? Belief system? I sometimes forget the negative connotations "religion" seems to carry. Ah, I see.
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No, it's okay. It's really not a big deal it just...makes me cringe. 
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It's understandable; people are occasionally too eager to read more into a religious conversation than is actually there.
Faith then.
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Yeah. Thanks.
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I'm glad you think so.
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Funny, this reminds me of something the sunday-school teacher said recently. He was talking about talking to God, and I thought about that and found it a little ridiculous, because I find it hard to believe that if someone believes they are talking to God how they could not just skip the whole "you're so great" thing and get to important questions about life and quantum physics.
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-chuckles- Yeah, you would think that way. In my mind, he doesn't really answer in a way where you could pin down exactly what he said, so asking about quantum physics would be sort of pointless.
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I know that you supposedly don't get a definite answer, but I've also heard that apparently God answers all questions in some form. So, if one were to sincerely ask God about quantum physics, then is it not conceivable that God would in some convoluted fashion tell you about it?
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I guess he would. I've never asked, so I don't know.
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Maybe you should try. Or, maybe I should just ask about that in sunday-school sometime.
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I wouldn't understand any answer he gave me anyway. I'm sure that would go over quite well.
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That is beside the point. It wouldn't, but that would be the idea.
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Oh. All right. Of course, it's you.
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Well, it would be extremely amusing for a short amount of time.
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And it would be amusing when told to others.
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The first part would be. The part about the repercussions maybe not so much.
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Hey, you have to take one with the other.
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But I don't want to.
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Well. You have to.
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Because. Ask the guy who came up with the rule of "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction." I can't remember his name, but he's why.
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I could try to talk my way out of it. I mean, they've made much more inappropriate jokes than that in my presence.
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You;d be fine, I think.
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