"Why's a handsome guy like you not married?"
"I guess life just got away from me
However I can live, laugh and love in my poetry"
One said "A woman is not as lovely as the truth" Another
"A woman would interrupt my daily walk and cause me to depart"**
For rhymes sake, I am not like Immanuel Kant or Rene Descartes
Atheism is verklempt
At its presuppositional attempt
There is this paradox
Which Christianity unlocks
Atheism in unfounded
Relying on Christianity being grounded
Saying it’s atheism we presuppose
But saying it’s so, doesn’t make it so
A pugilistic beating of all that’s airy
Proves our view to the contrary
There is no atheistic foundation
It is futile trepidation
Epilogue
I know you don't want to hear it
Christianity is not proven by "school spirit"
And for your lack of want
Consult the method of Immanuel Kant
“Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.” ~Immanuel Kant
Wrapped within the folds of death
the soul of silence snuggles slyly
and the somber sphere of solitude
scatters the spirit of serenity willy-nilly.
(The Ballad stanza rhymes, A-B-C-B)
~02/03/23
~Contest: Writing challenge -C- words
~Sponsor: Constance La France.
I
My dear brother Vijay Pandit inspired me to respond to a dialog here and EveryWhere
II
God or the Universe can expand itself / Oneself, out of love, Or Giving.
III
Love/God won't remain hidden for long; It will teach
IV
The universe or God as Love is not hiding in a bedroom ... Long
V
As for human love, so too with God. Your love gives children; God gave His son
VI
You see Dear Ones, love is not lust - Love outgives us all. Lust takes, and takes, kills
NOTE: philosophically-speaking, Kant is my hero & rational theist. Immanuel Kant was a theist, but rational, so he made GOODWILL the very reason and God, even for morality ( through a constant, a golden rule). Religious folk "love" making Kant an agnostic. He proudly changed his name from Emanuel to Spell "God with us."
"Immanuel Kant"
The rules are simple when it comes to
your search for happiness in life.
Do something fun, and find that
special someone to love;
something to believe...
in; faith in God.
That's all you
can hope
for.
Submitted for...
Keola Secret Poetry Contest
Sponsored by William Kekaula
Date written: 01/23/2022
If the truth shall kill them, let them die
-Immanuel Kant said
But I say-
Truth cannot be killer of the truth;
So, if they were killed by the truth be sure that they were liars!
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to the honor.
- Aristotle said
But I say-
Courage is the energy of an active brain,
Energy is the driver of human life to true honor.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing
And that is I know nothing.
-Master of knowledge Socrates said
But I say-
'Knowing nothing' this sense, in the inquisitive mind,
begets the power of digging out the treasure of true knowledge.
So, Truth always is courageous knowledge
© Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
05/07/21
I wish upon a star
A happy, big, fat, stupid star
You and your momma's favorite star
Everybody everywhere gets every silly
mindless infantile thing they most desperately
crave and desire
I am Immanuel Kant
I am compelled to tell the truth
Even if we're all insane
I feel I must tell the truth
We live in a gimme- gimme goo-goo world and
its impossible to stop wanting for all things
under Heaven ( and a few things just above Hell)
Try not to try; try not to feel, anything at all
if only for the next 5 minutes- I dare you
So in resignation, I resolve myself to the tragic
Suffering in us all
Condemned to be free, to choose, one or the other
The who, what, where, when, why, and how
And to be a prisoner to those choices,
not really free at all
So I wish upon a star
A bright and lovely stupid star
and hope you get everything you have
coming to you
To lie’s always wrong, Kant decreed.
Very few were convinced by his screed,
Seeing if he’d instead
Held a gun to their head,
They’d have shamelessly said they agreed.
Immanuel Kant
we would like to address but we shan't
his Critique of Reason
has apparently not been renewed for a second season.
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