What is a man?

Yugi · Post by **Yugi** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:16 am

it's a poem i made in study hall..not towards anyone ok?

What is a man?

A man is just a bag of flesh,blood,and bone.

A man seeks greed and destruction.

A man does not care about anothers life.

A man whose heart was sold to the devil.

Where as god watches over men,satin watches and laughs at their pitiful survival.

Men kill each other for what they think is right.

A man is a murderer.

Some try to do right,innocent they may be they are always accused of a crime they never did.

A man is a liar.

A man who tries to do good never gets the respect he deserves.

What is a man?....he is human..one who has faults..

Eviticus · Post by **Eviticus** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:32 am

www.dictionary.com says:

An adult male human.
A human regardless of sex or age; a person.
A human or an adult male human belonging to a specific occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination: a milkman; a congressman; a freeman.
The human race; mankind: man's quest for peace.
Zoology. A member of the genus Homo, family Hominidae, order Primates, class Mammalia, characterized by erect posture and an opposable thumb, especially a member of the only extant species, Homo sapiens, distinguished by a highly developed brain, the capacity for abstract reasoning, and the ability to communicate by means of organized speech and record information in a variety of symbolic systems.
A male human endowed with qualities, such as strength, considered characteristic of manhood.
Informal.
A husband.
A male lover or sweetheart.

Aony · Post by **Aony** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:33 am

Not entirely accurate...some men are nice and stuff...but like you said at the end, "a man who tries to do good never gets the respect he deserves" good people are seen as weak unfortunately. Quite a crazy mixed up world of ours. Oh well. And now, time to sleep.

Post by **JediKitsune** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:35 am

What IS a man?

Yugi · Post by **Yugi** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:37 am

it's just a poem i made it out of boredom i meant man by humans not by the male gender i meant all people. i didn't mean to insult anyone by it i just wanted to share my bad poetry skills.

Post by **Yukira** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:53 am

Aony wrote:Not entirely accurate...some men are nice and stuff...but like you said at the end, "a man who tries to do good never gets the respect he deserves" good people are seen as weak unfortunately. Quite a crazy mixed up world of ours. Oh well. And now, time to sleep.

True, true...so true. This world is way FUBAR.

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:35 am

*blinks* Man hume or ManTHRA xD

Losfuin · Post by **Losfuin** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:27 pm

Yugi wrote:it's just a poem i made it out of boredom i meant man by humans not by the male gender i meant all people.

I can see why people would miss that, though, given that you refer to all people as "he". My feminist self has to call you out on that one.

Crispleaf · Post by **Crispleaf** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:45 pm

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god!

- Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:36 pm

Losfuin wrote:
Yugi wrote:it's just a poem i made it out of boredom i meant man by humans not by the male gender i meant all people.
I can see why people would miss that, though, given that you refer to all people as "he". My feminist self has to call you out on that one.

The problen is not that s/he doesn't work at all in poetry, it makes bad poetry even worse.

There are a pair of lesbian comedians who have found a great acceptance among straight audiences. Their sthick revolves around bad, pretentious, feminist poetry just full of s/hes.

In Soviet Russia they used to jail their poets. Here in America we do far worse. We ignore them.

Keep trying Yugi. Poetry is more about ideas than words or forms.

Post by **Cyndari** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:07 pm

Yugi wrote:it's just a poem i made it out of boredom i meant man by humans not by the male gender i meant all people. i didn't mean to insult anyone by it i just wanted to share my bad poetry skills.

Those arent bad poetry skills, they are very good

In todays world you are made to think that what you said is offensive but it is true man is very destructive. For some interesting reading you should check books on goddess or pagan worship where the female is the benevolent one, the mother, the caretaker. Todays religions have rewritten the role of women to be lower than man, that man is more powerful and women are weaker. The sacred feminine as it is known no longer exsists and its a shame.

Tinacat · Post by **Tinacat** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:21 pm

Crispleaf wrote:What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god!

- Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2

Men, lay your hands on my sword
- Hamlet, (idk where)

Crispleaf · Post by **Crispleaf** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:47 pm

Tinacat wrote:Men, lay your hands on my sword
- Hamlet, (idk where)

Act 1, Scene 5, but I don't really see what that has to do with anything

Tinacat · Post by **Tinacat** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:00 pm

it can be turned into something perverted

Crispleaf · Post by **Crispleaf** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:19 pm

Tinacat wrote:it can be turned into something perverted

Maybe Yugi had it right after all

Eviticus · Post by **Eviticus** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:35 pm

Crispleaf wrote:
Tinacat wrote:it can be turned into something perverted
Maybe Yugi had it right after all

Why does this scare me?

Crysta · Post by **Crysta** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:20 am

Crispleaf wrote:What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god!

- Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2

True, but Hamlet was speaking with sarcasm there, and bitterness. The full monologue goes:

"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty. In form and movement how express and admirable... In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world, a paragon of animals. And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

Crispleaf · Post by **Crispleaf** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:07 pm

Crysta wrote:True, but Hamlet was speaking with sarcasm there, and bitterness. The full monologue goes:

"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty. In form and movement how express and admirable... In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world, a paragon of animals. And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

I don't believe that's true. If you keep going, he tells Rosencrantz that as fascinating as the affairs of men and women should be to him, it does not interest him. He preceded it with saying that as wonderous as the sky should be, "it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours."

If anything, he's conveying both his depression of the murder of his father, and his single-mindedness about exposing the new king, his step-father, as the murderer of his dad. Everything else is irrelevant to him, no matter how amazing it should be.

Yugi · Post by **Yugi** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:01 pm

i guess i should have added women in there as well? maybe? i didn't mean to insult anyone its just a poem..a rather bad one ^^' i'm sorry if anyone was hurt by this..i just wanted to share how bad i am at poetry. >.< i have other poems i made too..and for the last and final time..I'M A GIRL!

Post by **Cyndari** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:30 pm

Yugi wrote:i guess i should have added women in there as well? maybe? i didn't mean to insult anyone its just a poem..a rather bad one ^^' i'm sorry if anyone was hurt by this..i just wanted to share how bad i am at poetry. >.< i have other poems i made too..and for the last and final time..I'M A GIRL!

youre thinkin way too much hun, as long as you liked it that is all that matters.

Yugi · Post by **Yugi** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:21 pm

i didn't want to hurt anyone by it forgive me. "What is a man? a miserable little pile of secrets!" -Dracula

Post by **JediKitsune** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:23 pm

Yugi wrote:i didn't want to hurt anyone by it forgive me. "What is a man? a miserable little pile of secrets!" -Dracula

You seriously need to click the link in my reply on the first page now.

Yugi · Post by **Yugi** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:25 pm

it doesn't work >.< so i didn't know..but i thought that might've been it.><

Post by **JediKitsune** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:41 pm

Yugi wrote:it doesn't work >.< so i didn't know..but i thought that might've been it.><

But... I just clicked the link and it was fine...

Yugi · Post by **Yugi** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:28 pm

not for me.

Post by **JediKitsune** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:45 pm

Yugi wrote:not for me.

Your computer must be broken or something...

Yugi · Post by **Yugi** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:48 pm

i wouldn't know i'm not expert on computers >< so i don't know why it doesn't work.

Post by **JediKitsune** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:22 am

Yugi wrote:i wouldn't know i'm not expert on computers >< so i don't know why it doesn't work.

Uh... try This one?

Yugi · Post by **Yugi** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:34 am

wow..what bad acting no offense..the original people who said it were better.^^;

Post by **JediKitsune** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:53 am

Yugi wrote:wow..what bad acting no offense..the original people who said it were better.^^;

But... the original actors were really, really bad too...

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