Creativity Corner

Hi GDRThere is a Limerick Shmimerick threadEnjoy

Thanks ZDI had fun reading that. It got me thinking.A whole thread in Limerick verse
To many would seem quite perverse
But a true limerick can
Like Keats or Whitman
Hide beauty which you can unearth
CheersEdited by GDR, : No reason given.

In limerick school I did my time
There they taught me the rules of limerick rhyme
I feel like a sap
So I'll just stick to rap
And never again will I commit such a terrible crime(Well at least not until next time)

Hi GDR,A gem that was, I do say
too bad this effort won't pay
any wages
for sages
or poets who like to word play.Enjoy

Well now that you learned there are laws
You probably found other flaws
Like limericks and sports
And in traffic court
Even nature required a first causeEdited by GDR, : No reason given.

But who caused the causer I ask?
An eternal creator nothing more than a mask
Are we on top of a turtle?
To infinity the pile hurtles
And in deep ignorance we continue to bask

But still there has to be cause
And this really should give you pause
Even if it is mindless
That is what is behind us
There’s still ignorance, turtles and flaws

But what if this thing called causality
Is a property only of our universality
Something just is
So why not this?
No need to invoke any mystical personality

Entropy begins and it ends
To say otherwise is just to pretend
So we have emerged from the whole
And when the new world unfolds
We’ll have an answer and talk of it then

When we talk of our universe and what came prior
We will inevitably end up in a speculative quagmire
Of any particular call
The probability vanishingly small
So anyone who says they "know" is a big fat liar

Believing is different than knowing
So round and round we keep going
You believe what you do
Just as I believe too
With both of our biases showing

There are so many darn possibilities
To choose just one defies probability
God rather than not
Is to take a pot shot
That frankly smacks of anthropomorphicity

But to start there’s just two possibilities
And intelligence has more plausibility
That a non-intelligent start
That evolved someone as smart
As yourself, just lacks credibility

Why must it be one or t'other
Sheer probability suggests it will be quite another
God or not
Ignores such a lot
And provides no justification for your cosmographerTo admit infinite possibilities is respectable
As a basis for agnosticism perfectly acceptable
Heads or tails
On this question just fails
And denies opportunities for research that might be delectableSo I say be agnostic completely
Accept our ignorance humbly and meekly
With no evidence in hand
We can't be so grand
To assume an intelligence quite so routinely

Now I do not reject any research
Good science I never besmirch
I’m eager to learn
What science discerns
There’s more to be learned than what’s in churchBut just to say we can’t know is a cop-out
We can’t just give up the question and drop-out
We all believe something
Whether it’s God or nothing
About what’s right and wrong when we’re in doubtYou always claimed to be atheistic
A view which seemed pessimistic
My wisdom though scant
Has caused you to recant
Now as agnostic you’re less fatalisticEdited by GDR, : No reason given.