I wanna talk about angels?

hey, where did she come from?

that's irrellevant!   I'll start:

"when I was younger...I danced with angels, their wild wings in fourth
position"
-Jane Yolen

"angel of snow's breath and the insomnia of cats, angel of snapshots fading
to infinity, don't drop me - shoeless, wingless. Defender of burrows, carry
me - carry me in your pocket of light."
-Nancy Willard

"every visible thing in the world is put under the charge of an angel"
-St. Augustine

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Neato.  What gives?

Notable films about angels:

        "Stairway to Heaven"
        "It's a Wonderful Life"
        "Wings of Desire"

And not to be forgotton,
        "Ernest Goes to Heaven"

I dunno Josh, just wanted to talk about angels...who knows, I'm a fruitloop

OK, that's fine.  I really didn't mean to offend you (which I feel like I
did).  
I guess I have very little to say about angels, despite having been raised
to be a"good" little Christian boy.  I've never had any experience with them,
although I'm not prepaired to rule out their existance or influence.  I still
beleive in a God which is active to this day (call me old fasioned), so what
right have I to rule out angels, UFOs, ghosts, or any other supernatural
thing? Still, while I don't actively disbelieve in thm, my knee jerk reaction
is sceptism of people who claim to have had a close encounter with the weird
kind(s).  <Shrug>  Anyhoo, that's about what I think of angels, or possible
lack thereof.  
        Cheerio!

Re:4
   Yes, but you're a _cute_ fruitloop, dear!


(Although I haven't seen you in *months*, goodness knows what you've done to
your hair Now! <gin>)

my hair remains the same since mid-june-ish and I've been trying to get ahold
of you, but I think you love Ring more than me <pout>...I don't mean it,
really, but I'd love to see you when you're free.
And now, Josh, you didn't offend me in the least. Besides it takes more than
that to offend l'il 'ol me. In any case, I was raised Jwish and really hadn't
given the matter much thought, but recently I've been experiencing not so much
a spiritual awakening as an adoption of symbols. My brain has been sifting
through a lot of religious crap recently and some of it is just more
interesting than others. You have to admit that angels as a pure conceptual,
even barring their existance are pretty neat.

   not to mention that someone in the middle ages actually came up with
a specific number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin.  it's
900-some, if i remember rightly.

Wow, they really got things done in the middle ages.

   at the moment, i can't remember where i read that.  when i do, i'll
post it.

"For the Cherub Cat is a term in the Angel Tiger"

Cricket, do you remember where I got that one? I _think_ it's Christopher
Smart, but i may be wrong.


I approve of angels, but the current 'cute fuzzy angels' trend bugs me even
more than the 'cute fuzzy Jesus' thing did. I mean, we're talking divine
minions here, not walking security blankets. But maybe that's just me.

It might be Christopher smart.  It sounds like him, but the version I learned
was somewhat condenced

Yeah, Christopher Smart, from Jubilate Agno:

"For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety of hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he
suppresses"

(He's talking about his cat Jeoffry, BTW. He wrote this while he was confined
for insanity. Crazy stuff, this)

What I really loved was what he said about mice:

        "For the mouse is a creature of great personal valor,
For this is the True case:
        Cat takes female mouse,
Male mouse will not depart,
        But stand threatning, and daring:
        'If you will let her go,
I will engage you, 
        as prodigious a creature as you are.'"

I'm sure that the line breaks are all messed up, but that's pretty much what
the man said.

Hmm...that wasn't in my abridged version, so I guess we're even.
I wonder where you could find the whole thing in one Fell Swoop?

God knows.  When they found the poem, it was all out of order, and there is
more than one school of thought on how it should be put together.
Try the A2 main library, 'though.

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