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“ Conformity is the most over-used method of suicide .” -Werner Franz Doerwaldt












H ello there everybody! My name’s Daniel, though you can call me Dan if you like. I also frequently go by the pen name Arëbyl, so you’re free to call me that as well if you’re more comfortable with that. I joined this site in April 2006 by recommendation of my friend A.J. also a member of this site. http://allpoetry.com/A-Dog  Since joining, I’ve written over 85 poems, about all sorts of things, though usually about life, love, etc, the occasional fantasy or societal piece, etc.
I’ve met a lot of amazing people on AP, but there are so many, I will limit it to only a few:

Morgan Kennedy Nite: An amazing girl, always knows how to cheer me up. I don’t know what I would do without her. She’s my life, she really is. She pulled me out of my darkest hour, and for that I am forever grateful. I love you so much, Em.

http://allpoetry.com/Morgan%20Kennedy%20Nite



X Shinigami x: This is one special guy. I cannot tell you the impact that Justin has had on my life. He is giving, selfless, and brave. Truly I tell you that you will never find a more selfless soul than his.

http://allpoetry.com/x%20Shinigami%20x



rooibos: This girl is one of the sweetest people you’ll ever meet. Kind and caring, gracious and strong and a joy to everyone who knows her. Definitely one of the coolest people I’ve ever met.

http://allpoetry.com/rooibos

So there ‘ya go! Love all you guys, hope you like my page, if you don’t, love ‘ya anyway, thanks to whoever the anonymous person who gave me the three month gold membership! Omnis est nusquam vacuus diligo!

-Arëbyl

You’ll now find an obscenely long montage of quotes along with a few poems and short stories and tidbit/factoids.

Orville was a man in his forties who worked in the mailroom of a company, in the basement. Now, the mail cler was the lowest position in the company and no one was lower than Orville. Orville didn't really like this too much, and one day, as he was working for so many and getting so little money, he saw a bug scurry acros the floor. Glad that there was at least one thing in the world he was bigger than, he moved to squish it. But then the bug said, "If you do not squish me, I shall grant you wishes." And so Orville spare the bug's life. "Because you have done this, I will grant you as many wishes as you like," said the Bug.

"I wish to work on the first floor," replied Orville. "As you wish," said the Bug. And so it was. Orville enjoyed the new position, but he came to to Bug once again and said, "I wish to work on the fifth floor." "As you wish," answered the Bug. And so it was. While on the fifth floor, Orville discovered that there were many floors in the building. So he came to the Bug again and said, "I wish to work on the twenteth floor." "As you wish," said the Bug, and so it was. Now, this continued for some time, until Orville wished his way to the president of the company. He saw the stairs that led to the rooftop garden of the building, above the 96th floor. "At last," said Orville, triumhantly. "I have reached the top, and no one is above me!" He went up to the garden and he saw a boy kneeling, resting his arms on the rail. "What are you doing?" Orville asked the boy. "Why, I'm praying!" said the boy. "To whom?" asked Orville. "Why, God of course!" said the boy. "He's up there!" He pointed to the skies above.

At this, Orville was terrified. Someone is yet above me? There is someone at a higher position than me! I must see the Bug at once, for this will not do!" So he went to the Bug. "I wish to be God!" he exclaimed. "I wish to be at the position only God would fill!" "As you wish," said the Bug.

So Orville worked in the mailroom.
















A word was secretly brought to me,
my ears caught a whisper of it...
Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on men,
fear and trembling seized me
and made all my bones shake...
A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.
It stopped,
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice...

-Job 4:12-16












Please catch for us the foxes ;

the foxes that are in our vineyards,

our vineyards that are in bloom ....

"People are often unreliable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are successful,
You will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

When you spend years bulding,
Someone may destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

The good you do today,
People will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have
And it may just not be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
It is all between you and God.
It was never between you and them
Anyway."


-Mother Teresa O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem!






"I do not try to give any illusion that I think that war will somehow end by treaties or by disarmaments. Wars will rage until the end of men and the return of God. If we removed all guns and swords from every building in the world, and put them on a space ship, then launched them into the infinity of space, we would not have peace-- only the world's biggest bar-fight."

-J.E. Martin









"An 'impersonal God'-- well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads -- better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap -- best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps, approaching an infinite speed, the hunter, king, husband -- that is quite another matter. There comes a moment when the children who have been playing at burglars hush suddenly: was that a real footstep in the hall? There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('Man's search for God!') suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?"

-C.S. Lewis





Gandhi stepped off the boat upon his return from his journey. A man asked him, "So, what do you think of Modern Civilization, sir?" to which Gandhi replied,

"When I see it, I will tell you..."






“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended us to forgo their use.”

-Galileo





The students all told the younger boy as they prepared to leave the school, "this is the best teacher you'll ever have!" They pointed to the teacher, who happened to overhear them. The teacher looked up. "No, no..." he said. " Life is the greatest teacher."






“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and carry on as if nothing had happened.”

-Winston Churchill




“The atheist can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t find a policeman .”

-Unknown





“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘ darkness ’ on the walls of his cell.”

-C.S. Lewis
 

“Practicing psychiatry without faith in God is like meeting a hungry man and giving him a toothpick .”

-Unknown






“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils ; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable .”

-G.K. Chesterton






“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else .”

-C.S. Lewis



“Some people complain to God because He puts thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses among thorns .”

-Unknown





“If God were small enough to be understood, he would not be big enough to be worshipped .”

-Evelyn Underhill






“Out of one hundred men, one will read the bible ; the other ninety-nine will read the Christian .”

-D.L. Moody


“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried .”

-G.K. Chesterton







“When life gives you oranges , make lemonade and leave everyone wondering how you did it.”

-Justin Elliott





~LIVE FREE OR DIE … DEATH IS NOT THE WORST OF EVILS…~

-General John Stark





“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything you risk even more .”

-Erica Jong












Six humans trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold;
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story’s told.

Their dying fire in need of logs,
The first woman held hers back,
For on the faces ‘round the fire,
She noticed one was black.

The next man looking cross the way,
Saw one not of his church,
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes;
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?

The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store,
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy, shiftless poor.

The black man’s face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from sight,
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.


And the last man of this forlorn group
Did naught except for gain;
Giving to those who gave to him
Was how he played the game.

The logs held in death’s still hands
Was proof of human sin;
They didn’t die from the cold without,
But from the cold within.

-George Kirby












“ Don’t be afraid to be what you say and say what you are, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind .” -Dr. Suess