Third anniversary: if you blog long enough….
…you find you’ve written about almost everything.
Now that I’m somewhere around my third anniversary of active blogging (yikes! gadzooks! arghhh!) I have to say I never expected to still be doing this at this point. But I continue to enjoy it, and as long as that’s true, I plan to keep on keeping on.
One of the added benefits of lengthy and daily blogging is that, after so long a time, I find I’ve blogged on an amazing number of topics. Often, even I forget how many. I’ve probably duplicated myself more than a few times without even realizing it, since certain themes keep popping up with great insistence.
Sometimes, though, I find myself writing about something—or thinking of writing about something—and it begins to ring a faint and distant bell. If I do a search on the blog I discover that yes, I’ve passed this way before. That means I don’t have to start from scratch every time I have a thought; I can just link to a blast from the past in my archives.
And speaking of archives, have you strolled around there? One of the advantages of this newer blog format over my original home on Blogger is that I can group posts by category now.
Simply fascinated by my views on poetry (and who among you could fail to be)? Well, there’s plenty more where that came from. Want to know everything I’ve ever said about war and peace? Why just settle down and browse. Make sure you’re in a comfortable chair.
Two caveats: I still haven’t categorized all of my posts, as you’ll observe if you take a look at the bulging “uncategorized” category on the right sidebar. Also, when I moved to this new site nearly a year ago, I used a program to import my old posts along with their manifold comments. Unfortunately, there was a glitch that reversed the order of the comments, so that in all of those older posts the most recent comments now appear on top and the oldest ones on the bottom.
That means the conversations in the old comment sections make no sense if read them the conventional way, from top to bottom. But you can fix that by going in the opposite direction, bottom to top. And ignore the time stamps; they’re all the same, and reflect the day they were imported to the new blog.
Blogging’s hard work, but it has given me more rewards than I ever conceived it would when I took the first tentative steps to write my letter to the world. Fortunately, the world has written back, and most of that reply has been good.
Well congrats, and thanks for the virtual chocolate. Having recently completed my first year blogging, your perspective is appreciated. Happy V-Day, too!
Congratulations on the third anniversary. As long as you keep writing your thoughts for me to read , I’ll keep reading them.
Gadzooks?Can Egad be far behind?
What? WHAT? I’m sorry Neo, but I just don’t understand what you mean.
Could you say that again, please.
Congratulations, Neo….I enjoy your blog very much.
Thanks you.
Here’s a topic to work into a cool posting, neo: the relationship between religion and science. How the scientific method relies on an objective approach to measure, calculate, and describe the universe — while religious methods are more subjective, relying on varying notions of authority. Discuss the two magisterums, as each realm is separate, and the false notion that they can never be in conflict. Discuss how radical theism hates science but needs what science produces when science is in tune with manifesting canonical prophecy, as in how nuclear weaponry is good to obtain as a means to end the world or utterly destroy the enemy’s of God, yet how the same magisteria loathes science when it relegates canonical dogmas to what religion, and thus zealots, can always turn to in holy books to give credence for Inquisitions or Jihads, like how giving blood, treating or curing diseases and alleving hunger relegates the judgment of the divine to the hands of the secular world, that the science of plate tectonics and meteorology to explain natural disasters relegates the awe of the divine the same way, how this magisteria is the source of evil, as history has demonstrated, justifying the credulity and the vice of trust and faith to prepare entire populations for totalitarianism, slavery, genocide, racism, and subjugation of women, non-believers, and sinners. Not that religion can or should be done away with, but to recognize that the human species and our practiced superstitions show that we are evolving, and that we have come some way from the infancy of our species, that religion is man-made and specifically MAN made, that we are not as far along as we wish we were, and that if we can embrace the hope of reason, to our credit of which we can at least imagine, which may teach us how to care for and respect the precious and temporal miracle of intelligent life, and to rely on all that we really have — the inner force that we are self-governing, self-reliant, self-responsible and innately compassionate and moral … how religion subjugates that idea and how science uplifts that idea.
Congrats on your 3rd Anniversary! I’m sure blogging is very hard work, and you’ve been doing it admirably.
Mostly, thanks for saying all the things I’d love to say to my liberal friends (i.e., all of them) but am afraid to…
The key is to enjoy what you do, blogs serve a most vital function, a tool for social interaction, as much a personal voice, as an aggregator of opinion, sometimes not to ones liking, but it’s very clear that you do enjoy it, no surprise there.
Congratulations on the third anniversary!
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