On Blogging and Other Stuff
Hola All Fellow Cyber Cadets ~
For a few years now, despite the offs-and-ons, ins-and-outs and ups-and-downs
of my lifes Spiritual Journey, I have been bold and brave enough to express
myself via the Internet without foolish fear of self-exposure in search of
kindred souls out in cyberspace through countless Emails, postings to Online
Groups, drop-ins at Chat Rooms and occasional Instant Messages.
There were times I posted from the Downtown Library, sneaking out an Email from
Job Centers, hopping onto a friends computer for a while and always ready to
bounce out at a given moment, grabbing my backpack in hand. Even during times
when I homeless and had no Personal Computer at home I usually found a way to
reach out to others I came across on the Path with Heart. Here now, on this
clear cool Sunday morning, I am blessed to be at home and to have Comcast
wireless broadband thanks to my Amigo on my own PC
finally!
Circumstances change in time, space and terrain. Life is a long series of
changes and we must change with changing times. The future comes at us whether
we are prepared to change or not.
I hold to the basic core belief that freely sharing is caring. In fact, the
greed of not sharing between the haves and the have-nots is a big part of
the root problem upon Mother Earth. We do not freely share our natural
resources with each other because of our fear, our greed and our hatred.
A true kind humane being should always have care, concern and compassion for
all creatures of the Great Creator, that is, all living beings upon Mother
Earth. Openly sharing the best we have to offer, be it a glass of water or food
for thought, may be the hardest test of the genuine humaneness of ones
individual character or our collective character as a people, especially when
we should strive to love the redeemable sinner, but are obligated to hate the
vile sin.
Failures have just not learned how to succeed in life. No one is a born loser.
We are all born winners. However, the blows and battles of the war of life can
wear us out, knock us down and cause us to lose faith, lose love, lose heart,
yet, faint hearts never win decisive battles in protracted war. Indeed, life is
war whether we choose to fight in it to really win or choose not to fight and
be doomed to surely lose.
Life is a long protracted war and those who fail to see that are just not
combat ready in a world already at war. Times have really changed for the
worse these last few years. Havent you noticed? I refuse to live my life in
frozen fear, in weak hatred and in constant suspicion. Ultimately, it is not a
matter of merely how long we live in a quantitative time-sense, but it is how
well we live in a qualitative life-sense; it is how noble, how just and how
humane we have been towards others in the scales of eternal time that counts in
the end. The rest is just inhaling and exhaling
any animal can do that!
Cast not thy precious pearls before filthy swine nor give what is Holy and
Sacred to rabid dogs. Many online groups and chat rooms are akin to the
insanity of the Tower of Babel wherein we speak endlessly to really no one but
ourselves because no one reads, no one listens, no one responds. We preach
sermons to a convinced choir online like birds of a feather out on a limb, yet,
forget our spouses, our roommates, our neighbors next door, and our local
refugees in the streets. Even some of our own loyal ever-loving pets languish
in pens, cages and rooms in still silent torment dying from our own neglect,
our own apathy, and our own self-centeredness. And pets can be two-legged! Look
around you!
We seek through the Power of the Word to reach out to others in the hope of
finding common ground where we can stand together to fight back against this
wicked world. Thus, as time passes, I see the value of creating, checking in
and updating a Personal BLOG for myself and whoever has the luxury time of
being online, wants to come and stop by, visit for a time, then go onward out
into cyberspace into the rest of connected reality.
Definition: Blog is short for web log which is a journal (or newsletter) that
is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs
generally represent the personality of the author and it is available on the
web. The activity of updating a blog is blogging and someone who keeps a blog
is a blogger. Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows
people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
Related Links ~~~
A Bloggers Code of Ethics
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php
Global Voices Online
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/
Blog for America
http://blogforamerica.com/
Digital Divide Network Blogs
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blogs/
Create Your Own Blog Now
http://www.blogger.com/start
