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 Yahoo Blog Link http://360.yahoo.com/ MSN Spaces http://spaces.msn.com/ How to Create Your Own Blog Author: Andy Carvin, EDC Center for Media & Community | December 8th, 2004 http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=69 As a work in progress, I still have a lot of work to do on myself: my character defects, my shortcomings and even my inner demons, but even in the dead of night I can feel the light of dawn coming. These days, I love Creator God, stay straight and help others whenever I can. For example, I am starting up a new A.A. Group at La Familia Counseling Center, along with my Amigo Toro to be held every Wednesday at 6 PM and maybe we can get a Computer Technology Center going there too! La Familia Counseling Center 5523 34th Street {by Fruitridge Road} Sacramento, California {95820} Business Phone: 916/ 452-3601 http://lafcc.com/ We will see what we will see. There is so much more of living to be in life to be lived, lessons to be learned and battles to be fought. I brace myself for the storms to come and pray I will have the continued fearless fortitude to fight onward! Nothing can defeat a Movement whose time has come! Insane madness rules in the White House, Amerikans are dying from apathy and our children suffer in so many ways, including not ever having real mature adults as loving parents in their homes. Nada mas ahora ~~ Tu Hermano ~ Che Peta Help Build Bridges, Not Borders! Peter S. Lopez ~Field Coordinator Sacramento, Califas, USA Email: sacranative{at}yahoo.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HumaneRightsAgenda/ http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/sacranative Fight Back Against Amerikan Fascism! Peter S. Lopez~Field Coordinator Sacramento, Califas, USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HumaneRightsAgenda/ http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/sacranative --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
