Comments on: Third anniversary: if you blog long enough….

By: driver

driver — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:12:44 +0000

Well congrats, and thanks for the virtual chocolate. Having recently completed my first year blogging, your perspective is appreciated. Happy V-Day, too!

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:34:07 +0000

Congratulations on the third anniversary. As long as you keep writing your thoughts for me to read , I’ll keep reading them.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:35:27 +0000

Gadzooks?Can Egad be far behind?

By: Vanderleun

Vanderleun — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:12:17 +0000

What? WHAT? I’m sorry Neo, but I just don’t understand what you mean.

Could you say that again, please.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:51:09 +0000

Congratulations, Neo….I enjoy your blog very much.
Thanks you.

By: nyomythus

nyomythus — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:08:03 +0000

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.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:44:33 +0000

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…

By: Otto - American Interests

Otto - American Interests — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:23:51 +0000

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!