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OOPS.....

I spoke too soon. I just tried to open another window of BN in my browser (Compuserve) and it won't allow that. It opens up a new window, and wipes out the old window. Maybe it is time to dump Compuserve.

posted by GoldenMean on December 3, 2003 at 9:32 PM | link to this | reply

Thanks for the explanation

I think I can handle that, now that I understand it. Seems like once before, I tried to open another copy of BN, and it wiped out what I was writing on the first copy. Maybe I am remembering wrong, but now I know that is the way to go. Thanks.

posted by GoldenMean on December 3, 2003 at 9:24 PM | link to this | reply

I'm on my way, but...

...allow one more comment about linking. You don’t need a second account to open a second browser. Just open a second copy of MS Internet Explorer (or whatever browser you use). The way you get to BN is to open a browser and point it to the BN URL (www.bloggingnetwoek.com). To open another browser, simply do again whatever you do to get to BN. Then you can be in one BN area in one browser, and in another area of BN in the other browser. In fact, if you wish, you can open five or ten browsers at once, and be in a different place on all these browsers (like at Yahoo in one, MSN in another, BN in a third and 4th and 5th and 6th, at my site www.argee.net in another, and so forth). The only limit to this is your computer’s memory. This means that when you write a blog or comment, you can do your research in one or two (or more) browsers, hold this information in these browsers on your desktop ready for use, and compose your blog or comment, cutting and pasting from your sources as necessary, until your blog is completed. I usually create in my word processor so I can take advantage of its spelling and formatting capabilities. Then, when I am finished, I copy and paste into BN. (If you need more help, please email me: rgw@argee.net - just click on this, and your computer will generate an email form with the correct email address already inserted.)

posted by arGee on November 30, 2003 at 9:57 AM | link to this | reply

Argee, thanks for the tips on linking and editing comments. I never thought of using two browsers. I just tried to establish an account with a second browser, and that became quite tedious as well. For me and computers, there is no getting away from "tedious"!!

Anyway, I read your post about your "beliefs." I would prefer to call your views "postulates" or "theories." Why? Because it is obvious that you will re-evaluate your "beliefs" whenever new data or evidence dictates it. I think we had a short discussion about this somewhere else. You do not have your entire emotional and intellectual security tied up in your "beliefs," as most people do.

I found striking similarities in our views. You may want to look at my latest post over in The Agnostics Primer

posted by GoldenMean on November 28, 2003 at 11:22 PM | link to this | reply

One more comment...

...at the risk of being thought of as blatently promoting my own writing. You might be interested in my post Why I Believe - And What. I take an entirely different tack to the concept of belief. I would like to hear your reaction to this.

posted by arGee on November 28, 2003 at 6:53 PM | link to this | reply

Of course you can quote, Golden...

...the usual way is to give credit, but here at BN, you can simply select an appropriate word in or before the quote and link it to the original material.

I'm not sure why you think linking is tedious. Simply pick your URL (in another browser), copy all the address except the "http://", and paste it into the link window in BN. To edit a comment, simply copy your entire comment including the title, then delete it, and then create a new comcment and paste into the comment window. Then select the title (which is bolded in your comment window) and "drag" it to the title line. Then correct whatever was wrong with your original comment.

That's actually a pretty simple process that takes about 10 seconds.

posted by arGee on November 28, 2003 at 6:41 PM | link to this | reply

OK , here is the link....if it works

Here is the link to my main claim to fame (or infamy) on the BN, The Golden Rule Needs Some Iron

posted by GoldenMean on November 27, 2003 at 9:51 PM | link to this | reply

Thanks Argee

Since I wrote that comment, I have learned how to link stuff. But I have not discovered how to go back and edit a comment. It seems we can only delete a comment. Here is another failing in BN's writing program. So I will do another comment with a link, after I go and get the URI I need from the other blog. That is another problem, the process of linking is very tedious. But oh well, nothing worthwhile is easy.

Interesting that you should write of Ayn Rand in your blog. I like many elements of her philosophy. Can I quote you in some of my writings?

posted by GoldenMean on November 27, 2003 at 9:45 PM | link to this | reply

Hey, Golden...

...if you would "link" your reference to your other blog, you would be more likely to get readers to go there.

You did warn that this blog was lengthy. Nevertheless, I find that I agree with your premis. I took a different approach to the "same subject" in THE ABSOLUTE NATURE OF A RELATIVE UNIVERSE. (See, the link caused you to go there...). Anyway, we seem to be on similar wavelengths.

posted by arGee on November 27, 2003 at 8:59 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks Mona

Thank you for your kind compliment. I am happy to hear from another Student of Life who says that she "loves to learn." (See, I read your blogs too!)

You ought to check out my main blog over in Spirituality and Religion, entitled "The Golden Rule Needs Some Iron."

posted by GoldenMean on September 15, 2003 at 9:20 PM | link to this | reply

Wow, Goldenmean! Deeply profound. As for Pewee ... argh ... I hate to even say her name because when I do

I know crap ensues, but ... how can one believe in God and not believe in Satan? Or Good and Evil, as the case may be? Good post. Extremely deep, but very good in MHO. Rock on! Mona

posted by ezwaystrait on September 15, 2003 at 9:34 AM | link to this | reply

Good versus Evil as "ENTITIES"???

If that's what you think I wrote, you are mistaken. Good and evil are certainly not ENTITIES. That is a major philosophical fallacy that goes back to Plato. Good and evil are simply ideas, like everything else floating around in our heads. More important, good and evil describe our range of MORAL CHOICE. Nothing could be simpler to understand.

posted by GoldenMean on August 23, 2003 at 4:45 AM | link to this | reply

Blame and Choice

.....he who is to blame for his own choices.....

At least we can agree on that much, Pewee!

posted by GoldenMean on August 22, 2003 at 12:20 AM | link to this | reply

Good versus Evil as "Entities"

The word good is a derivative of God.  Since God is the only source, only power, there in reality can be no evil.  Man uses evil to assign responsibility for his lowered consciousness of who he is to blame for his own choices outside of that higher awareness or consciousness of his true nature - image likeness of God (as in the Allegory of Genesis).

Pewee

 

posted by Pewee on August 21, 2003 at 9:08 PM | link to this | reply