Speaking of impressive production, it seems that the total word count of the comments you left on my digital avatar in the last three days exceeds that of all your entries on your own digital avatar in the last three months combined.

Regarding readership, I worked hard to build up my audience of at least five visitors per day. I’m sure you can do the same.

I now call my favorite teacher to the witness stand; his invitation to collect books of reference, to recognize a source and identify how to access it rather than absorb the text made me lazy; a lazy collector of reference works.

The Bible is such a dense volume. I pick at it as a bored bird without hunger. Still, now and then, I stumble through a few topics in it using a software identified as the SwordProject. It works for me.

Shall Karma deal harshly with me? Each according to guilt; blame me, if you must…

The impressive production on your blog shows me that you are yourself vastly prepared. I guess that is what makes coming here a pleasure. My personal digital avatar has a much smaller audience; on the web it is known as natural selection, being visited by virtue of intellectual strength.

Write well and survive is the imperative.

@dafna

Thanks dafna. A good link can go a long way.

bill gates and warren buffet are my heros. both products of a capitalists society.

although you say that everyone has ample opportunity to clarify to their hearts content, i would choose to disengage from this blog topic since i feel i have clearly stated my opinions already.

we have different opinions. i hate debate, it is not in my nature.

we might,/i> agree on ONE point, it is easier to recognize a typo than to fix one?

For instance, if you feel you’re being undercompensated for your efforts, you should be able to articulate who is supposed to pay you the extra amount you think you deserve for your efforts, and by what mechanism exactly this person or entity ought to be compelled to pay it in case they don’t want to.

Are you in favor of a wholesale raise in minimum wages to a level where sheer effort is properly compensated by employers, or should the government send the underappreciated among us a monthly check to cover the difference, all paid for by taxes obtained from the affluent?

Of course capitalist societies recognize the problem of the “working poor,” and it is being addressed all over the place by that horrible capitalist/protestant society you appear to view as an obstacle to your success. You just cited several examples yourself, and I had mentioned that I’ve been collecting unemployment for almost a year now; as we speak there’s a debate in our horrible capitalist/protestant Congress to extend unemployment benefits yet again, and only one Senator out of 535 delegates (all of them elected by the people which comprise this horrible capitalist/protestant society) appears to be against it.

i would not mind the liberal/socialist label. capitalist societies do recognize the problem of “the working poor”. unless the cleaning lady is able to live beyond hand to mouth, she is defined as the working poor.

he, he, he, thanks for the compliment but if the question about how to deal with it has/is being addressed by great minds, i don’t think i qualify.

many programs have/are being put to the test. you could make use of some of them. there are training grants available in all states for anyone earning less than $37,000. there are FAFSA grants. there are some crazy capitalists, pierre omidyar, that believe in something called social philanthropy (the “microloan”). then there is bill gates and warren buffet that attack the issue with charity.

most browsers still have the option to “view source”. if the html makes any sense to you, “copy and paste”. it is always a pair of bracketed commands i will use the wrong type of bracket and see if it shows up [i]lorem ispum[/i] = italics

here is any easy link: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_primary.asp

for wordpress, only italics and hyper link commands are usually available to the audience. sorry you can’t speak softly by way of font size, but you may be able to carry a big stick.

“The Bible has an interesting reference to the vanity of looking for innocence in those whom bad things happen to. Can’t remember it off of my head; I could find it.”

“Do excuse my capital letters. I don’t know how to make it appear in cursive in order to put an emphasis.”

You seem generally ill-prepared. Keep in mind that karma favors those who do their homework.

I’m glad I know of the Online Etymology Dictionary. I love to go there.

facetious:
1590s, from Fr. facétieux, from facétie “a joke,” from L. facetia, from facetus “witty, elegant,” of unknown origin, perhaps related to facis “torch.” It implies a desire to be amusing, often intrusive or ill-timed. “Facetiæ in booksellers’ catalogues, is, like curious, a euphemism for erotica.” [Fowler] Related: Facetiously; facetiousness.

“It implies a desire to be amusing, often intrusive or ill-timed.” Yes…

but no,
not A PRODUCT OF “spiteful minds wallowing in self righteousness” but something someone with such a bend of mind would do, a favorite sport of sorts, blaming-the-victim.
Not CAUSALLY RELATED but coming together as the pig and the trough. As hunger and food, that kind of hunger and that kind of food.

Do excuse my capital letters. I don’t know how to make it appear in cursive in order to put an emphasis. The following should be read in font size 8 and as a whisper: I never shout online.

Say some more.

A little bit victim and a little bit not would entail a little bit guilty and a little bit not. I.e. if I am a little bit victim then the other bit of me is to blame; a rather balanced view. Brings LIBERTY to my mind; our Lady of the scales.

All or nothing seems very unbalanced: All victim or no victim at all vs. All guilty or no guilt at all. You are yellow or red, never orange.

Are there other options?

The issue of guilt or blame must take into consideration the idea of free will.

Do we or do we not have free will?

Are we cards dealt or cards jumping out of the deck or a little bit of both?

The cards appear randomly after the shuffle but they never come out better than an ace or less than a 2. We perceive luck but fortune or conditions are limited and are there from the beginning.

Shall we add to the annals of philosophy?