Announcing Recent Posts: Take a look at the column on the right (under Recent Comments.) It seems to work as expected. The only question is, how many posts do we want to list. Let me know, it’s easy to change.
UPDATE: Also made the drop-down list for categories! And it also seems to work (but let me know if you have problems).
I’ll be back in the morning. (I think the fire is under control — the firemen looked kind of bored the last time they showed it)
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Hi Katiebird, I clicked on the ‘view’ box to see the categories, but it directed me back to the homepage, which is looking great. I’m using firefox on XP… she’s-a no workie for me.
Sorry I haven’t been around, but I’ve been a little shell shocked by the way so many people turned on each other at Bootrib, and now it looks like Susan and a few others are gone. It really makes me wonder about that sense of community everybody keeps talking about. Are all the “friendships” just illusion? When push comes to shove, everyone is in it for themselves… I detected precious little “community” behavior lately. How can we ever change the world when we go after each other’s throats the second a controversy erupts? I’m very disillusioned by some of the lies and twisting the truth just to make points. Who do I trust now?
I’m really sorry to bring this up, but maybe someone can help me get a little perspective on this. It’s really bothering me how people can be all nice nice and in a heartbeat go for your jugular. I’m still deathly afraid to post too much, or saying the wrong thing, or taking the wrong tone with the wrong topic. If we all have to be afraid of each other, how in hell are we going to fight the juggernaught of Republican corruption? I feel so helpless. I love blogging, but maybe it’s just not worth the risk anymore.
Nag, I was no less than astonished to realize how deeply it has affected me.
However, what astonished me was not anti-Otherness, I am somewhat accustomed to that
but astonished at the depth and intensity of emotions one could come to have for a website, not the site itself, but the people, both as individuals and that aggregate that is greater than the sum of its parts.
But it was inevitable and I am glad that it occurred, because not only have I learned just what exceptional and noble spirits live in some people that I had not fully appreciated, but because I think it opened a door for others to think about things that they had not, and which thought will be useful to them, as events unfold.
Ductape, thank you so much for your reply. I recall during all of this, a particular post by you about how we must learn to love ourselves before we can reach outward. That is such a basic thing, and so very easy to forget. So often it seems as if anti-otherness stems from disillusionment with the self. It’s true that this whole thing has sure made me think about many things. We all must tend to our own gardens first.
Manny had a particularly wonderful post at his place about how this all has brought about growth within him. I suppose even though I wasn’t at the epicenter of it all, it has effected me quite deeply personally. I hope I can be like Manny and recognize my own growth. I hope I can be like you and see the whole picture in a positive hopeful light. Thanks, Ductape… you’ve helped me more than you know.
Now maybe I can go write that killer diary about America’s dark prisons and torture chambers.
OOL Thanks, Nag. I am seldom accused of being either positive or hopeful, so that is something of a novelty.
Please do write that diary. I’m looking forward to reading it. OK wait. That did not come out right. I mean I will be glad to see the topic get more exposure.
They’re building a new one in Morocco, you know…
There was an apology diary that helped me. That diarist’s comments on the original thread had shocked me more than any other comments, because they were so opposite of how I viewed that person. My faith in my own perceptions was already feeling shaken, but when I saw his comments, I thought I had been fooling myself about the place and some of the people. When he stated so clearly that he regretted his words, and why, I felt the environment wriggle a bit back into place. If ManE and Duct had not persevered, that diary might not have been written, so I learned a lot from them, and from Nanette, about the good results of not giving up. And, like Duct, I got to see some really great souls in action.
Personally, I think it “had” to happen, and that if it had not been over that particular issue, it would have turned up in another way, and may yet again. Maybe next time we’ll benefit from what we’ve learned this time.
One of the best things to come out of it for me was my new participation in ManE’s blog! I’m spreading out a bit now, trying to have a larger perspective, not putting ye olde eggs in ye olde single basket, but not because of ill feelings, honestly not. Just because it’s a wide blog world and it’s really interesting out here!
Thanks, Kansas, I truely appreciate your response. I think I may have missed that apology diary. I suppose you are right and such turmoil is inevitable in such a community as a blog.
I have lurked over at Manny’s place and I really like his style. Perhaps it’s also time for me to post there now and then.
Any blog is (at least as far as we know at this time) an earth phenomenon, so it is going to be a reflection of that environment.
As goes earth, so go the blogs.
And like kansas, I am just delighted to have “found” Manito’s blog, and catnip has now started hers, who knows, maybe other blogs we didn’t know about will pop up. Um, FmailyMan…?
And yes Nag, you should definitely post over at Manito’s. He does not bite new people very hard at all, and I have unconfirmed but credible reports that some of them kind of like it.
Geez Ductape I’m just now getting out of comments and submitting a few diaries.
I agree with kansas about it “had” to happen. I think it’s a point of critical mass, so to speak.
KB I just submitted my first diary over at the pond, but it’s a what if you won the lottery thing, so I’m not sure it would have been right for here.
I’ve started on the pain management/migraine diary, but still far from finished.
And Manny’s blog, I’ve been visiting and reading and hopefully he won’t bite my head off when I comment.
Nah, ManE does not bite… I got a hug with my first post, so there.
Yes, but did you expose your neck to him?
The strangest thing just happened, my ears were ringing so loudly that I went into a trance and ended up here. Funny how that happened
Manny it was them. I swear it was them. BTW how’s Nag’s neck?
Nag’s Neck. Sound like it should be a town on Cape Cod.
(snort!)