tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post9136386991387864870..comments2023-10-14T23:56:22.016-10:00Comments on Reflecting Light: Known but to GodRick Darbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-49927323485904871752012-06-14T06:37:59.234-10:002012-06-14T06:37:59.234-10:00Rick, very well said!Rick, very well said!Stogiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05852841950131130696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-32137780368263789292012-06-12T04:32:39.537-10:002012-06-12T04:32:39.537-10:00YIH,
Based on what I see there, including the lac...YIH,<br /><br />Based on what I see there, including the lack of a way to comment, I don't think Ann Barnhardt's site <i>is</i> a blog. She doesn't want to host a forum of people writing, "I agree with you on this point, but I disagree on that point." Ann believes that's futile. She's said that the Republic is dead, and all that matters now is what people <i>do</i>. <br /><br />So she's an agitator and provocateuse. She doesn't care if people read her posts from two months ago. Everything she writes and says is a warning and a call to action.<br /><br />Yes, she can sound hysterical. Maybe that's what the times demand, even if her rhetoric is questionable and overheated.<br /><br />Stogie,<br /><br />All of us are known but to God. Our mates, our families, our closest friends -- they cannot know us completely. We don't know <i>ourselves</i> fully; new circumstances bring out responses that surprise us. <br /><br />Only God knows the abyssal depths of our souls, the wrangling emotions of our hearts, our unconscious motivations, our past lives, the spirits who guide us for good and the malicious spirits who whisper treason to ourselves. <br /><br />I do not know how to trust God, or even how to know God. For the present, I must be satisfied that God knows me.Rick Darbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-16146042157278249882012-06-11T16:56:31.870-10:002012-06-11T16:56:31.870-10:00Those words "Known But to God" have alwa...Those words "Known But to God" have always provoked my emotions, ever since I was a young boy. Many a marble cross in military cemeteries bears those words too -- "Here rests in honored glory a comrade in arms...known but to God."Stogiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05852841950131130696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-59958851405546274362012-06-11T07:56:08.406-10:002012-06-11T07:56:08.406-10:00That also leaves me scratching my head about Ann B...That also leaves me scratching my head about Ann Barnhardt, she doesn't really seem to 'get' the concept of a blog. Not only is there no way to link individual posts, there are no archives or search either. Once an entry 'rolls off' the main page, it's gone *poof*!<br />And what's even stranger, even if you have your own (paid for, unique URL) site it's quite possible to use common (and free) blogging software to implement a fully-functional blog.<br />From reading Auster's issues, I wouldn't recommend Typepad, but Wordpress was designed to be easily installed 'on top of' an existing site. Even Blogger can be used in this manner, though it's rather awkward to do so.<br />Her writing is good but there are times she makes little or no sense, and that's an example.YIHnoreply@blogger.com