Hippocracy

When I was about 12 years old, I used to think that the more I saw of some people, the more I liked my horse.
So when in my teens I discovered Gulliver’s travels, it appealed to my misanthropy, and I found the idea of hippocracy quite attractive compared with democracy by yahoos.
I’m not sure, however, [...]

Intelligent Design a heresy

“Those who argue that Intelligent Design is Christian do not know what they are talking about. Intelligent Design is a heresy, a blasphemy, a denial of the living God” says Elizaphanaian.
Elizaphanian just adopted a more readable scheme for his blog (no more white on black) and so I noticed this post, which I had missed [...]

Uses of genealogy and family history

The Geneababble blog has a link to an interesting story about two grandmothers who used genealogy and family history to battle racism in their grandchildren’s school.
The story in-law grandmothers fight bias with history tells how the grandmothers researched their own family history (and that of their grandchildren) and eventually got most of a school taking [...]

Bible Quiz

Mainly another thing to test WordPress with
You know the Bible 100%!

 
Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!
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Appeal for peace in the Middle East

To Israeli, Palestinian & international leaders:
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is at the heart of a global clash threatening to divide us all. People from every corner of the world want a just and lasting peace in the Middle East - and the international community can and must help bring all sides to the table. [...]

First day

Well this is still the first day of this experiment, and some things seem to be easier than others.
Comments seem to be easier than in Blogger, and one doesn’t have to enter a string of letters several times — surely once would be enough.
But putting stuff in the sidebars is harder in WordPress than in [...]

Introduction

This is an experimental blog on WordPress, which I have just started.
My main blog, Notes from underground, has been on Blogger, but, like many other Blogger users, I have been dissatisfied with the new “fully-featured” Blogger, in which half the features don’t work.
So if Blogger doesn’t improve soon, I’ll seriously consider moving that and my [...]