I downloaded FoxFire again, and went through the motions of changing over from Safari, but I'm just not that unhappy with Safari, and besides, FoxFire still wouldn't do what I'd downloaded it to do. It still wouldn't let me register with the Free Dictionary because I use a Mac. I'm a little sad that I can't use it as a home page because they have useful features like word of the day, and other artsy craftsy features for people who like to write.
I like what I find included on the results page when I type in a word to ask for a definition. You don't have to be registered to use the site's features. But, you can't post to or see the results on their forums if you're not registered. What a drag, man. With each inquiry there is a extended history of each term that I find interesting. But, apparently they only let Windows users register to participate. The BBC site was like that for a long time. It appears as if I'm forced to take my spinning beach ball and go home, but it's not because I wanted to.
When I booted up Safari again to check on what I'd published here most recently, I saw that I didn't post what I wrote yesterday and the day before. I've had a flow of visitors and I've been out of town more than usual, either that or plain lazy, and so I decided to do it today. I brought it up and looked it over again to spot any typos or obvious mistakes. I'm getting more and more blind and that's as much a reason why I make mistakes as much as for mis-editing. I literally don't "see" some mistakes because of poor eyesight. C'est la morte!
I don't have to wait any longer to explore in real time how getting older and older is affecting my mental wherewithal. I'm losing the need for information about how to conduct myself in the workaday world. That information is generally associated with academic endeavors too. Not having to kiss nobody's ass to get my Social Security check has eroded my sycophantic skills to a bare minimum. I think senility and entering one's second childhood might not be as gross unless losing the skills you don't need any more is a bad thing.
I participate with some other men who are as old or nearly as old as me, and it worries me that they seem to rely on what their education and fancy job titles have earned them, in the past. I could be wrong, but I see it as blasphemy of the spirit. I gotta reason for "seeing" it that way. It comes from a saying I've discussed with a large variety of people on the Thomas group:
44 Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven."
http://users.misericordia.edu//davies/thomas/Trans.htm
This saying seems strident in pointing out that blaspheming the wholy spirit carries a heavy price tag. So, how can one know when they're blaspheming the spirit, as opposed to blaspheming the Father or the Sun? It moves. The spirit moves. The Father and the Son do not. Well... maybe. It works that way for me. YMMV.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
