All is well that ends well.

All is well now I have found out how to change template that is very evident and also I have found out from Joel that the user stats are down for the time being. I have now annulled the post “To the people who have been blogging longer than me.” All is well in the world now. There is now no need to panic.

This is so embarrassing.

This is so embarrassing I created a post just a few moments ago proclaiming it as my eleventh post, well I could not have been more wrong. It was in fact my thirteenth post thankfully I was able to delete it in time. Whew, that was a close one I am sure glad that post did not last very long or else it would have been far more embarrassing than it is now. I am very sorry about that even though I do not see how that would have bothered anybody to much I am still very, very sorry.

The Easter Egg Question(Happy Easter.)

With Easter come and gone we have once again celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. After coming out of church it would be safe to assume that you went over to the home of your family members to celebrate some more, in this celebrating you most likely had an Easter egg hunt which brings me to the real purpose of this post. In this hunt there would be a few Easter eggs unclaimed and last Easter myself and a few others were in this same terrible situation. You look and look yet you cannot find it. You begin to feel more strongly about that egg the longer you search and I must have been searching for over half an hour in the dark and pouring rain looking for that thing.
So you begin to wonder where in the world that person has hid it. Which leads to the big question:

WHERE IN THE WORLD DID HE HIDE THAT EGG?

That question has been plaguing me for one whole year and will most likely bug me for the rest of my life.

Again, Happy Easter to all and to all a Goodnight!

The Apostles' Creed.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth;

And in Jesus Christ His only begotten Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.


I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholic Church, The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body; And the Life everlasting.

Amen.

Hello All in the World of Bloggers this is a secret message if you can receive it. American involvement in World War 2 was 80 years after the beginning of the Civil War. The Battle of Midway was very important to the US effort in the Pacific.
Light moves very quickly.
Thank you Superman.

The bloggers code of conduct.

This is my list, if you feel differently just tell me.

1. I will not use somebody's real name unless it is their screen name.
2. I will not commit the sin of not capitalizing my "i"s when referring to myself.
3. I will not use IM shorthand such as ppl and ;( and will try to spell all words the correct way.
4. I will use spell check on my posts before I post. Feel free to fling this in my face if I do not comply to my own code of conduct.
5. If I believe in what I stand for I shall not be shaken unless one gives me morale or reasonable grounds to change my stance on the matter.

There are my Five Pillars of blogging.

Okay Penny you wanted to know now you know.

Penny wanted to know my passions and hates so here it is.

1. I hate it when people say they hate history. I mean come on history is an inexhaustible resource as soon as you finish all the history books there will always be another one on what happened in the world while you were reading the other ones.
2. I am bugged severely when people say reading is boring. Boring! Boring! Reading ain't boring mister maybe you decided to read "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" while you are only a new reader but it does not mean reading is boring.
3. Whatever. By this I mean when you say 2+2=4 and somebody says whatever it is like they don't care that there is an absolute truth in this world. And there is an absolute truth in this world we might not know it at this point in space and time there is an answer.
4. "My child is to old for legos." How can any body be to old for legos they may be "to old" for an imagination which is the key factor behind legos. That and whatever you build can always be taken down and built into something completely different.

That is all for now hope you enjoyed the trip inside my weird head.

To the people who have been blogging longer than me.

Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
how do you get the little box on the side of your blogger profile that has the total ammounts posted and the profile views and the like help me please!(I am now going to scream now quite primevily now.)
Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Another thing how do I change my blog template from what I have to something else; if I want to.

Useless Latin phrases of the day!

Domos dulcis domus, Home sweet home
Longo intervallo, After a long gap
Sine qua non, Something/someone indispensable
This I have to remember for "Risk": Si vis pacem, para bellum-If you want peace prepare for war.

Oedipus Rex.

This is an essay written for school tell me what you think and don't spare me the gory details if it's terrible.

Is Oedipus a tragic victim of fate?


Oedipus of ancient Greek mythology was made the king of Thebes after the Theban king dies and Oedipus saves the city from the Sphinx. It was foretold that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother. To avoid the prophecy right after he is born the king and Queen of Thebes cast Oedipus out into the forest to die. But the person assigned the task could not complete it and gave Oedipus to the king and queen of Corinth who were unable to have children. In a few decades an oracle told Oedipus that he would kill his father and marry his mother unaware that the king and queen were not his real parents he ran from Corinth and at a crossroad he got in a fight and killed his opponents. Unknowing that this his real father he had just killed he moved on to Thebes which was being besieged by the Sphinx who would ask all passers by a riddle and if you did not answer correctly it would kill you. All had failed at this task until Oedipus came and solved the riddle. In shame the Sphinx cast itself off a cliff saving the city.
After a few happy years a famine strikes the land and disturbs the happy city. When Oedipus sends his brother in-law to discover the reason it is told the cause of the famine is because the murder of the former king has not been avenged. When a prophet tells Oedipus that Oedipus is the killer Oedipus finds that the prophecy has come true and that he has married his mother and murdered his father he is aghast. While Oedipus is making this discovery, his wife/mother has put the pieces of the puzzle together and has committed suicide in shame. Driven mad at all that has gone wrong Oedipus blinds himself and runs away from the kingdom in shame and horror.

Is Oedipus responsible for what happens in his life or is he a cruel victim of fate at the hands of the gods? Does Oedipus have a tragic flaw that contributes to his end? If so what is the flaw and how much does it contribute to his end?


I believe Oedipus is mostly a victim of fate since it was the gods that decided to wreck his life from the start even though he did no wrong. He was merely a pawn in their games of other people’s lives. Although Oedipus does bear some responsibility for what happens to him. But even in that did he really have a choice or did the gods manipulate him into situations where his god-given attributes took him down the path of destruction? Oedipus had a few flaws that brought him to the place of discovery on who he was and what he had done. These flaws include his anger issues such as when he kills Laius on the crossroads it was because he was angry that Laius told him to get off the road.
Another flaw of Oedipus is his rashness. When the prophet Tireseus accuses him of killing Laius Oedipus quickly shifts the blame to his brother in-law Creon and says he killed him and says Creon and Tireseus are in a plot to take over the throne. Another display of rashness is before the prophet comes; Oedipus has sent Creon to ask the gods why the plague has come on Thebes. When Creon says it is because the murder of Laius has not been avenged Oedipus immediately places a curse on the killer, before even suspecting it is Oedipus himself. This curse makes life miserable for Oedipus after the shepherd who saved his life all those years ago tells him he is not the son of the king of Corinth as he thought and that he is the son of Laius whom he killed and Jocasta who he later married. Oedipus would have lived on in happy obscurity had he not been so quick to run from Corinth and questioned the king and queen if they really were his mother and father. So then he is in a way responsible for what happened to him but did not the gods in the story make him that way? Did they not give him those characteristics that lead to his down fall? Did not they also fate that he would kill his father and marry his mother, so does he really have a choice in the events that follow? Nay I say nay he is a mere little puppet in the games of the gods toying with others lives callously and without care.

post script: this is before the paper has been proof read so it will be a little strange.

I have an idea.

While creating my last post I had an idea. I purchased a book a few days ago called "What If". The premise of the book is what if certain things in military history did or didn't happen, such as, Alexander the Great living a few years longer than he did or died at the beginning of his campaign. Just wonder what history would be like if that had happened. Anyway what if all readers commented on what would happen if something, did or didn't happen in history that proved to be pivotal to the United States or the world. Just something to make you think. I hope I also will think on it; leave your thoughts on the comments page or your own web log.

Was it a mistake to start my own blog?

I am thinking maybe I made a mistake in staring my own blog. I am looking for ideas so all suggestions are welcome.

Forgive me.

Dear readers(who might only be myself). I would like to apoligize for any bad spelling punctuation and all other gramatical errors that occour on this my blog. Again sorry for any inconvienence.

Sophie's World "Who are you?"

Sophie's World is a very good book about the history of philosophy but don't let the topic scare you away. It tries to instill the wonder we had but can't remember like when we first saw a dog or a horse, when we were making first time discoveries but couldn't share with the world what we were discovering because we couldn't talk. I dare you to read the first two chapters and if you wish to stop please leave a frog or something green so I will know you wish to stop.
Post script. I will not give away any plot so it will only be surprises and suspense as you read.

I have entered blog land at last

Hello all in blog land I have come so please come.