http://hightreason.net/dispeopler just because... Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:57:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a while since I have posted anything, but not for lack of having things to post about.  It's simply that I have been working on a million projects at once as usual.  As you may know, NaNoWriMo comes every year in the month of November.  The challenge is ... http://hightreason.net/dispeopler/?p=35 One thing that I love is learning foreign languages.  Ever since I started learning German on a whim some six or seven years ago, I have been completely enamored with studying languages from other places and people.  Hence I have used a lot of the language learning software and methods ... http://hightreason.net/dispeopler/?p=24 Almost three weeks ago, I did something very important to better my life.  I quit smoking compulsively.   It had been something I wanted to do for a long time, but just didn't for some reason or another.  I guess I thought it would be hard.  I thought it would change ... http://hightreason.net/dispeopler/?p=16 I have learned a lot in my long day of having a blog.  Things have changed rapidly.  I switched from WordPress.com to Blogger at one point.  Later, I decided to abandon Blogger because the interface sucks and host it on my own site using WordPress.  I've gotten five visitors and ... http://hightreason.net/dispeopler/?p=11 One of the leading criticisms of the Christian conceptualization of God is that he is omnipotent. Without omnipotence, Christians would have to admit to a much less powerful God than what they suppose exists. There have been various arguments for the impossibility of omnipotence. Most of them boil down to this: ... http://hightreason.net/dispeopler/?p=8 This may sound strange from someone who is quite clearly writing a blog as evidenced by the fact that you are now reading it, but I really hate blogs.  I literally hate everything about them.. They are quite possibly the most useless thing that has every come out of anything.  ... http://hightreason.net/dispeopler/?p=5