March 15, 2006

• Internet Island Topic Post #8.00

   

  

  Internet Island Topic Post 8.00

  Topic Post 7.00 generated 31 individual responses. A couple of  Islanders actually posted multipart posts, and a lot of  you posted on two or three of the topics. I like giving choices, so there will be four topics from which to choose this time out.

  The Topic Post will last approximately two weeks. Please enter the link or date of your Internet Island Topic Entry for this post in a comment here. If you are creating a link, make sure you link to the page with the “comments” box and not the page with five entries. The purpose of Internet Island Topic Posts is to help get the members of the Internet Island Blogring to exchange comments and get to know each other. Please check back periodically for new entries throughout the two week period. The link for the current entry is always at the top of the page of this blog under the header for easy access. If you post a topic entry, please make an attempt to visit the other Islanders who do so as well. It is also a good idea to post the link to the Topic Entry in your own entry so that other interested parties can come here. You can copy/paste the Topic Post links right here in this entry into your own weblog entry box.)

  The degree of “difficulty” of these Topic Posts is supposed to be a little above a “blogthing questionnaire” and below a Socrates Cafe philosophy discussion. I want to inspire “great thinking” but I also want to have fun. I’m going to give you a choice of four “topics” but I am going to ask for other “Topics” from the blogring members and will list suggested topics at the bottom of my own list below.

   

  8.01 What happens when we die?
  I’ve been watching the series “Six Feet Under” on DVD, and have one more “season” to go. (which is releasing in two weeks.) The ‘theme’ of the show is death. The main characters run a funeral home. When the “dead” are shown in the characters’ memories they seem to be walking around and in good health. What do you think about death? It happens to all of us sooner or later. Does the train ride end when we close our eyes for the last time? Do we go to heaven or hell? Is there a spirit world? Ghosts? Is life a journey with a destination? Or does this roller coaster ride just end?  

  
  8.02 Who’s REALLY in charge?
  I’ve always maintained that a group of about seven really important and powerful people have a card game every Wednesday night. The fate of the world is determined by who has the best hand in the game, and that’s why the world seems so volatile. Who do you think is “in charge”? Are you a conspiracy theorist, or a political scientist? Is there a “global plan”? Or is the world basically a bunch of quarrelling fiefdoms? Do the world powers really try to get along, or do they even care about the fate of mankind?

  
  8.03 A picture is worth a thousand words. What is yours?
  Is there a photograph, painting, or image that springs to mind as something that has changed your life, enriched your existence, or otherwise impacted you? It  could be an old photograph that inspires good memories, or a drawing your son or daughter made which you attached to the refrigerator door. Did something you saw in a magazine or on a billboard or in a museum slake your thirst for knowledge or understanding, or have you ever been knocked out by a beautiful work of art? Describe this image or show it to us.

  
  8.04 Blogging Someone Else’s Life.
  Blogs are derived from “journaling software” which basically “dates” each entry on a web page. Most bloggers seem to “blog their life”. Longtime readers know that my own blog is essentially becoming my own “autobiography” I had an idea once of creating a complete blog as a fictional story, rather than blog about myself. A lot of people develop their own “online personas”.  
  Create a few blog entries as if you were another character or person, with photos, drawings, blogthings, etc. Examples: 1. A stone age man, or person from another period in history. 2. A fictional character. How, for instance, would a few entries in the blog of Elizabeth Bennet from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” look like? 3. A leader or king. What if  Hitler wrote a blog right before the fall of the Third Reich? King George could have written entries about those rascally colonists.

  YOU ONLY HAVE TO WRITE ONE TOPIC. OR MORE IF YOU WANT.  IT’S ALL UP TO YOU!

  Remember, the tabs at the top of theInternet Island Blogring Pagewill “sort” the members by latest post, date joined,  and alphabetical Username. Use the ring page to find new Islanders, or older ones you might not have visited in a while. It’s OUR Island, and we’re a great group of people with different interests, fantastic stories, and wonderful lives, and we have a great deal of love for our fellow man.

  There are no “right” or “wrong” responses to any Topic Post for Internet Island. All responses are just as valid as any other response.

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