To Readers and Book Publishers
As of today I’m putting the blog on hold to give more time to other priorities.
I started blogging as part of an effort to get a book manuscript published, but recognized some months back that a blog or Web site doesn’t really do much to help with that. After a book’s published, or has been scheduled to be published – that’s when it might be somewhat helpful. But I enjoyed blogging, so I kept doing it anyway…
Publishers: So if any publisher who happens to have my proposal at this time, which mentions this URL in the cover letter, should for some reason look at this blog, please see any date prior to this one to see what the blog was like.
Blog Readers: Whatever happens with the book, I plan to resume blogging. I don’t know when that will be. But since most blog readers are bloggers themselves, you’ll know I’m back when you see me commenting to your blogs again.
For now, I’m letting go of all blog-related activity. I’m also not planning to respond to comments to this post, although of course I’m glad to receive and read any.
I’ve enjoyed it, and I look forward to reconnecting with you down the road…
A Note for the Diablog Door:
If we feel a sense of threat or offense when someone questions or challenges our religious beliefs, is it really, A) the religious side of our brain that we’re using, and B) God that we’re defending?
I started blogging as part of an effort to get a book manuscript published, but recognized some months back that a blog or Web site doesn’t really do much to help with that. After a book’s published, or has been scheduled to be published – that’s when it might be somewhat helpful. But I enjoyed blogging, so I kept doing it anyway…
Publishers: So if any publisher who happens to have my proposal at this time, which mentions this URL in the cover letter, should for some reason look at this blog, please see any date prior to this one to see what the blog was like.
Blog Readers: Whatever happens with the book, I plan to resume blogging. I don’t know when that will be. But since most blog readers are bloggers themselves, you’ll know I’m back when you see me commenting to your blogs again.
For now, I’m letting go of all blog-related activity. I’m also not planning to respond to comments to this post, although of course I’m glad to receive and read any.
I’ve enjoyed it, and I look forward to reconnecting with you down the road…
A Note for the Diablog Door:
If we feel a sense of threat or offense when someone questions or challenges our religious beliefs, is it really, A) the religious side of our brain that we’re using, and B) God that we’re defending?
posted by Paul @ 8:29 PM
35 Comments:
Good luck with your efforts, Paul! Your blog
stands as a testament to civil, balanced discourse and well-reasoned discussion, as any prospective publisher ought to be able to conclude in three shakes or less. And you
have managed to coalesce a thoughtful and
loyal cadre of participants, which is pretty rare in the blog world. I'll look forward to your return!
I'll miss your posts and comments - good luck with the manuscript.
awww ur off just when Im back :(
Keshi.
Oh Paul I will miss you also. I wish you the best in all that you do. You have been a wonderful host and a guest on my poetry blog. Thank you for all your comments. And thank you for being you.
I hope you come back soon.
Love and peace to you
always.
ALOHA PAUL.
hurry back.
Take care Paul - I will miss you and hope you came visit me soon
Ditto, what everybody has said... good luck & you'll be missed. If there is any help you need, let us know.
adiu & selam
I hope you will achieve your goal and be blessed by it. Let it never consume you Paul. God bless you
I look forward to your return, but also wish you the best with your new projects. I've really enjoyed the intelligent discourse here - it reflects the goals I have as a Baha'i.
Dear Paul,
I shall miss you too!
Please Take Gentle Care of You and come on bye every once and a while.
N a m a s t e,
MB
Best of luck, Paul. I'm rooting for you. You will be missed. Please feel free to keep in touch when and if you can.
good luck Paul :)
i will surely miss your articles!
ill look forward for your return :)
GOD BLESS ALWAYS!
All the best of luck.
Thank you for your interesting and thoughtful posts.
i hope your book gets published soon! good things take time, so keep the faith. ;)
will miss your comments and posts.
Im so proud of you taking time to get you work publish (Inshallah) thigs will go well for you..We here if you would like to visit us..you are blogging friends will have always an open arms for you
yeah..we definitely going to miss you,Paul..
And all the best for your efforts...
Hope to see your amazing posts soon..
Missing you! looking forward to your return.
Still Missing you Paul.
Come back soon, Paul.
And let me know if you want me to give the manuscript a friendly edit. A few words of warning, though: Although I have this fancy degree in print journalism, I've mostly been writing code for the past few years, so my copy editing skills are a bit rusty.
Best of luck to you, Paul.
You will be sorely missed here.
:-)
So that's where you went... wishing you the best of luck in getting picked up, and if you don't, don't rule out self-publishing (lulu.com, among others.) You could even sell the books yourself from your blog and keep all the profit as opposed to the chunk you'll be obliged to give to a publisher... I know there are +s/-s to each way of doing it... but just so you don't forget that you can do it yourself. I'll look forward to your return to blogging!
Still missing you.
Good luck!
my dearest paul,
one a daily basis you continue to amaze me. how blessed we all are to have your blog to read and comment on.
funny, i have recently relized something major. i am writing a book daily. i have readers viewing it as i continued to compose the chapters. i am blessed.
*mauhz and hugs*
all my love,
kerry
happy thanksgiving!
*mauhz and hugs*
~kerry
Paul...best of luck to you with your endeavors.
blogging is sometimes a place in between or a way to organize one's thoughts. it isn't always a direct means to an end (as some folks would like us to think.)
keep well and will keep an eye out for your return...
Tish G.
Hello Paul,
I am also giving place to other priorities.
I have read a book, in German: "Verlorene Kinder" = "Lost children/kids" by Bill Wilson, Metro Ministries International
The greatest Sunday School in different Ghettoes of New York
under most difficult circumstances
He dedicates his whole life for these children as he himself has been one of them as an orphan in another town before getting to know the Lord Jesus Christ personally.
That has shown me that also for me it is very important
to find and live in
the destination God has for my life!
If your book is within this destination then give 100%...
- joy and strength to you -
i hope you are doing well. i started wondering where you were. good luck with everything and i look forward to your return to blogging :)
Good question. It stumped me for a second.
I think when we feel religiously threatened, we aren't using the believing part of our brain, but the defensive one, the limbic system.
Another question that I saw on a magazine that's a good one:
Would Jesus give money to panhandlers?
I hope things are going well. We'll be here when you get back.
paul-
i wish you all of the seasons peace and joy. have a wonderful christmas.
all my love,
kerry
DEAR PAUL
I CAME BY TO WISH YOU A HOLIDAY FILLED WITH HEALING, LOVE * PEACE.
COME BYE AND MEET MY NEW GRAND DAUGHTER
nAMASTE
hola paul
where r u?
Hi Paul!
Tomorrow I will start a small little tiny job
and will begin to assist handicaped people,
people who, like you, can't go outside
mostly because of bad, bad car-accidents.
who often can no longer speak either anything or not properly and so on.
Last week was my first contact with the handicaped when I spoke with the second boss
and tomorrow (Saturday at 3 p.m. German Time) will be my first working hour(s)
my heart is full of joy
my purse is not full of money
but often the right way is not the way of much money
So I will rejoice and hope that God will place a deep prayer in my heart
Hopefully, you'll get a chance to look in
before the holidays and collect wishes for
a pleasant holiday season, and a great new
year.
Avoiding a Fate like Mars for Earth: Life on Planet in Imminent Danger
by Raymond Samuels
University of Toronto
Ignoring Global Warming risks precipitating a Global Pan-Famine/Starvation from Africa, right into Europe, the United States, and Canada, unless in can be stopped and reversed in a very timely manner. Such a milieu would occur with soaring temperatures, destoying the oceans, with corresponding record drought conditions in agricultural lands, threatening the food supply internationally.
There are apparently some people who think that the current "Greenhouse Effect" will simply lead to an "evolutionary" change in the global climate, so that climatic areas in the northern hemisphere like Canada, Scandinavia, Russia, Alaska in the U.S., and Antarctica in the southern hemisphere will become like one big tropical resort area like Tahiti, Cuba, or Jamaica. Soon everyone will be enjoying glorious sunshine, and sipping exotic tropical drinks in Nova Scotia, Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, or around the Arctic waters of Siberia, according to people with this apparent view. These people profess a dislike for the cold, and they therefore welcome any change that might eventually get rid of their abhored winter blaaaaahs.
Unfortunately for these people, such a view is not supported by critical scientific evidence, beyond "scientific infomercials" and propaganda pieces that have been sponsored by various well-financed Big Business interests. Indeed, it has been the job of the largely corporate owned mass-media in Canada, and elsewhere, to channel viewers, readers, and listeners into responses which will complement the elite pursuit of insatiable commercial profit. This corporate owned mass-media does not want to draw public attention to the dire fate which awaits the public, if 'the Economy' is not rejuvenated in a manner that minimizes social and environmental costs.
The large scale 'owners of capital' have structured the prevailing capitalistic economy to principally serve their interests in the pursuit of money, status, and power for themselves. Like heroine or "crack" cocaine drug addicts, 'capitalistocrats' have become so addicted to the pursuit of a self-absorbing materialistic lifestyle predicted on money, status, and power, they would much rather apparently destroy our planet, and all life along with it, than to change their ways of drug-like abuse. Indeed, the mass-media in the prevailing capitalistocratic systems of Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, and elsewhere, are no less corrupt than the politicians which they are supposedly "holding accountable".
The mass-media has apparently covered-up the fate that awaits humanity, and the rest of our planet, if there is not an immediate substantive response to the Global Warming threat beyond the relatively superficial responses associated with the extremely slow responses to fulfilling the relatively superficial Kyoto Protocol. Indeed, failure to redress Global Warming with great alacrity, will not mythically result in northern hemispheres being turned into extensions of "tropical paradises".
The cold air masses that hover over the Arctic and Antarctic climatic areas of the planet are absolutely vital to moderating the temperatures of planet Earth. Global Warming by the irresponsible activities of greed driven private enterprises under American led "global capitalism", are destroying these vital climatic areas at an alarming rates. As a human species, we have already witnessed deadly heat waves and humidity. The accompanying worsening cancer causing ultra violet (UV) rays due to rapid accompanying ozone depletion is already creating experiences which almost feel like a form of radiation poisoning. Further accompanying weather cataclysms including more devastating hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in late Summer 2005, and other such ''weather events" are only a relatively small tip of the iceberg so-to-speak.
The "hellish" summer of 2005 internationally has poignantly showed relative to the comparatively milder Summer 2004, that changes due to the abusive activities by human beings on the planet can be sudden, and extremely drastic. The current quantuum advancing devastating destructive impacts of American-led "global capitalism" are threatening to precipitate a catastrophic global drought in vital agricultural areas internationally that the world has never ever seen; due to unending rising temperatures, that will make the traditional temperature characteristics of the tropics today (that have benefited from Arctic and Antarctic moderation) seem like comparative ice boxes. Worsening "hellish" summers will lead into hellish other parts of the year also, with the prospective disappearance of the Arctic and Antarctic climatic areas. The inevitable result of such allowed phenomenon will be an ensuing Global Famine that so far, the world has also never seen spreading from the United States and Canada, into Europe and the rest of the World.
The rising temperatures of the oceans would eventually completely destroy all vital air (oxygen) producing plankton. A global crisis in agricultural production would be further accompanied by the cascading rapid dying out of all species in the ocean. The oceans would become dead polluted waters (the Gulf of Mexico has already been basically destroyed, with other parts of the ocean following pursuit).
In such a milieu of Global Famine, the world would be taken over by various warring military camps threatening each other with nuclear annihilation, and privately-run "terrorist" organizations trying to forcibly acquire what little of the Earth is left, for the exclusive use of elites, criminal syndicates, and gangs, leaving "masses" to perish in a milieu of spiralling global starvation, and poverty in a climate of socio-economic chaos and societal upheaval. Indeed, the mass-media has hypocritically ignored the extent to which 'capitalism' is actually the root cause of growing apparent "terrorism" as more and more people are turning to violent political extremism, in the face of environmental destruction, related oppression, and overall declines in quality-of-living.
Having destroyed the air-producing ocean life, and rainforests under a greed driven ethos of capitalism, soon even the Global Air Supply would become threatened with the overall rapid decay of vital ecosystems. Global Warming promises the convert the whole Earth not into a tropical paradise, but rather into a giant coffin, where all life on the planet will miserably perish. The Earth will eventually become very similar to Mars sooner than you think, unless the whole economic system can rejuvenated from its self-destructive path of Global Warming and accompanying pollution including ozone depletion. The human race will simply become a footnote for other possible space exploring advanced species in the universe to study in their future scientific missions of archaeological discovery, unless humanity changes from its current overall destructive ways.
People in their communities can either choose to play Ninetendo games, and worry about various other materialistic lifestyle considerations in "blissful ignorance", in the image of the elites who prevail over self-destructive capitalistocracies, or alternatively, people can choose to rally their governments for vitally needed social change. 'Sober' members of the diverse public must either become actively engaged in redressing the shortcomings of the prevailing economic system, or face the dire consequences of their jaded attitudes. Members of the diverse public who are concerned about their immediate quality-of-survival cannot afford to be complacent. These members of the diverse public must use what little that remains of destroyed democratic systems (that have been taken-over by the substantive operation of 'capitalistocracy') to challenge corrupted government leaders.
Government leaders have allowed themselves to be seduced and "bought-out" by self-serving greed-driven interests, that operate against the vital affirmation of the quality-of-living interests of the diverse public that these leaders were supposedly elected to serve; and against the interests of quality-of-living seeking human beings internationally. So far, these government leaders have chosen to substantively ignore capitalistocractic activities that precipitate Global Warming, and accompanying pollution and worsening poverty which are being executed by "generous donors" to their political campaigns, that prop-up their political power. People must either turn away en masse, from the norms of the prevailing capitalism that has corrupted the integrity of democratic systems, or face certain Mars-like global self-destruction.
OTHER RECOMMENDED BOOKS
The Kyoto Protocol Is Not Enough!, Part I:
Replace Capitalistocracy including the GDP Index Toward a New Political Economy of Social Justice and Environmental Protection
by Raymond Samuels II, ed.. ISBN: 1894839978, 2005
The Kyoto Protocol Is Not Enough!, Part II:
Replace Capitalistocracy including the GDP Index Toward a New Political Economy of Social Justice and Environmental Protection
by Raymond Samuels II, ed., ISBN: 1894934342, 2005
The Canadian National Newspaper
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com
Jesustians
http://www.jesustians.com
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