Wanted to practice using blogs and also comment that wiki ideas lead to wonderful creativity and creation and also rampant destruction of organized thought. If I went to a wikipidea and posted, "While we hear so much about the pope bringing down communism, we hear very little about the pope bringing down capitalism even though the pope spent just as much time criticizing capitalism" The posting would be taken down in a few days by someone who thought that was inappropriate. If I posted,"the pope supported Galileo and science by overturning Galileo's sentence in some way and also treating the creation story as metaphor and evolution as more reasonable and scientific", someone from certain parts of religious groups would take the comment down in a few minutes. Without a stable encyclopedic structure, the wiki idea becomes like chaos. Knowledge becomes subject to the most recent posting. Knowledge becomes a story told by the most active poster. If one realized that they could easily control how people thought about a topic, there might be forces that would post things just to control thought. Of course, the wiki system does allow new voices to be heard, but if you can take down other people's thoughts, then there is no a voice for others. Perhaps an improvement in the software would be maintaining all posts. I would want someone to know of John Paul's role in bringing down capitalism (just a joke) and John Paul's role in respecting evolution in the context of religion and respecting the Vatican Observatory. Voices need to be heard, but when the language is not racist, violent, hurtful, dangerously false, maybe the voices should be heard.

hope the zoo out there in baltimore is still being funded.

good day. blogs like wiki ideas certainly give people like me who like expressing views and publishing in different formats a chance to talk and discuss views.