tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32401990959798995342011-09-10T08:25:45.821-07:00The Harvesting of Ideas is the Beginning of Progress.The Smiling Reaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252342827237856454noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240199095979899534.post-48572588108150113642008-04-23T02:05:00.000-07:002008-04-23T04:17:00.901-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_S-gcUU8jocE/SA7-f9NidrI/AAAAAAAAAGs/ZNRDdmInoYY/s1600-h/reaper1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_S-gcUU8jocE/SA7-f9NidrI/AAAAAAAAAGs/ZNRDdmInoYY/s320/reaper1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192367245365507762" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Welcome to my Blog Space on the Internet!</span><br /><br />I have created this in the hopes of engaging thoughtful and thought provoking people and their ideas. The idea of maintaining a blog seems to be a natural consequence of my interest in the world of cyberspace.<br /><br />I have a <a href="http://www.geocities.com/reaper1147">personal website</a> and a number of memberships in online communities, but this seems like what I really wanted to get to from the beginning. I wanted a forum to engage people in conversation on as diverse a range of topics as possible. I also wanted to shamelessly promote myself and my writings and somewhere along the way I figured a blog would be the best way to do it. So you will see links and tags from time to time directing you to my works and to associates I choose to promote. (I have a number of business associates; including a son in construction, and friends who own some companies I do odd jobs for that I will promote too.)<br /><br />So here I am ready to have you dive in and join you in everything from heated political discussion, to <a href="http://www.geocities.com/reaper1147/poetry.htm">sharing your poetry</a> and <a href="http://www.geocities.com/reaper1147/prose.htm">stories</a>. However what I want to do most of all is to engage you, share with you, and in the end maybe we can learn something from one another.<br /><br />While I am strongly opinionated, and consider myself hard-headed I welcome the challenge of those whose philosophical views may not always agree with mine. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><u>My only condition is that no matter how passionately you feel, that you maintain civility.</u></span> While that generally means in most blogs no fowl language; in this one it means that plus: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Don't make it personal! </span><span>It's okay to attack a person's logic, ideas, and conclusions; but <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">personal attacks will not be tolerated and will lead to suspension from this site</span>!<br /><br />Once again -- Welcome: The Smiling Reaper Awaits You!<br /><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/join.html?refer=191859"><img src="http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/siteimg/house_ads/120x90-New_2.gif" alt="Join Associated Content" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3240199095979899534-4857258810815011364?l=thesmilingreaper.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Smiling Reaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252342827237856454noreply@blogger.com3