tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post1840351144497880808..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: A Disclosure Of No Importance...Or Maybe A Lot (Sticky; Scroll Down For New Posts)Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-54418610041753908312017-11-03T17:13:37.382-04:002017-11-03T17:13:37.382-04:00I started a blog several months ago and was told F...I started a blog several months ago and was told Facebook is a great source for sharing my posts and acquiring readers. I have attracted a few readers but for the most part I keep Facebook posts friendly and fun. Arguing with liberals on any level via an internet platform is just not fun for me. I like to engage in civil discussions and well, there just isn't much civility associated with today's liberals. Keep up the good work Francis, I read your blog regularly and just about always find your posts enlightening. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10900076950275247791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-25319613235109682382017-11-03T15:52:37.122-04:002017-11-03T15:52:37.122-04:00Don't worry about it. I frequently post links ...Don't worry about it. I frequently post links back here and ravel about your books.1104wrhmr6rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14654474444429985222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-2548135667001240352017-11-03T10:51:56.491-04:002017-11-03T10:51:56.491-04:00I thought I had a friend like that. Once. He got i...I thought I had a friend like that. Once. He got into trouble, was jailed with a very high bond. He asked me to put my, at the time my life's accumulation of work, downtown Denver's building up as surety. I did, he showed, did his sentence and that was that. Until year's later, when I needed a solid, take a guess.<br /><br />As for selling your books, all you had to do was tell me Innocents was available as a book. Got it yesterday and read it until I fell asleep. Great stuff man.MMinWAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03791810228821770464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-84790709449530423832017-11-03T08:38:21.996-04:002017-11-03T08:38:21.996-04:00I can understand why a man in your position and pr...I can understand why a man in your position and profession would want and could use Facebook. I tried Facebook a few years ago and it grew so fast I cut it off never looking back. Suddenly I was "touched" by people from grade school for heaven sake. Who needs'em? Perhaps just using it as a tool and ignoring the bull$hit could help. But if it helps you make money you need to figure out how to turn the table on Zuckerberg and use his creation to "zuck" him. Kyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16399082135529920025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-65042971619516310142017-11-03T07:59:00.680-04:002017-11-03T07:59:00.680-04:00True friends are valuable. The friendship of David...True friends are valuable. The friendship of David and Jonathan is a great example. Notice the strength of their friendship - I Samuel 18:1. And when Jonathan died, David grieved - II Samuel 1:26. Friendship can even develop within a family. We can see the commitment between Ruth and Naomi - Ruth 1:16-17. What makes a friendship valuable is the permanence of the relationship, rivaling the relationship of family - Proverbs 17:17. A friend is not a casual acquaintance. He is someone who sticks by you even in difficult times - Proverbs 18:24. Friends can improve you - Proverbs 27:17, friends help you - Ecclesiastes 4:9-10. For us to gain friends, you most be willing to offer friendship. Not everyone is worth having as a friend!Christian Mountaineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718213506187103102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-63713255918361533012017-11-03T00:51:23.646-04:002017-11-03T00:51:23.646-04:00Linked-In is no better, unless they've done so...Linked-In is no better, unless they've done some serious QC work since the last time I bothered to login. The idea as originally marketed (and quite possibly conceived) was for Linked-In to be a site for professionals in their respective fields to network with each other.<br /><br />The similarities between Linked-In and Facebook were apparent even in those early days. Facebook "likes" map to Linked-In "endorsements", and so forth. It was easy enough to anticipate that people outside my field/specialty with whom I was associated socially (church, my wife's work, etc.) might ask for a "connection". What I was too naive to anticipate was their reactions when I politely declined their connection requests for the obvious reason, i.e., they didn't do what I did for a living, and vice-versa. In other words, no beneficial aspect to either party of enlarging our respective professional networks by adding each other. You'd have thought I dropped trou and mooned them.<br /><br />I briefly had a Facebook account under an assumed name so that friends having pictures they wished to share with me had a convenient way to do so. The advent of the so-called smartphone pretty much eliminated that reed-thin justification for having an account, so I closed it. At this point, I'm proud with some justification at being among the barely more than 1% of the U.S. population that doesn't have a Facebook account. Perhaps the percentage is a bit higher these days, but at the point I bowed-out, that was the figure being touted.Bob T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07154297944632565450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-80716520688640595212017-11-02T21:48:12.106-04:002017-11-02T21:48:12.106-04:00Well I don't know you but I'm sure you'...Well I don't know you but I'm sure you're not an 'old man'. Just not possible.<br />ligneushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906867668009351290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-58625852879931145792017-11-02T17:27:01.047-04:002017-11-02T17:27:01.047-04:00Well Fran, I must be the exception to the Book-of-...Well Fran, I must be the exception to the Book-of-Face member. I only use it to post enjoyable pictures of my latest grandchild and keep tabs on my 'friends and family', all of whom I know and have interacted with personally. xmaddad1https://www.blogger.com/profile/11255795747371819426noreply@blogger.com