CSS, INTERNET EXPLORER, CREATING WORDPRESS SIDEBARS, FUNDING, GOOGLE CHROME AND GEARS, AND DROPPING ENTRECARDS
Code CSS to Internet Explorer
I've been working cleaning up the site — reorganizing and enhancing, etc.
Getting all of the different browsers to see things mostly the same way is a major ordeal. Internet Explorer (IE) is the toughest one to tame. I've learned now to work on it first, because once it sees things the way I want (as much as possible), all the other browsers are there automatically. IE is the last one to catch on.
WordPress Sidebars
So, now I have 6 sidebars installed in WordPress. If you look at the site though, you still see only three columns. The thing is, sidebars can be anywhere a widget can be installed or anywhere that PHP can run on a page. I have three sidebars in the right column for instance. One is for the login and registration section. Another is for showing the Entrecard droppers without any rss icon (and without bullets and without indentation — those aspects are handled by html, style classes in css). The last is reserved for rss incoming feeds I have yet to complete. I just have to decide which feeds to feature.
There are tutorials on the Web about changing WordPress themes to handle multiple sidebars. If your theme is already widget ready, which isn't difficult to set up, just changing one number on the functions page will give you more sidebars to work with in your widgets administration page.
register_sidebars(5)
will give you 6 sidebars, because the first sidebar doesn't require any number. 5 means 5 additional sidebars.
Then you can call those sidebars anywhere in your theme.
<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(5) ) : else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
The 5 here means sidebar number 6 on your widgets admin page. You'll have to tweak your theme and css to make things appear the way you want them.
The sidebar template (file) in your theme will be used (if you delete it, your sidebars won't be called by WordPress), but it won't be read unless you keep its formatting and content in the loop. I did not.
Here's one of those tutorials that keeps the contents and formatting of the sidebar templates in the loop. I hope what I've written won't confuse things too much. What I've told you is a shortcut leaving out creating sidebar templates for each sidebar.
Internet Explorer Redraw Problem
Back to IE, the biggest problem with IE though is that it doesn't redraw the screen until it's completely done loading all of the page elements. I don't want to give up all the Javascript applications coming in offsite just so people won't give up waiting for IE to show anything at all on screen. However, I may have to do some trimming, because I get tired of waiting for it all myself when testing in IE.
Well, I just did some of that trimming. Wow, the site does load much faster, although it's still too slow in my book. I can't afford a faster server though just yet. I'm rethinking about making money for the Church though.
Funding the Commons
I have been making just enough to keep it going and spending as much time as possible on content and networking. Well, I've slowed up on content over the last week to focus on cleaning up things that just couldn't be put off. Now I'm thinking about earning more money myself to plow into the Church and Christian Commons Project™ since I'm not getting any help yet from donors. When will people see the light that the secular state is irreparably broken?
Pool Resources
Christians need to pool all of our resources and put our sweat equity into the Commons for the unselfish sake of all. Do you agree? If you don't, then what kind of life is waiting for you by your own standard?
God and Jesus want the Christian Commons to be brought forth.
Chrome
I checked out Google Chrome. I already had Google Gears installed.
When I went to the WordPress admin pages and followed the Turbo link on the toolbar, Gears installed on my computer all the Javascripts used by WordPress. Then when I reloaded Chrome and did some surfing around in WordPress admin, it was manyfold faster at popping the menus, etc. I use Javascript menus in WordPress in case you're wondering what I'm talking about. Ozh makes a plugin that does that. WordPress 2.7 is supposed to have it as a built-in feature.
I tried the left margin menu but I didn't care for the look. People talk about all the scrolling they have to do to get to the top of WordPress to the menu. Why don't they use key commands? I use Ctrl Home and Ctrl End without even thinking about it. I use Page Up and Page Down automatically too. I do use scrollbars when I need to of course.
A few days ago, I wrote about how I've been having problems dropping Entrecards using Opera. I tried dropping with Chrome. It never failed. That made things easier. Chrome works well. It gets tired too soon of waiting for scripts to finish. Otherwise, it seems to be as good at surfing around as any of the other browsers, perhaps better. We shall see.
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Tom Usher
Standing Comment, all posts and pages:
To all homosexuals and their supporters, condoners, promoters, accepters, confirmers, and the like:
Unless you have something completely new that hasn't already been refuted, don't bother. It won't show up.
Rehashing what has already been refuted is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not interested in casting pearls before swine, giving the children's bread to the dogs, or rebuking a forever scorner.
Learn or go away: There is zero wisdom in homosexuality. Homosexuality is wrong. Nothing any homosexual or anyone else can say or do will alter it. No one needs the Bible to know it either. It's prima facie. There's no such thing as an unrepentant-homosexual Christian. There never has been and never will be. That's the way of it. If you don't like it, change.
Do site searches on the various topics concerning homosexuality to determine if your "point" has already been handled. Currently, I provide three different search methods. The "WordPress" search is still the most thorough.
The same can be done regarding militarism, capitalism, coercion, and many other main issues and themes.
TREATMENT, RUDENESS, POLITENESS, OFFENSE, TRUTH
Many times over the course of this website's existence, I've had commentators complain about how I've treated them and/or others. Much less frequently has anyone taken exception to those commentator's comments. I assume that's because for one, I appear to be holding my own.
Often, I have raised the fact that Jesus called certain people "serpents." I've often also mentioned how he cleaned the temple with whip in hand, not that he used it on anyone. It certainly doesn't say that he did, and neither was he charged with it in the kangaroo court of the serpents who ended up murdering him by proxy just for, among other wonderful things, speaking out and speaking truth.
If I say that those who are engaged in serpentine behavior are the New Testament "serpents," then why take offense at my saying it rather than standing with Jesus and me about it?
If others don't like it that I treat others or them the way I have in this regard, why don't they take it up with the serpents and/or their own consciences and God?
If I wanted to catch flies, I'd use honey. I don't want flies on this level. Human beings aren't to be on the level of flies. If the truth is bitter as vinegar, then ask yourself why and learn to taste it as sweet but not sickeningly so. Why attack the message and messenger, as the serpents did, and become a serpent by so doing?
The issue is not "name calling" on some bratty, childish level. When Jesus said "serpents," he was not being as a brat. His level was completely adult to adults and children. He dared say that the children understood the clear and plain truth before the adults who, afterall, had been abused and socialized by the serpents. He still calls adults back. Those who hear him and know his voice (truth) turn around and do the other required things together as well.
What is it for a human being to be more serpentine or reptilian than what God initially gave? What was and remains Jesus's point? What is the reptilian brain versus the vastly higher human brain with its cerebral cortex and frontal and temporal lobes and specific areas of altruistic sentiments and abilities? What are those higher areas before they are damaged, before the communication pathways to them and between them are diminished by evil that is always some form of abuse? How are those pathways reestablished or created where they never were in this fleshly life?
The snake lays its eggs. The eggs hatch. The snake parent doesn't nurture or raise the offspring. It's every snake for itself. Human parents and family are not designed to be that way. Humans hand down the learning of nurturing. Many people get better training than do others, and many people have a greater aptitude for learning and predisposition for the higher and highest virtues. Many are less abused. People can change for the better and best though, no matter where the starting point. They only can't if they don't — if they reject it.
Snakes, of course, also come in venomous varieties and in strangling varieties, etc., such that they have been attackers and even devourers of humans for eons, guilty and innocent alike.
Now, Jesus knew that most people could relate to what were, and still are, largely considered "good" parenting skills and "good" "family" relations. He regularly used those concepts to get people to consider the wider implications for the whole of humanity. He did know that many would refuse. He let them go. He didn't demand secular or false-religion legislation to rein them in with threats of violence and imprisonment. He was not and is not coercive. Even his Church is a voluntary place to be.
What he still teaches (through the written words in the New Testament and as those connect with the Old and also teaches through the Holy Spirit he definitely sent as he said he would) is, among many other things, that "good" is vastly better than has been commonly accepted and that real "family" is everyone left after all the rest have rejected the higher and highest good. He raised the standards far above the Old Testament and far above the "modern" standard.
The American Empire and the American people in general aren't even touching the hem of his garment, let alone even attempting to stand upright and side-by-side with him.
I point out that Jesus was, and is, a Real Liberal Christian. He is the one who brought back this censored truth that is the light. After he had spoken it and lived it and was murdered for doing so, the censors set about to re-censor it and did. They couldn't put it out though — couldn't completely extinguish the truth. I wouldn't be saying it now again with all credit to God, just as Jesus, if they had been able to completely block it.
I point out that each of those terms ("real," "liberal," and "Christian," along with "Church") are actually redundant terms — synonyms that are so close that they become one. The term "liberal" here is not the common usage, which common usage is a deliberate corruption of the term. There is no harm in real liberalism. There is no vileness in it. There is only beneficence. "Real" may be understood as the opposite of false-hearted, dark side, and dead of the Holy Spirit. Christian is both real and liberal in those senses. To arrive at living, doing, being those full senses requires what Jesus lives, does, and is in the highest. Finally, the Church is the whole.
Who are they who want to drag it down, censor it, work against it, lessen it, ignore it, etc.? Well, who sides with Jesus and who sides against him? Did the serpents side with him then? Do they now?
We call war-mongers "hawks." We call "peacemakers" blessed and "doves." Why do the hawks not take offense at "hawks" but do take offense at "serpents"? "Hawks" is not yet as telling to the general public, but I must tell you that all hawks are serpents. Why do some say, "Greed is good" but take offense at "serpents"? I tell you there is no difference between the selfish and the serpents. Why do people take offense at serpents when they do not take offense at homosexuality? I tell you the homosexual spirit also comes out from the dark side. It is a choice. It is harmful. Many are abused with it. Many never overcome it. Their very brain matter is transformed by it. Then they claim it is good when it remains confusion and definitely wrong and harmful.
Many arguments were put forth in support of tolerance. I understood that Jesus "tolerated," as in he did not execute wrath but rather told the truth and let the blind follow the blind (blind to the truth) into the ditch of their own making. I have watched while the movement has been corrupted into condoning what was once only to be tolerated. I have watched further while it has moved from condoning to promoting even to the youngest children to get to them before the truth does. I have seen evil at work, and I sound the alarm. I face censorship and other negative reactions for it.
As the American Empire claims to be a light to the world, it murders innocent babies by Hellfire missiles fired from predator drones controlled by armchair, video-gaming serpents in uniform. It tortures those who are not even suspects. It spies on its own without even probable cause or reasonable suspicion. It lies its way into wars for spoils and control. It neglects its poor, whom it treads down for the sakes of the superrich — for the sake of the massive flow of mammon from the bottom up (no trickledown — trickledown is a farce and always has been). All is claimed to be okay in America though — that America is headed in the right direction — because soon, even "don't tell, don't ask" will be a thing of the quaint past and homosexuals may be able to sleep together and have sex in the barracks with the "blessing" of the Empire while they practice murdering the innocent for the sake of homosexual, greedy plutocrats who own them and who, in turn, are owned by the dark-side spirit named by God and Jesus as Satan.
Whose side are you on? I speak truth to warn. I don't tell the secular government what to do other than occasionally to say what at least would be less hypocritical within their fallen, unenlightened system. I do so for spiritual reasons. What I want is the Christian Commons.
Now, if you submit a comment:
What you write here against the Real Liberal Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ will mark you in the Biblical sense unless you show that you have turned and are repenting in time to escape the damnation of your own choosing. That's the way of it. Don't be tempted by the devil to stand opposed to the call of righteousness. Overcome such evil temptation. Help others to help yet others to come to righteous behavior through-and-through.
Check out how even after reading this, people will still take it out of context and twist it to an evil end.