Struggling to Remember

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Last 05 June, I stopped consolidating my 29 blogs. I am still not finished with the draft summarizing the content of my blog, Pagbubulay-bulay sa Banal na Kasulatan. As I continue writing today, I forgot where I stopped. It took me sometime to understand the framework of my mind when I decided this act of consolidation. Today, as I recollect what I have done so far, I ended up organizing four of my blogs: Planned Chaos, My Portfolio, Only by Grace (WordPress) and Reflection on Economic and Politics. I intend to continue this project by tomorrow hoping that I won't forget it again. I need to remind myself that my task for tomorrow is to organize my thoughts beginning from my Reformed Theology blog onward. 

Currently, I am reading a lot of materials that I want to write about. But the problem is if I will do it without organizing my blogs, the articles will just pile up and later I will see myself again looking for a topic that I already wrote about in the past but struggling to find it. This is exactly the reason that prompted me to consolidate my blogs. I need to develop a kind of directory to guide me in reviewing all the posts I scattered all over the web. 

Returning to the four blogs I organized today, in Planned Chaos, I was able to recover at least six articles. Looking back, this reminds me of the attack I experience I forgot the exact year when I was blogging using WordPress as my platform. Somebody hacked into my site and pulled down all the articles I wrote for several months. That experience actually made me despondent and I lost interest to continue writing. It was my mistake that I failed to save all the articles I wrote in my hard disk. It took me more or less a year to recover and to start blogging again. 

In Planned Chaos, the main argument of Ludwig von Mises is about the growing influence of socialism using government intervention to suppress personal liberty and the free enterprise. Mises elaborated his thesis under ten sections, which I intentionally left out the two and I just focused on eight of them. They are as follows:  

  • the need to expose and challenge interventionism
  • the identification of interventionism as German pattern of socialism
  • the three invisible qualities of interventionism
  • similarities and differences between socialism and communism
  • liberation of demonic forces
  • fascism
  • Nazism, and 
  • the assumed inevitability of socialism as the future destiny of humanity
Turning to My Portfolio, this blog reminds me of my experience when I was still writing at oDesk. That was the time that I resigned from PTS and was looking for a way to support my children. 2009 was a very difficult year for me, both financially and emotionally. I was double broke. And there is this guy who hired me to write Christian news articles in his website. He asked me to summarize the articles and to come up with an interesting title. I was paid $1 per article. Though very small, I accepted the offer for I thought that I could use those articles as part of my portfolio. But to my surprise, after publishing the articles, it was release by the site owner under a different name. To my dismay, since i still have control in that site, I immediately pulled down all those articles and I closed the contract in oDesk. The owner tried to explain himself why he did that, but I find such an act unacceptable and so I decided not to write for him again despite he was offering a higher pay. 

The third blog has the same title as this one, Only By Grace, but the platform is WordPress. I was able to recover 19 articles beginning from January 2011 up to November 2014. 

Finally, Reflection on Economics and Politics. This blog has seven articles, but I lost most of them during that attack in my WordPress blog. I just decided to group them by month. 



    

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