Al G Smith

Ahem, yes one might ask “why no answers of late?”

As any of the vast number or regular visitors to this blog (ha, ha — deduct the spammers  and that leaves…errm? ) will be aware, I had originally maintained that the purpose of this blog was at least in part to republish some of what I (perhaps in an overly self-congratulatory way?) considered were worthwhile answers (by me!) that had been provided on the popular Yahoo! Answers forum… and that would otherwise be lost to the miserable depths of that same archive within the week… (for Yahoo! Answers has no great record either for providing truly worthwhile answers to every question, nor yet does it guarantee to provide aprobation even in its most basic form, through the application of ‘best answer status’, for the ACTUAL best answer! Such is the fickle and apathetic nature of the human voting population - indeed a best answer may be proclaimed thanks to one single vote… Is this democracy? It is certainly the reflection of a fractal model of what seems to pass for a democratic voting system in those countries where supposed democracy exists — notwithstanding the the increasingly apparent fallacy of believing that there is any REAL difference between political factions, or options, offered a vote-getting platform in today’s media-driven and corporate-owned so-called-developed-world!)…

But — to get back to the point of the post — insofar as the relaying of self-penned Yahoo! Answers was one objective in publishing this blog, there has not been much evidence of that goal in recent time…

My excuse?

Well here is a quote I came upon, and said much better than I might have, that is now adopted as my excuse for having become a one-trick-pony of late:

“One cannot obtain the full force of the sunlight when it is cast on a flat mirror, but once the sun shineth upon a concave mirror, or a lens that is convex, all its heat will be concentrated on a single point, and that one point will burn the hottest.
Thus it is necessary to focus one’s thinking on a single point so that it will become an effective force.” - Abdu’l-Bahá