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Oh, no. Ah, HELL no!

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Not only am I now a YouTube celebrity, apparently my blog has become the new location for the loosely controlled chaos of Jacqueline Passey’s comment threads. Alright, guys. If you’re going to start commenting over here, here are some simple rules:

  • This is my blog. This is “sheer potentiality” on philwelch.net. You’re lucky if I update weekly. If there’s a thriving comment community I may be inspired to update more often. If I update more often, of course, I have a chance of cultivating a thriving comment community.
  • There’s no ads on here and it’s going to stay that way unless traffic goes up enough to justify it. Note: I don’t keep track of my traffic. I easily could, but I just don’t bother.
  • I delete comments at will. There is no policy about this because it is my blog and the policy is, I delete comments at will. The same policy holds for all site content. Any blog post and any other page on philwelch.net is edited or deleted at will. If for some reason I don’t want to be reminded of you,, the blog will read as if I never knew you. If burned bridges are rebuilt again, I might consider adding you back, unless of course you’re vindictive enough to burn them down again for no apparent reason. If you’re very observant you might know who I’m talking about here. But chances are no one reads my blog that closely.
  • I don’t like pants much. Or haircuts.

Seriously though, most of you are okay. So welcome to sheer potentiality.

New title

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

A bit of explanation of the new title. First off, the previous title was too long, so it’s now the subtitle. Secondly, the previous subtitle, while a clever joke, no one ever got, so I removed it. (For the record it was “straight outta compton union building.”)

So what’s with “sheer potentiality”? Well, St. Thomas Aquinas mostly followed the lead of Aristotle, who wrote quite a bit about potentiality and actuality. Like all medieval Christian philosophers, St. Thomas devoted a lot of work to explaining God. According to Aquinas, since God is perfect, he has no potential—to have potential is to have the capacity to change, and as a perfect being, God does not have the capacity to either become less than perfect, nor to improve. He is thus sheer actuality.

Often I have the feeling that at my stage in life, I have yet to become anything. Nonetheless, I have a large amount of potential. At my time and place in life, who knows what will come of me? Thus—sheer potentiality.

Search Terms

Friday, July 30th, 2004

It looks like my stats package reports the search keyphrases that match philwelch.net when people go Googling for it, so here’s the highlights of July:

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