blog boycott anyone?
i am in a finicky mood. i think it is because i am tired. i stayed up last night and watched an old episode of "The Shield". i don't know why i get sucked into that show, i've seen the episode several times but it's hard to pass on a good Vic Mackey beat down if you know what i mean...
this morning i was doing a little blog tour... ya know, catching up on a few people that i haven't read in a while.... and by a while i mean months! then i began hopping from blog to blog via links and ended up on the blogs of random people, but like a pavlov dog i am conditioned to read and read even if i have no clue who these people are, or if i can even trust their opinion...but nonetheless, they have taken my time.
many of the blogs i've hit are of the religious/christian nature. i wish we could organize a boycott of content on these blogs... my blog included. (not that mine should really count, my blogging frequency is right up there with halley's comet sightings) there seem to be common topics, common phrases, common "insights"... all saying the same thing!! i suggest that for the rest of this month no one shall blog on the following topics:
1. NO MORE TALKING ABOUT HOW $#@%%* THE CHURCH IS! yeah there are issues and things that need to be addressed.... but quite talking about the problems and start living out the solutions!!! think about it this way... if someone said something critical and negative and cutting of your wife, no matter if it may be true, you would be pissed. i would be... think about it.
2. STOP ALL THE FORMULAS AND ABSOLUTES FOR COMMUNITY.
community is......
community ONLY happens when......
community can't have......
community looks like......
community must move beyond......
you must____ to have community......
do this, and that is community......
do that, and this is community......
community must ......
in my opinion, the best place to see "community" is within the Trinity. and to me that is a pretty mysterious, complex, beautiful, fluid, beyond formulas and absolutes type of community. and yet somehow that is the image we have been created in...
so can we just stop with all the bold statements and how to's? i understand that.... well, never mind.
3. STOP @#$#@^$ ABOUT YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST. believe me... this one is for me as well. (especially while writing this post) those people who do things differently, sing differently, pray funny, evangelise "old school", do things in Christianise, etc.... they are your, my, brothers and sisters in Christ.... that's IN CHRIST!! sometimes it is easier to see them in Christ when you get off your high horse and look them in the eye!
4. LEAVE THE FUNDAMENTALISTS ALONE. this is particularly hard for me to write, but they need a break... and read number three again. i know..... but they are covered by the same blood you and i are.
5. QUITE RIPPING ON AUTHORS WHO SHARE THEIR INSIGHTS AND/OR THOUGHTS NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OF THEM. again.... maybe i should take my own advice. we need to hear all the voices, all the thoughts, all the crazy and ridiculous! God and all that surrounds him is in need of alternative thoughts... let's look for the redeeming thought that are out there and let the junk just be junk, we don't need to call attention to it.
6. KRISPY KREME IS NOT THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL IS THE DEVIL. IT'S NOT A DOUGHNUT! think about it!
did i miss anything....
how about blogs entries titled "i'm back"? no one knew you were gone.
this morning i was doing a little blog tour... ya know, catching up on a few people that i haven't read in a while.... and by a while i mean months! then i began hopping from blog to blog via links and ended up on the blogs of random people, but like a pavlov dog i am conditioned to read and read even if i have no clue who these people are, or if i can even trust their opinion...but nonetheless, they have taken my time.
many of the blogs i've hit are of the religious/christian nature. i wish we could organize a boycott of content on these blogs... my blog included. (not that mine should really count, my blogging frequency is right up there with halley's comet sightings) there seem to be common topics, common phrases, common "insights"... all saying the same thing!! i suggest that for the rest of this month no one shall blog on the following topics:
1. NO MORE TALKING ABOUT HOW $#@%%* THE CHURCH IS! yeah there are issues and things that need to be addressed.... but quite talking about the problems and start living out the solutions!!! think about it this way... if someone said something critical and negative and cutting of your wife, no matter if it may be true, you would be pissed. i would be... think about it.
2. STOP ALL THE FORMULAS AND ABSOLUTES FOR COMMUNITY.
community is......
community ONLY happens when......
community can't have......
community looks like......
community must move beyond......
you must____ to have community......
do this, and that is community......
do that, and this is community......
community must ......
in my opinion, the best place to see "community" is within the Trinity. and to me that is a pretty mysterious, complex, beautiful, fluid, beyond formulas and absolutes type of community. and yet somehow that is the image we have been created in...
so can we just stop with all the bold statements and how to's? i understand that.... well, never mind.
3. STOP @#$#@^$ ABOUT YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST. believe me... this one is for me as well. (especially while writing this post) those people who do things differently, sing differently, pray funny, evangelise "old school", do things in Christianise, etc.... they are your, my, brothers and sisters in Christ.... that's IN CHRIST!! sometimes it is easier to see them in Christ when you get off your high horse and look them in the eye!
4. LEAVE THE FUNDAMENTALISTS ALONE. this is particularly hard for me to write, but they need a break... and read number three again. i know..... but they are covered by the same blood you and i are.
5. QUITE RIPPING ON AUTHORS WHO SHARE THEIR INSIGHTS AND/OR THOUGHTS NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OF THEM. again.... maybe i should take my own advice. we need to hear all the voices, all the thoughts, all the crazy and ridiculous! God and all that surrounds him is in need of alternative thoughts... let's look for the redeeming thought that are out there and let the junk just be junk, we don't need to call attention to it.
6. KRISPY KREME IS NOT THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL IS THE DEVIL. IT'S NOT A DOUGHNUT! think about it!
did i miss anything....
how about blogs entries titled "i'm back"? no one knew you were gone.
posted by nathan sean @ Monday, March 05, 2007
8 Comments:
So now what do I talk about?
Just kiddin' miss you guys big time!! When are you comin' to San Diego to hang out with us? They got a beach and stuff and get this....you can go there all year long...it's great. Thinking about ya's and checking out your blog always brings back memories of home...what the....?
RkDrumdude
(my friend gave me this nickname)
you have to go and remind me that you get the beach year round don't ya!!! well it's gettin' warm here... 50 today. so that means we get to walk around in slushy-brown-dirty-gross-sloppy snow!!
now i know YOU are jealous. :)
miss you guys too....
it's good to have you back n8, even tho you were never gone. i missed you last week at the district dealio. don't quite on me now!
Number 7: No more whining... I hate whining... WAHHHHHH! What the?
Perfectly said!
I'd like to live out the solutions, but I'm afraid I might get yelled at if I ask what some might be. I would hope that if someone said something about my wife that was true, then it should be something that needs to be addressed and discussed. I didn'e realize that community was a taboo subject, but you shared your opinion on it, so maybe it is ok to talk about? I enjoyed the lectio davina stuff, but the harshness of this post has me thinking it was a one off?
Sorry guy,
Devin Buffalo NY
devin,
believe me, the harshness is from a seat of frustration in my own angst on the all of the following subjects.
the irony, is that all that i grumbled about is exactly what i was doing in the post.
i suppose my point was that having negative posts can only cloud seeing the redemptive power that i put my hope in.
i do think though that no conversation at all would be most likely the biggest mistake at all.
thanks for your thoughts and challenge.
Now that sounds like a great start to a great conversation.
Blessings
Devin
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