Comments on: blogging thought of the day http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:49:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Songbird http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1585 Songbird Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:07:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1585 I'm still catching up with blog entries from the three days I was away, so here is a belated comment. We live in a world that is always becoming new, and that's not just technology or society, it's theology. Maybe we're on the edge of something that will last until it becomes as commonplace. Once upon a time a long-distance phone call meant a death; now we live in a ten-digit world and carry phones in our pockets and thing nothing of calling whomever we feel like speaking to right this minute! I suspect that blogging will become less provocative. I like doing it because it primes the pump for other writing. I've never been more creative than I have been in the past year, as blogging has become more a part of my week. It gives me a place to process. And it has provided a new community, one that I have come to love. Some people, reverendmother, just need something to hate, and some of them have chosen for it to be blogging. I’m still catching up with blog entries from the three days I was away, so here is a belated comment.

We live in a world that is always becoming new, and that’s not just technology or society, it’s theology. Maybe we’re on the edge of something that will last until it becomes as commonplace. Once upon a time a long-distance phone call meant a death; now we live in a ten-digit world and carry phones in our pockets and thing nothing of calling whomever we feel like speaking to right this minute! I suspect that blogging will become less provocative.

I like doing it because it primes the pump for other writing. I’ve never been more creative than I have been in the past year, as blogging has become more a part of my week. It gives me a place to process. And it has provided a new community, one that I have come to love.

Some people, reverendmother, just need something to hate, and some of them have chosen for it to be blogging.

]]> By: xpatriated texan http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1584 xpatriated texan Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:53:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1584 Ah, I posted on one aspect of the blog-thing, now I'll look at it from another. Yeah, a lot of blogging is personal. Ever read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"? Very personal. It's also one of the most moving pieces of american political thought in existence. Psychologist Carl Rogers once remarked, "What is most personal, I find quite often to be very general. Conversely, what is most general, I find very rarely to be most personal." It's like a conversion experience. You can hear all your life that God loves everyone, but until you realize that it isn't just everyone else, it's YOU - well, that's when it becomes a life-changing experience. In a time and a world where walls are constantly being thrown up to separate people from those around them, every tool that allows those walls to be knocked down, climbed over, or tunneled under should be marveled at. Now, let's talk about me... XT Ah, I posted on one aspect of the blog-thing, now I’ll look at it from another.

Yeah, a lot of blogging is personal. Ever read “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”? Very personal. It’s also one of the most moving pieces of american political thought in existence.

Psychologist Carl Rogers once remarked, “What is most personal, I find quite often to be very general. Conversely, what is most general, I find very rarely to be most personal.”

It’s like a conversion experience. You can hear all your life that God loves everyone, but until you realize that it isn’t just everyone else, it’s YOU - well, that’s when it becomes a life-changing experience.

In a time and a world where walls are constantly being thrown up to separate people from those around them, every tool that allows those walls to be knocked down, climbed over, or tunneled under should be marveled at.

Now, let’s talk about me…

XT

]]> By: spookyrach http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1583 spookyrach Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:36:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1583 Well, durn. All the good comments are taken. I like blogging because it has gotten me into the habit of writing regularly. For years I have said "I oughtta be writing that stuff down!" and haven't done it. I write for fun not for enlightenment. (Trying desperately to avoid the literary equivalent of the Peter Principle. Although literary is probably a strong word.) I'm thrilled that other people read it and seem to like it. But mostly I'm happy that it is written down and not just swimming in my head. I do find it interesting that, just like in live conversation, people hear what they want to hear or expect to hear in your writing. There is still only get a small part of the message passed on to the audience. Well, durn. All the good comments are taken. I like blogging because it has gotten me into the habit of writing regularly. For years I have said “I oughtta be writing that stuff down!” and haven’t done it. I write for fun not for enlightenment. (Trying desperately to avoid the literary equivalent of the Peter Principle. Although literary is probably a strong word.) I’m thrilled that other people read it and seem to like it. But mostly I’m happy that it is written down and not just swimming in my head.

I do find it interesting that, just like in live conversation, people hear what they want to hear or expect to hear in your writing. There is still only get a small part of the message passed on to the audience.

]]> By: sue http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1582 sue Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:52:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1582 Blogging is a means of recording cultural history. http://www.geocities.com/prof_s_rowland/MIULarch.htm#1/6/05 expresses my thoughts on this. Blogging is a means of recording cultural history. http://www.geocities.com/prof_s_rowland/MIULarch.htm#1/6/05 expresses my thoughts on this.

]]> By: Mindy http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1581 Mindy Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:19:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1581 Very interesting comments. My opinion...I blog cause I want to. If not one reads it...no biggie. If someone does and comments....nice perk for me. I also read alot of blogs that are over-all positive. I do not read the negative catty ones. That is my choice. Just like previously mentioned turning the channel. I think that you can say what you want to within a blog BUT you do have to be mindful that your right does not overlap someone elses right. I think it is much to easy to be ugly, selfish and spiteful in a blog and that is not a good thing. Very interesting comments. My opinion…I blog cause I want to. If not one reads it…no biggie. If someone does and comments….nice perk for me. I also read alot of blogs that are over-all positive. I do not read the negative catty ones. That is my choice. Just like previously mentioned turning the channel. I think that you can say what you want to within a blog BUT you do have to be mindful that your right does not overlap someone elses right. I think it is much to easy to be ugly, selfish and spiteful in a blog and that is not a good thing.

]]> By: reverendmother http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1580 reverendmother Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:08:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1580 She was an aviator and author, married to Charles Lindbergh, and that quote is from a book called Gift of the Sea, described in Wikipedia as a "meditation on the meaning of a woman's life." BTW Dickie re: comment 4, I read that entry where you talked about that--what nincompoopery. From the e-mailer, not you. It annoys me when people criticize something for not being something else, when it never claimed to be that other thing. (Clear as mud? No, but I don't know how else to put it.) That is, if your canoe trip entry was billed as high-minded literature or incisive analysis, well, you deserve to be taken down a peg. But it wasn't--it was a playful recounting of a fun day, with photos, and it didn't claim to be more than that. She was an aviator and author, married to Charles Lindbergh, and that quote is from a book called Gift of the Sea, described in Wikipedia as a “meditation on the meaning of a woman’s life.”

BTW Dickie re: comment 4, I read that entry where you talked about that–what nincompoopery. From the e-mailer, not you. It annoys me when people criticize something for not being something else, when it never claimed to be that other thing. (Clear as mud? No, but I don’t know how else to put it.)

That is, if your canoe trip entry was billed as high-minded literature or incisive analysis, well, you deserve to be taken down a peg. But it wasn’t–it was a playful recounting of a fun day, with photos, and it didn’t claim to be more than that.

]]> By: Dickie_Cronkite http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1579 Dickie_Cronkite Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:21:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1579 [chuckle] Speaking of, I just noticed RM, whether intentionally or not, has the perfect disclaimer for this issue with her lead Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote. (Am I the only one who doesn't know who Anne Morrow Lindbergh is? Really?) 'Just a castaway, an island lost at seee-yoh. [chuckle]

Speaking of, I just noticed RM, whether intentionally or not, has the perfect disclaimer for this issue with her lead Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote.

(Am I the only one who doesn’t know who Anne Morrow Lindbergh is? Really?)

‘Just a castaway, an island lost at seee-yoh.

]]> By: Keith http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1578 Keith Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:18:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1578 <i>if nobody read it?</i> I don't understand. if nobody read it?

I don’t understand.

]]> By: reverendmother http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1577 reverendmother Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:13:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1577 So would you still blog if nobody read it? And more to the point, if you post an entry and nobody's there to read it, is it still a blog? So would you still blog if nobody read it?

And more to the point, if you post an entry and nobody’s there to read it, is it still a blog?

]]> By: Keith http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1576 Keith Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:06:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-07-27/blogging-thought-of-the-day#comment-1576 I guess. I just like talking about myself. I guess.

I just like talking about myself.

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