I really should post something new for you all to read (all 7 of my faithful readers), but ever since I had breakfast with a friend and attempted to explain to him the essence of having and maintaining a blog, I have lost all desire to really invest time in putting up some of my deepest thoughts... only to have someone who finally figured out how to work the "comment feature" on this website radically abuse it!
Why does someone have a blog? Good question...
For me, this blog allows me to share a part of what is passionate and real. For me, this blog allows me to let you have a peek into what is going on in my life. For me, this blog allows me to offer some "food for thought", not that I think that I think deep thoughts, but that there are things that strike a chord in my own heart that hopefully resonate within others. For me, this blog allows me to be known. And as I read other people's blogs, I am encouraged, edified, provoked, challenged, shocked, and reminded of deep truths.
I have so much invested in this blog... and yet I don't. I don't need this blog to have real relationships. This blog doesn't make me any more loveable. I am who I am - with or without this blog. BUT... what is being offered here is real... and what I take part in as others share their own thoughts and reactions is just as real. So... this blog is a place. A place for thinking out loud. If you don't care for what I have written, don't feel obligated to keep reading! But as many of you do respond and encourage me, I feel justified to keep doing it for the sake of how God might choose to use it... or not use it.
It is simply a webpage... it has nothing to do with the essence of who I am as a person. I would never choose to place something of such high value on something as trivial as this... especially considering the ability others have to totally misread me!
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Your courage to post not only your name, but your thoughts,is a high idea. The person who did not leave a name but felt compelled to call you one is using his right to read your blog and respond using a low idea.
ReplyDeleteLet's invite him back and see if he can grow into what you already have: The courage to own your ideas. He's probably not a coward...just young in his ideas and has no words yet to express them, so he calls other people names. Maybe he'll come back and play and give a name to credit his ideas to.
Post at own risk. And if you do, I'll read it and enjoy your courage.
Mark
I think any time that you put something out in public, you have to be ready to have someone criticize or praise it. Does it really matter if they like what you say? If you don't want ideas to be criticized, it may be best to start a private group (like on yahoo) and invite friends only.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't seem like a big deal to me if someone puts their name or not. It is not cowardly, it is just the way they chose to criticize.
I think the anonymous posts were off-base. I enjoy reading Dave's stuff even though I don't share his religious sentiments. Dave is an old friend and I love seeing what is going on in his life. I just don't understand why negative comments bother everyone so much.
If the whole idea is to share ideas, thoughts, or insights, then it doesn't matter whether there is a name attached or not. The point is discovering the truth, through debate, the sharing of experience, and life. Once one is identified they become a target to be catagorized and therefore minimized. Let one's words stand on their own merit, not on the merit of a name.
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