tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post19502954674122006..comments2023-09-30T10:36:23.154-05:00Comments on Accidental Historian: The Cross and the Glyph, Part 2Gedshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15047239425466517786noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post-51240328482239456772010-04-10T20:54:09.342-05:002010-04-10T20:54:09.342-05:00Thank you, Ged, for posting your stories and musin...Thank you, Ged, for posting your stories and musings out in the open where they can engage and amuse. I am glad the trolls haven't found you here. It's a cozy place, informal and congenial.<br /><br />I may not be maintaining a facade, but I find it difficult to live outside of my fortifications. For nearly a year I've used blogger as a private journal where I rant and sing and give advice to nobody at all, because I lack the courage to knock down the walls.<br /><br />Part of it is that tyrant inside, asking me what my father would think (in his voice). I rationalize that a public blog might become a different sort of tyrant, and steal me away from the real world. But I gravitate here anyway, when I need to sort out my thoughts. I doubt going public would make a difference.<br /><br />But then, I wouldn't know.Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003020514718578503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post-21058022967331867782010-04-08T21:20:32.759-05:002010-04-08T21:20:32.759-05:00Great post, my friend.
I did an interview the oth...Great post, my friend.<br /><br />I did an interview the other day about the Independent Baptist Church movement. I told the interviewer to remember...in the Independent Baptist world "perception is reality." <br /><br />The amount of dishonest fakery (not a word my spell checker says) :) was astounding. I did it, my wife did it, my kids did it, everyone did it. <br /><br />I am not totally clear of this thinking now. I do try on my blog to be honest and open. Of course that brings out those who attack me then for that honesty and openness. Sometimes I slip back into the "perception is reality" mode.<br /><br />Last year a pastor friend (now an ex friend) told me I should never tell anyone about my loss of faith. After all "think of what that will do to others?" <br /><br />I told him "if their faith is so weak that it can not withstand my defection from Christianity it is not worth having." <br /><br />I prefer our world now GEDS. Getting too old to keep working on the facade. <br /><br />BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com