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I feel that way sometimes too....
posted by
Chilitree
on August 13, 2007 at 12:38 PM
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ariel70 - depending on what a person wants from online publishing of their
written work, nowadays there are a great number of options.
My dissapointment with this site was shortlived, after being here a few weeks back in 2003, I realized that it was not what I had envisioned or expected but nearly 4 years later, I can only say that I made the choice to stick around despite this.
If there is one thing that has surprised me about the content on this site, it is as you allude to; so many religionists with such limited perspectives. It makes one realize to what extent far too many people are inable to escape the shackles imposed upon them by their social conditioning. While I've been harrassed, attacked, pursued and annoyed by these so called followers of Christ, we must keep reminding ourselves that they are the lowest common denominator of all peoples. Their human shortcomings are not unique to one religion. Still, there's just so damn many of them, it's as if a plague of irrational thought has enveloped all industrialized socities.
posted by
gomedome
on August 13, 2007 at 12:29 PM
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Troosha - thanx for stopping in - a change for me is inevitable
I've stuck around Blogit for all of this time for reasons that are no longer relevant. Primarly to improve my use of the English written word and to elevate my computer literacy. Where it could be argued with some merit that both areas still need a lot of work, one can only re-invent themselves so many times within the same format.
posted by
gomedome
on August 13, 2007 at 12:17 PM
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Bhaskar.ing - thank you - that is how I view it as well, there really
should not be any beliefs that do not go unchallenged.
If we our to learn anything from our predecessors, it must be that to attempt to institute universal and rigid beliefs accomplishes nothing but to impede our advancement as a species. Both in the arenas of discovery and social reform.
posted by
gomedome
on August 13, 2007 at 12:13 PM
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Gomedome
Total mortification! My excuse is that my PPC outof commission, and I'm picking away on an ancient steam driven laptop, and my ISP is so slow that it really is too much trouble to go back a page, and see was that guy xeno, or Gomedome?
Long before I almost gave up on Blogit, I posted several pieces lamenting that briliant writers ( and I DON'T mean me! ) were going unread, but hardly anyone walked away from the garden fence to even read that.
Is't it odd that in five months in another venue I've had more page views than I had in almost two years in Blogit?
And it isn't even as if what I post is all new stuff ; most of it is work that I've already posted on Blogit. The difference is that that's a blog site, and Blogit, as we've often said,is a chatroom.
My well known respect for the views of the Christians in here has been just about destroyed ; by them.
I find the fervent, fervid aura of so many of their blogs extremely offputting. And one hardly needs to be told even once by them that yes, God is good, and he'll look after all who believe in Him ; let alone over and over again. One fels as if one were a boy back in church.
And when one reads a great slab of meaningless noughts and crosses that " prove" the existence of God then argument, or any form of rational discussion becomes pointless. it's time to move on.
I apologise most sincerely for the name confusion, Mr Xeno ... er, Gomedome ... who are you anyway? Do I know you? LOL
CU sometime, amigo!
posted by
ariel70
on August 13, 2007 at 10:38 AM
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gomedome
I haven't dropped in for a while but thought I'd see what you were up to. With the exception of a few good writers who truly use this site as a stage for their craft, there is a great deal of blah, blah, blah going on. I subscribed to use it as a spring board, so to speak - I developed some discipline about writing daily and it's been a wonderful site to test out whether or not my sometimes "out there" poetry could or would be accepted. But it does seem to run it's course, doesn't it? With your mind and your remarkable ability to put thought to word, a
change would be interesting to read.
posted by
Troosha
on August 13, 2007 at 10:02 AM
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gomedome, I'm sure that we should all share what you have to say
You challenge intellect, and that is exactly what a real seeker of religion must seek, otherwise Truth cannot be sought directly, unless it is through questionings. And, this is where I detest unquestioned faiths and beliefs. The dogmatics, to me, appear like tribals - my God is bigger than yours, my way is the only way and there is no other way. The Babylonians and the Jews, whenever they would vanquish another tribe, would set about establishing their Baals or Mulochs.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on August 13, 2007 at 8:55 AM
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cantey_1975 - that is the part I have always had the most trouble with
The call for uniformity in what is to be believed is counter productive to the underlying philosophy of love and acceptance. How can the integrity of these underlying philosophies possibly be maintained when a mechanism for disagreement and division is inherent within the insistence that all people must believe the same things to be a part of the group? It simply cannot. We see the results of this obfuscated mentality; countless little groups all claiming that they are proponents of the underlying philosophies as they proliferate the same flawed mechanism.
posted by
gomedome
on August 13, 2007 at 8:12 AM
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Talion - I've never been one to promote an unecessary negative viewpoint
but we cannot ignore realities.
I think it is safe to say that after being in existence since the fall of 2002, that Blogit is what it is and will not likely change to any significant degree. What it turned into from a vision of being a "writer's marketplace" is not much more than the glorified chatroom that we both lament. Still to this day, quality postings offering substance and that are well written usually find themselves unread or ignored. Controversy and gossip are the only surefire ways to gain a substantial readership here. Controversial meaningless fluff finding a greater audience than intellectual and insightful offerings really tells us all we need to know about this publishing format. Another reality is that both you and I have been here a long time, if we did not eventually become bored with this it would not be natural.
posted by
gomedome
on August 13, 2007 at 8:04 AM
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ariel70 - I've been called worse things than xeno_x and even called those
things more than twice.
But I wonder how you are able to make the same mistake twice. Nipping at a little vino are we?
posted by
gomedome
on August 13, 2007 at 7:49 AM
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The problem lies within the fact that religious belief by its very nature, calls for uniformity in what is to be believed.
and this is the pivitol point that corrupt forces in religion expoit in human nature. The need to belong. The fear of discomfort and unfamiliarity. The unfullfilled insatiabilty for materials and revenge, and control. For base narcissism. Division exponentiality increasing division.
Wha tis truly sad and tragic is that true Christianity does none of these things.
posted by
calmcantey75
on August 13, 2007 at 2:13 AM
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gomedome
Whenever I think about the way things are here as opposed to the ways they could be, the next thing I know it's been weeks or months since my last post. (Yes, it's been a few days, but I was out of town, away from a computer, visiting the in-laws.) I get bored and burnt out and disappear. So far I've always returned, but it's getting easier to walk away, easier to stay away. Too many posts are more of the same. Hell, my own included. I wonder if anything can be done to "fix" it. I wonder if it's really worth the trouble.
posted by
Talion
on August 12, 2007 at 11:35 PM
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xeno_x
Couldn't have put it better myself!
posted by
ariel70
on August 12, 2007 at 11:30 PM
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ariel70 - all of that is true, there is no disputing some of Blogit's
more glaring shortcomings.
It has also developed a number of different variations of the "personalities" you describe over its time. But mostly it has been a glorified chatroom. This is truly a site that is reflective of human nature in so many ways. Where it is an entity that can be whatever its members choose to make it, what does it end up being in all its variations? Simply a sum that is lesser than its parts, a testament to the powers of the lowest common denominator in determining the norms for everyone.
posted by
gomedome
on August 12, 2007 at 4:54 PM
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xeno_x
Know exactly what you mean, amigo! Which is why I'm not in here much any more ; gone somewhere else, where I'm more appreciated, and I shan't renew my sub in November.
Honestly, until one had left here and then returned for another coat of looking over, one just has no idea of how ... I can't think of the appropriate words to describe what one sees.
Blogit is a parochial, inward looking and insular chatroom, and really it's no wonder that so many of the people that I knew have left. Many of them very good writers, with lots of challenging, interesting stuff to say, but few would read them, because it meant leaving the garden fence for a while.
And the religion and spirituality posts are the very worst offenders in the boredom stakes ; I mean, just how many ways are there to regurgitate the same old stuff?
Well, just sick it up, I suppose ; a powerful urge that they induce in the reader.
posted by
ariel70
on August 12, 2007 at 3:06 PM
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posted by
A-and-B
on August 12, 2007 at 2:50 PM
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