I am extremely disappointed with Shawn Anthony, after saying I disagreed with his decision to close The Daily Scribe but respected his principles in doing so, i read these following posts on his Blog...
Interestingly enough, not more than five minutes after after I wrote the above and sent a copy to a person involved in the Scribe project, the server on which Scribe is hosted went into 500 Internal Server Error mode (I swear I had nothing to do with it). Eh. So be it God … and thank you for the confirmation!He says that others who have criticised him should "be pretty ashamed of yourselves, and you should feel terrible for the way your traditions were represented." a more judgemental person than I might say that his attributing to God something he did to try and test/trap his friends is nothing short of blasphemy... I however would just say that his lying and (in his own words) devious actions do not show him or his new (re)found faith in a great light!I wanted to see who my real friends were. I definitely found out the real story. How? Scribe went down with a 500 Internal Error (thanks to my admittedly devious - but oh so clever - setting of the permission of an index.php file to 777, rather than 775).
Mark, I had a friend at seminary pull a similar trick with his popular emergent blog. In the end he came out swinging at everyone else for the judgemental nature of their comments. I think he thought it allowed him to really see people's true stripes. Maybe he is right. It also allowed him to read a myriad of comments lamenting his withdrawal from the blog world which I think he liked.
Often times I think that the best bloggers are also the best narcisists (so are preachers). They like to see their own self portraits and their own thoughts oggled at over and over. What better way to generate more comments (and therefore an ego boost) than through a end of the blog post. There is nothing like judging people for being judgemental when you have engineered a false set of circumstances. I wonder if your friend got the idea from mine?
Posted by: Matt | 24/10/2006 at 21:49
Oh and by the way...I am a preacher...I have three blogs...and am probably a leading candidate in the race being a narcissist.
Posted by: Matt | 24/10/2006 at 22:00