My Pride vs. The Public Blog…
April 28, 2009 7:28 pmThis post is almost impossible for me to write. How do you use the very thing that is your weakness for good? Is there a 12 step program for pride? Can I work through it online?
Like most inventions, the blog is really not a new idea…
Nothing was more characteristic . . . in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of “pearls” and “coral.” On occasion he read them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection.”
~Hannah Arendt
This is a good thing, and I believe the public blog makes for a good tool to do just this. You get a chance to collect the thoughts of others, organize them, and present them for others still to appreciate. The medium of the blog lends itself well to this practice, unfortunately it also facilitates an open confessional of everything I would like to attach to my e-persona. I am one of those persons that easily becomes lured in by any opportunity for ego inflation… and the obvious nature of www.shanesevo.com becomes pretty incriminating towards these ends.
He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
~Proverbs 28:13
Categories: Repentance, Blogging, Confessions, Technology, Mars Hill Audio
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