So where is the fascination with writing stuff on your computer and publishing your thoughts for the world to see? It’s Blogging, and it’s everywhere. Some where in the last century, a brain wave came over someone and they invented this method of communication, as one-sided as it is…
If I define a blog, I understand that it is a single person penning thoughts and information in a pseudo-letter format, for an intended but eventually broad-reaching audience, potentially including any you didn’t intend to read it. This alone makes me scared to blog anything important, just in case I get found out. Then what. Then I have to make an answer for that blog thing.
Therefore I here-by declare that I will not be responsible for anything found here on this blog.
That is impossible. If I can say it to your face and be held responsible for it, I will also be held responsible for that which is found in this blog. Even if I never intended for you to read it.
I was dead wrong about the age of the blog, by the way. I think blogging started many centuries ago. Ancient kings would have a team of scribes to do that very thing for them. King: “Theophilus, write this down. I, the King of Exwhyzee have something to say. When the clouds come overhead the day seems to get darker. That’s all for now, Theophilus.”
How about this quote from an old blog:
“Since I have investigated all the reports in close detail, starting from the story’s beginning, I decided to write it all out for you, most honorable Theophilus, so you can know beyond the shadow of a doubt the reliability of what you were taught.”
You know it is old, if the guy has a name like Theophilus. This was written in year 60. Let’s do some analysis on this:
1. It’s nineteen hundred and forty eight years old.
2. I can read it. It was for one fella, and now anyone has access to it.
3. The purpose of it was to verify truth for Theo, to make sure he was confident in what he had learned.
What’s so cool about this is that whether you are reading about someone as old as Theo, or something from 100 years ago, or 10 years ago, you have a job to do in reading it. You have to discover some things. Why was this written to the recipient? What were the circumstances around the writing? Is what I read just a story, or is this the truth about that time in history?
I don’t know what this Theophilus fella was taught initially, but in reading the facts that were blogged, I can’t help but think I sort of know what Theo was thinking…… It’s such a cool story. So confusing, so dramatic, so far out, so……. well maybe you should read it for yourself. Click here:The Blog for Theophilus