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No Sense In Trying To Be A Jerk

A guy I know named Abe Piper (some of you know his dad) guest blogged about how to blog better by serving readers. Most of it is good advice, but one comment especially stood out to me. I would go so far as to say that it's useful advice for real life, not just blogging, and so I've [subbed out] a few words of his quote below.

If the majority of [what you say] is made up of disagreeing with people, you should question your motives for [saying anything].

If you actually derive pleasure from bashing others, you should just quit.

If [what you say] regularly makes you enemies, that doesn't necessarily mean you're being persecuted for Jesus. It may just mean you're a jerk.

Well said, Abe. Something to be aware of, something to work on.

[PS You can find some thought provoking stuff at Abe's blog, where he limits each post to only 22 words.]

Making A Change

Dear Reader,

For the last year, I've blogged in two different places. Here, of course, and also at Blog responsibly, where I've blogged for about three years. The original idea was to give me a place to focus more on religious/spiritual topics (here) that wasn't intertwined with my other ramblings. But thinking about some of the things I've been pondering lately, especially about dualism and all that, I've decided it's not necessary to keep them separated. So the decision I had to make was whether to move BR here or move this one over there.

BR is hosted by Wordpress. I like some of the behind the scenes stuff at Wordpress, but I don't like how they make you pay to host your own blog if you want to access the code (or pay for "credits" to have minimal access to the CSS). To me, that's a horrible set up that goes against most of what the blog/open-source/wiki world we live in typically represents. And you're then left with a short list of preset, uneditable themes, with only just enough decent ones to make them entirely overused. So, I'm sticking with Google's Blogger, and keeping everything here.

Soon I'll import most of those posts over here. I think most people who read this blog read BR too (another reason to combine them), so I doubt there'll be anything new for most of you.

I hope to write a lot more, too, though I'm hesitant to make any promises that no one would care about anyway. So that's the state of things for now. Thanks for reading.

Jason