Denmark
I’ve learned to use the Bookmarks toolbar and Tabbed Browsing in Firefox and combined them into a timesaving browsing tool. I have quite a few blogs that I go through every day. I just put the bookmarks into a folder and I can load all of them in tabs just by middle clicking the folder. Very neat. Then I just go along my merry way, scanning what’s new and closing the tabs, at which point I load the next batch. My toolbar is set up so that I read all of my friends’ blogs first, then design blogs, tech, gaming, and so on.
I remember a few years ago when I first got my Livejournal. There weren’t that many people that I knew who blogged and the stuff I wrote was, well, crap. But hey, life wasn’t that interesting back in Grade 9. Now, everyone has their own blog and writes long, epic, two page entries about stuff. More specifically, it seems like for the past while, every other blog was talking about some problem that was going on with our fellowships.
It was only a year or two ago that things were looking really good. Being on PC showed me that by no means was Hosanna perfect, but it was quite optimistic. Once blogging started catching on, say a year ago, I’ve been exposed to even more criticisms and worries that people have about our church. Heck, I’ve written about some worries I had about Hosanna last year.
So Aletheia. It’s been alright for me, if a little unorganized and impromptu here and there. It’s not perfect. It can’t be. I’m really worried though because some of this is starting to drive people away. I’m starting to worry about what that might mean for me. I mean, last night, some stuff that happened was unexpected. It was funny, yeah, but I didn’t expect a lack of insightful discussion. Oh, and the picture; definitely unexpected
But yes, worries. Let’s assume that Aletheia is really not working and people start to leave. I’ve read some musings about whether or not the writer should start looking into moving to another church. That scares me because if it comes down to that what will I do? Yeah, I’ll lose some friends. But what if Aletheia doesn’t do it for me? What then? It’s not like I know people from other churches
I can’t think of a suitable closing. Something’s gotta happen though. Something’s gotta change. And hoor-yay. I think I just added more stress for myself.
Sorry about largely contributing to that Tim, I think over the past summer/few months or so i’ve stacked quite a lot of posts that can contribute to that.
it’s just… i guess you know about my mentality about my blog, i blog about whats on my mind, whats on my heart, whats new current ‘rave’ i’ve come up on… things i observe, i guess in a boiled context, its about me… transparency was one of the ideas i put into my blog…
and as to the current fellowship thing… i don’t know. I think fellowship for teh sake of program and everything is working great — like the other night, the cell group leaders did a tremendous job in facilitating discussion.
Last year still it was tremendous — yet this year it feels like the ‘heart’ of the fellowship has been gouged out or something… there’s that something intrinsic missing, that i can’t find there yet somehow find so deeply embedded in my other fellowship… somethin that we used to have, that warmth & affinity that we planted seeds for 2 years ago, and you continued to water and take care of…
its not there? what was that feeling? fellowship? community? God’s transcending presence that works in a fellowship? perhaps none of that… perhaps some… or perhaps all.
I don’t know.. but i want to be free.
Actually, to answer my own question, it might still be too early to pass any sort of judgement, since last year, I had a bit of a problem with Hosanna which went away as the months went on.
But yes, I think I can feel what you’re getting at.
Well, perry, I dont think it’s just you.
Most of this is from me, with that “controversial” post from a few days ago.
But like Tim said about having some worries that soon went away, perhaps we (including I) are jumping the gun.
I mean, we’ve got this Friday’s “tribunal” (not really a jury or anything, just a discussion on Aletheia’s direction etc)…
I think through this we’ll be able to be really frank with each other and maybe correct some other problems we see.
Consider this though, if we do go to another church, maybe through what we see there which is missing here, we’ll bring it back?
…or maybe not, if we made up our minds and left.
As for FOCS, Tim…I think what we need is probably more exposure, and like we did last time, think or more programs.
And as previously noted other days, we’d need a balance between ZOMGFUNFUNFUNNNNNNNNNN and the closeness periods. Style without substance is like a V3 Razr, and the many other beautiful electronics that didnt perform what they needed to perform. Substance without style…we can live with it, but don’t expect too much other than what it was built to do (like an incredibly basic monochormatic LCD screen cell phone).
But yeah, you guys will get more inspiration as time comes!
The problem with FOCS right now is that it’s so hard to plan for. Me and Jermaine basically planned all the way to exams, but that plan assumed that everyone who was there last year would come again plus a few niners.
I’ve actually found it harder to plan more lol fun programs since there are fewer people. But, I also know that if I push too much whoamg not fun stuff, we won’t be able to draw more people in.
Just thinking off the top of my head, maybe what we need to do is to grow our relationships and community with the people we already have before attempting to do anything big. That way, we have the base and support we need to do crazier things.
What do you think?
Adwin — heh i know what you mean about the whole jumping the gun and stuff, but *smiles* — to me i think thats more just ‘repulusion’ to some of the stuff — that makes me feel a certain way, (ref – check your blog reply) but i totally agree with you on the the focal bias and stuff.