Lonnie from Pittsburgh writes
Jim,
While I appreciate your blog, and while it’s amusing, I do have to ask, do you ever have an unblogged thought?
Lonnie,
I actually have been asked that question before and it’s even appeared on other blogs in a far more snarky and insulting form. The short answer is, of course I have lots of unblogged thoughts. Tons of them. Thousands and tens of thousands of them. Every day, because there’s theological grist for the thinking mill everywhere you look if you have ‘eyes to see’ and ‘ears to hear’.
Underlying the question, however, is something of an accusation: a not so subtle and thinly veiled denigration. It runs something like this: ‘why do you blog so much and why don’t you stop it’.
My answer to the real substance of your question, as I see it anyway, is this: just because others are less ‘thoughtful’, i.e., think less, doesn’t mean I’m required to lower my standards in order to align with theirs. And just because others only think shallowly and are incapable, unable, or unwilling to put their nose to the grindstone doesn’t mean I’m obliged to follow their course of laziness.
I hope this brief response answers your even briefer question. Be well.
Yours,
Jim
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