Stuff you should check out from some of my fellow Daily Scribblers:
If you’re a fan of Plastic.com—that is, a polymer—you’ve probably been wondering where the hell your favorite snarky news trolling discussion board the past three or four months.
If you’re not a polymer, here’s a quick and dirty intro. One of the guys from Suck.com (Carl) bought some Slashdot code and hacked together a news and culture site, sort of Slashdot meets Atlantic Monthly. Enter snark and trolling and the quickest firest ironicest wits on the web. Including some guy calling himself “Anonymous Idiot.” Lots of posts by “MAYORBOB.”
Thanks to the blog Waiting for Plastic, I have learned two important things tonight . (1) Plastic owner Carl has relaunched the site, with very little explanation of what the fuck happened. (2) In the meantime, several polymers have launched a Plastic substitute called Trees and Things. Your regularly scheduled flame wars and trolling should resume shortly. Click to continue reading “Plastic is dead! Long live plastic!”
My old college buddy at Rae’s Space alerted me to MySecret.tv, an evangelical rip off of Post Secret that’s hosted by LifeChurch.tv, a multi-site megachurch run by Craig Groeschel. (I went to Craig’s singles service in college, when we were both still Methodists.)
MySecret lets you anonymously post a confession of a sin. Categories include shame, sexuality, regret, lust, and eating disorders. It’s impossible to sum up the dozens of posts, or even supply a representative sample, but here are some that caught my eye:
I must confess that sometimes (at least once a week) I don’t like being a Mom. I get tired of laundry, cleaning, cooking and dealing with a strong-willed and stubborn child. I want to be selfish and go shopping, get a makeover or something entirely extravagant. But I can’t, so sometimes I’m just plain grumpy and difficult to live with.
Sometimes I daydream about what it would be like to be married to someone else.
I have a hard time not looking at my girlfriend’s anatomy. Not that we sleep together or that she intentionally exposes it before me, but I stare and imagine her naked all the time. I want to overcome this before our relationship goes any further.
I read everyman’s battle, but I still constantly struggle not to check out girls. I remember Craig [Groeschel] saying once we had to train our eyes to bounce away from them. I try to keep that as a habit, but I don’t really want to. I’d rather look. It always amazes me that women don’t seem to know or believe that this is true about most men.
Almost all the confessions at MySecret have a raw honesty about them—the confessors truly believe they have sinned. And some have.
But then there are the posts where the confessors seek forgiveness for simply being human. There are folks who have bought a package deal of what it means to be a good human, and when their lives don’t measure up, they count themselves failures.
I was there once. Click to continue reading “MySecret.tv: In search of brokenness”
Root and Source directed me to this collection of “World Prayers” from many different religions. You can browse through the directory or bookmark this link to pull up a random one each time you visit. (The “spiritual reading” series should resume shortly.)
