The day that insightful article about my blog ran over at Religion Dispatches (good gravy I love to link to that article, can you tell?), there was another article about Mormons and blogging, called Birth of the Bloggernacle, that included a lot of inaccurate generalities ("Mormons are natural born story tellers" and "Mormons like to keep records"), which caused some intra-LDS bloggy ruckus. The thrust of the article was focused on various Mormon blogs that describe the day-to-day life of a Mormon, predominantly mommy blogs (like the one you are reading right NOW), with just the hint of a nod to the serious doctrinal type blogs (i.e. Times and Seasons) where the term "bloggernacle" (silly as it is) actually originated.
Then my blogging cohorts got ... stupid. In the article comments. We invented that word, you can't say it's your word, it's our word. Yeah? Well, our blogs get way more hits than yours, so eat that.
Then, the same journalist wrote another article, Mormon Bloggernalce is No Choir, all about how stupid Mormon bloggers made themselves look on RD by getting so worked up over the confusion her inaccurate reporting caused. Fact checking is FUN (I read that last bit out loud, and Canon said, "No. It's Silly." SO maybe I'm wrong.).
Just though you'd like to know.
Mormon bloggers (and journalists writing about Mormons as a group): the church is diverse enough that generalities border on offensive (Mormons are good bloggers cuz we are natural born story tellers - for every decent Mormon blogger, there are at least a dozen Mormon blogs that sound just like Seriously So Blessed, but not on purpose. Also, if your secret goal is to help the LDS church (as mine is), let's be less stupid with each other. At least where people can see us. K? Like a married couple fighting at a restaurant, don't let's make these fine people think we're blathering, juvenile idiots. Take it home. E-mails are good.
And here, with this post, I break my own rule, mocking mocking mocking. I suck.
I'm sorry, default set to Sarcasm. And Jerk, apparently.
Also, DST.
Finally. Schizophrenic iPod. Tomorrow's post, perhaps.
Just feel generally grumpy and complainy. Probably a post about my mom stewing in the mental queue also.
Don't look at me. I'm a freaking monster.
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I missed the drama (thank goodness) but it's interesting nonetheless. I look forward to the day when I don't have to walk on eggshells, afraid if I have a thought that's outside the cultural norm for my crowd that I could speak it out loud without causing panic.
It's possible to be LDS, even devoutly so, without wearing blinders. Faith is always a choice but it doesn't have to exist only in a culturally approved vacumm. I like your blog because you aren't afraid to fire some neurons and think. If a persons' faith is strong, there's really no need to fear thoughts that might conflict with it.
And I really can spell 'Vacuum'. Thanks!
Thanks for your blog. I agree with Cynthia; although I haven't mastered the art of walking on eggshells. I tend to stomp a little too hard. The panic I cause is usually larger than it needs to be.
I wish I had the guts you do to say the things you do - but my family reads my blog, lol. Maybe I need to start a new one...
I love that you managed to mention DST in this post - LOVE it!
My family reads my blog. Well, my in-laws anyway. I told my mom about it years ago, but .. yeah, it's for the best. It gets sticky sometimes ... I'm not great at thinking things through, especially when I'm angry or annoyed.
EMOTIONS ARE TEMPORARY - blog posts are forever.
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