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Naked Pastor Participates in Online Publishing Experiment

Started by goodwordediting · 9 months ago

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David Hayward (aka “Naked Pastor”) participated in an interesting publication experiment through the Wikiklesia Project that will benefit the nonprofit organization NOT FOR SALE. He and several others wrote a wiki-book, a community written colla ... Continue reading »

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  • Jenn

    1 year ago

    I wondered if you'd announce this. I was thinking of doing the same . . . I like his observation that we humans put up masks already--the internet doesn't really exacerbate it as much as it maybe highlights it.
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  • Jeanne Dininni

    1 year ago

    This looks like a really interesting project. While it's true that the internet persona is simply one more manifestation of our usual human tendency toward mask-wearing, the internet can be particularly insidious, since we lack the benefit of looking into the person's eyes, which are the "window of the soul" and which can often help us evaluate the people we meet, allowing our intuition to kick in and warn us when we need to be cautious.

    Thanks for an interesting post!

    Blessings,
    Jeanne Dininni
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  • Real Live Preacher

    1 year ago

    It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. I'm going to keep an eye on it. (through you, of course)
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  • Marcus

    1 year ago

    Jenn, yeah. Given that David is sort of becoming an online friend of sorts, I thought I should mention it. Besides the fact that I am very interested in exactly these kinds of publishing experiments.

    Jeanne, your comment makes me wonder where that "windows of the soul" concept originated. I'm not sure.

    RLP, dude, the windows to your soul are going to go through me? I'm guessing that will hurt. Try to avoid essential organs if possible.
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  • Jeanne Dininni

    1 year ago

    Hmmm...Not sure where the "windows of the soul" quote originated. Did a very quick search and didn't find out, but plan to check further as soon as I can find a few spare moments...

    Thanks for your comment on my blog! The points you made about The Good Blogs were very timely, as you'll see when you visit again and read my response.

    Take care!
    Jeanne
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  • Susan

    1 year ago

    You are a geek - no doubt about it

    And while the internet does allow people to hide, for example, things said on "internet chat" that wouldn't normally have even been whispered

    However, it also allows a vulnerability for those that are working hard at being real - because you can't control who is reading about you and your latest spriritual faux pas
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  • Marcus

    1 year ago

    Susan, that's a really good point. The internet is already much less anonymous that we realize. That is one reason I don't even play around with screen names.

    Everything is always me. Mark Goodyear. If I am nervous about putting my name on it publically, then I need to rethink that post or comment or whatever.

    I've been a geek my entire life. In the 9th grade I won the state science fair... in mathematics. GEEK! Thankfully my wife loves me (and likes me) anyway.
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