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June 2, 2008
I've Read All Those Blogs
I'm going to be a bit of a spoil sport. N. T. Wrong, the Free Universalist Interfaith Bishop of Durham, North Carolina, has tagged me to perpetuate a meme that is nearly the inverse of another meme. Bishop Wrong may not tip his mitre in my direction for this but I find a wee bit of a logical problem in the whole enterprise. Those with a perfect memory may not have this problem. I'm supposed to pick five blogs I have never read and never will. Well, I don't remember all the blogs I have ever read at one time or another so I'd need to read a little of a blog to see if I had ever read it. I still might not be sure. And there's the rub. In checking to see if it qualifies, I have logically eliminated it from the list.
Technroati claims to be tracking 112.8 million blogs. The actual number of active blogs in not clear but it is a very big number. I don't read most of them and I never will.
One other thing, Jim West tells us that he is going to "list some random blogs." I am very sure that this is not a random list of five blogs selected from about 100 million blogs that Jim likely hasn't read and never will. It seems like a very well-ordered list to me. They're all Bible Blogs that Jim doesn't like and I agree with him (I just read a little of each of them) but the list is far from random. This a good example of what Todd Oakley discussed the other day.
Am I being too much of a literalist? Perhaps a better meme would be to name five blogs that I wish I had never read and will never go to again. I suspect that or something like it is the implication of the revised meme. But I can't remember those blogs either unless they are the five that Jim listed or the five on the good Bishop's list. And already the exact names of those blogs are beginning to blur.
Oh yeah, I'm also not sure that one can properly call something a meme until it becomes more or less self propagating through a culture. A meme that is P one day and not P the next on more or less an individual whim, no matter how interesting, but otherwise without an evolutionally path is likely not really a meme.
And still another thing while I'm thinking of it. Many of the blogs I dislike provide fuel for discussions I find abnormally interesting. So I often read them too.
I tag anyone who can link to five blogs they have never read without reading them to make sure. If you want to list five blogs you wish you hadn't read and will try to never read again, that's okay too.
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There's always a wet blanket party pooper literalist in the group...
;-)
Posted by: Jim at June 2, 2008 4:46 PM
i sent you five blogs i'll never read, but your spam filter insists that you read all five. good luck. if this catches on, you'll have some wonderful evenings at home alone. i think this may have been the meme that led to the dinosaur extinction.
Posted by: scott gray at June 4, 2008 1:46 PM
Embrace absurdity.
Bishop N T Wrong
Durham, NC
Free Universalist Interfaith Church
Posted by: N T Wrong at June 4, 2008 11:00 PM
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