WELL, EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT

29. April 2009 by Frank.

Sometime right around this week, I launched this blog to a huge sigh of indifference.  But it quickly started picking up traffic and is now generating very decent numbers.  I’ve got readers from England, Australia, and Brazil; to name a few.  The big thing I lack is readers who comment.  Yeah, there’s a handful to whom I’m very grateful.  But none of my blogs (and I’ve had several) have ever drawn much in the way of interaction.  This is both a blessing and a curse.

On the one hand, I know that if anyone does say anything, they actually want to communicate with me.  On the other hand, I know that sites with tons of commenters often become steaming piles of stupid.  I seldom see real dialog and debate taking place so I wonder why in the world I should want that.  It would be great to get feedback, however.

I occasionally write about current events but I try to avoid covering the same things every other atheist blogger is covering.  I tend to prefer real life stories with personal involvement.  When I do my bible deconstruction articles, I start feeling like I’m lecturing to a class of very bored freshman zombies.  (I must say that I am fond of zombies since they are always looking for brains.  More braaaiiiiiinnnsssssss!)  All the while I see more and more evidence that the religious seem to want to shut their brains off and never use them again.  I doubt I’m reaching any of them but I don’t deliberately set out to antagonize them.

Blogging helps me tremendously.  Sometimes it’s the only way I can get things off my chest or my back.  I have the storyteller gene.  That’s part of the reason I want to expand online again.  Words and/or pictures and in any combination thereof are what I am about.  However, I sometimes wonder if I’m headed the right direction.

I’ve been blogging since 1998 although it wasn’t called that back then.  I just killed (deleted) my general purpose journal that I had going since 2004.  I’ve decided to concentrate on this one blog from now on so look for the range of topics I cover to expand considerably.  I don’t believe that the only thing all atheists do all the time in their lives online is debate religion with people who are very into religion.

Did you know, for instance, that if you don’t shave you increase your risk for stroke?  Put that in your pipe and debate it.  Said the heavily bearded man.

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