Mere Reflections

Today marks the three week mark without a post from anyone here at Mere. Just so you know.

In other news, GO USA!

In other other news, I’ve started a blog series on the Sermon on the Mount, which all of you probably already know about, since I’m pretty sure the readership between my personal blog and this one is the exact same. But I feel like I should say something, even though I actually have nothing to say.

Really, the only reason I’m writing this is so it can count as activity so we don’t get kicked off the very prestigious position (which we were incredibly surprised at, but equally proud about) of being on the Thinklings blogroll. Hopefully Jewel doesn’t actually pay close attention to the “activity” to see whether it’s “quality activity” or not, or else wee might be doomed to lose our blogrollship. And that would be bad, because I think it’s probably “impossible, in the case of those who have once been blogrolled, who have tasted the joy of the Thinklings sidebar, and have shared in the exclusive membership of the Thinklings blogroll, and have tasted of the honor and power that comes from being recommended by Thinklings, and then have fallen away, to be restored to blogrollship, since they are calling into question once again Jewel’s initial judgement and holding him up to contempt”.

Hm. That might be awfully close to blasphemy. Feel free to take this post down, Riley or Zach, or JM or Brian or Eric, if y’all even remember that this exists.

Okay, that’s enough. Even I can’t take anymore. Somebody please give me an interesting topic to write about, and maybe I’ll post on it.  For now, just go watch some World Cup soccer or something.  It’s a better use of your time, I promise.

…and I’ll start posting real posts, that I’ve actually written, on a regular basis. Once school’s out and I can create my own schedule how I want it to be, I’ll make sure I include a slot for writing. But for now enjoy Zach’s random quotes, that are probably so much better than anything we can write, since obviously CS Lewis is so much awesomer than we are.

In other news, Old Knaves/Mere Reflections (so in other words: Trey, Zach, Riley) is/are now the proud sponsor of a Peruvian seventh grader named Johan Avalos Saravia through the organization Food for the Hungry. One of us will probably post more about it later, but know for now that we are really excited. So yeah.

Our twitter feed was temporarily taken over by tweeting people that speak a very foreign language. And by very foreign, I mean that it was a very different alphabet. And by very different I mean that the characters were quite non-Western.

I think everything’s back to normal now, but I thought it appropriate to let our readers know that none of of us suddenly learned a very foreign language in a very different alphabet and then changed our twitter names and then decided to tweet stuff. We still speak English primarily. Except for very occasionally when we may inadvertently break out into Elvish. But that’s beside the point.

Thought this was interesting. Here is a Wordle collage of all of the most used words on Mere Reflections.

Top hits:
-God
-Jesus
-Gospel
-Life
-Love

-Riley

Glad that’s finally over. Unless someone wants to continue the debate in the comments of a previous post, we are now officially drawing this political discussion to a close.

Now for a weekend of passionate preaching from Luke Johnson to get us fired up for the right reasons.

I think our blog is getting taken over by LOLcatz. Maybe I need to put a final rest to this political discussion and post the third part of my political treatise, before we get completely overrun. Too bad I haven’t written it yet…

But I promise, I’ll have it up tomorrow at some point. I’ll even work on it tomorrow during school instead of reading my Wall Street Journal. Anything to stop this slew of random (though funny) cat pictures.

So Mere Reflections now has comment subscription, which allows you to leave you email address so you can receive notifications of comments on a post that you have commented on.

Enjoy!

-Riley

Recent plans may or may not have been (almost) made to actually start at real blog at this web address. You never know.

Zach claimed otherwise, but I find it highly unlikely that anyone will ever post on this blog.  Maybe, like, 6 posts every 70 weeks or so. But that’s stretching it.  So I recommend you just get the RSS feed, and save yourself the 15 seconds of checking this blog and finding nothing new.  Because say you check it once a week.  That means that of the 70 week period that I randomly made up for no good reason, you’ll most likely have wasted 62 of those (assuming my guess of 6 was off by two for some odd reason, which may or may not be because I’m bad at mental math), which means you wasted…hold on while I google 62*15…930 seconds, which translates into….15 and a half minutes (if I was smart, I suppose I would have just multiplied 62 by .25, or realized that 15 seconds times 60 would equal 15 minutes since there are 60 seconds in a minute, but whatever)**.  In that amount of time, John Piper could’ve written at least three chapters of a book you could have eaten lunch.  So consider this a present from all of us at Mere Reflections, who may or may not even remember that this blog exists: one lunch every 70 weeks.  Aren’t we considerate?

*just a multiplication sign
**This has got to win the award for the most convoluted, confusing, parenthetically noted sentence of all time, and now it’s got a footnote, so it’s even crazier. FTW