Blogging is for people too lazy to write books

This is more or less a test for my first endeavor at blogging. Hence, I'll lay a few lines describing my decision to blog, which may or may not be applicable to all bloggers universally, but defenitely applies to me.

Blogging is for people too lazy to write books. I don't really want to take the time to organize my thoughts and create an orderly account that may serve some use or generate a pecuniary interest. Writing books requires devising a plan, creating things like outlines and plot lines. One's work must have grammar that is acceptable to a professional editor. Mental work is hard, I spend enough time doing it during normal business hours. Yet, the idea of conveying something to someone, albeit someone to whom I have no obligation too, or perhaps an anonymous reader, is tempting. This is ultimately a temptation to one's ego.

Blogging, then, belongs is an exercise for people who think they have something worthwhile to say. Implicit in every single blog, is at least at the moment of its creation, the belief on the part of the writer that what they are writing has some validity, and value, even if only for the blogger himself. Some may argue that they blog for only altruistic purposes, that they aim only to help their fellow man with advice. The problem is, however, how does one know they are helping someone else. I could write some advise on how to change oil in one's car. A reader then attempts to take my advice, but being a poor mechanic, manages to break something. Or perhaps the reader fixes his car, starts driving and immediately gets into a car wreck and becomes seriously injured. My blog is only 'helpful' in so far as we claim that we know what is truely helpful. Again, we can say that blogging is an exercise for those who think they have something valid to say.

It is also interesting to note, that human nature is such that even man's greatest benevolence is lower than God's most menial act of mercy. Man is corrupt and fallen by nature, what he creates will always be tinged to some degree by his fallen state. The only exception possible, being the blog which is directly inspired by God Himself. All else is only an expression of the author solely.

Incidentally, as a Christian, (yes I am a Christian), we can see why it is generally better to spend time reading the Bible, and consequently listening to God, as opposed to worrying about what one is going to say and write. We can trust God's written word to be without corrupted human motives and to be something for our own benefit. Nonetheless, I hope to blog something that may, at least in part, be profitable in the future and perhaps make a few friends along the way.

I named the blog the honest inquirer, as I put a high value on intellectual honesty and appreciate well reasoned debate with good will on all sides, with the aim of arriving closer to the truth. I hope to find others who value these things as well.