Top 10 Tuesday: 10 Changes That Will Begin Immediately
November 13th, 2007 | by Scott |In light of my coming out yesterday as an Emergent I realize that there need to be some changes around here to reflect this admission.
10. This site, although in the past quite hostile to this particular brand of shoe-wear, will now be Birkenstock-friendly.
9. More Candles
8. I will use the prefix “post-” with greater regularity. As in, “I am now a post-blogger.”
7. In the same light I will no longer post entries. Instead, I will simply begin and/or facilitate conversations. This post-blog is now post-posting so to speak.
6. Nothing new will happen here. Instead it will be neo-this and neo-that.
5. If you disagree with me on any issue you can legitimately be accused of being mired in modernity
4. Derrida is my homeboy.
3. I must be more open to frosting my hair, getting horned rimmed glasses and growing a soul-patch.
2. Singing is passe. I must chant.
1. If you attack McLaren you must come through me. See forth-coming “Leave Brian Alone” video.
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29 Responses to “Top 10 Tuesday: 10 Changes That Will Begin Immediately”
By Joe on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
The fact that you even know that these are the changes that need to be made means that you are indeed…well, you know.
By Doug Freeman on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I know what emergent means. Define what you mean by being an Emergent.
By Tracy on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
You are such a geek.
By Amy on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Love it!
By Mike the Eyeguy on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I’m so confused now.
I thought Emergent was a good thing (in fact, I was starting to think that I was coming out myself). Now Scott sarcastically says that he has converged with the emerged, but we can all read between the lines and see that he has actually diverged.
What to do: emerge, diverge, converge or submerge? It’s all enough to make me want to go back and read Mere Christianity.
Or would that be Simply Christian?
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Joe, I figured if I can’t beat them…
Dad, as Travis says it has to do with 40 year olds acting like they are 23.
Tracy, am not.
Amy, you love it cause you are emergent too.
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Emerge, Mike. Break the surface of the turgid waters of modernity and inhale the fresh sea air of postmodern Christianity.
It’s a sea change, my ocular friend. A sea change. Buy a candle and swim against the tide. (That’s going in my mixed metaphor hall of fame.)
By Mike the Eyeguy on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I like candles! Incense too! Ancient-Future, here I come.
By Shane on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Consider me a neo-fan of this blog then. Damn my genes though! That soul patch area is the one part of my face that won’t grow facial hair!
By LukeD on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
The last comment reminds me…if you’re going to truly be an Emergent, you need to start sprinkling profanity into your posts from time to time.
It’s hard to be truly relevant without doing so.
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
For those of you who are looking for a Taize service in the greater Huntsville area look up your local optician.
Shane, you can be post-soul patch and be the neo-facial hair guy.
Luke, I actually was going to put that on there but then I realized I have some faithful commenters who have been sprinkling profanity on here since day 1.
By Mike the Eyeguy on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Does @#%$&^*! count, or do you have to go Full Monty to be relevant?
And its optometrist, not optician.
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Sorry about the faux pas.
And it’s emergent, man. You decide. Just let it fly
By Jim MacKenzie on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I resemble the horn-rimmed glasses remark. But hey, it’s good for Heroes (Mr. Bennett, Claire-the-cheerleader’s Dad)
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
And Rob Bell (who looks remarkably like Dwight Schrute)
By Shane on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I prefer to think of it as post-puritanical neo-profanity, but whatever, man!
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Coincidently in searching for wordpress plug-ins today I found one that will root out profanity in comments and replace it with ^%$#.
Talk about neo-puritanical. I haven’t censored you guys yet…
By Jason Bybee on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Post-puritanical neo-profanity…that’s funny
By Happy on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Now that your emergent you can actually have Pierce Pettis play during church. We had Tom Kimmell last week and Pierce just had to sit in the crowd and watch.
By Jonathan on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Next top 10: funniest songwriter names in the hymnal
my votes:
Jesse Brown Pounds
Tillit S. Teddlie
By matt elliott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Just noticed that it now says “”Emergent Since November 2007″ in the top left corner of the screen. I squirted milk out my nose!!
By Amy on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
you are having way too much fun over here.
By Justin on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
“top ten hilarious hymn authors”
mine has got to be horatious bonar
It doesn’t get better than that when you’re 16 and bored on Sunday night.
By Tracy on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Hymnal? What’s that? We call those old songbooks that we used to have Powerpoint 1.0
Matt, I wondered if anybody would notice that. I just realized I can have a lot of fun with my tag line.
Amy, I hope this is just the feeling of having a tremendous weight off my shoulders and not an indication that I’m bipolar.
Justin…
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
oops. Above comment should be mine.
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Happy, I would love to have Kimmel or Pettis. Or both.
By Doug Freeman on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
……………..scott,i am so surprise at you.what in the world is going on.when do you study something serious. mom
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Wow, my mom has weighed in. This is a first. Mom, you know where I get my sense of humor.