Europenii au avut glorie, dar au pierdut-o, noi am avut frustrări şi le-am păstrat. Avem ceva ce putem da Europei? Sigur! „Las-o, tată, că merge ş-aşa” sau „Las-o, nene, c-o rezolvăm noi!”. Iată ce spune un excelent articol de Andrei Cornea despre Europa spre care ne îndreptăm cu paşi mici şi siguri AICI. Rar mi-a fost dat să citesc o comparaţie mai colorată între europeanul care a murit şi cel corectat politic, între cel de ieri, viguros, virtuos (în sens etimologic), adică bărbătos şi cel de azi, bleg, efeminat, defensiv. Românul? Ai noştri ca brazii!

A apărut lexiconul lui Muraoka, o nouă ediţie. Nu-i deloc la preţ studenţesc, dar merită. Poate vedem şi ediţia electronică în curînd.

Cititul ca terapie? Al Mohler a indicat altă dată un excelent articol pe tema asta. Dar muzica. Poate vă voi spune cum am scăpat de pastilele de tensiune şi de tahicardie. REţeta este simplă. Cititul este parte din secret.

L-am întîlnit anul trecut pe D. A. Carson la Trinity. Am văzut cum arată biroul unui academic autentic, pur sînge. Fiu de păstor, bun predicator, un retor greu de întrecut, un logician imbatabil, rece ca un neamţ, pasional ca un francez, canadian…. iată lista publicaţiilor sale.

Felicitări celui ce salvează istoria. De s-ar înmulţi astfel de proiecte. Scrisul de mînă este admirabil. Nu ştiu cum învăţau oamenii aceia să scrie aşa.

Din nou despre homeschooling cu Al Mohler. Cred că aceasta a mai rămas singura şansă pentru îmbunătăţirea naţiei. Statisticile sînt zdrobitoare.

Din nou Carl Trueman, de data asta despre violenţa atacurilor pe internet. Trist! Mi-a amintit de o întîmplare din viaţa mea de blogăr, una dintre cele mai triste.

Iată un citat fain:

Further, for those who make it their primary means of discourse, it is also a cowardly medium. Few – in fact, none – of my web critics have ever had the courage to look me in the eye, or even pick up the phone (other than anonymously – and that’s another story, sadly involving my wife and kids) and tell me what they really think about me. Possibly this is because the web is, by and large, a young person’s medium and belongs to an effete generation apparently incapable of understanding disagreement in anything other than deeply personal terms and strangely incompetent when it comes to handling face-to-face conflict. The gung-ho ferocity of blog attacks is often matched only by the oleaginous fawning of the webwarriors when encountered in the flesh, something which I confess has been, on occasion, a source of some mild, and probably sinful, amusement to me as I observe their unctuous and sycophantic squirming in my presence. I have seen the future, and, frankly, it looks like Uriah Heep with a Facebook account.

This raises the question of whether one should respond to individual blog attacks. My advice is no, never, not under any circumstances. Now, one of the reasons I do not read these things (in addition to having a real life with real friends, real problems etc) is because I know that, if I did so, there would be times when the temptation to respond would be overwhelming, and that would be fatal. As soon as one responds, the attacker grows parasitically stronger, gaining an audience and a credibility previously denied him. And the victim has lost because he has taken the rant of some nutjob seriously enough to acknowledge it; he has granted it a status which it simply does not merit in and of itself; and in his efforts to refute it, he has perversely made it important, given it a constituency it did not possess. Look, to repeat: the web is bandit country. Let the wild and the whacky compete with the sane and the measured, the incoherent and rambling with the logical and well-argued, the extreme with the moderate. If people believe you are really a lizard from the Planet Iguanadon who has assumed human form and infiltrated a church or a seminary to make it the base for an Iguanaman takeover of the entire Christian church, then let them do so. Nothing you can say to the contrary will do anything other than convince them of the depth and sophistication of the extraterrestrial reptilian conspiracy. Their emotional and psychological needs are clearly more serious than your own; and if you respond to such nonsense, you give it credibility and allow the parasitic nature of the attack to succeed. Ignore it and it may not go away, but sane people will see it for what it is and walk by, slightly embarrassed, on the other side of the virtual information highway.

Înţelepte sfaturi!!!!