Last Post for 2007!
Merry Christmas!
This shall be my last post of the year… Okay, hold down the cheers!
Honestly, although I will continue to ponder thoughts to post about, I shall hold them till 2008. I hope that each of you enjoy the holidays, and pray that you are able to spend them with family and friends.
If anyone is interested in the collection of posts, about 95% are available in book and PDF format from lulu.com. The rest of the posts along with all of the comments are still available here.
See you all next year!
This shall be my last post of the year… Okay, hold down the cheers!
Honestly, although I will continue to ponder thoughts to post about, I shall hold them till 2008. I hope that each of you enjoy the holidays, and pray that you are able to spend them with family and friends.
If anyone is interested in the collection of posts, about 95% are available in book and PDF format from lulu.com. The rest of the posts along with all of the comments are still available here.
See you all next year!
Tim
14 comments:
Aha - giving an early Christmas present to some around here, I see. :-)
And so the fun begins... hahaha
Tim
All I am going to say is this:
You can't read, and you certainly cannot write.
How the hell you can associate the title of "writer", along with the true greats like Stephen King, Christopher Hitchens, Roald Dahl, etc....baffles me.
Perhaps if you can take my honest advice, and go back to school, you might just make it (although I very much doubt that you can).
Stop wasting your time. Get your basics right, and then go through the proper publishing channels.
Beast
Well, Merry Holidays and Happy Christmas to you too Beast! :)
Tim
Sorry for the the off topic comment. But, as we turn our hearts toward family and friends during the Christmas holiday, I wanted to let you to know that I am thankful for blessing of many new friends I’ve come to “know” here in blogland. The tie that binds us is our shared love for and devotion to the Savior whose birth we remember during this special time of the year. May your days be full of holiday blessings; and, may your heart be filled with the warmth of His presence.
Blessings,
-bill
Spiritual Oasis Blog
Thanks Bill. Merry Christmas to you too.
Beast, I'm sorry to hear that you think Stephen King and Christopher Hitchens are great writers, popular though they may be. However, popular opinion does not mean greatness.
Given that, I liked to recommend to you Umberto Eco, Mark Twain, and Neal Stephenson as agnostics writers whom you might find interesting. Since you mentioned Roald Dahl, take a look at George R. R. Martin.
Start with Twain as he is probably the easiest, then move down the line. When you're done, perhaps we can take your criticisms of someone else's writing seriously.
I am familiar with Twain, as well as Marquis de Sade, Thomas Paine, Voltaire, Bertrand Russell, etc.
It was not my intention to rank writers: What I wanted to highlight was the ineptness of Tim's writings, which are riddled with spelling errors and grammatical loopholes, big enough to fly a Boeing 747 through with space to spare.
While I am not overtly critical of bloggers, the problem with Tim is that he intends to publish his writings, and my concern is that his writings may be construed as standard writing for professional writers, which clearly Tim is incapable of.
Beast
BTW: Stephen King is a virtuoso when horror is concerned. Hitchens' grasp of history and literature is second to none.
Beast
Merry Christmas Tim.
Beast,
"problem with Tim is that he intends to publish his writings"
The joys of the free world! Aren't you free to publish your writings? There will always be those which like/dislike other people's writings, such is life.
"his writings may be construed as standard writing for professional writers"
Really, you think my writing may become the standard for professional writers? I appreciate the encouragement, but I highly doubt it. :)
Tim
Tim
Another glorious example to highlight the very fact that you can't read.
As for the free world, you Christians are the last ones I expect to be talking about it: You guys want to ban abortions, blasphemy,contraception, worshipping of "false gods", etc.
Beast
Beast tells tim: [you certainly cannot write]
What sanctifies or redeems Tim's writing is not his writing style, though I see nothing he should be ashamed of, and this is not a novel it is a blog where thoughts are presented.
It is the content, the message of what he writes that qualifies and redeems this tool we call we call speach or writing. The problem is that there are volumes of books with great acuteness of their writers to impress and dazzle their liturary fans, but, they lack content, and the answer of the cry of men's hearts to know the Creator.
I don't believe for one second that his focus is to be a great articulator of the English language. I don't believe that he desires to rapture our attention with his great oratory. Only to present the King (Jesus) in all His power and glory and longingness for man to come to him.
My spelling is probally seventh grade level by the way, I'm 59.
Ronnie Owens
Greetings to you, Sir.
No offense to you, but unfortunately I have to disagree with you.
Tim's writings fails on many counts:
1. The absence of logic to substantiate his arguments.
2. Wholesale errors in structure, tenses and grammatical errors.
3. Lack of cohesion.
4. Little substance.
5. Failure to read or grasp the contents he often uses to support his arguments (E.g The Finnish shooting incident)
6. Inability to even quote from the bible itself (as in the case of the argument of the Noah's Ark: Ask Tim to explain it, or peruse my blog to see how he flopped spectacularly.)
There are probably more flaws I can pick on, but these are the fatal ones that makes Tim's writings incredibly torrid to read. As a middle-ranged writer and fervent reader, it is very painful for me to read his posts, and I only do it because I need to post my counterarguments so that readers can see a more rational side to Tim's fradulent arguments.
Beast
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