Comments on: Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?

By: Whole Reason » Who’s watching the watchmen?

Whole Reason » Who’s watching the watchmen? — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:54:55 +0000

[...] Fishing the Abyss has a very nice post taking neo fundie site Slice to task, asking "who’s watching the watchmen?" They come up with the following recommendations for transforming Slice and other watchblog sites from sarcastic bastards into useful ministries: [...]

By: Sliced Laodicea » Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?

Sliced Laodicea » Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:43:22 +0000

[...] Source: Fishing the Abyss [...]

By: Musings from Two-Sheds Gomer » Blog Archive » how then shall we blog?

Musings from Two-Sheds Gomer » Blog Archive » how then shall we blog? — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:04:27 +0000

[...] I have been wrestling with this issue for quite a while. As many of my readers know, I’m no friend of the watchblogs. And I have read multiple posts by other people asking “Who watches the watchers?”, i.e. who’s checking to be sure that the heretic hunters don’t become heretical themselves? [...]

By: Chris L.

Chris L. — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:59:44 +0000

Excellent post recommendation, robbymac! Thanks!

I don’t know if you saw it, but ENo is calling it quits (but leaving its past posts up). Nice to see one of the HH sites going down…

By: robbymac

robbymac — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:36:32 +0000

A little late to that party on this one, but…

Dan Edelen wrote a great post on this very topic (and I suspect the blog he’s referring to is either Slice or EmergentNO, but of course, Dan doesn’t actually name it) entitled Who Watches The Watchers? He has many great points to make.

Enjoy!

By: brendt

brendt — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:37:36 +0000

See, you agreed with me, and I bet I’m older than you, too.

On a lighter (but slightly related) note, when I was in high-school and early college, I worked with 3rd-5th grade boys at my church. Good group of kids most of the time. Occasionally, they’d cop a mock attitude — not really being disrespectful, just silly. So I’d silly them right back and tell them that they needed to listen to me because my car was older than they were.

By: Chris L.

Chris L. — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:34:57 +0000

brendt,

I guess you’re probably right – Ken’s postings are continuing, full-screed, with added attacks against his ‘attackers’ in full-sanctominiousness, instead of just answering the questions…

I will have to remember his argument the next time those twenty-somethings start questioning my engineering/process consulting at work – “Hey! I’m older than you. Ken Silva says you need to shut up, sit down and listen blindly to those of us older than you, even if we’re driving you off a cliff into the abyss…”

By: brendt

brendt — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:41:07 +0000

I’ll not argue over the issue that we’re dealing with brothers here — I’ll leave judgment of salvation to God and Steve Camp.

But I do have to question your statement about change being more probable than in a non-believer. You generally don’t have to first convince a non-believer that God is on their side.

By: Chris L.

Chris L. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:59:02 +0000

Brendt,

You are probably right, but the little bit of ‘non-cynic’ in me says that we are brothers dealing with brothers here. Since we all believe in the same God, and He is all-powerful, such change is much more possible/probable than when dealing with non-believers.

grace & peace,

Chris

By: brendt

brendt — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:23:59 +0000

Great article. Would it be overly-cynical to think that none of it will actually be implemented, though?