I am ready to announce something wonderful the likes of which is more exciting than anything I have previously blogged about in over a decade of online writing, with a few possible exceptions. The New Dharma that I have referred to begins today. What I am about to begin today is unlike anything I have ever previously done. It could very well be the first time that you have seen something quite like it. I for one am not aware of anyone else doing a project online of this nature. If you do, let me know! Before I begin, I have a few words targeted to my current readership. As you are no doubt aware, Joe-Perez has served as a hub for my writings since November 2003. For more than a decade, I wrote well over 1,000 posts. Recently I have chosen to retire several hundred of those, not because they were embarrassingly immature (which is also true in some cases), but because I felt they would be distractions from the New Dharma that I have to offer. I left over 300 posts from half a dozen distinct blogs online, perhaps more than I ought to have, but I feel it’s important to give my readers a sense of where I have come from. I just don’t want you to get hung up on the many shifts in my perspective over the years. Down the road it may not be important to keep them online at all. So today I have made an editorial move to help simplify my Web presence. Every post prior to today I have labelled with the category “Legacy Post”, and I have eliminated other descriptions. Moving forward, my posts will have the category “New Writings”. This will make no difference to many of you, but it is important for me to say it properly. Like the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in mid-life, I find myself with the need to re-invent myself in order that I may speak more clearly and be heard. So now … what is it that is so important for me to say that I need to preface it with a declaration that my old writings are of a constitutionally different category than this one and others to come? READ ON... joe-perez/blog/the-new-dharma-arrives-today1/
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 01:51:20 +0000