{"id":5165,"date":"2012-09-01T00:14:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:38:07","slug":"look-at-me-look-at-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/look-at-me-look-at-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Look at me! Look at me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[[07\/15\/2025: This\u2019ll teach me to use an embed plugin instead of screenshots, and also not to put in the text.]]<\/p>\n<hr class=\"gradient\">\n<p>So this morning around 10:13 a.m., I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/marcus-borg\/a-chronological-new-testament_b_1823018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a piece in HuffPo<\/a> about a possible alternative chronology to the New Testament that puts a new spin on things. I thought it was an interesting concept. I RTd the link, though I forgot from whom I lifted it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16110 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120901_tweet01.jpg\" alt=\"A tweet from me, @MoriahJovan. Text: \u201cReading the New Testament chronologically: ow.ly\/dnpJq VERY INTERESTING (can't recall who tweeted this--sorry!)\u201d\" width=\"595\" height=\"175\"><\/p>\n<p>My friend replied: [deleted tweet]<\/p>\n<p>Another friend replied: [deleted tweet]<\/p>\n<p>We had a nice little chat about that that lasted all of about 1\/2 hour. Then I had to go do grownup things like work and take care of the gas leak I had and arrange for a plumber and new water heater.<\/p>\n<p>And then this guy shows up <em>six hours later<\/em>: [deleted tweet]<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s where he started the fight without bothering to ask us to define our terms first. (First rule of Twitter when butting into a convo you want to involve yourself in: ask for clarification from the participants first. You\u2019ll probably get a nice response and a welcome to the convo so long as you can keep it civil, even if you disagree.) Regrettably, we engaged for about three tweets each before we figured out he had no home training and blocked him.<\/p>\n<p>But before I did, I did a little preliminary snoopage, as per SOP when strangers with an attitude butt into my convo six hours after said convo has been put to bed. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120615161022\/http:\/\/matthewreeves.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matthew Reeves<\/a> is 20. He writes YA. How sweet of him. How \u2026 20 years old of him.<\/p>\n<p>I was 20 once. It was a nice year. I had fun. And yeah, I thought I knew everything, too.<\/p>\n<p>So! He\u2019s blocked and I go back to harrassing @mikecane, as per usual, interspersed with some time spent making my son do manual labor, and Matthew Reeves continues to rant at us, but who cares, right? Because we can\u2019t see it and there are soooo many more interesting people on Twitter who really <em>can<\/em> school us on something.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently Matthew Reeves needs to broadcast his point of view to the world, so without further ado, and because I\u2019m occasionally a nice mommy to my own know-it-all son, I\u2019m going to assist him in this endeavor:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Dude, I\u2019m A Historian (but not in the subject being discussed)<\/span>. [dead link]<\/p>\n<p>Bless his heart, picking a fight with two people he doesn\u2019t know who are old enough to have shot him out of our vaginas, and is now mad because we won\u2019t pay him any mind. Precious. Just precious.<\/p>\n<p>And now he\u2019s disillusioned: [deleted tweet]<\/p>\n<p>Sadness.<\/p>\n<p>Go away, kid. Ya bother me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[[07\/15\/2025: This\u2019ll teach me to use an embed plugin instead of screenshots, and also not to put in the text.]] So this morning around 10:13 a.m., I read a piece in HuffPo about a possible alternative chronology to the New Testament that puts a new spin on things. I thought it was an interesting concept. 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