22 Words http://twentytwowords.com Experiments in getting to the point. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:56:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 22_wordshttp://feedburner.google.com Asking if you’re joking either ruins the humor or shows I don’t take your seriousness seriously. http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/12/asking-if-youre-joking-either-ruins-the-humor-or-shows-i-don%e2%80%99t-take-your-seriousness-seriously/ http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/12/asking-if-youre-joking-either-ruins-the-humor-or-shows-i-don%e2%80%99t-take-your-seriousness-seriously/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:56:15 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=3748 Occasionally, a comment makes me honestly wonder if the author is kidding.

But there’s no way to politely ask, “Are you serious?”

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/12/asking-if-youre-joking-either-ruins-the-humor-or-shows-i-don%e2%80%99t-take-your-seriousness-seriously/feed/ 0 My newest project that may come to nothing: Today I recorded my parts for 4 songs: http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/11/my-newest-project-that-may-come-to-nothing-today-i-recorded-my-parts-for-4-songs/ http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/11/my-newest-project-that-may-come-to-nothing-today-i-recorded-my-parts-for-4-songs/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:11:28 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=3728 1. “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”
2. “I Saw a Wayworn Traveler”
3. “How Firm a Foundation”
4. “Lowly Jesus”

We’ll see what happens.

recording

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/11/my-newest-project-that-may-come-to-nothing-today-i-recorded-my-parts-for-4-songs/feed/ 6 This isn’t an exciting, encouraging, or inspiring reason that I’m a Christian, but it is a reason. http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/10/this-isn%e2%80%99t-an-exciting-encouraging-or-inspiring-reason-that-i%e2%80%99m-a-christian-but-it-is-a-reason/ http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/10/this-isn%e2%80%99t-an-exciting-encouraging-or-inspiring-reason-that-i%e2%80%99m-a-christian-but-it-is-a-reason/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:10:54 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=3723 When I can’t believe something about Christianity, I ask myself if I can believe the opposite?

I’m Christian because I answer No.

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/10/this-isn%e2%80%99t-an-exciting-encouraging-or-inspiring-reason-that-i%e2%80%99m-a-christian-but-it-is-a-reason/feed/ 19 Don’t assume anything about people just from seeing how they follow others on Twitter. http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/09/don%e2%80%99t-assume-anything-about-people-just-from-seeing-how-they-follow-others-on-twitter/ http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/09/don%e2%80%99t-assume-anything-about-people-just-from-seeing-how-they-follow-others-on-twitter/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:18:08 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=3711 There are good reasons to follow…

  • …your followers,
  • a few select people,
  • or nobody.

A person’s choice says nothing certain about them.

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/09/don%e2%80%99t-assume-anything-about-people-just-from-seeing-how-they-follow-others-on-twitter/feed/ 6 How do you civilly respond to racist remarks? http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/09/how-do-you-civilly-respond-to-racist-remarks/ http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/09/how-do-you-civilly-respond-to-racist-remarks/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:31:15 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=3705 Sometimes we should reply harshly to racism, but my brother asks (in 22 words),

What about when you need to stay polite?

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/09/how-do-you-civilly-respond-to-racist-remarks/feed/ 14 Monroe’s weird and nasty marketing makes for a weird and nasty blog post about it. Sorry. http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/08/monroe%e2%80%99s-weird-and-nasty-marketing-makes-for-a-weird-and-nasty-blog-post-about-it-sorry/ http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/08/monroe%e2%80%99s-weird-and-nasty-marketing-makes-for-a-weird-and-nasty-blog-post-about-it-sorry/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:11:24 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=3698 saving squirrels

Why would anyone purposefully associate their brand with helping a domiciliary scourge that should be curtailed as decisively as rats or termites?

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/08/monroe%e2%80%99s-weird-and-nasty-marketing-makes-for-a-weird-and-nasty-blog-post-about-it-sorry/feed/ 18 There’s positive side to things not turning out how we thought they would. http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/08/there%e2%80%99s-positive-side-to-things-not-turning-out-how-we-thought-they-would/ http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/08/there%e2%80%99s-positive-side-to-things-not-turning-out-how-we-thought-they-would/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:27:04 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=3692 Life-long dreams can easily become letdowns, but on the flip side…

Our greatest fears, like our greatest hopes, often come to nothing.

(The Brothers K, 566)

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/08/there%e2%80%99s-positive-side-to-things-not-turning-out-how-we-thought-they-would/feed/ 6 “People change” shouldn’t be why folks divorce. It should be how they stay together. http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/07/%e2%80%9cpeople-change%e2%80%9d-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-why-folks-divorce-it-should-be-how-they-stay-together/ http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/07/%e2%80%9cpeople-change%e2%80%9d-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-why-folks-divorce-it-should-be-how-they-stay-together/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:56:28 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=3686 Divorcing because your spouse isn’t the same person you married anymore is curious.

More troubling would be if they are the same.

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/07/%e2%80%9cpeople-change%e2%80%9d-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-why-folks-divorce-it-should-be-how-they-stay-together/feed/ 11 A summer vocab lesson: Schadenfreude http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/06/a-summer-vocab-lesson-schadenfreude/ http://twentytwowords.com/2009/07/06/a-summer-vocab-lesson-schadenfreude/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:28:40 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=3679 The real joy of tubing is in the boat, not behind it.

Watching someone else careen helplessly, bouncingly along provides unadulterated schadenfreude.

tubing

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einstein sticker

Yet God is preparing eternal peacetime with one of the most incendiary acts of all time.

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