Word moves quickly, but Scott Bailey reports that Jim West has decided to cease blogging. His blog site is now password protected and he is apparently moving on to greater things. Will he join NT Wrong in the biblioblogging utopia? Who will take his place as the top referrer to Stalin’s Moustache? Will there be a second coming? Will it be like that new year resolution to give up smoking? Will he, after a few days of withdrawal symptoms, head to the shop, buy that packet, light up and draw back with pleasure? Or is he really gone? I for one think the world will be a sadder, drearier place without Jim West. It is already bad enough without NT Wrong.
2 January, 2010
Has Jim West ceased blogging?
Posted by stalinsmoustache under blogs | Tags: Jim West |[16] Comments
2 January, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I seriously doubt Jim has stopped blogging for good. He’s deleted his blogs in the past and always comes back. Just wait and see.
2 January, 2010 at 9:47 pm
So the delirium tremens will get the better of him, preparing for a third or fourth coming?
2 January, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Yep.
3 January, 2010 at 1:03 am
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3 January, 2010 at 1:12 am
If he returns, I hope he leaves out the cruel humour against suicide victims, homosexuals, atheists and fat people. And the ‘total depravity’.
3 January, 2010 at 7:56 am
No no, the total depravity was the best string.
3 January, 2010 at 8:26 am
I never saw the point.
3 January, 2010 at 1:16 am
[...] and Rob too. Oh, and David Ker. Then you have Roland Boer. And the ever good, Fr. [...]
3 January, 2010 at 1:26 am
Maybe he suddenly realized that his blog was no good and was embarrassed.
3 January, 2010 at 7:57 am
He was one of the main figures to organise a campaign to save the dept of biblical studies from shutting down, if nothing else.
3 January, 2010 at 8:31 am
That’s right and I’ve expressed as much elsewhere. He has done both secular and conservative scholarship a great service in promotion and support over the years, and he was brilliant help to Sheffield. But some ‘humour’ on the blog is an abuse of the freedom to express one’s opinion. Or at least ‘funny’ attacks on homosexuals and suicide victims derive from fundamentalist morals and they should be vigorously opposed.
3 January, 2010 at 11:48 am
Maybe he will use all that time and talent on spreading the Gospel now.
3 January, 2010 at 2:30 pm
maybe “Dan D. Praved” = Jim West?
3 January, 2010 at 2:56 pm
that actually occurred to me too.
3 January, 2010 at 2:55 pm
I just found out he runs a very nice church blog at Petros Baptist church.
9 January, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Newsflash: Jim is back. It took only six days.