Comments on: You’re not “post-” anything, so shut the hell up!

By: phil_style

phil_style — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:47:11 +0000

the new cool is not “post”, but “alter”…. I think it’s code for “third way”, ala, “I can see through the mess which obviously no-one else can”.

see the nonsense being promoted by the “altermodern” crowd….. It’s sustance-less marketing at its worst.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:45:59 +0000

“post-office” I do my “reading” at the local cool coffee shop and not the office.
“post toasties” I ALWAYS use sun screen when I go to the beach these days and no longer expose my naked skin to the sun unprotected.
“postmortem” hmmmmmm

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:16:15 +0000

heh, heh,,, “postevangelical”… i like that!

By: adhunt

adhunt — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:07:31 +0000

I wonder if we might throw in other words that “short circuit arguments?”

1) Reactionary – as in – “Mr. X has a reactionary ecclesiology”
2) Dependent – as in – “Mr. X’s theology of Y is flawed because it is dependent upon Z”
3) Constantinian – as in – “X classical dogma I disagree with is obviously wrong because it is Constantinian”
4) Not Apocalyptically Missional Enough – as in – “That is simply Not Apocalyptically Missionally Yoderian enough for me to respect: Consequently it needs to become Post-Constantinian”

By: d. stephen long

d. stephen long — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:08:04 +0000

Halden did someone put castor oil in your post-toasties this morning?

By: Halden

Halden — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:48:20 +0000

No, it sets up an argument in somewhat jovial and entertaining way.

By: Josh Rowley

Josh Rowley — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:35:21 +0000

So, the prefix “post-” “short circuit[s] an argument,” but the statement “shut the hell up” doesn’t?

By: R.O. Flyer

R.O. Flyer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:40:08 +0000

True dat, Dave.

By: erin

erin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:12:26 +0000

Nice post, Halden.

By: Halden

Halden — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:15:38 +0000

Sweet. Consider this a formal offer to post it.

By: Dave B

Dave B — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:24:46 +0000

I daresay there is hardly anything — if anything — that Neuhaus has said that could be “apt,” let alone worth repeating.

By: Dave B

Dave B — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:23:22 +0000

It seems like the most appropriate strategy in response to these folks is to actually use “post-” in order to characterize them:

These folks are “sooooo post-yesterday”

By: roger flyer

roger flyer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:02:08 +0000

You’ve got me!

You flatter me by seeing a bit of Gandalf in my madness (see beard) Yes, to the iconoclast and court jester, but you also haven’t seen the minstrel in me yet.
(( will write a Kim Fabricius hymn one day on your blog.)

By: The Charismanglican

The Charismanglican — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:48:25 +0000

Guilty.

I use ‘post-liberalism’ as a way to express my affinity with certain ideas and authors.

And it at least sparks a conversation about ‘what does liberal really mean anyways?’

But, yeah, it’s the old trick where we think newer is better.

I’m not sure I’m going to be too careful about this. But you’re definitely giving us notice…

By: Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:59:25 +0000

Thank you very much for this post. Could you send more of your thoughts via parcel post? I’ll post them on the bulletin board at my church. You are ideally suited to the post of anti-post poster child. In fact, were I to speak metaphorically, I’d say you are a post in the fence which keeps post- at bay.

Anyway, I’m rather hungry, so I am going to eat some Post cereal.