Why no comments?

A number of people have asked me why I do not have comments on this blog, so I have decided to explain myself. I have decided to turn off comments for the following reasons.

1) I am rubbish at computers, plus they give me a sore back, and the whole idea of vetting comments etc and managing the whole thing is just a bit painful/annoying.

2) If i had comments up you would probably write cool and clever things, then I would feel that I have to respond. The problem is that I dont have heaps of time, so the off time that I have I love to do other cool things that involve not replying to comments.

3) Part of me bucks against the ‘comment without commitment’ nature of the comments function on blogs, I much prefer conversation face to face, so if you are inspired by my thoughts, I encourage you to chat to your friends, take them to your small group, nut it over with your family/kids/spouse. If this does not work try pets, or mirrors, or just print them off and run down the street berating strangers with my commentary. (sadly at this stage I am not able to cover your legal fees.) 

Hope this explains if it does not I like what Tim Keller says here

“After several years of reading blogs I conclude that these sharp exchanges between people with different points of view almost always generate far, far more heat than light. Blogs seem to best for helping like-minded people to share information and to mildly revise one another’s thinking. Alan Jacobs (in an article on weblogs in May/June 2006 Books and Culture) said that blogs are ‘the friend of information, but the enemy of thought.’ I absolutely love blogs for getting news and opinion of all kinds, but the ‘dialogues’ are generally unhelpful. I’m sure everyone can point to one or two exceptions. “