Vlogging and Its Relationship to Reading

    So here I am, at home bored wondering what to write. I just saw the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 and I must say that I was impressed. I just bought it, and I can't wait to open it and begin blogging (or should I say Vlogging). I have so much research done and some research that I am doing. Unfortunately the camera that I current have in my possession is not mine…and currently isn't working with my OS (Vista Business, 64-Bit). There is something of an unrelated point that I am going to bring up here, and that is the very nature of vlogging—again with my philosophical slant. People naturally are not impressed anymore with reading blogs, and there is reason or reasons for that. Most people who don't know how to write or are not experienced in polemics (i.e., dialectical training) have a tendency to equivocate and be misunderstood. This is a very significant problem and poorly evaluated by opponents. For instance, some of my readers tend to misunderstand me when I argue in favor of Christian Theism and, say, not in favor of general theism—much like the debate that took place between Bertrand Russell and Copelstone (a priest), whose definition brought a concession among many atheists and evangelicals (the definition has even defined the debate for many years). Now, the problem isn't that I haven't had training, but that people can be taken the wrong way in their writing. (I don't want to appear like some high-minded intellectual either, having all the sufficient arguments and have some sort of apex in knowledge. I would like to stress, however, that I am confident in my endeavors via my epistemic—much like Cornelius Van Til wrote in a short pamphlet called Why I Believe in God.) The other problem is seen ardently in people's short attention span in logic, reasoning and all other intellectual endeavors. Anything that has a tendency to be somewhat cerebral, people either get lost or have a much easier time looking at the person speak rather than reading a laborious blog. On the other hand, people just don't like reading something really long and would rather see something being pontificated at them. In fact, when the eye does not have the sufficient temerity—for instance, the eye muscles are not that well developed by the due exercise of reading—the person tends to skim the person's ideas and misreads them in the process. In any case, using a webcam will actually be a pragmatic move on my part—though I don't think that my appearance will be that helpful.

    For those of you that have a similar problem with "reading" blogs the way I have described, I highly suggest books on the blogosphere and how to read. I have in my possession one of the best books on reading. It is called How to Read a Book, by Adler Mortimer & Doren. It is par excellence in the intellectual field of reading and mapping out ideas.

^[1] Notice that I do not use the lower case "t" for theism. I want to be very specific when I speak for theism contrasted with those who favor general theism. Among them is William Lane Craig and the said Copelstone.