All good things…
When we first started this site way back in February 2003, we never imagined the way that it would morph and develop to ultimately become what it is today. What started out as a means for us to share and workshop some of our writing has turned into a site focussed much more around a community of people. It has certainly been illuminating.
But four and a half years is a long time. In that time our RL profiles have changed, and to be honest, Phil and I have both lost a sense of energy for this blog (something that would not come as a surprise to regular commenters, who have become accustomed to the fact that we aren’t around as much as we once were). That energy includes monitoring comments, responding to inquiries and requests to change/delete references, and so on.
We have spent several months now discussing what we would do with or about this site. This is what we have come up with. We recognise that the people who comment here have become a community of sorts and we want to give every opportunity for that to continue in some form. We toyed with allowing someone else to take over this site entirely. However, we want to maintain our existing archive as it is a bit of a scrapbook for us. And therefore relinquishing control over signposts isn’t something that we are comfortable with.
So for now we propose to just close the site. The content will remain but we will close the comments on all posts. Closing comments will be a bit of a lengthy process and will commence in the next couple of weeks, starting from the oldest posts. It is possible that in future we will start something new at this site. We might even get six months down the track, decide that we can’t bear to be without this blog and bring it back up - we don’t think so though.
We encourage commenters and others who might wish to maintain the “signposts community” to make some plans in the comments of this thread. It might be starting a group blog or a forum which reflects the same sort of open conversation which takes place here. We are happy to assist in whatever way we can, including directing future visitors to whereever you want.
We will publish a “last post” when we come to finally close off all of the comments, but for now we just wanted to thank our readers and commenters for the last 4 and a half years. To those that have helped with guest posting, and to those that have engaged in conversation and have in some way had their thinking or questioning as a result of this site, we thank you.
September 1st, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Saturday afternoon at four o’clock
as the evening begins
Silently closing her study door
Leaving the post that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the rumpus computer
clutching her handkerchief
Quietly pressing the delete from favourites key
Stepping outside (blinded by the sunshine) she is free
She (we gave her most of our views)
is leaving (agrued intelligently most of our views)
Signposts (we gave her everything money couldn’t buy)
She’s leaving Signposts after typing alone for
two years (bye bye)
Dan snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the angry letter from Hill$ong that’s lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
Phil breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy our Signposters are gone
Why would the formalised church treat us so thoughtlessly
How could they do this to Signposts?
She (We never thought of ourselves)
is leaving (never a thought for ourselves (or reputations)
Signposts (we struggled hard all our facilitating time to get heard)
She’s leaving home after typing alone for
2 years (bye bye)
Sunday morning at nine o’clock she is far away
Struggling hard to get to church on time
Meeting a friend from real life she lurkes forward
She (what did Signposts do that was wrong)
is (we didn’t know it was wrong)
expressing a view (free speech is the one thing that money can’t buy)
Something inside that was always denied for
so many pentecostal years (bye bye)
She’s leaving Signposts (bye bye)
Sorry Janet it’s my competitive streak that was nutured during my years in pentecost……
September 1st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
“that was” - ‘nurtured’. Phil and Dan please put us out of our collective misery.
September 1st, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Some blogs will, some blogswon’t
Some blogs need a lot of comments and some
blogs don’t
Well, I know I’ve got the fever but I don’t
know why
Some blogs keep going and some blogs die
So here I am in front of you
Not really knowing what to do
My heart is feeling something new
Nervously I turn away from you
I see the looks you’re sending me
Is this the way it’s meant to be?
It’s something we should talk about
Just give me time to work it out
Some blogs will, some blogswon’t
Some blogs need a lot of comments and some
blogs don’t
Well, I know I’ve got the fever but I don’t
know why
Some blogs keep going and some blogs die
I find Signposts company to be
Something completely new to me
Now that I know you socially
Obviously I’ll fall heavily
I’ve seen those looks you’re sending me
This is the way it’s meant to be
There’s nothing left to talk about
Oh, how I wish you’d work it out
Some blogs will, some blogswon’t
Some blogs need a lot of comments and some
blogs don’t
Well, I know I’ve got the fever but I don’t
know why
Some blogs keep going and some blogs die
September 1st, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Another turning point
A fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist
directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test
and don’t ask why.
It’s not a question
But a lesson learned in time.
It’s something unpredictable
but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.
Hang them on a shelf
In good health and good times
Tattoos and memories
and dead skin on trial.
For what it’s worth,
it was worth all the while.
It’s something unpredictable
but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It’s something unpredictable
but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It’s something unpredictable
but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
(Couldn’t quite bring myself to edit that one…
Adieu Signposters… I hope you had fun… I did!)
September 1st, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I already used that song earlier in the day…I win
September 1st, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Anyone else out there got a myspace?
http://www.myspace.com/gregtheexplorer
I’d love to here frm anyone whose not intending on going over to SP mk II - or add me as a friend anyway.
Greg
September 1st, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Hi greg - I’ll visit you on myspace.. I have had enough Signposts 1 or signposts 2. I hear the Titanic orchestra playing in the background now…. yes folks, the good ship and crew are sinking…. going down for the last time…
September 1st, 2007 at 11:23 pm
onya akevin
September 2nd, 2007 at 3:50 am
I posted last
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:43 am
Or did you?
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:50 am
apparently not!
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:08 am
This site is like the Y2K bug.