Google Analytics reports 324,692 page views in the last 12 months.
Unique visitors total almost 48,000.
When I posted a funny video for everyone to enjoy, one of the Shrinkers wrote:
The older child reminds me of you, GJ -- Sticking your finger into the mouth of slander and then crying when you are caught doing it.
That remark is funny, because I have often mentioned how comments like this encourage and motivate me. It is also sad, because this is a WELS member who finds comfort in making anonymous, peevish statements that have nothing to do with the post itself. Something has gotten under his skin.
Joe Krohn, for instance, started a blog to urge people to boycott this one. He gets about one reader per day. The reason for his tiny audience? - he is a follower of this one and comments almost daily.
Tim Felt-Needs has to blog about the Gadarene horde attending his movie theater, where people enter the entertaining Seeker Service with a drink and a snack in their hands.
In contrast, the early Christians entered the Coliseum with their hands folded in prayer - as the entertainment and the snack.
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Anonymous WELS Pastor from Appleton has left a new comment on your post "One/Third Million Page Views in Last Year":
So what if a lot of people read this! In the words of the great proponent of confessional Lutheranism (and foe to anything that smacks of CGM) former Dean Ed Lindemann, these readers are nothing more than a bunch of "malcontents and whining puppies."
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GJ - I met Dean Lindemann at NWC and talked to him once. He opposed the closing of the school. Did that make him a "malcontent and whining puppy?" The NWC faculty wrote a letter opposing amalgamation. I sent it to Christian News for them. Did that make them "malcontents and whining puppies?"
I am not sure of the purpose for quoting Lindemann. I do not think he was speaking about Ichabod. If he was, let me know, give it a date, and include your name, your mother's maiden name, and last 4 numbers in your social.
I am the only one who can say "so what" about the numbers. I did not start the blog to reach a lot of people. Gurgle and Wayne Mueller were still co-presidents when I turned the doctrinal newsletter into a blog. I expected about 20 regular readers.
When people claim "no one reads Ichabod" and thousands do read it, the Shrinkers are the liars.
The funniest deceptions are "Ichabod has no effect" and "so what!" A regular flow of comments claiming no effect is de facto an effect. God's Word blinds and enlightens, hardens and converts. His will and Word are united, so the results belong to Him alone.
I ignore most blogs because they have so little to say. I do not write daily anonymous comments to them. I do check on the fake once a day to see if he is out of detox or done talking to his parole officer. I hope it is helping him with his personal demons, which are legion.
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Yer slippin', GJ. You forgot to call me on clumsy sentence construction and weak analogy. Don't get so smug about your numbers. Remember, Perez Hilton gets even more hits than that. Getting a ginormous number of hits doesn't mean that you or Perez are telling the truth. It only shows that the sites that have the most malicious gossip tend to attract the most traffic on the web.
GJ, don't join the BGM, the Blog Growth Movement. It's almost as bad as church growth.
"The older child reminds me of you, GJ -- Sticking your finger into the mouth of slander and then crying when you are caught doing it."
HAHA! It's so perfect because it's absolutely true... well, I suppose it would be libel because it's written but you get the idea.
The anonymice shrinkers who make their snarky comments here say that no one reads Ichabod. The numbers do not lie. These shrinkers are just envious.
So what if a lot of people read this! In the words of the great proponent of confessional Lutheranism (and foe to anything that smacks of CGM) former Dean Ed Lindemann, these readers are nothing more than a bunch of "malcontents and whining puppies."
For those who contend against the false doctrine and practice in the Lutheran churches, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Christ by the Holy Spirit, mercy, peace, love and the compfort of the Holy Spirit be multiplied unto you. And unto those who war against Christ, His doctrine and His Church, woe unto you for your judgement is not far off.
Jude Chapter 1: Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Dean Lindemann got everything his way at Northwestern, so he was talking about people he squashed when he was said they were "malcontents and "whining puppies."
Tremendous text Brett. Most apt.
Dr. Jackson,
Congratulations on reaching the milestone of 1/3 million views. I used to enjoy the theological debate, and sometimes banter, that appeared on your site. It seems that of late, it has become more akin to a tabloid to point out scandals at WELS learning institutions, as well as shortcomings within WELS leadership. Do your statistics bear out any correlation between the content and increase in viewership? I realize that if you focused on high level theological discussion as you once did, readership would likely decline...but I would appreciate your site more. Where will the site go in the future?
Regards,
Non-WELS educated daily reader of Ichabod
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