Sunday, May 4, 2008

Where to begin.

I've been torturing myself this last week attempting to find a suitable topic for my first real post. It hasn't gone well. I've plenty of things to talk about, but I wanted to start out with something really important, something to evoke real thought and contemplation, something to make me sound brilliant. Honestly, its terribly disconcerting having such a plethora of thoughts fly through one's mind while away from the keyboard only to have them drift away like a fart in the wind when its time to put them into words.
Then again, that also brings to mind the real validity of me having a blog in the first place. So many voices in the ether; what's the point of one more? Do I really have anything new or useful to say? Evidently I think so, otherwise this blog wouldn't have started. So I must have some innate connection to some arcane source of knowledge and wisdom to which no others are privy, or I'm just a pretentious ass. Time will tell.
As I have no ability whatsoever to decide what to wax philosophical about, I'll appeal to your judgment (that means you, the poor sap reading this). As I'm already realizing, I really didn't want to start the blog like this, in the mediocre meta-post way. Alas, I'm new at this. Give a guy a break. Of the few ideas I have cage-matching each other in my head a few stand out.
-The nature of knowledge and of being right. The importance of discernment and judgment.
-Human weakness & frailty. The folly of pride & how it destroys relationships.
-Why are things so screwed up? Or are they?
-Eggs. Good or bad?
-How can the mechanical, deterministic understanding of reality through conventional physics coexist with the swirly, probabilistic theory of reality of quantum mechanics, and how can we find room for human freedom and will within that framework?
-Political Correctness & Other BullShit. Gateways to duckspeak and other forms of passive social control.
-Why they want us dumb. American education and the future of our democracy.
-The consolidation of power, wealth, and influence. Why revolutions come again and again.
-The point of no return. Technological power consolidaton. No more revolutions.
-Ron Paul. ....(maybe I better put this higher on the list)
-Why it might be a good idea to become more self-reliant and go live in a cave for a while.
-Why I killed that guy. (a fictional story. Honest!)
-War, what is it good for? Well, that depends on what you consider 'good'.
-The cyclical nature of trends, social preferences, & economics. Why the bullshit will never end.
-The ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. (Readers of THGTTG need not read this post)

There you have it, but a few ideas I've been molesting in my brain of late. If you think any of these ideas sound remotely interesting or have something much better in mind, please let me know. I need more practice.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well Brandon let me put it like this:

Everyone these days is doing the Schiavo
Drooling mouth open with no idea where to go
And maybe their backbones are broken
But their empty stares say a thousand times more than any words they've spoken
And can I please get a little relevance?
The only time I seem to draw attention is when I stop the monkey dance
All I'm asking for is a fair chance
And to change my pants, maybe my shoes so I can try to walk another path
Instead I'm bombarded with stupid questions and egos
Petty criticisms from those with easy breeze goals

And I guess through this mess
what I'm really wondering is:

If I let my beard grow large
will my body wilt?
If my words become rough
will my tongue lie like silk
If I lie in the gutter will my soul ascend?
I've got all of these questions
But nobody to answer them
If you give birth do you die inside?
Or to reciprocate, if you kill someone will you feel alive?
Does asking questions reveal my ignorance?
Is it more to revel in inheretance?
Does being negative keep me in the right frame of mind?
Or am I simply wrong to see the sun for its shine.
Is living for the moment a waste of time?
Was Diogenes able to see the shadows cast off by his light?
Are questions the answer if the answers given are questionable?
Are answers really answers if they leave us with more questions still?

Darkest Unborn said...

Josh, if that is yours it is brilliant. If it isn't, well its still brilliant.

Anonymous said...

Dear joshua,

For the rest I could care less BUT to the question, "if you kill someone will you feel alive"? the answer is yes or more accuartely you will feel MORE alive then you have ever felt before......

soldier

Anonymous said...

I like answering in rap