Inaugural post!
Like most late teen/early twenty-somethings who were raised on the internet, I am owner and operator of a number of various blogs, most of which are defunct or deleted. I have a journal which is for my eyes only and a journal which is my way of communicating with friends who don't live so near to me anymore. Neither of which are appropriate venues for the kind of random commentary that I would like to inflict upon the world on a regular basis. I censor myself when I'm writing for my friends, and who cares what I write when no one else can see it?
And so, where there was darkness, there will be light. I have molded from these clay bits and bytes of zeroes and ones a new entity, which will disseminate truth unto the masses.
Of course, I'm kidding. I will probably record my comments on books and movies that I like or don't like for an interesting reason, notes on my philosophy for various aspects of life, a high prbability of occassional political commentary, and whatever else I deem appropriate for inclusion.
And for my first entry, I will discuss the title and url of this blog, which I borrowed from a Warren Zevon off his album Mutineer. Expect to see him mentioned quite a bit in the future. The song itself is a good song, but the phrase is one of the Z-man's many touches of genius.
I am agnostic and vehemently so. From where I stand, there is a dearth of evidence that would be necessary to making an informed decision as to the existence of non-existence of god, much less to say anything about a fictional being's nature. You might as well speculate as to the political affiliation of a character in a story that has either yet to be written, or has been written and utterly lost - every copy of it destroyed. What can you say that's substantive on the subject of god? In my book, not a lot.
And so, the heavens are will-less, insofar as they even exist. The force which guides the events of the world is neither benevolent or malevolent. If you assume that you can even attribute any kind of characteristic to such a nebulous entity, it is indifferent. The things which matter so much to us in our day-to-day lives - and what is a blog but a magnificent celebration of the self and of the trivial? - the universe doesn't care a whit. All the news items that get circulated endlessly between an oroboros-like line of bloggers are meaningless, in the end. No one will remember 90% of them in a year. In ten years, probably 99%. In a thousand years, no one will care about any of them, if there's even anyone left to do the caring.
This is, I think, the essential first step to looking at the world as it really is. Things matter to you, but the quality of "mattering" or "deserving to matter" is by no means universal. Most people will not care about what I have to say, and I both respect and expect that. But I won't let that stop me. Because some of the things I have to say just might matter to some people, for a brief period of time.
And of course, it all matters to me. Otherwise, why would I bother to say it?
And so, where there was darkness, there will be light. I have molded from these clay bits and bytes of zeroes and ones a new entity, which will disseminate truth unto the masses.
Of course, I'm kidding. I will probably record my comments on books and movies that I like or don't like for an interesting reason, notes on my philosophy for various aspects of life, a high prbability of occassional political commentary, and whatever else I deem appropriate for inclusion.
And for my first entry, I will discuss the title and url of this blog, which I borrowed from a Warren Zevon off his album Mutineer. Expect to see him mentioned quite a bit in the future. The song itself is a good song, but the phrase is one of the Z-man's many touches of genius.
I am agnostic and vehemently so. From where I stand, there is a dearth of evidence that would be necessary to making an informed decision as to the existence of non-existence of god, much less to say anything about a fictional being's nature. You might as well speculate as to the political affiliation of a character in a story that has either yet to be written, or has been written and utterly lost - every copy of it destroyed. What can you say that's substantive on the subject of god? In my book, not a lot.
And so, the heavens are will-less, insofar as they even exist. The force which guides the events of the world is neither benevolent or malevolent. If you assume that you can even attribute any kind of characteristic to such a nebulous entity, it is indifferent. The things which matter so much to us in our day-to-day lives - and what is a blog but a magnificent celebration of the self and of the trivial? - the universe doesn't care a whit. All the news items that get circulated endlessly between an oroboros-like line of bloggers are meaningless, in the end. No one will remember 90% of them in a year. In ten years, probably 99%. In a thousand years, no one will care about any of them, if there's even anyone left to do the caring.
This is, I think, the essential first step to looking at the world as it really is. Things matter to you, but the quality of "mattering" or "deserving to matter" is by no means universal. Most people will not care about what I have to say, and I both respect and expect that. But I won't let that stop me. Because some of the things I have to say just might matter to some people, for a brief period of time.
And of course, it all matters to me. Otherwise, why would I bother to say it?
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