I believe introductions should come first.
Whenever someone steps on the world wide web with one of these things the first thing I think they should do it tell a little about themselves. Not their social security numbers or tax ID or anything but something to get the reader to understand the point of view they are coming from. To that end let me say that I'm the son of a carpenter born and raised near a town of David. My dad's name is Joseph and so is my first name but I do not go by that name in everyday life. When I was young I witnessed my mom die...and then come back to life without explanation. You'd think this is taking a turn toward the supernatural ideology and/or a theological standpoint but let me tell you my world view real fast so I don't loose my target audience.
As of right now I accept the natural world as what exists. Anything beyond it is fluff and/or fiction and/or irrelevant in my view even if it does exist because it does not effect our lives unless some crazy fanatical believer straps on a bomb and by that act takes from us the life given to us by our creator. Given I use the lower case you might understand I mean universe more-so than any Supernatural Entity. Whether I believe in such an Entity or not I will perhaps discuss in more detail at a later time but for now let's just say that I'm more-so a realist than not. Even when I have seen great unexplained phenomena take place in my life (what a faithful person might label a miracle) I still keep a very objective point of view because I do not want to be servant to the wrong ideas about any Entity that may or may not exist.
And that is an important point to make. We, as finite entities, only have ideas about any god or Gods because we ourselves are not god/God/gods. By having finite, limited, and biased viewpoints of that which might exist (many times being taught what to believe simply because of geographical location) it is silly to think (and extremely egotistical I might add) that our specific belief pattern is the end all of what is. By definition our ideas are mere glimpses of what might be and as such killing someone for them or thinking that you are more saved than another is mere self delusion.
So why have I started a blog so late in the game? Well, I don't know, it might be because I see the world in such a condition as to need another voice screaming in the deep darkness to stop it. Stop the fanatical ideologies from taking over your heart and by such you can perhaps learn to respect human life enough not to kill it because of some idea you have about any given deity. Or perhaps it is because the Simpson's bored me tonight and I wanted to vent a little after reading yet more deaths had taken place in the quagmire.
Which leads me to another point I wanted to make. Mr. Colin Powell. Sir. Where are you? Why after you have seen the utter failure of those that you were once a part of, and in seeing the utter lack of responsibility on a global scale demonstrated by the current administration, are you not running for office? I read your book, Sir and I know you to be a man of conviction. Your personal doctrine does not even come close to those you helped to invade Iraq and yet instead of fighting the good fight I have not even seen you in the news lately. Mr. Powell, you have a responsibility now. You helped to walk us into this mess and it is my personal opinion that you are one of the few with the knowledge, courage, leadership ability, and political know-how to actually make matters BETTER than they currently are. There is no one else that has come forward at present that could do the job you could do.
So I guess my first blog was a terrible introduction to myself, but then again I am not here to tell you about me but to vent about the current state of the World. Perhaps in these few postings some reason can be made or perhaps not. Many things in life are on a continuum and do not change as we would like them to. You help one group it hurts another. You feed these people...this other group starves. Limited resources and endless suffering. And the current political system just feeds off it while the masses do nothing to stop it or change it.
Let us hope that someday soon something happens to wake us up from this horrid state of utter disillusionment we are currently in before the World goes so far down the drain there is no recovery point.
Until next time World...
J. B. A.
McGyver
As of right now I accept the natural world as what exists. Anything beyond it is fluff and/or fiction and/or irrelevant in my view even if it does exist because it does not effect our lives unless some crazy fanatical believer straps on a bomb and by that act takes from us the life given to us by our creator. Given I use the lower case you might understand I mean universe more-so than any Supernatural Entity. Whether I believe in such an Entity or not I will perhaps discuss in more detail at a later time but for now let's just say that I'm more-so a realist than not. Even when I have seen great unexplained phenomena take place in my life (what a faithful person might label a miracle) I still keep a very objective point of view because I do not want to be servant to the wrong ideas about any Entity that may or may not exist.
And that is an important point to make. We, as finite entities, only have ideas about any god or Gods because we ourselves are not god/God/gods. By having finite, limited, and biased viewpoints of that which might exist (many times being taught what to believe simply because of geographical location) it is silly to think (and extremely egotistical I might add) that our specific belief pattern is the end all of what is. By definition our ideas are mere glimpses of what might be and as such killing someone for them or thinking that you are more saved than another is mere self delusion.
So why have I started a blog so late in the game? Well, I don't know, it might be because I see the world in such a condition as to need another voice screaming in the deep darkness to stop it. Stop the fanatical ideologies from taking over your heart and by such you can perhaps learn to respect human life enough not to kill it because of some idea you have about any given deity. Or perhaps it is because the Simpson's bored me tonight and I wanted to vent a little after reading yet more deaths had taken place in the quagmire.
Which leads me to another point I wanted to make. Mr. Colin Powell. Sir. Where are you? Why after you have seen the utter failure of those that you were once a part of, and in seeing the utter lack of responsibility on a global scale demonstrated by the current administration, are you not running for office? I read your book, Sir and I know you to be a man of conviction. Your personal doctrine does not even come close to those you helped to invade Iraq and yet instead of fighting the good fight I have not even seen you in the news lately. Mr. Powell, you have a responsibility now. You helped to walk us into this mess and it is my personal opinion that you are one of the few with the knowledge, courage, leadership ability, and political know-how to actually make matters BETTER than they currently are. There is no one else that has come forward at present that could do the job you could do.
So I guess my first blog was a terrible introduction to myself, but then again I am not here to tell you about me but to vent about the current state of the World. Perhaps in these few postings some reason can be made or perhaps not. Many things in life are on a continuum and do not change as we would like them to. You help one group it hurts another. You feed these people...this other group starves. Limited resources and endless suffering. And the current political system just feeds off it while the masses do nothing to stop it or change it.
Let us hope that someday soon something happens to wake us up from this horrid state of utter disillusionment we are currently in before the World goes so far down the drain there is no recovery point.
Until next time World...
J. B. A.
McGyver
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