2 posts tagged “ignorance”

Wow, it's been a long time since I last wrote in this thing, but not much has changed in my life, or in the world for that matter. I'm still working retail while trying to find something else, but eh such is life. We're never satisfied, as Bob Dylan put it, "with your position and your place," so we constantly search for something else. It's exactly why immigrants look back at their home country with an air of nostalgia, even if they escaped for financial opportunity, and why open-minded Americans are always longing to find another country, and often just lump all countries together and call it "Europe." I don't even know what country I'd escape to. Maybe Canada, even though that's cliche. Who knows though. Political climates can change with the breeze of revolution, and no country can escape that fate.

I've been going back to my writing these days, and I juggle around so many different ideas of stories I want to write that I usually end up writing/researching one idea, abandoning it, and then finding out a different one a few days later. It's an annoying cycle, but it makes me think that I need to get all these ideas out for stories because I don't want to forget one in case it's the one. Currently I'm working on this theme that's loosely based on my own life with my other guy friends and roommates, but it could be complete shit. And if it is complete shit, believe me I'll be the first to burn the book, along with crowds of others.

Lately I've been realizing how difficult it is for people say how they love each other. It honestly isn't that hard, yet I've only ever heard people talk of love if with their better (or in some cases worse) half. You also hear it in families, but I mean when do people seriously say that they love their friends? I'm not saying you have to go up to every person you know and tell them that you love them, but it's just absolute bullshit that people can be afraid to show any sort of emotion to each other. Let your guard down and be human - and then the real relationship can begin. And besides, I love everyone regardless, and like Mando Diao sings, "You Can't Steal My Love."

These days I'm basing my role models on three men: John Lennon, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Albus Dumbledore. Yeah, one of them's fictional, but he wouldn't be the first character from a book that people have based their lives on. Just think about it...yep, now you see that that was a religious joke. I'm not anti-religion, I just think that people have to have an open-mind about things and admit their own ignorance (in the sense that we really don't know) on whether or not there is anything more than us. I've already exhausted enough about this in other blogs, so I'm not expelling more energy to it unless it becomes an issue. And even then, I'll stand by that I think I'm right. But I'll admit my ignorance on the subject.

Yeah. This is it. This is life, the one you get, so have a ball. It's a rollercoaster when we want it to be and it's a cake-walk when we're honest to ourselves and don't let other people's visions of us distort who we are. I'll be who I want to be, and that's that. If you have a problem with it, then that's your issue - I am who I am. It's how the Spirit in the Sky (thanks Norman Greenbaum) made me.

That's it for me. I could go on for hours on my purging of ideas, but it's tiring and I'm off tomorrow, which means I have much better things to do with my time. Oh, and if you do read this, feel free and subscribe to the blog. It's nice to know sometimes that people read it, even though these ramblings are hugely personal.

Hope for the future? Maybe not. But tomorrow's a new day and who knows what it will bring.

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So this is what will become my first post in this blog. For most of my life I've always felt that I have a lot to say about issues in the world, and though people nod their heads and seem to agree, most of what I say will be dismissed as pure bullshit or bunk. I've tried to write what I honestly feel about different events or issues I feel passionate about in my myspace blog, but I've felt I had to censor a lot of it and tone it down for some reason. Henceforth, I will try my best to convey exactly what I mean with words that I truly feel.

One of the main reasons I decided to start this blog was to state my views on different things I witness, regardless if they seem offensive, overly judgemental, or just plain wrong. However, I am the first person to admit that I am ignorant of certain issues, but in saying that I am an extremely open-minded person who does not find it prudent to judge ideas or people simply because I may feel that way. No one really knows how anything in the world works, and we shouldn't pretend to know what we honestly have no clue about. Yeah - one of my pet peeves is close-mindedness. I don't dig it, and I don't know anyone who is just in being not open to new experiences.

I guess you can say that this blog will run sort of like that Family Guy skit where Peter does the news segment on "You Know What Really Grinds My Gears." Ideas or issues pop into my head as randomly as they pop into other peoples' minds, and it's hard for me sometimes to just sit back and relax without thinking about the latest idea that's running through my mind.

Lately my biggest concern has been with religion. Though raised a Roman Catholic and going to a Catholic college, I still feel that there is nothing that anyone actually knows about religion. I mean, I must state my own ignorance on that fact that I have no clue what goes on in the cosmos or why Earth runs the way it does. With that said, I also have to say that no one in the world knows the true answer to all these theological questions, and those that say they do are pretty much pitting themselves into the "My God is Better Than Yours" dilemma. No one definitively knows if there is a heaven; no one definitively knows that there's a hell. No one knows about the divinity of people, and no one truly knows if God even does exist. I'm not willing to make the leap either way to say if these things do or do not exist though, because I just don't know. I guess you could say I'm an agnostic, but the thing is that all I am is me. My personal struggle or views toward theological issues is completely individual and genuine, as are the views held by everyone else in the world. No one alive shares the same beliefs on religious issues because again, no one actually knows anything about that stuff to a definitive truth. Having gone to a Catholic college for four years, I became irritated when even my philosophy professors, who were teaching us about the "Is There/Isn't There a God" question would presuppose that God does exist. I think it behooves them to say that, since their object is to teach a class and show both sides of an important philosophical argument - not convert students to Christianity.

And there is yet another thing I cannot stand about religion. It labels people upon the bare threads of their personal beliefs and then tries to convert everyone else, with no regard to what some people hold to be true. I recently read about the early Muslim communities that would let Jews and Christians worship freely, since those three religions all share the same religious roots, and I was happy to hear of tolerance with religion. I thought it was just idealism to think that all religions could co-exist! But what happened to make all these problems in the Middle East nowadays, which different sects and religions fighting each other? Sadly, religious wars will never end, since there will always be a person stating that their god/faith is the best. The same goes for civilizations. It's all the same fucking thing and I'm sick of it.

Alright - I have to go to a meeting. I will be back later though.

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