Yeah, I’m sexy. Like a whale. On the beach. For the third day. Not! But I am smart. My brain is sexy. So, I’ve decided to start a blog.
Yes, I know: blogging is a pastime that it seems trendy these days. But I’ve discovered that the really big ideas that I have are quickly lost if I don’t write them down, and nobody gets to benefit if I don’t make my ideas available. So this blog is basically random crap for anyone to draw on. It’s whatever I’ve been thinking about. It’s an insight into what makes me tick. And it’s ultimately a collection of notes for me to refer myself back to when I’m doing my favorite pastime: writing.
I write all kinds of things: political essays, philosophical pieces, research articles, fiction, poetry, fringe science white papers, and anecdotes about really weird stuff which happens. And to hear me tell it, my life is strange more often than I’d like it to be. You’re hereby warned.
Also, some of what I write might be character perspectives for fiction that I’m writing. I don’t necessarily believe everything I write. And neither should you, because some of it might contradict what I write another time. And both articles might contradict what I actually believe. If you believe something I write, don’t blame me for your belief. Own it! Be responsible for your own thoughts!
If you want to know the truth of what I write, apply your own thinking to them. If they ring true, I’d suggest further research to cement the true parts of it—the “separating the wheat from the chaff” kind of thing. Chaffing words is just as easy or difficult as chaffing wheat. You just have to let oxygen do the work and apply what you yourself believe. I can point in a number of directions—enough to lose you. And if you choose to believe something from this, I can’t be held responsible for that choice.
What I can do—the most responsible thing to do at this point—is to encourage you to find even more resources to support your idea, and to challenge that idea with things which don’t support it. The litmus test of any idea is to try to break it—and to really, honestly try. In some cases, it comes down to what we each believe. In other cases, facts arise which can only lead us one direction if we’re rational, logical beings.
Please, let’s all be rational! Tag, you’re it.
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