The More You Have…

    The more you have, the more you have to lose. As obvious as this statement sounds it has a great impact on virtually every area of our thinking. The nicer your car is, the more you will mind if someone steals it which means you are more paranoid about people stealing your car which adds to extra worry when your parking in a “bad” section of town.

    It also applies albeit indirectly to worldviews; the closer an idea is to the core of your worldview and identity the more devastating it would be to have it suddenly proven false. Which is why us humans have a tendency to defend those core worldviews no matter whether they are right, wrong, or just plain ridiculous.

    How does one get around this human trait to the more noble and surely more valuable trait of being able to dispassionately examine all the ideals you hold and rationally assign them to either the true, false, or unable to determine as true or false bin as necessary. Well the best way that I’ve found to do this is to make my core identity around being a “seeker of truth” and taking pride in questioning my currently held assumptions. It may seem a bit excessive to some, but to me it seems to be the only way I can make sure I am not holding lies close and rejecting any contradictions.

Satirical Comic

A collection of satirical comics if you like this one click on it to see the rest.

Webdesign

So I think I’ve got the site looking basically how it’s going to look, for now, I’m pretty proud of it, I think i did a pretty decent job even though it was mostly just point and click simplicity (I did do some html work on the sidebars). My only complaint is that I perhaps went a little overboard on the chicklets (the “Feeds” box) but I want people to be able to easily keep track of this site, for entirely selfish reasons. As I settle into a routine these fluff blogs will die down and the Real content will start to take over, or at least that’s the plan. Till then I’ll keep my overactive mind in gear.

Housekeeping stuff

Well, This blog is going to be mainly for Philosophy, Religion, and Politics, but I may throw in the occasional random one, so stay posted (ie subscribe to my rss feed using one of the links over in the side panel