Reading Myself Write
Posted by Josh | Filed under Me, Meaningful Labor
None of the following is going to be much of a revelation to anyone but me, and to me, the following already has been my revelation. That being said however, I think I’ve finally made it past some interesting road blocks in my life both mentally and professionally in the past few hours.
It is often fascinating to me how these eye-opening experiences come about in my life. As much as one should probably quiet ones mind I always divine my answers from recognizing the wise tones of thought that are occasionally audible amidst the cacophony of my ordinary thoughts.
Today, while staring, in growing frustration at my computer screen, that has yet to display any good news for my endless, but still limited (by funding) efforts in the unfortunately necessary voodoo practice of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a small thought hit me. The thought didn’t come to me unaided mind you, it was sparked by the great Jacob Jaffe, when he was defending his blogging on a recent Podcast of his.
Lately, I have noticed an increase in frustration caused by a condition I call EIOT or endless interest in other things. Call it ADD if you like but my girlfriend has some pretty intolerant views on it being a condition treatable by anything but oneâs on psyche. I have contradicting views to hers, but they arenât to be explained in this entry.
Because I rarely focus on any given personal project long enough to even start it, let alone finish it, I have yet to get serious about any one of my Internet-based projects. I have an almost pathological tendency to create new ideas before any earlier ideas can make it to the starting line. My interests are varied, and divers. As a result, my growing desire to both compartmentalize my ideas, and plan them out, puts all my ideas, and would be dreams into a holding pattern while the next distracting idea comes to the surface. Often the distracting idea comes to this “surface” as a direct result of my attempts to compartmentalize, and plan the earlier ones. Basically if I were some kind of a fractal, or plant like organism, I would have very short branches, that branch off quickly, no trunk like a tree, more like a moss, or one of those fungi that look like moss.
Jaffe mentioned how he makes no attempt to excuse himself for his blog, and how the material covered isnât going to be directly related to his main drive of marketing, he writes about what ever he wishes, and whenever he wishes. Because his main interests are in the Marketing industry, his blog is primarily marketing related, but there is no reason he canât have photos of his family, or stories about his own efforts in weight loss, or anything else that he might want to cover.
Why this has been such a difficult albeit liberating concept for me to discover on my own is beyond me. So, as scatterbrained, and poorly written this entry is, this is the entry that explains that, Iâm going to begin my Blog for real now. Anything I want to cover here, I will [Dammit].
As part of this declaration of Blogging Liberty, I will begin with what works out to be both an apology and a warning:
To my family and friends who think I am still a soft-spoken, word of wisdom-keeping, youth leader for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I donât mean to offend you, or hurt your feelings, but if youâve always thought of me as a roll model for your children, now is a time to reconsider the notion. I have been my own self since I was born over 34 years ago, but as of 4 years ago, I started living my own self too. Iâve taken a few people with me along the way so my words can be mind altering at times. I do as I wish, and I say what I wish, and I expect others to do the same. it has always been kept to my much closer, and much more understanding social circle. Blogs [of mine] in the past that have hosted my true feelings have been shut down due to hurt feelings, but the words that were once removed, will now be placed here, for people to read and associate to truly be from yours truly.
I now believe, and will likely be writing about things related to the following:
There are two forces in the universe, and we need both, one is often considered positive, and the other is often considered negative. Together they create all things. Without opposites, we would have nothing, and nothing in itself is but a cancellation of the two, and therefore has its place in this universe as well.
All things are relative to oneâs own perspective, and desires. What is good for one, can and often is bad for another, therefore nothing is Truly Bad, or Truly Good, things just are what they are, and we attach our own meanings.
All rules are a collective attempt to compromise on ideals for the purposes reducing moral relativity. By attempting to establish a right and a wrong, [and therefore a good and bad] organizations, be they governments, religions, fraternities or families can move in their own ways toward their collective goals. I donât believe this is wrong, this just was is, and why it happens.
We are entitled to our own beliefs, and theories, but we must remember that they are only that, and that they may not truly be our own. In point of fact, our feelings and beliefs may be and are actually more likely to be those of a group that we participate in, be it intentionally organized, or of more organic origin.
These Truths do not need to be accepted on my word, but can be learned at any level of magnitude or magnification one may wish to examine them. Whether one seeks the knowledge through chemical or meditative means one will learn that one there is no difference between chemical and meditative other than method, and two, that I speak only the Truth.
Water seeks its own level, but water can be calm as glass, or as destructive as a Tsunami as it seeks it.
I will be blogging about: sex, drugs, music, habits, tastes, shows, obsessions, religions, philosophy, magick, the occult, the obvious, conspiracies and memes, my day job, my personal projects, and anything else I hope I wonât be a wimp and apologize for.
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