Philosophy is boring and irrelevant.

The catchry echoes round my head like a battle cry of mad norsemen.

The attitude that people have about philosophy can be summed up in one of three ways:

1. Relevant but boring. Philosophy is an interesting subject about real things which is studied by people who don't have time to do real things.
2. Interesting in an arty and lets explore the world while smoking pot way. This is where 20 somethings in glasses, berets and long neck jumpers sit around and discuss deconstructionalism and other spacey concepts.
3. That it is a science that contains the deepest truths which give the mind meat to ponder about the natures of things.

Philosophy, like anything worth pursuing that will give lasting rewards, is hard at first. It can literally take years before you settle into a philosophy class without falling asleep ( at least that is how I found it, but my classes were always late on a Monday night after a hard days work ). That is not to say that the benefits are not immediate. If in your first couple of classes you only understand five percent of what is being taught your mind will begin to open to possibilities that you had not dreamed of before. And why? Truth has its own attraction. It is what your mind was made for. You interest will awake. It is a whole new world.

I have been studying philosophy on and off for about 4 years now. I have spoken to the old hands who have been their longer. They all speak of the moment when it starts to fall into place. I think that I'm close to that, and I can't wait for it to happen. This year it all seems a little easier. The concepts and principles.





The true, the good and the beautiful. Along with the good and the beautiful, it is worth pursuing, and it can take a lifetime to get there.


As a young philosopher once said

Philosophy, if it is the philosophy of reality, is as beautiful and as fascinating as the universe of which it is the reflection.

concept - the beginning of a generation
principle - that from which something proceeds

The Object of Modesty The Object of Modesty. An interesting article on the Catholic site here about modesty. Very misunderstood, even by many christians.

i am not mad at the moment and therefore not required to vent anything out via my fingers onto the tiny keyboard that lies rigidly on my desk like an inexperience lover posing on a waterbed. i guess that i could speculate on what i think this blog will be. i will. [beware:wild speculation in all directions expected in 3..2..1] it could be a glorified favourite list of sites sitting on the web like fattened hotdogs - completely useless to anyone except when drunk, then again, it could be a dear diary yesterday i wrote a whole lot of crap for the whole world to see that my life is miserable, but i wouldn't even want to read it if i did that, and i figure that's bad business if i get rid of my complete list of readers.

(aside: do you get busted for using capital letters or punctuation in blogs? are there rules to anarchy?)

so this blog is about things that i find important. i haven't posted it anywhere publicly yet, because it's not worthy.

thus ends the first lesson.