Things to Come.

Today was nice overall; The caucus party was inimitably enjoyable. The caucus party was of course the brain child of my good friend Mike, whose other ideas can be viewed on his blog, My Nu Life. I'm actually quite happy with the results, although I'll refrain from political discussion until Saturday. On that note, an itinerary for this weekend's posts:

Friday: Where I stand religiously, all of my current speculations, and what I feel about reality.
Saturday: My political standpoint, along with my opinions/predictions for the 2008 election.
Sunday: Review of my new Netflix account.

I'm still looking for topics for next weekend, so if you'd like to see me write about something that falls under the scheduled categories, [see previous post] then by all means comment to suggest something.

Now for a more personal declaration.

I don't really know who I am or what I am supposed to do with my life. I'd like to consider myself intelligent, but of course I have no empirical evidence to support such claims. I'd like to say that I'm charismatic, but I really don't think anyone as introverted as I could legitimately claim to be an entertainer. I most wish to think of myself as a good person, but good and evil are often subjective, and the good that I idealize for myself, the good of rescuing princesses and saving agrarian feudalisms from monstrous destruction is hard to come by in the modern day. I hope that I am kind enough, because really, all I want to do is help everyone else along. Life is innately filled with enough suffering; I'd of course not want to add to anyone's, and I'd try to alleviate the pain that I can.

I spend most of my time thinking, and I've realized that we all live in a dream world, where vast corrupted megacorporations exploit us then hang us out to dry, where our government turns a blind eye to the plight of its citizens, too busy securing resources and land to handle domestic concerns [unless, of course, you might be a terrorist, then you'll get all kinds of attention paid to you.] We live in fog, we live so concerned for ourselves, so blind to reality until it is too late to change, we care for nothing that does not directly effect us, we chew our cud and wait in the slaughterhouse line, not hoping, but just not noticing our doom. We are asleep.

I'm here to wake you.

At least I'd like to be. I'm certainly no messiah; I'm just trying to help you save yourselves. If I can wake just one person with the ideas I present henceforth, then I will not have worked in vain. If I can help anyone break out of the prisons created for our minds and souls, I just might be able to live with myself. Make no mistake as to what I'm saying; I won't be spending every post weaving conspiracy theories or hardballing some kind of gnostic theology. I will simply try to expose everyone reading to new ideas, or at least my point of view, in hopes that they can expand themselves, because we are trapped in prisons of expectations, with walls of societal demand, bars of self-doubt, and guards of the sleeping servants of the great dream. I will elaborate tomorrow in my philosophy post, but until then, just consider what I say.

Don't let fear or hate or selfishness trap you, because there is really so much more.

Enjoy.