August 06, 2006

Blogging Philosophical

A good portion of blogging is reading and commenting at other people's blogs. The collections of blogs visited on a daily basis provides half the material that i reflect back to the people, who like to hear the far howdt opine on their topic. Typically i visit 15 - 20 blogs daily as i look for interesting little artifacts to collect, leaving hit and run commentary while spreading about my grand scheme of life. I score points for empowering others, i lose points for empowering myself, i gain points big-time by others empowering me. Points accumulate for no reason other than to keep score. The competition is a game to provide cooperation.

Using dr. jimmy boat philosophy : A rudder is to a person, as a philosophy is to a boat, i take the philosophy that i believe at the moment and live in accordance to its precepts. A recent book, the life of Pi, takes a playful look at an indian boy that practices hindu, moslem and christian faith simultaneously until the preacher brokers begin fighting amongst themselves over which he should choose. Both pi and i still do not understand why he should have to choose here at all. Common precepts allow one to observe in any format one wishes to observe in, but as einstein demonstated - the observer often places himself in the picture by the act of observing. i wonder if the non-omniscient observers had to age like dorian grey's picture, maybe they would quit jimmying the works. A philosophy is to a person as a rudder is to a boat.

Having said - the current philosophy is to live every day and be done with it. it can be the best of times or the worst of times, but it has been and today is another day. we were given one mouth, but two eyes and two ears. Observe, watch, measure and calculate prior to acting, when the timing is right. Seems to work for me, but stress is a mindblower. sort of like the concept of fear and its relationship to the litany of dune. Ah, Bartlebey is my sigh when i reach acceptance level for the things that i cannot change by my current effort, but i am the change i wish to see.

For this i can thank several folks - charles dickens, earl weaver, dad, frank herbert, herman melville and mahatma ghandi. and you, because i wouldn't spend the time doing this, if i didn't feel that we bloggers have the influence to change the world.

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