Tuesday, February 12, 2008

ad rem: "to the matter"

Candy Bar Causality

When I was a little kid, the exact age I cannot remember, my brothers found a king size candy bar and were fighting over who's it was. It was the day after Halloween and they had their candy all over the table for trading. The fighting and verbal nettling lasted about two hours when they turned around and each went for the candy bar, only, the candy bar was no longer there. They each were so intensely testifying and threatening over whose it was that I had just come up and ate it, problem solved. Actually, not from my recollection, but it seems reasonable knowing how I think that I may have actually ate one of two candy bars and forgot about it. When they were arguing I figured that just taking the last candy bar left would not only solve their problem, but I would also acquire an extra candy bar in the process.

In today’s world, or in any time in any place, it is too easy to forget about the point of our actions and get too caught up in proving to others we are not wrong, not weak, not incompetent. In this example, both of my brothers were so focused in proving themselves right that they forgot about the whole reason they started the argument, to obtain the candy bar that was rightfully theirs. Sure, neither one could have just taken the candy bar, but neither one left room into their mind to believe that they both could be right or both are wrong. Because of each one's limited point of view and ineffective thought process, I obtained the candy bar. Although my morals were not as developed as they could have been in this situation, I knew what I wanted and took the correct, logical initiative to obtain it.

In many conversations, I have witnessed numerous results of different styles of verbalization and communication. I have noted to myself that even if one's opinion or thought is more correct or even fact, the other person's opinion or fact could be just as right or even more correct than the first person's argument or thought. To try and find out what is right is better than trying to persuade others you are right. If one tries to search for the truest truth then one will find a wider perspective on thoughts, and therefore obtain a wider consciousness of what is happening in one's surrounding environment. Applying this method of thinking to real life situations exercises one's mind into looking for outside factors, such as sneaky little brothers, when searching for a solution.


Does the solution or answer matter, or can you find a solution that covers more than just that of which you ponder? I do not claim to know anything as truth- just to live out life by what presents itself to be true, at the moment of my thought.

Monday, February 11, 2008

ab uno disce omnes: "from one, learn all"

Due to the facts that it takes a noticeable amount of time before people can successfully find blogs, I will proceed with a monologue until I have found, if I find, some visitors to leave topics of conversation and thought, or even comments on what I have written. To start, I will create a review for any and every worthy book I a read and analyzed that relates to the topic of conversation. If, with a little luck, a stream of consciousness is sustained, then I shall right whatever I am thinking in as much logical order as I can possibly withstand until my thought is vaporized. Once I have written a descent amount on the subject I will restate anything that has been concluded through a logical sequence and move on to my next subject, whatever it may be. In future posts I will be glad to answer any questions or comments, but at the moment I have no idea where to start. So, for now anyway, the topic of conversation will be... Candy Bar Causality. In my next post, I shall reveal to the readers of this blog the causality associated with "candy bars" and how I experienced this connection during my youth. Then again, if we are living then aren't we relatively youthful at this very moment, especially if life is only one part of our existence?