I started this blog long ago with the intention of being forced to write more, well this is my first post so you can guess how well that worked. Writing is but a different form of thinking, and there are theories that suggest that it both helps and hinders critical thinking; one side believing that a person doesn't have to think anymore once they wtite something out and the other believing that it helps to flesh-out ideas. I tend to think that both can be true dependant on the situation. Perhaps that is the very reason that there are differing opinions on most every issue: where you stand effects what you see. So here I am, writing to help me form my ideas into something more concrete. I will concede that once something leaves the ether of free thought and becomes articulated it loses some of its connection to The Truth because it is put through so many filters and must conform to so many rules (such as language) that it has the tendency to become more of a representtation of its limitations than its actual substance. But an idea not articulated cannot be said to really exist. We live in this physical plane and anything that does not apply here does not apply to anyone but oneself. I can understand in my heart abstract concepts like God and infinity, but if I am unable to articulate them they don't exist here where you and I exist. Each time something previously unknown is able to be captured and studied we move forward as a species, and indeed as sentient beings. So maybe that is the goal, to bring all that we have within us into open understanding. We ourselves through our limited abilities confined and within our beings already have a corrupted understanding of the Truth, so to articulate it and bring it down further to a more corrupted level of understanding is secondary to what's gained by communicating it to others who can then process it and move it further toward true understanding.
This is a hasty and thinking-as-I-go entry, and I have no intention of proofreading or editing in any way. I therefore apologize it it feels rambling and disjointed, but I don't expect anyone to be reading it anyway. So I'm fine with it.
