Friday, July 20, 2007

Greetings (first post)

Good Day, this being my first time posting a Blog, may you forgive any possible clumsiness and errors on my part.

As per the title, you may accurately discern that my views are not widely shared. This is likely the result of vastly different backgrounds and experiences between I and whomever. In order to render this universally comprehensible, I will endeavor to explain my background while detailing my arguments.

That said, I am still rather different due to a certain perspective I bring to life. While but a young lad in Kindergarten, I asked myself what why should I do what all the individualists are doing? All individualists watch television and have more important things to do than read. Individualists care about themselves, what is so great about me? Individualists all rebel against authority and support idealism. Why should I support rebels who lead a comfortable sheltered life and have little experience of both the brutal and higher sides of life? Why is idealism so great when, as the Portuguese phrase puts it, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions and idealism seems to cover up flaws in reasoning and to serve as an emotional salve?

In reaction to the behavior of individualists, I have chosen to be one of the few conformists in the country. I do not use obscenity unlike individualists who challenge arbitrary standards of politeness designed to show respect for other people’s humanity and the higher things in life and to make the grossness of life more bearable. I read to gain knowledge of the world, ideas and for pleasure instead of the highly individualist medium of television. I rely on the work and ideas of those before me in deciding philosophical matters instead of innovatively reconsidering the wheel. Unlike individualists, I treat everyone with a general standard of respect and base further respect based on their actions and ideas rather than as a member of a nearly immutable group or as a given.

Please leave comments and if free to do so, long explanations on your reactions to my postings.
My own postings may be somewhat intermittent due to a relatively unusual schedule.
Please form your conclusions AFTER reading the postings and digesting their contents.

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