Philosoblog

Wow, so the blog takes a turn for the deep now, eh? Kem's always down with that. I'll share my thoughts in a minute. First a few minor things.

1- It's 2005, bitches! My new years' resolution: less beer, more pot! After this past week of heavy beer drinking every day, (including...of course...Das Schwarze) I don't even want to look at another beer for at least a week, no matter how delicious it is over here. I'll be replacing it with wine, which is so ridiculously cheap here you get everyone in the city drunk for about a thousand Euros. As for mary-jane, I've formulated a plan. Wait until really late, like midnight or so, then rome the city streets in search of Turks. There are plenty of them out there who are just dying to sell me some hash, but they don't know I exist. They come out late at night, and my problem is I'm rarely out late at night. But one night this week I'm going. Hopefully one of my friends will decide to come with me and share in the spoils.

2- New Years' Eve. Craig spent it in NYC which of course is very cool, but no where near as cool as my new year's eve. You can have your dinky little ball with lights. I was in the center of the city of Karlsruhe, in the midst of thousands of rowdy drunken Germans shooting off fireworks. Apparently it's very legal to be in possession of large amounts of explosives in Germany and to set them off ANYWHERE. In the middle of the street, from the window of a building, in the middle of large crowds of people, in somebody's kitchen...it doesn't matter. Apparently it's a tradition, to scare away the ghosts or something. The guy who explained it to me was drunk and so was I so I don't remember it very clearly. But yes, for over an hour people just shot rockets into the air and threw fireworks at each other, until exactly midnight when THE ENTIRE CITY EXPLODED!!! It was madness, people. Walking around with an open container of alcohol in one hand and explosive rockets in the other, the police just driving by completely indifferent. Madness.

3- Taking over the world. I'm down. Luke, you take the western hemisphere. I'll take the east cause I'm closer. Victor Yuschenko's sister actually lives right next to me, so I've already got a food behind the iron curtain.

4- ATHF. I appreciate it, Craig, but I've got no way to play DVDs or even copy cds, so unfortunately I can't take your gift so don't waste the money to send it. I'll be happy to take it when I get back though. For now I can watch ATHF and many other quality shows on Internet TV, which I subscribe to and for only $5 a month (american money) I can watch all the Family Guy, Futurama, Sealab, ATHF, Home Movies, Upright Citizens Brigade and Curb Your Enthusiasm I want (as well as some other crappy shows).

5- X-mas presents. I hope you guys got my package. If not, blow up the Ewing post office. Please. I haven't got anything from you guys yet, but if you haven't sent anything, good. Because my mom recently sent me my Nintendo 64 and I'm missing a great deal of games. Then I remembered I brought a bunch to Autumn last year and completely forgot about them. If any of you know the whereabouts of Super Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, Waverace, Pilot Wings, or Cruisin' World, I would be overwhelmingly appreciative of you sending those to me. I'll gladly re-imburse you for the cost of shipping and as a further token of my appreciateion you can have my first-born son.

And that's it. Now as to this Blogosophy I must say that I agree completely with Craig. And Luke, I never knew or even suspected you for a devout Christian. I was once a devout christian but as I grew I realised that the universe is far greater and more complex than the human mind can fathom, and if the Bible is the begin-all and end-all of Absolute Truth then the world is a very special place indeed. I think Jesus was a great man, and quite possible he did have a much deeper connection to the realm beyond "reality" than most of us. But as for being the Son of God, and as for man being made in God's image, I don't believe that. Nor do I believe that there's a heaven and hell and the only way to heaven is to believe in Jesus. I think religion is great for some people but it's also very bad when used as a method of gaining and maintaining POWER. And as we all know, Christianity only became the major religion when Emperor Constantine decide in A.D. 316 that it would be beneficial for the roman empire to take Christianity as the official religion. Then a bunch of priests got together and decided with of Jesus's teaching should be put in the bible, what he actually meant anyway by "love thy neighbor", and how they could invent concepts like purgatory and whatnot in order to bring more revenue to the church. And let's not forget all those crusades and inquisitions. So in short: region-bad, faith-good. It's good to believe in a higher power but not necessarily according to the strict rules and interpretations laid out by religion. And if you don't want to believe in a higher power, that's all well and good too, as long as you don't draw the conclusion that it's ok to steal and kill and rape just because there's no threat of eternal damnation. I think there's definitely more to life than what we experience through our senses, and there is a God in that all things are connected through One great thing, but this thing looks at us with indifference and doesn't judge us. We judge ourselves.

In Amsterdam I had the following revelation: that God is our consciousness. Not our brains or the voice in our heads, but merely the awareness of ourselves which exists simultaneously in all sentient beings, human, animal, vegetable or perhaps even mineral. The voice in our heads is merely our brain telling God what it thinks is going on. So ponder that for awhile the next time you are searching for a state of wa.

And beware of you karma. Because that does exist, spiritual realm or not. If you fuck people over, eventually you're going to get fucked over as well.

I could go on for pages and pages and talk of the afterlife and how you go where you believe you'll go (if you believe in heaven or hell you'll go to one or the other, if you believe in reincarnation you'll be reincarnated, or if you believe in nothing you'll be floating in nothingness until you realise it's time to do something again) but I'm tired and none of you want to read 400-page preachy blogs. I'm merely sharing my beliefs which all of you should do because not enough people talk about these things. People talk about sex, drugs, other people, politics, shopping, home decorating, food, etc. but rarely does anybody actually talk about LIFE or what it's about. And what could be more important?

But anyway, enough for today. Happy New Year, people.