Thinkings by a Madman

Ok, so I am not REALLY a madman, but there are some things that upset me, and some people probably do think that I'm crazy. This blog is more about my current thinking, rather than about what I necessarily believe to be true. Since I have been through my own heavens and hells, I feel that I am as qualified as anyone to give my opinions on all subjects. If you don't like them, that is fine because I feel you are entitled to your opinions as well.

In the future, I will write about politics, government, religion, race relations (ethnicity, probably not NASCAR), drugs of all kinds, legal and illegal, travel, photography, nature and a thousand other topics. There will probably not be any ongoing theme to this blog, but there will probably be a main point of most of the posts. After all, the only constant is change.

I suppose a little background is in order. I consider myself a conservative, but I define that quite differently from the way others do. I am a nature photographer, environmentalist, conservationist and capitalist. I am college educated, was a single parent for a while, and I am handicapped with a neuromuscular autoimmune disease and a gastrointestinal autoimmune disease. I am not a victim, stuff just happened to happen to me. I enjoy speaking with people from throughout the world and across all demographics. I believe that everyone should be allowed to have their own beliefs, as long as they aren't impinging on the lives other people in a directly negative way.

Since I was 14, when I started to really contemplate the Catholic religion that I was being brought up in, I have been agnostic. By this I mean that I think that there are 6+ billion people in the world, all of them has an opinion about a "higher power," and that each opinion is slightly different. That means at the most, only one of us could be exactly right about what a god is, and since I don't believe humans are capable of understanding any diety, I am not going to discount anyone's opinion on the subject. Every "crazy" view has as much likelihood as the next. Some folks will say that an agnostic is a non-believer, but I say that I am an all-believer. There may be a god or gods, there might not be. I believe that man can never know for sure, so it is silly for me to expend energy trying to decipher how best to please this god. I do know that I refuse to blindly accept the rote beliefs of ancient men, as I believe most structured religions are simply a means to control other people with shame and scare tactics.

Well, that's a start. I don't want to control too much of your time, so I will shoot some more at you later. Maybe I'll explain the meaning of life next time, you never know.

Thinking about sleep now,
Papa Nature