i'm not saying if you gave me $1 billion dollars, I would donate $999 million. But i'm typing it. Haha seriously, someone needs to step up their game.

So yea, the reason I also am starting this blog is to blog about intellectualism. (interesting piece of intellectualism. ahem. usually, for that opening sentence I would have used "intellectual shit" but apparently intellectualism occupies some sort of shit-free zone in my mind. Yeh know, the need to not feel like a monkey.) Anyways, lately, I've been trying to think about things on their most basic level and taking statements for what they actually mean. Basically, actual comprehension. I've been trying to take this attempt at actual comprehension and apply it logically. For example, (and i've used this example with my friends) I recently asked my Dad if he was tired when he went to sleep and he said no. So yea, it's like wait what. why sleep?
anyways.
Sometimes it seems incredible the amount of knowledge that humans have accumulated (like understanding quantum mechanics! What! That's nuts.) But I think all this knowledge does is emphasize the lack of progress in certain areas of our society and the lack of compassion we have for our fellow human beings. I mean, to understand that light behaves as both a wave and a particle, and then to have the majority of the world (yea yea yea I don't have any official stats) still living in poverty just sounds like some big, intricate Far Side cartoon.
Anyways, here's a very basic line of reasoning that I think makes sense.
Why is oxygen important? Water is the source of life. It's incredibly rare based on all of humanity's previous research into the subject. The chemical make-up of water is hydrogen and oxygen. The universe is 3/4 hydrogen (and 1/4 helium) estimated. This logically points to oxygen as being something unbelievably important (read: breathing) as well as water. Now, we just have to use this knowledge for our benefit. (And blah blah now we get to the part about society having gone in completely the wrong direction and how no real change is actually occurring.)
Anyways here are some more thoughts.
Be wary of power. People are barely fit to make decisions that impact their own lives let alone the lives of others.
ignorance is the inability to change your opinion. wait! the caveat, as my dad wisely pointed out, is that someone is not necessarily ignorant just because they refuse to change their opinion. instead, that opinion may just be a belief they hold. (but I mean, I think any level headed nincompoop can agree that the first conjecture about ignorance holds true for a large part of the world today)
more thinking.
whenever someone tries to limit a statement, it's most likely just some manifestation of discouragement based on their illusion of reality. (ha, see how i used illusion instead of perception. apparently this is a put down zone. this ain't no middle school assembly. )
So, this is an example that everyone has probably experienced at some point in their life, and I hope everyone sees the point of view I'm striving for and more importantly, belief in that point of view.
So, the example is this. in any general philosophical discussion, a thought that usually surfaces is the thought that peace is something that would be mutually beneficial for everyone. And then infallibly, the next thing that is said is something to the effect that ideally, yes, peace is something that would be mutually beneficial for everyone, but realistically, it is just probably just not going to happen.
Yea fuck that. Don't bother with losers. Be an optimist prime! not a negatron! (that's something I stumbled across)
Ok last thought, the line "peace is something mutually beneficial for everyone." Now, it's like hands up class. Who thinks that?... Good. Now meditate on that and and meditate on taking statements for their real meaning. (God I sound like a douche. )