The Morning After

Hmmmm, OK, we'll let's see.  It's been up a day...my first blog post.  Exposed to billions of people, any responses? No? 

Was my content lacking in excitement or freshness?  Or was it a marketing failure?  Gotta find that essay I wrote a few years back and post it to see if it draws any interest.

Before I sign off, I'm sure you have been enjoying the Olympics.  Are you a Michael Phelps fan, or perhaps a Usain Bolt fan?  I understand they had BMX bicycling as an event this year, did you catch that? 

Now what if they had philosophy as an Olympic event?  How would we score the entrants? I would think part of the score should rest on their personal sense of satisfaction or happiness.  Can you imagine, people like, Nietzsche.  So much thinking!  Sophisticated thinking, and ... very little happiness.  Perhaps he should have been a dentist.    

Oh, but you say, it's right that he was not happy, there is little to be happy about, and he figured it out!  Had he been able to achieve happiness through his thinking that would be evidence only of the ability to create illusion.  

Isn't it all an illusion anyway?  Did you not study your quantum mechanics in college?  If you're going to create something, make it good.

40 Y.O. Virgin

I admit it, I'm over 40 and have never blogged before.  So I thought I would give it a try.  Let's see, I could discuss the meaning of life, or whether it has meaning, what to do about it in the event that it, in fact, has none.  Or...I could discuss God, or whether there is a God, or what we mean by the term "God". 

Perhaps I should choose something lighter.  This is, after all, my maiden voyage and if I'm not careful I could get blood all over myself.   It will take me a while to figure out what to do with this blog, but eventually, I should be able to get it on some kind of track.

I don't write much fiction.  I have been working on a book,  though a technical book.   I'm almost finished.  Perhaps I'll try my hand at fiction when it is finished. In the meantime, I'll try to find a short essay I wrote a few years ago, which generated a variety of reactions and offer it up to you for your consideration.

Have a great night, if anyone actually visits this, I will be most pleased and encouraged.