First post, and first thoughts.

After months of agonising, I've finally decided to actually make my own blog, and this time, actually keep it going. I'll comment (hopefully) on news, current affairs, philosophy, history, politics, economics, religion and anything else that I can dredge up that takes my interest. Apologies in advance for the potentially bad spelling and grammar, let alone the multitude of inanity that I will probably put out for everyone to see.

The first thought is a philosophical one - that the mind thinks, the heart feels, but the soul moves. And when we believe the truth, our soul is moved, and everything changes - our perception of reality, our place in the world, our purpose, our future, everything. The total amount of movement depends on the overarching nature of the truth - so if we believe the truth that the sky is blue, it is a small movement. If we believe that Christ was the son of God, then that is an enormous movement.

But when one believes a lie, then everything else is moved - our perception of reality, our place in the world, our purpose, our future, is falsified - we only seem to be moved. This is why two people who believe in mutually exclusive ideas, one correct and one false, can be equally feverent in their belief that they are correct - for both have felt that they know the truth, and the truth has moved their souls, and therefore everything else. That is why there are so many misguided fanatics around in the world - for the greater the lie, the greater the perception of movement if it is believed by the individuals, and therefore the greater truth they believe is involved, and the more radical shift in thinking, in outlook, etc that they have.

Anyway, it is a work in progress, so let me know if/when the flaws kick into the argument.

More blogging tonight, so that when I get people to blogroll me, there will be something for people to see.