It's Been Awhile - Late Night Thoughts

Well it has been a little while since my last post. I got off from work not long ago and I began to think about this blog we have.

Sorry if it seems like I am rambling in this blog entry. Life has been crazy busy and I have all these thoughts swirling around upstairs...........

It is funny how I have no prior background in Philosophy but I find myself trying to figure out and apply what we have learned in our lectures and readings. I try to take tidbits from philosopher X and tidbits from philosopher Y then see how these relate to everyday life. I think the greatest thing we have at our disposal is this ability to look at philosophers from the past and not be subjected to one form of thinking. We can take what we feel applies to what we believe and work off of that. I for one would have found it hard to be on of Pythagoras' followers because I could never sit there and listen to someone behind a curtain nor be a follower of one ideal. While I understand why people did and still do these things, for me it is more about learning from the past and further bettering ourselves on what they had only begun to scratch the surface on. It is about having the ability to combine all of these different philosophers into my beliefs and adapting what makes the most sense to me. I mean this thing about freedom of thought is one of our most sacred things we have that many in the past have not. It just goes to show how far we have come from our ancestors and the progress we have made.

As Forrest Gump said, "That's all I have to say about that."

For now =)

Good Night Folks
-SWS II