Introductions...

Hey whats up,
I am a student in a Honors Philosophy class at Groves and am keeping this blog to chronicle my work. Thanks for reading. First things first, an introduction so I'll post a who am I that I made for my philosophy class (slightly edited of course).

Who am I??                                By: Alex Pisano

To set the tone for this blog, I think I'll start with a quote from Fight Club, one of my favourite movies, and novels. "...you're not how much money you've got in the bank.  You're not your job.  You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes." Showing you that I think this essay is truly not a good measure, but whatever.

Physically I am human, and 17 years old. I am an unusually tall specimen, possessing the attributes of brown hair, with a slightly red tint, hazel eyes, with rings of an orangish color around the pupil. I go to school at 7:00 Am and go to cross country by 3:30 Pm. I get home around 5:30ish and then do whatever I need to by 9:00 Pm. But this is not me.

I am a man of passions and hatreds. Looking at me you can see several things. From my appearance you can tell that I do not possess a particularly strong belief in order, with how I throw papers around and my messy hair. Also you can probably deduce that I like music that was made 40 or so years ago, I hope you know the type- The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Boston, etc. I have a ridiculously strong belief in the necessity of being well read, even going as far to fill up two bookshelves with my own collection. The sci-fi of Bradbury,  a few college level physics textbooks written by some Russian, the philosophies of Confucius and Kierkegaard(a newer addition), the high fantasy works of Jordan and Tolkien, even the Classics like Alighieri sit side by side ‘pon the oaken shelves. Seemingly naturally for one so well read, I have aspirations of being a writer, however, I'm not quite sure what I want to write.

I hate few things and they are at the same time both simple and complex. The truth is that I hate all things at extremes, strong republicans and democrats, war and peace, order and chaos. As a result, I try and meld each idea with its opposite and when they thus meet, I let their merits weigh against each of the other and let the scales fall as they may in my head. Another thing I hate is the people who blindly follow the opinions of the time, caring more about image than anything else. Sadly I am partially one of these people, vain and foolish, so I will not go on about it until I can rid myself of the flaw.

I have very simple opinions on politics, they are as follows

All politicians are self-serving and misinformed on at least one issue

Nothing worthwhile will ever get done with party lines as they exist today

The political parties are far too cohesive to ever fix the above error

Just one man cannot stop the political trend of corruption, however any movement that could overthrow said system would have flaws that are equally as strong and despicable

Similarly simple are my opinions on religion

Any system based on the beliefs of a past individual is naturally flawed in that it is incorrectly translated by imperfect humans

Any system based on the beliefs of a present individual is naturally flawed in that it is incorrectly translated by an imperfect human

The existence of a god, or gods is not something that can ever be proven, regardless of faith or supposed historical evidence, until he may so appear his existence is dubious

Quite contradictory I believe, however unfashionable or foolishly, that not only can a god, or gods, exist, but must exist.

Finally, education

All opinions must be represented in the academic field, however, such BS as pseudoscience has no place in the classroom environment

Educators work as hard as any CEO in any company but are payed far less and are far more important, therefore there should at least be some great recognition or priveleges that come with the job

People who believe that treating education like a business are incorrect, regardless of their opinion, rather it is an investment in the future.

Regardless of what you do, who you are, or where you live, the fact of the matter is that we must live in the now, not in dreams or hopes, to create a better tomorrow. That is the truth as I see it, my core belief, the quintessential element of my being.

Peace.