This is copied over from my greatest journal blog....
"How about another one of my scarce updates in the ol' Greatest Journal?
I guess I don't report much in here when my life is going good, and my life lately has honestly never been better. Recently I have really gotten my priorities straightened out quite a bit. I guess I could be considered kind of an asshole for saying it, but I really have to thank my former group of friends for this. About a month or two ago a bunch of my friends kind of abandoned me. I really had no idea why this happened and none of them really gave any explanation. I spent a lot of time pondering this but ultimately decided to move on.
So in my absence of friends I did a lot of work getting some of my own personal interests back. I had always had the big dreams of being a writer and musician and all of those great things. I guess while focusing on trying to be a social dynamo I kind of lost my focus on my dreams though and forgot what was really important in my life. So I picked up my old pen and pad again and started putting my thoughts down in words.
For the first week or so I was mostly writing lyrics, poetry, things of that nature. It was fun but that isn't really my thing. I have always been better with a good story. So I started working on a short story about gods who live among men and control our lived on a very up close and personal level. The story was decent, definitely not my best work and my lack of any recent writing experience was pretty evident.
So I decided to take a break from writing for a bit and get back into music. I got my keyboard all hooked up to my laptop good and proper and began playing around. What a difference it is to use a keyboard instead of a piano roll when writing music lol. Things began to flow out. It was a really amazing day or two where I did a lot of work with that and I think I have the shells of some really great songs in the work.
But I went back to writing. I am now intensely focused on a novel, yes one that I will actually go through with this time. It isn't a story of fiction, but it isn't anything real either. Lately I have been really pondering the existence of gods. It is pretty much common knowledge that everything in most major religions can easily be disproved by simply looking at it from a basic scientific standpoint. But yet many people out there still stick with their old beliefs. This to me speaks about the human minds connection with the spiritual world. Our minds and bodies are constantly in tune and in communication with the spirit world. We may not know about this connection on a conscious level but somewhere inside of us we can just FEEL it. This is why people have such a need to believe in a higher power, they need something to explain this feeling they have inside of them.
So what I am attempting to do with this book is to explain what I think gods are, and what I think this 'spirit world' is. I want to explain it in a way that it can be supported by modern scientific method as well as supported by scripture and other religious teachings. The book itself is going to be a big mix of meta-physics, religion, and studies into the workings of the human mind. There is a lot of research yet to be done but I think when it is all pulled together and coherent it will really be quite amazing.
But this new focus on my creative work has really been making me happy. Somehow while focused in other areas I have seem to have acquired a pretty active new social life as well. I might post more on that later, but it makes me very happy.
That is all for now
"
"How about another one of my scarce updates in the ol' Greatest Journal?
I guess I don't report much in here when my life is going good, and my life lately has honestly never been better. Recently I have really gotten my priorities straightened out quite a bit. I guess I could be considered kind of an asshole for saying it, but I really have to thank my former group of friends for this. About a month or two ago a bunch of my friends kind of abandoned me. I really had no idea why this happened and none of them really gave any explanation. I spent a lot of time pondering this but ultimately decided to move on.
So in my absence of friends I did a lot of work getting some of my own personal interests back. I had always had the big dreams of being a writer and musician and all of those great things. I guess while focusing on trying to be a social dynamo I kind of lost my focus on my dreams though and forgot what was really important in my life. So I picked up my old pen and pad again and started putting my thoughts down in words.
For the first week or so I was mostly writing lyrics, poetry, things of that nature. It was fun but that isn't really my thing. I have always been better with a good story. So I started working on a short story about gods who live among men and control our lived on a very up close and personal level. The story was decent, definitely not my best work and my lack of any recent writing experience was pretty evident.
So I decided to take a break from writing for a bit and get back into music. I got my keyboard all hooked up to my laptop good and proper and began playing around. What a difference it is to use a keyboard instead of a piano roll when writing music lol. Things began to flow out. It was a really amazing day or two where I did a lot of work with that and I think I have the shells of some really great songs in the work.
But I went back to writing. I am now intensely focused on a novel, yes one that I will actually go through with this time. It isn't a story of fiction, but it isn't anything real either. Lately I have been really pondering the existence of gods. It is pretty much common knowledge that everything in most major religions can easily be disproved by simply looking at it from a basic scientific standpoint. But yet many people out there still stick with their old beliefs. This to me speaks about the human minds connection with the spiritual world. Our minds and bodies are constantly in tune and in communication with the spirit world. We may not know about this connection on a conscious level but somewhere inside of us we can just FEEL it. This is why people have such a need to believe in a higher power, they need something to explain this feeling they have inside of them.
So what I am attempting to do with this book is to explain what I think gods are, and what I think this 'spirit world' is. I want to explain it in a way that it can be supported by modern scientific method as well as supported by scripture and other religious teachings. The book itself is going to be a big mix of meta-physics, religion, and studies into the workings of the human mind. There is a lot of research yet to be done but I think when it is all pulled together and coherent it will really be quite amazing.
But this new focus on my creative work has really been making me happy. Somehow while focused in other areas I have seem to have acquired a pretty active new social life as well. I might post more on that later, but it makes me very happy.
That is all for now
"