I consider myself a person open to all ideas. I know, I know. Bareopen minded-ne with me for a minute here and I’ll explain, because there’s a difference between being open and being irrational… between an idea and a belief. I am open to the idea of God. I am open to the idea of voodoo. I am also just as open to the idea that there is an invisible flying spaghetti monster in the room with me right now. Really, there is exactly the same amount of real proof for all three of these ideas. If I was handed peer reviewed and repeatable evidence of my flying invisible spaghetti friend I would probably have to agree to it’s existence. Until then, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say gods, magic, and spaghetti monsters are probably not real. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not just trying (some would say failing) to be clever and make yet another hit against people’s religions, I’m being 100% serious.

New knowledge is constantly emerging, and for me to be bogged down in any belief or anti-belief would only end up being detrimental to myself and to those around me. I don’t know that I’m right about anything, and knowing that brings me a great feeling of freedom. To believe something means you should defend it, no matter what. All beliefs come with dogma that must be accepted in order to back up the belief. Ideas also have their dogma, but (at least in the way I’m using the words) ideas can be readily and eagerly changed, and beliefs can’t (just like Chris Rock says in the movie “Dogma”).

Anyways, I’m going to totally shift gears here and talk about language. I struggle every time I write one of these because I’m never sure if people are going to be reading the same thing I wrote. They’ll see the same words, but how can I effectively communicate when every sentence is open for interpretation? Every word even. People see hidden meanings and intentions behind everything, some of it real, and some of it imagined. Some things are more cut and dry then others, but really, our language (or any current language) is a pigfuck.

Imagine how beautiful it would be to have a language that isn’t open for interpretation. I’m speaking abstractly here, but I don’t think it’s impossible. How many times have you given up trying to say something because you can’t find the right words? Or gotten frustrated because no matter how you say something, it isn’t well understood. If everyone could communicate and share ideas in a completely objective and effective manner… I don’t know, I think we’d be happier with each other.

But then, there’s also a certain beauty and romanticism to the subtle nuances of spoken and written words (wasn’t that a beautiful sentence?). It just doesn’t always make for the effective communication of ideas.