High school through my perspective

I started writing a little piece on high school and how I see it as a philosopher. I just thought it would have been pretty nice to write something about how I saw high school so I can look back on the piece and remember my high school days.... or at least try to... Well, that's basically all I am going to keep you readers updated on in my life so far. Just a new literary piece I am going to call "High school: A view from the writer's perspective". If you readers want to see it when I'm finished, e-mail me or write on my Facebook wall or send a message to me on Facebook, the choice is yours.

Hoping to keep updating this blog,

Yours Truly

Rallying support

Today's post is just to talk about that I am rallying support for this blog. As much fame as I am getting in my school for my philosophical poetry, and hopes of continuing to rally support for the school newspaper, especially for my contributions to it, I have also joined facebook not too long ago and so, I am going to rally support from the people I am associated with on there. For those that will heed my message to support this blog and are just reading this now, here is a few things that happen in the blog:

• The blog features essays, poems, and any other philosophic works that I have created during my down time during the school hours like: Our Own Choice, My Infinite, or Again in the path of shadows.
• The blog keeps readers updated on philosophical works that are still being made, like how I've kept readers informed on my essay on death and its connections with society, religion, and history and what it means to us today and also what it means to me. The title of the essay is "Slowly Dying: The thorough explanation of death"
• The blog also serves for a documentation of my daily life and the many interesting thoughts I have run through my mind day in and day out. It also serves as a place to document my thoughts on subjects that are happening in the world around us, like the World Trade Center Mosque controversy.

For those of you still interested, I also have another blog called "Virtues" which I use to write about meaningful characteristics and my opinions on them, like the characteristic of strength for example. And that blog will be returning hopefully tomorrow when I write about the virtue of patience. I have a link to the Virtues blog somewhere else on this blog which I do refer to as "The main blog" too, but for those of you who would like to read my thoughts on virtues, I will post a link in a very special post script that will go at the bottom of this blog post.

Hoping to gain support from any new readers,

Yours Truly

P.S: Virtues link, here: http://ryan-k-arcus.blogspot.com/

My Infinite

This is my infinite being

I am an ordinary being. My existence can mean everything to one person, and my existence can mean nothing to the next person. I can be remembered, I can be forgotten. I can be a friend, or I can be an enemy. I can be detested, I can be adored.

I may not be perfect. I may not be a great person, nor an intelligent one. I may at first have the outward guise as someone of ignorance. I can also have the outward guise to appear to be debilitated. I also may not be liked at first, but that opinion can only be stated by one man, or one woman at a time.

My ideas are wise in their own rights. My ideas are my thoughts, which in turn are my opinions, and the opinions I state are the words I write, the words I write are in turn, my silent actions. Of the rare things I say and the rare things I do can either be ignored or noticed. How they are each perceived are dependent on the subject viewing or listening to them.

I am a stranger. My name can not always be remembered, and my face can not always be recognized or singled out amongst a crowd. A random person may not be able to know my name, but somehow I can be remembered in some way.

I may face harassment. I may be judged on my appearance and actions from the very judgmental crowd around me. My ideas can be agreeable or disagreeable. I can be walked on, a mockery to those who surround me, and I may be ridiculed by the masses, but never will I break. I will keep striving through pleasant and through miserable. You can take this time to tell yourself this now, anything is possible if you try hard enough.

To finally the essay on my infinite being in this reality, I will leave you, the dearest reader with the note in mind that I do not have to be adored, I do not have to be loathed, My voice does not have to be heard, in my silent calls for attention, a brow does not have to lift to my direction, and I do not have to be embodied in the memories of those who will follow me. I can be an ordinary person, but my thoughts can be extraordinary.

That is my latest essay,

Yours Truly

A brilliant milestone!

Today I have reached a rather milestone. I have had my philosophical works read not only by my school's principal, but also by the SBYSP, and they wanted me to come into their office building and write one of my own quotes on their quote of the day board! I'm not even thirty! My philosophy book has even helped me land a place in the school's talent show. With this, I can introduce myself and incredible philosophical works to the entire school! If I win, I can finally get a trophy! Something I've always wanted to earn since I first started learning martial arts.

Bouncing with excitement!,

Yours Truly

I have a new work

I have a new essay in the works about life and how we humans each visualize and what life ultimately means to everyone. I came up with it while thinking of how the life of an elderly clergyman would be led in the English Renaissance. I never did come up with anything on that, but I do believe my new work which will be entitled In Life Itself will be a very fun essay to eventually write. This is all that will be written in today's post. I still look forward to your e-mails.

I'm waiting,

Yours Truly

My philosophy book is spreading wonders

My philosophy book is spreading wonders. It has started on Friday last week when I started writing my newest completed essay entitled My Infinite. One of the teachers in the lunch room became interested in my writing and he agreed with all of the ideas that were expressed in the book. It gave me hope that if an average man like the one that read my book can agree with my ideas and views, I can really be a philosopher. I ran into him again while waiting for my next class and he asked if I had written anymore poems or essays and I told him I had completed the one he saw me working on. A security guard that was standing there then asked me if I wrote poems and I told him I wanted to be a philosopher and that I write poems on all sorts of philosophical subjects. So I got my philosophy book out and showed him that book. I only just need to find the right people to show my philosophy book to, and I can be known all over the school, all over the city, all over the county, and eventually all over the state.

Working on my next essay,

Yours Truly

Thursday September 02, 2010

Last night, I had talked with a couple acquaintances of mine about what the world would be like sans religion. What I have to say on it to conclude the conversation is this, that religion to me may be necessary for the cultivation of civilization, but it is also made up from lies in order to make people feel better. It has also helped us to answer some early questions we've once had, however, those questions have been later debunked and thoroughly answered with the progress of science.

Religion is now more of a mental subject, now scientists are beginning to believe that we can 'see' God. What we may be able to see is just some early ancestors that are drawn to our physical beings and not God. The idea of there being some sort of creator just does not appeal to me at all. I like to believe my own theories about the world and I also get some of my ideas from science as well.

As a philosopher-hopeful, I see the world a little differently than I had at the beginning of my last school year. One way I see the world as is some sort of never-ending equation. This equation is Man's ever-lasting questions of life, reality, and everything in the universe, as well as themselves. Religion is sadly enough to me, a big part of that equation and for some, religion solves most of the puzzling equation of life itself. However, I believe-not with an atheist's point of view, but with my own undeniable belief and perspective-that if we were to take religion out of the equation and suppose it never existed, ever, than we might have a drastically different world. World peace would have been achieved and we would've only had one global war, this day and age would be an age of prosperity in science and technology, 9/11 never would've happened, and the homosexual community would be free to coincide with the rest of the global community.

Sadly, these ideas that seem so great and so wonderful, can never be achieved. Religion will continue to be Man's shepherd as well as Man's blockade. Religion has such a hold on us, that it may continue to distort our mentalities and that world peace will never be achieved because of religion differences.

Later,

Yours Truly