You've Gone a Little Too Far There

I'm going to start with: I hate blogger, they've done some things to annoy me again, I don't have time to rant now, but it's coming and oh do I hope it is spectacular. Next, I didn't really think this thought was going to get this long, I think I may have forgotten exactly what it was about and gone a little too far with it (hopefully that will be funny to you soon).

This thought comes from much deeper (in my brain, not necessarily, you know deep stuff or anything) thoughts. I would like to say I’m just scratching the surface because I really enjoy the thoughts I have about this. That being said I have a hard time articulating them, so let’s go one step at a time. The thought is this: people have a tendency to take things farther than they should (or initially intended). A lot of the time people have good thoughts and set about plans to enact them in good ways. Then they become extremely passionate about what they are doing and get carried away. Eventually they end up doing something pretty awing but it isn’t always what they started out wanting to do. The process can be a quick one or a very long one. I have two examples to help demonstrate this. Say you’re playing an online mining game, and your initial thought is that you want to get to the center of earth (or the bottom of the screen, or you want to find the rarest metal or you want to make the most money, or any number of things), so you make a plan for yourself. Since this is a game, you start off with pretty much nothing which means you can’t just drill to the center, you have to make some money to get a better drill, bigger fuel tank, etc. You make a plan to get your money, but then as soon as you can, you’re going to go to the center of the earth. Then part way through, you don’t realize it, but you say to yourself, I’m going to clear the whole screen, then it will be really easy to get to the center, and what you’re doing is clearing the whole screen, not going to the center of the earth. Admittedly, this will accomplish your goal, but you’ve changed goals, and it isn’t necessarily for the better. A longer term example, one that spans more than one lifetime, probably more than a hundred years really, is religion. Don’t get me wrong, I think religion can be a great thing, but I also think somewhere along the way, the real reason the religion was started got forgotten. Somebody I know was recently saying that they thought if you took all the world’s religions and put them together you would find the one true religion, or answer, or something. No offense to that person, but I don’t think that is right. Some of today’s religions have just gotten too far off the path that makes me inclined to believe that putting them all together would just give you some big wash. I do think you could trace all religions back to a single origin of thought that created one or a couple religions, then as those got slightly perverted along the way, some people thought they could fix it and started their own religion, which in turn was also perverted. As a final thought, I do think some people today are using their religion as best they can to accomplish some of the things that the religion was originally intended for (and also things they believe to be correct), but I also think it can be extremely difficult with the way their religion has changed.

So Scott Thought