Thought and Thesis

I could rage I could purge I could put an end to the world I could stoke I could burn with the pain that I feel For all that I have done But what good would come from such a thing Only to blind all the pain in a haze of hate And forget all that was good I could hide behind walls and say to them all that I am protecting myself I could lie I could run from the pain thats inside To an end that is without hope But I cannot do this as others seem able for I have not the strength any longer So I will cry I will hurt and I will feel the pain For all that I have done Until I make it right

Tonight: Don’t, give up just yet Don’t, let this slip away Don’t, let your heart turn to cold There, still is so much to live Wait! don’t run from me Wait! don’t leave this behind There, still is so much to love Try, Try, Tonight I know I have messed thing up I know I have failed But i know I can fix it all If you try Try, this with me Try, try this for us Try, Try, Tonight

Anyone who knows me well will know that I am no war hawk. That being said, the actions of North Korea cannot go unanswered. Now it may not be necessary to take military action against them, but something must be done. For to long we have glad handed North Korea and all we have gotten is more and more belligerent actions. I for one say no more. We need to cut off all aid to North Korea in anyway. We need to freeze all money coming in or out of North Korea. And we must bolster our military to show the North that we will not stand by as the continue to act in such belligerent ways. If there is any war that should be fighting, any war that should have entered into before the mess we are in now in Afghanistan and Iraq, it should be one with North Korea. If we are really worried about freedom of a people. If we are really worried about the welfare of people, we would not have started two endless wars an against religious ideology. We must stay our hand. But we must make it very clear to Nort...

Over four and a half years ago I ended my first D&D campaign as a DM. It ran for about a year and it went really well. The players were kind of bummed out that is was ending, but I was getting burned out from the twice a month four hours sessions. I write all my own stuff and run in my own world, and I also tend to put a lot of detail in to my adventures. So, needless to say, it took up a lot of time to run 6 character from 1st to 15th level. Don't get me wrong, I loved it and still have found memories of that year, it was a blast. But university was calling and was taking up a lot of my time. Over these four and a half years my players have come to me on and off asking when I was going to start up the adventure again. My answer as always been, "I'm not sure", or, "I would love to but I just don't have the time." Both, understandably, not satisfying answers. My reluctance has been that I have felt like I kind of 'blew my load', if you'll ...

At times it becomes necessary to state what I'm thinking at the moment. Not all these thoughts need a full blog. With that in mind I decided, much to my chagrin, that I should get a Twitter account, so I did. So if you want to know what's rolling around in my head from moment to moment, not always the most interesting or safe by all accounts, head over and check me out at: http://twitter.com/turiousurbril

So today I decided to run a Goggle search for barefoot running just to see what came up. And much to my surprise this site came up: http://www.runningbarefootisbad.com/ The person who writes the blog is clearly someone who does not like barefoot running, or even the idea of it, at all. While I have not read through all of the post, the author has a major vendetta against all these related to barefoot running. One of the author biggest complaints is that there is completely no evidence for the claims that barefoot make for the positive aspects of running barefoot. This is very funny to me since you can go to your local book store and find all kinds of magazines and books that have those very studies in them. But this is clearly been over looked by the author, most likely to insure that his/her agenda is fulfilled. This can be seen by the fact that one is not able to comment on any of the blogs posts. Could it be that the author of those posts is in fear of being contradicted with eviden...

Among the many things that I enjoy, which include philosophy and sociological theory, I also am a very big nerd. Well, not as big as some, I do in fact have a girlfriend, which will soon be much more then that. But thats not what I'm here to talk about, nerdiness is the topic and roleplaying is the game. As part of that game have begun, well many years ago, building my own campaign world. It was adopted from a world that a few friends and I worked on in high school. Recently I've decided that to make the world a whole lot more rich that I would start writing poetry for it. Things have gone pretty good and it also seems to add a fun flare to the games as well. For fun I've decided to share them with the world. I have spent a good amount of time on these so I'd like it if no one stole them, thanks! With that said then, here is one I just finished. Urtoth Golden Fields and Golden Trees Golden Streams and Golden Leaves Golden Roads and Golden Homes All for the Eyes to See O...

Finally my semester and school year is over with. Finished the last of my papers this morning and mailed it off to the prof. Now all I have to do is find a job. Hmmm... easier said then done it think.

In the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzshe talks on punishment in the past as being something that made the people feel good, how it brought them joy to see. This seems to be the case even today. All be it the system is different; we no longer draw and quarter, or boil people in oil, the judicial system does seem to have the same function as those systems of old. That is to make people feel better. This function also seems to work in a way in which it maintains peoples trust in what they, at least perceive as being an ordered society. Without the punishment people may come to think that anything could be done to themselves or their property, in a sense to their very sovereign nature, without having some kind of recourse toward that action. Plainly: the use of punishment, or in the modern era, the judicial system, makes people feel better about things. That while there has been an infringement in the social order, the order has been reestablished and those that have harmed it have been deal...

There are two weeks left in the semester and stress is abound. It's that time of year were everything piles up and all you can do is hope for the best. On a positive note, the pile is as big as it's going to get, so now I all I have to do is try and get to the bottom. Fingers crossed. Work for the next two weeks includes: Paper for: History of Moral Philosophy Philosophy of the Mind Sociology of Law Cultural Ecology

So today I decided that I was in need to get out of town and into the mountains for a little bit. The weather has been nice and I've been planning on doing something like this for about a week or so but just didn't have the time to do it. For that matter I've been trying to get out into the mountains from months now, like since the summer, but through all fault of my own I never made the time. Shame on me. So with this intention in mind I finally did what I've been meaning to do for a while. I packed up myself, a few books to read, my Fivefinger, which wasn't all that hard to pack since they were already on my feet, and headed east of town. After traveling along Happy Jack Road for a while and only finding still snowed in areas I finally found a nice road to drive down in the Pole Mountain area turn off. After just driving down the road a ways I found a good place to park and walked over a few hills till I found a nice little place to sit down, read, and just quiet ...

So a number of years ago the idea of microloans came to the forefront with in impoverished countries. The idea was simple and very brilliant, give small loans to poor peoples so they could open businesses. In a New York Times article yesterday brings up what is a growing problem with microloans. The problem is many of the banks that are giving the loads. According to the article some banks are charging up to 100% on these loans. This is just another example of how the idea of capitalism and capitalism in action are wholly different. The whole idea of microloans was to bring more people into the system so their lives could be better, a really great idea. But as soon as any large company finds out that there is money to be made they go to any ends that they can to do so. How much clearer does it need to be for people to see that capitalism is not moral, and that it leads people to immoral acts? It is an unethical system thats main goal is the accumulation of the most destructive of abstr...

Consequentialism says that the best action is to act in such a way that brings about the best outcome (consequence). Deontology says that the best act is one that has the best motivation, regardless of the consequences. Both of these theories have some major problems. On the former there is the chance, without a robust notion of justice, that the ends could always justify the means. The later, on the other hand, could lead, again without a strong notion of justice, to detrimental ends with no recourse to those that acted. There seems to be only one thing that can keep either one of these from unacceptable pit falls, that is justice. Of course any notion of justice is going to have problems of its own. Underlying almost every notion of justice there is some other philosophical principle. And underlying those there is some antecedent predisposition toward one way of thinking or the other. With this in mind philosophers have spent years trying solve this underlying problem and the answer ...

RBR-Renault: Always have like the team and was crossing my fingers for them and Brawn next year. Hopefully they will be able to overcome a hard start to the season, Malaysia was a good start. Force India-Mercedes: The little team that I'm really hope does well. Adrian Sutil is a good driver and its good to seem him with what looks like a good car that is getting stronger.

So, much to my distaste, I've had to listen to some of what Sarah Palin has been spewing recently. Durning these times a question has been forming in my head. Is Sarah Palin as stupid as she sounds, or is she just really condescending to the masses that she speaks to? More importantly, either way, stupid or condescending, what does it say about the people that hang on her every word?

Welcome to Thought and Thesis. I've decided that I am in need of having a open place that I could get out all the ideas that float around in my head on a daily bases. While not all of those ideas are, or will be, thought provoking, I hope that at least a few of them will be. Civil public discourse is often the only way in which progress can be made, So if anyone has any comments on anything that I welcome you to do so. Hopefully we can have a good conversation. Thanks for visiting.