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I don’t know where your going, but I might just come along for the ride..

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Journey or Destination ??
Hey everyone,

In such busy times (busy for me anyways), I begin to wonder, do we notice ourselves getting caught up in the destination rather than the journey or the journey rather than the destination. I finished my Scheme (Awesome programming language, LISP derivative and annoyer of my colleagues) exam on Saturday and then proceeded to make my way to an appointment on Roma and Ann St (The street names don’t really matter).

After about 30 to 45 minutes of walking I finally got where I was going to, only then to realise that the journey made with some colleagues / friends (if they are not friends yet they will be, as they will probably put up with for another 2.5 years minimum ;p) was the most haphazard way of getting to my destination. What could have been 15 minutes had became 45.

Why my friends continued to follow me? I have no clue.
Why I went the way I did ? Well it was because I made an incorrect assumption and looked for a street corner in the wrong direction.

If this post was a simple as that, I would have posted it much earlier, however it and other events up until now got me thinking.

What is more important ..? the journey or the destination ..?

In 3.5 years time, when I get my degrees in hand, will I then relish that moment or the 4 years of work, fun and the experiences I am going to share ?

We started a puzzle (2000 pieces) at home a few nights ago, what will be more satisfying, the finished puzzle or the time spent to make it ?

Would you rather fly in first class and backpack round the world or fly in economy and five star / ritz everything ?

In my case, I think that I will enjoy the journey more then the destination, just like I will enjoy my life rather then my death.

In Plugin News (pun on, and also, Other News ;P)

I have been searching for and installing / configuring wordpress and amsn plugins. I am looking for a random fortune or bash.org quote plugin. But all the ones I find are dead linked when download url is given.

Whilst searching I found a website http://freebsdgirl.com (Ray or Curtis please check it out…) and lots of weird and wonderful plugins and themes, but not the ones I was looking for.

I have got stop or start having decent religious discussions, not really sure which or why ?

In conclusion and in regards to the journey, I end this post with a quote:

I’m a pilgrim on the edge, on the edge of my perception. We are travellers at the edge, we are always at the edge of our perceptions.

Scott Mutter

Best wishes to all

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234 =)

Spasmodically arranged in time and space with bits and pieces all over the place, that is what Life is

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Questions, Life and difference
I am fond of asking questions, as most of those who know me or know of me know. I always will be.

(No,no,no …. that isn’t a first sentence, it is a hidden pun ;P) (NB: ;P the winking tongue out is one of my favourite custom emotions).

Everyone is searching for something, I search for knowledge amongst other things….

That is the simple reason why I ask so many questions.

People are always talking about Life, how wonderful it is, how messed up it is, how things reek of irony and deja vu.

I have been known and classified as many things. However one of the things I am sure of, is that Life and everyone who lives in it can’t be classified or judged into the shoes that fit them. (boxes, categories, favourite kebab flavours, etc)

And yet we as humans can’t stop classifying and judging stuff. We supposedly can’t handle the term infinity.

Those who question and analyse are often labelled as being judgemental and critical.

I can say that too most people I am the in unusual box, the random box, the weird box, the crazy box, the unknown box and maybe if I am lucky the infinity box.

Yes I am different, different shoes and boxes fit me, as they do all of us. You see it’s the constant difference that makes us so similar.

If we were all clones, what would Life be ? is a commonly asked question which always sparks discussion and talking.

The difference between entities is a part of their relationship.

Everything is different. Everything is linked.

So let us not criticise difference but rejoice in it, for it is what makes us us, life life and everything everything.

Life creates thoughts. Thoughts create opinions. Opinions influence actions. Actions affect Life.

People search for answers to the big questions, I know I do, whilst your searching don’t put your life on hold. Instead Live it because you could spend your entire life searching for those answers and not find them till you live…

A Gorean (Gor / Counterearth , interesting place, I could put more in this bracket, but won’t) quote :

Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live, do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.”

By the way, I kind of started customing the blog theme…, opinions welcome but not necesary

Keep living …..

Best wishes from Benjamin Southall / Appleman1234 =)

PB (Post Blog): I just remembered a song that symbolises this theme quite well is Bon Jovi’s Welcome to where ever you are

It has been while, but it was worth it…..

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Greeting:

Hello everyone or at least everyone reading.

Stating the obvious, this is my website and my blog which is powered by WordPress.

List of thanks:

WordPress

Nick Stallman (nickstallman.net)

Curtis Bayne (curt.phracture.com)

Anyone else on my msn contact list with a stupid / lame myspace blog.

Me

UberTweak Camp (Exposure to wiki, realising that I had a need for a blog)

etc, etc, etc, pat yourselves on the back, your not dead yet and you have made my life better I hope.

The stuff that is supposed to be interesting but probably won’t be as it is almost midnight and I need to sleep:

I was supposed to make this first post special, but I am tired so I will summarise it.

If you want to fix the world, go ahead, well infact here is fifty dollars and my blessing.

However If you want to try to fix something that isn’t broken or say your going to fix something and you don’t , then why should I bother wasting my time (which many people inform has value) and my money in donation to a flawed, deceptive or pointless cause.

Eg Buy a candle with you name on it to stop toture ?

I told the charity worker that stopping toture is stopping ectasy, and that they might as well be selling candles to stop Life. As without good there is no bad and vice versa.

I was then interrogated as to why I had this opinion and whether I’d tolerate being locked up and totured.

I quickly walked away, late and irritated (an almost typical state for me) and thought about what had transpired.

I began to wonder, If I bought a candle why would it need to have my name on it ?

(Does all humanity only help others due to the recognition they receive or for that endomorphic fuzzy feeling that we all get when we do good.)

What good does candles spelling out “STOP TOTURE” actually do in stopping the toture ?

(Nothing, all it might do is raise the awareness of the toture.) (Like a doctor pulling out an instrument to tell you what your sick with, but not giving you the medicine to cure you)

If we were to actively “STOP TOTURE”, wouldn’t we need to toture the toturers ??

(Yay, its a moral paradox, eg In order to stop the murderers, we need to murder them.)

25 cents for one candle wholesale, 4 dollars donation, where does all the extra money go ??

(Probably into someone’s pocket, volunteers getting paid, well then they aren’t volunteering)

And finally why did the thought of telling the charity worker to be quiet , as a method of stopping toture only occur to me when I was at least a kilometre away ?

There are many questions / morals to this post, but the main ones are
People want what they don’t have, and the more you push something on someone this more they will fight against it.

Donations / Religious beliefs / Tips / |Insert relevant plural noun here| are obligatory, the moment they are forced on someone, they become a torture on those who thought they were obligatory

Best of luck to all

Benjamin Southall / Appleman1234 =)