o0o Sunday, October 25th 1:39 AM PST o0o

<irate girl screaming>

Disclaimer: The following statements were made in a state of extreme annoyance, however, no malice is or ever was felt toward the parties involved. Though it may be important to note that I was having a really great day before this incident occurred and is the reason why no malice was felt at all.

James, lovely James sent me an invite to chat on IRC with her; the e-mail was received by the Geocities server at 10:15 PM October 24th PDT. I downloaded it and read it at 11:06 PM and connected on to IRC immediately afterward.

At 11:09 PM I was in a DCC chat room with [her handle goes here], but Jenni was at the keyboard, so I had a short yet interesting conversation with Jenni until 11:25 when James typed, "hi, this is Jaime," and then, "brb." After 31 minutes of waiting with only brief promises that she'd be right back, she finally sat down at the keyboard and failed to form a complete sentence for nearly twenty minutes then said good-bye to pursue actives more fun than IRC. Grrrr. Plus side: I got another invitation to visit the chemically dependent VD ridden scholars at CWU (this is me upset disregard the statement after October 25th 11:30 AM.)

</irate girl screaming>

Sorry about that, but it bugged me enough to write.

I should tell about the good part of my day now. Magical Philosophizing Misty was in action again :)

I have often wondered why so many people blindly follow the doctrine of church, state, or society. I've heard that, "people are a product of their environment." This phrase, when used to explain away the more unsavory Humans (from any point of view), has always upset me. Because most interpret this phrase to mean "that an individual is doomed to forever emulate the people and the situations they see in their immediate environment." This interpretation removes any chance of transcendence; how could I possibly be happy with that?

Joy of joys; today I found a more reasonable explanation for why people act the way they do and golly gosh it also proves that the above phrase minus connotations is true.

Humans are not born with a vast well of knowledge to draw from, instead, they are born questioning everything, but so many questions exist that in the formative years that the answers they've been given were not questioned unless something directly affected them in a way that triggered a reexamination of these views. Well into adulthood many still refuse or don't think to question the new answers they're being given and old ones, by this time, have passed into that mystical realm of human knowledge that is above questioning.

There is no way anyone could question all the answers they've been given, so most of what people believe to know is based on blind faith. I don't know that quarks make-up atoms or that the world even vaguely resembles my maps, or if astronauts ever really landed on the moon. I have never questioned any of these things before yet these are things I claim to know. I have no physical evidence or very little to support that which I consider fact and because it doesn't affect me in my daily life I will probably never question these ideas at any length.

If my logic is sound then this theory explains many of the issues that completely baffle me without removing the possibly for human to grow and their ability to transcend the issues they constantly face. Of course the theory defeats itself because it is based on assumptions, but let's not get into that as I believe this is useful.

- Hmmm that was a mouthful.

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