Hey there everypony *yawn*.

So I'm just gonna write about whatever popes into my head. I didn't do any writing like I wanted to because I turned off my computer and everything else today. My hippie friends came over for the night and left a little while ago. We turned off all the electronics for a few hours. I am pretty sure it's not earth day but we wanted to see how much fun we could have without electronics. That eventually led us to go outside and loiter at my old middle school.

Ahh I sort of miss middle school. Would I do it again with all of the knowledge I have now? Yes, duh what kind of question is that? Aha.

I guess I kinda hated myself when I was a kid. I don't hate kids in general, but I was particularly a brat. My maturity came way to early though. You wouldn't think so if you see me around my friends but I am actually a very serious pony. I like to contemplate about the universe as hard as I can, to the very essence of existence. I have since grade 8 or freshman year, I can't quite remember. But once my deep curiosity about my own existence happened, I never looked at anything the same way again.

I sometimes get asked, what are some core concepts that have really shook my understanding of the world. here are a few:

The brain in a vat thought experiment and the concept behind the matrix movies. That's a wicked problem, trying to prove what is real or not, when looking at it from that perspective.

I never really got Plato's cave allegory, I mean I understand it but it didn't really blow my mind like some of the things discussed in his dialogues

Sartre's work and the whole existence precedes essence stuff is amazing. I get slack from some of my philosophy nerd friends who say that his work was based on Heidegger who was a Nazi so I shouldn't like it all that much, but they keep forgetting about his book 'existentialism is a humanism'. It's taking his ideas in a whole new approach. Same goes for Nietzsche ,his philosophy's teach you to think for yourself, not conform and become a Nazi. That's just ridiculous.

I would try to understand Kant but I need more time on my hands to do so, like a month or two. I haven't read anything from him, books, essays, zip. Something I want to fix, because one of the next articles I want to write has to do with morality and truth.

Descartes has a lot of things to think about as well. Without him the world would be a lot different, that's for sure. But I hav't read anything including him either.

A book I'm gonna start tonight or tomorrow is Henry Thoreau's 'Walden, and other writings' and that includes 'Civil disobedience'. So excited, even though it sort of counters my existentialist views.

Actually no, I don't want to call my self an existentialist. Or label myself anyway. I do existentialist thinking, but I don't want to quickly attach myself to a system or put myself into a group.

Well that's my random blabber since I didn't post anything. Wish I didn't have school Monday I'm loving the sleeping in opportunities .

~Leaf