NoRule
06-02-2011, 10:27 PM
Hello Literature Network community members,
I googled "literature forums" because I was interested in finding a place to share my works as well as read others, and I was promptly directed to this website. I'm Nick, but I expect to be referred to by the screenname I have chosen, NoRule. I am eager to become a part of the community.
During my senior year of high school in Phoenix, AZ, I wrote many poems, a few short stories, some nondescript prose, and worked on some songs. As a freshman at NAU in Flagstaff, AZ, I did not write much because I was preoccupied with school and friends and such, but now I am ready to jump back onto the literature wagon and express my thoughts and feelings creatively again.
So, that's why I'm here typing this introduction.
About myself and the things I think about;
I'm an anarchist. I believe humans should be organized socially without laws, police, military, power, etc. However, I recognize that an ideal anarchy will never exist, as rules, folklores, norms, boundaries, and social consequences will always be a part of culture. To me, anarchy is a tension between the current state of being and the imagined ideal of the world; anarchy is not something which should be enforced but is something to strive for. Also, even if a society without power structures came into being, it would innevitably change as new generations react with new social and environmental pressures.
I believe spirituality is an essential part of existence, something which I wish I had realized many years ago before I matured to my modern self. I believe this not only because of logical reasoning and emotional passion, but because history has proven this to be true. I have no religion, but I believe the forces of nature which have permitted life to exist is god. The "creator" of the universe is synonymous with the forces of nature (which can otherwise known as physical laws, i.e. the seemingly constant forces which dictate the interactions between the many varities of energies which fill all dimensions of everything). Whether or not the creator was a conscious being is something we will never know, so I think it is best to be thankful of and towards those concepts which we can infer to be true.
More on spirituality; laws fail to keep order in society because one's idea of right and wrong is subjected to individual circumstances, perceptions, and criteria. Laws need to be replaced by spiritual belief. People have a deep, nearly impenetrable connection with their spirituality. A part of spirituality is defining what is right and wrong, and when people live together and share similar spiritual beliefs, order is a great consequence. Furthermore, when millions of people are dictated by a singular system of justice, stability will slowly decay as those rules are less and less recognized as necessary and correct. There is much more to be said here, but this is not the place to do it.
I am a nature-oriented person. I feel most at-peace when I am riding my bike in the desert or hiking in the forest, away from the noise of civilization. I love all living things equally, except for some humans which have lost that love due to their actions (I don't hold non-human organisms accountable for their actions because I do not understand them enough to do so) and except for some humans and pets which I love more than others because of my relationship with them. I believe civilization is a plague which causes men and women to become disconnected with their environment; a disease fatal to the spirit.
Most importantly, I strive for social change. Industrialism, capitalism, government, prisons, war, money, property, and other concepts and institutions need to be destroyed. The current state of the world is disgusting. The populations of the world need to unite to form the revolution we desperately need. More on this, later, as I write things to post and then have discussions with you all about them.
The final bits of my personality; I love my puppy Iggi Pup to death, and I miss her very much because I moved and cannot live with her until I move into an apartment which allows dogs. Just typing this makes me teary :(. I play guitar and bass; I have written two complete songs and many other incomplete ones. When I spend time with music I usually spend it learning music theory, practicing scales and chords, and analyzing the interrelationships between notes with different intervals. Once I have all that stuff set-in-stone, I will probably write many more songs. What keeps me from writing songs a lot of the time is I have a lot of trouble singing and playing at the same time, something which I should practice more. I try to maintain a positive outlook on life, despite the many negative aspects of modern life. I'm single. I live with three roommates in an apartment.
So, yeah. Anyone who reads this whole post will pretty much have a complete overview understanding of who I am. Hello, Literature Network community members!
Edit: I read the rules, and no politics. Got it!
I googled "literature forums" because I was interested in finding a place to share my works as well as read others, and I was promptly directed to this website. I'm Nick, but I expect to be referred to by the screenname I have chosen, NoRule. I am eager to become a part of the community.
During my senior year of high school in Phoenix, AZ, I wrote many poems, a few short stories, some nondescript prose, and worked on some songs. As a freshman at NAU in Flagstaff, AZ, I did not write much because I was preoccupied with school and friends and such, but now I am ready to jump back onto the literature wagon and express my thoughts and feelings creatively again.
So, that's why I'm here typing this introduction.
About myself and the things I think about;
I'm an anarchist. I believe humans should be organized socially without laws, police, military, power, etc. However, I recognize that an ideal anarchy will never exist, as rules, folklores, norms, boundaries, and social consequences will always be a part of culture. To me, anarchy is a tension between the current state of being and the imagined ideal of the world; anarchy is not something which should be enforced but is something to strive for. Also, even if a society without power structures came into being, it would innevitably change as new generations react with new social and environmental pressures.
I believe spirituality is an essential part of existence, something which I wish I had realized many years ago before I matured to my modern self. I believe this not only because of logical reasoning and emotional passion, but because history has proven this to be true. I have no religion, but I believe the forces of nature which have permitted life to exist is god. The "creator" of the universe is synonymous with the forces of nature (which can otherwise known as physical laws, i.e. the seemingly constant forces which dictate the interactions between the many varities of energies which fill all dimensions of everything). Whether or not the creator was a conscious being is something we will never know, so I think it is best to be thankful of and towards those concepts which we can infer to be true.
More on spirituality; laws fail to keep order in society because one's idea of right and wrong is subjected to individual circumstances, perceptions, and criteria. Laws need to be replaced by spiritual belief. People have a deep, nearly impenetrable connection with their spirituality. A part of spirituality is defining what is right and wrong, and when people live together and share similar spiritual beliefs, order is a great consequence. Furthermore, when millions of people are dictated by a singular system of justice, stability will slowly decay as those rules are less and less recognized as necessary and correct. There is much more to be said here, but this is not the place to do it.
I am a nature-oriented person. I feel most at-peace when I am riding my bike in the desert or hiking in the forest, away from the noise of civilization. I love all living things equally, except for some humans which have lost that love due to their actions (I don't hold non-human organisms accountable for their actions because I do not understand them enough to do so) and except for some humans and pets which I love more than others because of my relationship with them. I believe civilization is a plague which causes men and women to become disconnected with their environment; a disease fatal to the spirit.
Most importantly, I strive for social change. Industrialism, capitalism, government, prisons, war, money, property, and other concepts and institutions need to be destroyed. The current state of the world is disgusting. The populations of the world need to unite to form the revolution we desperately need. More on this, later, as I write things to post and then have discussions with you all about them.
The final bits of my personality; I love my puppy Iggi Pup to death, and I miss her very much because I moved and cannot live with her until I move into an apartment which allows dogs. Just typing this makes me teary :(. I play guitar and bass; I have written two complete songs and many other incomplete ones. When I spend time with music I usually spend it learning music theory, practicing scales and chords, and analyzing the interrelationships between notes with different intervals. Once I have all that stuff set-in-stone, I will probably write many more songs. What keeps me from writing songs a lot of the time is I have a lot of trouble singing and playing at the same time, something which I should practice more. I try to maintain a positive outlook on life, despite the many negative aspects of modern life. I'm single. I live with three roommates in an apartment.
So, yeah. Anyone who reads this whole post will pretty much have a complete overview understanding of who I am. Hello, Literature Network community members!
Edit: I read the rules, and no politics. Got it!