Teacher

One of the most interesting things about being a teacher is that I am, by proxy, an actor. I don't get paid millions of dollars, but then again I am also not required to be as handsome as those movie star types. I also don't have the pressures to keep up the good looks that I do not possess. Nonetheless, I am an actor everytime I walk on campus. From the moment my left foot plops down on that weather beaten asphalt I put on my game face. I try to speak only when appropriate, and I sure try to say the correct thing. I nod in agreement when I want to call someone a dumbfuck. I might say, "That is surely an interesting perspective on the matter," whe I really want to say, "Go read a goddamned book for once, and after you have seriously thought about the bullshit you just sad, then come back (in ten years maybe) and then let's have a more realistic conversation on the matter." But I don't say those things. I smile. And I nod.  And I allow so many people to utter such nonsense while I look on, eyes half glazed over looking for some alternate universe where those half-thought out words might be adequate. 

Your distance is a fire 

There is no need to destroy the angels nor the demons of our world, for they do not exist anywhere except in our minds; however, even that existence is dangerous enough to infect our world like a virus. The difficulty, then, does not come the destruction of that which is non-existent; the difficulty comes in trying to show people that which is actually in front of them. 

Funding truth

I am not interested in church or religions, I am interested in truth. Those who proclaim religious feilty, but do not strictly adhere to their doctrins are participating in nothing more than philosophy supported by their imagination friends. I, on the other hand, see beauty in philosophy where beauty deserves it's due, and I call nonsense on that which is utter nonsense. Religious dogmatists won't do that, and the religious masses simply don't have that ability. 

Unfortunately, there are so many in this world who wish to be blind to the workings of the world that they immerse themselves in nothingness while being told that they are everything. 

Life was easier when I could just get drunk on Sunday and didn't have to worry about who I might piss off.