The New Sage

Writing used to come very easily to me. I could peer into myself and know that I was doing the right thing. That writing was the right outlet for me but it has become very difficult. 

Sometimes I’m not sure if writing is the right medium for my creativity. It’s hard for me to express exactly how mundane my day to day life is these days. I recently went on vacation with the love of my life and it was a very pleasant quiet time but it’s not the type of experience that I need to fuel my writing.

I was quite the hellion in my time and I could tell you some very damning and otherwise hilarious, mildly disturbing stories and those moments filled me with a need to express myself. 

Ugh…FINE I’ll tell you stories of my misspent youth. No judging

Today is my first day back from vacation and as such will now continue to write. Please hold your applause until i am finished you’re embarrassing yourself.

So I want to get around to that review I mentioned but that will probably be a few weeks as I get the time and energy together to take that seriously until then Ill just be writing run on sentences and anecdotes about my love of video games, my critiques of the industry (come on Bethesda!), and how those things have influenced and effected (affected?) my life for the better or worse.

It’s time to get silly because that is how I’m going to succeed. I know nothing else.

peace

Relationships, Huh?

Weird am I right? Kinda Strange

Lets button it up

Tell me I’m pretty

Nah I’m just joking it’s cool

Couldn’t hurt though right

Sometimes you just need to chill, ya know.

Sometimes I like to eat peanut butter with a spoon

Sometimes all I want to do is play video games but I can’t decide what to play so I don’t play anything.

Sometimes I wish I smoked cigarettes so I’d have something to do 

Sometimes I have no idea what to write about so I end up writing weird shit like this

You’re  welcome

I’m hungry for life

So I guess I’ll make pizza

Taking life by storm

So chalk this whole article to an old nerd not liking reboots buy I’m not typically the type to complain. New ninja turtles? Ok I guess, it’s not good but fine. New all girls Ghostbusters? Sure! Funny is funny and we need more female centric hero stories. 

But then you went to the well and pulled out my Power Rangers. And you don’t want to make new Rangers for a new generation but you actively seek to update MY Rangers. Jason, Kimberly, Billy, Zack, And Trinni. The OG Rangers. 

Ok fine, maybe it’ll be cool, all the positivity and moral values I got from that show could be good to this upcoming generation perhaps even needed. There is also certainly nothing wrong with seeing Rangers with updated visuals and dialogue. More Kaiju and mechs brought into the modern world aint bad either.

But then I saw the trailer. Are these new Rangers the same upstanding moral figures who trained hard in the martial arts and taught me things like bullying is wrong and that a caring friendship is a powerful force? Nope, they are the millennial punk breakfast club. Maybe they will get there and I’m judging too early, I love Power Rangers enough to see the movie for sure so I’ll with old my judgement. I’m not sold on this bent towards dark they are taking but we will see.

And super strength? Really?

I’m going to start a series of video game reviews that are on “hit” video games that I never got around to for one reason or another. The first should go up after I played through the game…which Im starting now. 

Sometimes I don’t understand

myself or those around me

I Am human

In case that wasn’t obvious

 

I’ve been thinking about paranormal stuff a lot recently. Probably because of all the paranormal podcasts I listen to, the fact that its Halloween soon, and the scary movies I’ve been watching but who knows.

I’m a natural born skeptic. I require evidence to believe anything I don’t already know to be true. Certain people can be convinced of things they never had a reason to believe before but I think most of the time everyone has preconceived notions. In today’s modern society they can find any information they want that reinforces or builds upon those notions. This is probably a net negative for the world given the nature of the anti-intellectual movement that seems to be happening in our country these days. That being said I don’t think its THAT bad.

Belief or faith in religion, paranormal, or cryptozoological (all the same thing to me) stuff can add spice to your life. Maybe it makes you more hopeful or comforts you in some way, who am I to take that away from someone who is wrong. America has among the highest claims of paranormal/UFO sightings in the world as well as a very high instance of conspiracy theory belief. Now does that mean anything in a country that ranks as high as 14th in education!? Who knows!?

I know that the Earth isn’t flat and that lizard people don’t run the world. Now I know these things because there is clear evidence of one and the other is wacky comic book nonsense but should it bother me that there are people who would argue with me till they are red in the face? Has the world ever been changed or held hostage by people who believe in made up nonsense? I guess I’m just annoyed by willful ignorance.

That is probably unfair though. We live in a world where the majority of the most intelligent beings on it worship things they have never seen, heard, or felt in any physical way. Going from that to belief in the paranormal is not that big of a leap and the science I rely on to guide what I know has certainly been wrong in the past and most definitely doesn’t know everything…yet.

I’m biased for sure and I have my reasons for being a bit bitter about it. That being said I truly believe everyone has the right to think and feel however they want about whatever they want. Its not my place to correct or take away from something that someone uses to help themselves make sense of the world or make the world a more colorful and worthwhile place. The biggest compliment to religion or anything of that ilk is that sometimes I genuinely wish I could believe in that kind of stuff.  But I can’t. Its not a switch you can flip, on or off. I am a natural born skeptic and I always will be.

Wont stop me from watching Halloween movies though. That stuff is great.