It's 5:12 AM as I am typing these words. I started writing at about 1:30 AM as the sounds of the firecrackers were beginning to wane. After two mugs of coffee I finished a lengthy introduction about myself but immediately scrapped it away after realizing how self-absorbed and annoyingly highbrow I sounded.
I guess for now those three words below the blog title would suffice as a description for myself: Pagan, Pinoy (Filipino) and postmodernist. I reckon that the last word needs some explaining:
Many people are confused by the term postmodern. It has become a term that is bandied about in intelligent conversation...[1]
How true. Any paragraph with the word "postmodern" in it looks so intellectual. :)
I've been Googling for definitions of the word "postmodern" but what I've been getting were just as obscure. Eventually I found a nice answer:
Postmodernism puts everything into question and radically interrogates philosophies, strategies and world views. There is no such thing as a definition of the postmodern. It is a mood rather than a strict discipline. [1]
I decided to use the word because that is how some people describe my practice. A postmodernist Pagan may seem like a paradox, but I think that makes it more "postmodernisty", don't you think?
While this blog would be about my not taking everything at face-value, I'd like to write about conventional ideas as well, especially on magic and metaphysics. Some may not agree with what I write, but this is the Internet: there is always somebody out there who's bound to disagree with you. I'm not gonna be trying to proclaim the Truth anyway, just my own smelly personal brain-farts. I just hope I'd be able to pull this blog thing nicely.
It's the first day of the year and it's a blue moon. 2010 to me resembles the ineffable name of God in Jewish mysticism: YHVH [2] . That should mean something.
Basbasan Nawa!
[1] http://www.essortment.com/all/postmodernphilo_rorp.htm
[2] 2010 = Two Zero and One Zero = Even Null and Odd Null = Y H and V H. Masculine and Feminine. Or something like that.
[2] 2010 = Two Zero and One Zero = Even Null and Odd Null = Y H and V H. Masculine and Feminine. Or something like that.
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2 comments:
Well done, Ian! Now I have a new place to hang around, hehe.
well beginning of something is the most exciting part for me for it is where you search for something that would make the end a thing that you would cherish for whole life.
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