Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

Fear is the great enslaver It chains you in your own mind, to where you don't even need to be put in a cage or actually chained. It's a mental bondage. A spiritual one even. One that can be difficult to break. Fear can cripple entire nations and break the will of even the strongest people if allowed to do so. Fear is the mind conquerer. Imagine a world, even a universe, with no more fear. No more terror. A reality where these things hold no power over consciousness. A realm where fear is dead. If fear is dead, liberty can take root and truly flourish.  Fear is the killer of freedom. I long to be free of fear. Free of terror. Where I no longer have things be afraid of, and Love, Peace, and Liberty are all I know. One day, I'm going to be in the presence of Jesus, and all my fear will be cast out of me. One day, fear will be dead.

   I write about infinity a lot. I know, it can get quite redundant, but I find it to be therapeutic. For me, its about security. I feel that if I worship an infinite God, one whose creative capacity enables Him to create a system that mirrors His own infinity, I find safety in the thought of my God being an infinite Creator. After all, you can't destroy something infinite, and if He has your back, you can never truly lose.        It's just taking the biggest concept in mathematics and applying it to the power of a deity, giving me an idea of God that is truly limitless and truly all-powerful to an unfathomable degree to humans.  It gives me much hope to believe in something this big, and much spiritual security.        This faith I have strengthens my resolve to face my life every day, knowing that a God of this magnitude walks with me and dwells in my mind.  Even though my heart's desire is to simply be in His presence to the fullest extent.         Looking at my reality

I will travel with you, love. Through infinity's sky. above the highest realms through the most beautiful worlds into the most majestic of mountains. on streets of gold and towers of ivory On heaven's wings I will lift you I will fly with you through the stars Through the Nebulae. We will face our enemies together  and triumph over them You and I, love We will conquer darkness We will annihilate the agents  of the blackest voids We will conquer the most blinding deceptions Hate will die at the edge of our swords Death will die at the shout of our voices Sin will burn to cinder Fear will fall forever The glorious adventure will see no end You and I, love Will exist forever In realms of abstract Realms of physical Realms of the infinite Life eternal is our prize Eternity's glory is in store for you, love You will dwell in My presence for all time Exploring my infinite system My endless adventures My worlds upon worlds My cultures upon cultures My love, I will walk with you ta

When I have a slow moment, I usually sit down and write a poem or some deep philosophy post if I'm feeling particularly inspired. Tonight, I want to be a little more down to earth in my writings and maybe a little more relatable.  This post is about falling in love. I have never been in love with someone. Truly in love. I never got to spend hours talking on my phone to a cute girl or texting back and forth funny jokes or pictures. I never have been on a truly romantic date out at a restaurant or a coffee shop. No long walks in parks or in the woods with a girlfriend or wife or partner like a lot of guys got. I never really got the typical relationship path. The typical or "normal" is honestly not something on my resume, and I'm ok with that. I was just born a little different. Wired a little different. My life has been anything but normal, and it made me different. Special in some ways. Cursed in others. I've always wanted a better half. A special person I could d

   I've been through a lot of stuff in my life. A lot of tragedies and a lot of mistakes. Some of it was pretty bad, and some of it was mind breaking. Much of it was just different. Unusual and even unique. There are plenty of people who have been through their own hell. My hell was just different. Not necessarily worse or better. Different is a good word for it.  This different, atypical experience had a profound effect on my thinking. My mind has been constructed in a unique way and has an alternative way of looking at things primarily because of the adversity I faced. My difficulties forced me to reckon with the truths and brutality of this world. They deprived me of a lot of opportunities and crushed any sense of normalcy.         This forced me to search for meaning and purpose in a life where I couldn't reach my dreams and aspirations because of the consequences of my own decisions as well as the consequences of the cruelty of this place.  I would have never had the drive

      I wake up. My eyes open wide. I see nothing but beauty. Nothing but glory. I'm in a warm bed. I'm surrounded by an air of love. The smell of hope's victory pervades the room. The walls white with a tint of blue. My blankets are soft. My room is clean. I'm in God's palace. I'm in His presence. He is all around me now. I am never without Him. I now dwell in a Kingdom where truth is absolute, where deception no longer has any power. Where it no longer exists. Sin is dead too. It's poison burned out of all of us. Here, even death is dead.      I've woken up from a bad dream and into perfection. A flawless Kingdom ruled by a flawless God. Never again having to face the disappointments and cruelties of earth and its fallen state of darkness. The delusions and ignorance of that world are of no consequence here. Insanity isn't real. That concept is dead here too. It has no power over me anymore. Hate has been eradicated. No longer hunting me and striki

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."    -Abraham Lincoln  If you want to collapse any system, get it to implode. Get it to collapse itself. Pit the parts of the system against each other and create discord and counterproductivity within the system and turn the gears on themselves. Division collapses even the most well-designed and well intentioned system, no matter how many precautions you take against instability.  In America's system, our current arrangement of social, economic, racial, and cultural relationships is unsustainable to say the least. It's only a matter of time before far greater instability and loss of life than we have already seen strikes our system. In a system based on a simple left-right, liberal-conservative dichotomy, achieving stability requires a few things. It requires willingness to sit down at the table and discuss the issues civilly and with genuine care and concern. It requires a level of humility in leadership where the good of

There are some things that are going to follow me for the rest of my life. Mistakes I've made. Circumstances I've been dealt. People I've offended or upset. The world has always been unforgiving, which is why so much of it is in bondage.      Without forgiveness or mercy, liberty has a hard time flourishing. Without forgiveness, marriages fail, families break up, and friendships lose their longevity. It's seen time and again here.        An unforgiving society often cripples opportunity for the mistake-maker, inhibiting them from rising into a position of success, and often reducing their access to privilege and resources.      If their is no chance at redemption, mistakes and failures of any degree can become lifelong curses.      God knows that the indefinite condemnation of unforgiveness is not only counterproductive because of its inhibiting of growth, opportunity, and renewal, it becomes a bondage and a slaver, binding people to a lifetime of shame, regret, and sti

:       “When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story The darkness denies the light. If it could, it would deny it out of existence. People living in darkness have a hard time comprehending light and truth, and so they fear it. Even hate it. Many bright people who have shined light into this world have been imprisoned, killed, or even mutilated because of the fear that the light they showed caused in the people living in deception and darkness.      The quote above comes from the book "The Neverending Story" and its about a fantasy world being consumed by an enemy simply known as "the nothing." An all-consuming darkness that destroys all things it touches.  The fantasy world was representative of the human imagination, and "the nothing" was the e

Plato, in his development of his theory of Forms and Ideas, hypothesized the existence of a realm of perfect forms or perfect ideas, of which all things in our realm are imperfect "imitations" of. He called this place the Hyperuranion, which in Greek meant "the place beyond Heaven." In his mind, the hyperuranion was higher than the gods. The gods themselves getting their divinity from this realm.     The hyperuranion would, by Plato's account, be the only realm that is truly real, and the reality of the forms and ideas there would be perfect and absolute.     Pertaining to my understanding of existence and my views on its complexity and scope, my take on the hyperuranion accounts for my view of existence having a Creator. Last december, I hashed out a hypothesis on a hierarchy of existence that included my view on what the foundational pillars of an infinite existence would be. These pillars, in order of importance, were the mind, ideas, forms, space, time, ener

I am going to make it home. To a home where death is dead To a home where darkness is vanquished by the purest light To a home where truth is absolute and unquestionable To a home where certainty is all encompassing and the darkness of uncertainty no longer clouds the mind Where insanity is obliterated by truth and light A home where nothingness and void are filled entirely A home where the knowledge of an infinite God and the knowledge of an infinite Creation is absolute and readily accessible and doubt and fear are destroyed entirely and oppression and bondage are shattered and eliminated A home where liberty and justice reign supreme for this infinite creation A home where freedom is an absolute and dominates the paradigm No fear of judgement from flawed and corrupt people in this home For flaws and corruption are dead concepts here Perfection, that grand, glorious pinnacle, is another absolute in this infinite system. There are no marks of failure, no blights of mind, no stains of