Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

"Thought is not reality, but it is through thought that our realities are created." -Sydney Banks  The philosopher should be king, as Plato the philosopher argued, because the philosopher would be the only one who can understand the perfect form of "the good," the ideal goodness in its perfect state. This truth, in Plato's thinking, would possibly lead to the ideal society.  In fact, most of human reality has been shaped by thought and thinking. Our governments and societies have been shaped by ideas about how to arrange our hierarchies and what policies we make with our laws. These ideas all came from the minds of people at some point, just like all ideas do. Even our empiricism and processes of inquiry that form the basis of our sciences were engineered by the thinking of philosophers. The scientific method itself was developed and pioneered by Gallileo. Thinking, and thought, is the foundation of all our fields of knowledge to some extent.   If you change you

200 years. We've been in this sector of the Prime galaxy for 200 years. We were originally sent here on a reconnaissance mission, scouting the star systems here for dark life. Well, we found what we were looking for, and our recon mission quickly shifted in its objective to that of an urgent extermination mission. Dark life is the perversion of life, the anti-life, a dark experiment by the adversary after he and his followers rebelled against the True Creator ages ago. Dark life consumes, perverts, and drains star systems of their resources and value. It sucks the goodness and quality of the worlds it infects, like a parasite, a wasting disease of a planet. I've been in the Orion Legion of the Heavenly Host for the better part of the last two centuries or so.              The Orion Legion's primary function was to scout for Dark life in the billions of star systems in this galaxy, and when we find it, we exterminate it and cleanse the worlds it infects. My unit got way mor

       A few years back, I watched an old World War 2 propaganda cartoon called "Education for Death." It was an anti-Nazi propaganda piece depicting the education and upbringing of a young German boy named Hans. Hans was a fairly normal German boy just born in the wrong place at the wrong time.     In one of the scenes, a Nazi instructor drew a picture of a wolf and a rabbit on the chalkboard, and the animation of the film depicted the wolf eating the rabbit. The instructor asked the class what this lesson meant, and Hans, in his innocence, said "the poor rabbit."  The instructor got upset, and punished Hans for his response. He then asked the question to the rest of the class to get the proper response.   "The world belongs to the strong!" "and to the brutal!" said the rest of his classmates. "The rabbit is a coward and it deserves to die." and so on.      The reason I am writing this is because much of this mentality hasn't compl