Introductions

Hello and welcome to my first blog!
(That could possibly sound like Sir David Frost had read it out, if it makes you feel any better you can read it out in his voice and I won't judge you...I did and it sounded good.)


This is the first of what I hope to be many potentially pointless blogs. I'm writing this more for myself than anyone else (not that I particularly expect to draw an audience, although it's my pleasure if I do) in order to lay out a few plans for the future in regards to what I aim to achieve and also why.

My aim is, essentially, to explore a few meaningful and a few menial topics that excite, enrage and puzzle me. I may toy with some ideas and come back to them, I may just spew them out once and find them to distasteful to even approach them in a fighter jet and drop wet nappies onto them. Either way, I'm going to write them and see what happens.

First off, I'm just going to ramble about myself for a while.

A little Waffle about myself

I'm a 20 year old student from Wales and I'm studying English studies and Philosophy in University. They're absolutely fascinating subjects and I can't imagine myself being satisfied with only attaining an undergraduate level of education in them both. Ideally, I would like to get a P.h.d in at least one of them, or an interdisciplinary one in both, if possible.

Perhaps the title of my blog is slightly more understandable now. I hope it is.

My friend once said that a philosopher strips everything away and questions everything, what makes us what we are, what makes reality real, how countries should be governed, what is moral and what is immoral. He was right, that is precisely what all philosophers should do (or at least attempt to do) in today's society. My lecturer believes that a student of philosophy should have no prejudices towards any particular philosophy, however, i will, no doubt, write about some of my own prejudices and beliefs as I embark on questioning everything that may or may not exist (it might take a while.)

What else
I'm also going to be a little more pompous and assume that if anyone does read this, then they are going to expect and may even enjoy hearing my opinion. I'm going to talk about books, music, films, and other everyday annoyances and silly things (the nonsense whining aspect.) If you don't enjoy hearing, or disagree with my opinion, then please comment, I'd love to have some feedback -good or bad- and consider all points of view of anything that i write and publish here. I believe in freedom of speech wholeheartedly, which means not only am I able to have my say, you are able to question and criticise that which I am saying, so please, fell free to do so.

I'm done
(I bet you're relieved, but not too relieved, or else I've just written absolute arse-water for nothing.)

Thank you for reading this and I hope you've enjoyed it. If you like it, then have a gander at my blog now and then, just to see if I've whined or discussed anything you may be interested in, or interested in discussing.