Sum, Ergo Cognito

"[The number one fear is public speaking; the number two is death! That means that people would rather be IN the coffin rather than give the eulogy.]"
--Jerry Sinfield, Paraphrased, HBO Performance "I'm telling you for the last time"

I really do not know when I started getting so cerebral. But I keep finding myself attracted to great thinkers of all time. The people who changed our world by not only their lives and study but by the actual process they used to find their own knowledge. Kepler was a great thinker that fought against the middle ages and its odd beliefs to realize the true nature of the solar system, not by blinding accepting or rejecting the current thought of the time but by testing it and challenging it and eventually finding the truth. My favorite, Sir Issac Newton, was an amazing figure that spent his whole life adding to mankinds knowledge and in the pursuit of that knowledge accidently invented calculus, a process he kept to himself until he published his work "Optics." And by all accounts of his writings and accounts of others, he lived in his head as much as I do and might have even suffered from mental illnesses.



Well, I wont claim to be a powerful philosopher or someone who will change anything except make people "meyaou" when they eat a tuna sandwhich. But I definatly live in my head a lot, and until I got this blog, I never had a chance to share it with anyone. lol.. We'll have to see if anything new or amazing changes. Today we still have the need to get up and talk about thinking about thinking; why do you think standup comics came to be, or day time talk shows.

Anyway, I've been spending new time with my fellowship NPC, and totally on a whim, I unlocked her body armor from the Holy Mail she had for a long time. I really was nostalgic about the armor, but it was getting old. I expected her to get back to the old low level armor again, but she kept appearing with better and better looking armor. Until, she showed up with.. a Nobel's Tunic. YAAAAAAAAAAAAY... and she didn't even havta join a godshell. I locked that right away. As painful as it was to get my own nobels tunic, it is a delight that mine now has it as well. lol.. I wanted to congradulate her but there's no menu option for it.

Of course.. I exist, therefore I will think...and think and think some more. I find it almost amusing that I've come to this circle. The real reason I came to play Final Fantasy (it was very nearly Everquest, but I'm a FF fan, so I'm here) was because I played the 4 part video game ".//hack" and really became enamoured with the idea of meeting people. And now that I'm in a game with the intention of meeting more and more people...I get...a computer controled person. hehe.. still.. it makes sense. My NPC has saved my tail on a number of occasions, and has done quiet well. But this is a short explaination to all those people I constantly harass online. I desire conversation like nothing else.



Still, the idea of being a profesional thinker is an attractive one. Heck, even Bruce Lee was a Philosopher. But it pays horribly. I have wondered if I ever met anyone who could not think. Thats why I occasionally shout out "Cognito ergo sum" and see if they dissapear. But thats really putting decartes before the horse.

Yes. I stole that joke. And I'll do it again. :P