I'm Back, Baby!

Hello blog. Did you think I had forgotten about you? Never. Although it has been two years since my last post, that does not mean that my brain has been in suspended animation, it has been as active as ever, and now has numerous of epiphanies to share with the world or at least whoever is interested. The past two years since I last posted in Alice Springs have been very tumultuous. I finally made it out of Australia and through a lot of wonderful coincidences my road taken has now led me to Malaysian Borneo where I have made a base for the immediate future. This stability has given my many thoughts time to settle and the time has come once again to put them into words. In fact, many of the coming posts were written down while on location as part of my new life in documentary production which I have found to be very stimulating for my creativity and to give form to my thoughts.

Looking back from Alice Springs to now, in the time in-between I have found myself in a geographical limbo always trying to move forward to a place that I did not yet know where was. A lot of this time was spent in my home country of Denmark which gave me invaluable time to put things into perspective and realize exactly what kind of environment I needed to settle in. Although trying at times, and with lots of quiet nights filled with doubts for the future, I just went with the road taken, put my faith in the universe and eventually it led me here. On the way, I have found others who share similar points of views, I have visited new amazing locations and thus further expanded my personal world, but most importantly, I have learned that my thoughts are nothing new to humanity. In fact, it even has a name. It is called determinism and has been around for a long time. Determinism is a generic term for a whole collection of philosophical perspectives, but they all relate to causality and how one event inevitably leads to another. The overall divide within determinism is the existence or lack of, a free will. Some determinists say that everything happens in conjunction with previous events and can thus be predicted as the next link in a chain of events, i.e. there is no free will, while others believe in a more compatibilistic approach where you do have power to affect the future through your choices in the present. Upon first reading about determinism, I placed myself in the compatibilistic section, yet over time as I will demonstrate, that might have changed. In some form or other, determinism encompasses most of the terms that I have so far arrived at, i.e. personal worlds, the road taken and the network of legends. I do like to think though, that my particular brand of determinism is special, and the first couple of posts in this renaissance will address exactly how my brand of determinism functions, introducing a few new terms to help better illustrate my points of view. Meeting like-minded people and realizing that others in the past have had similar thoughts has not only helped me put my thoughts in to order, it has given me a sense of belonging that I have long been lacking. Generally I feel I have recently entered a new phase of my life, one that gives me lots of hope for the future and further intellectual and personal development. Fitting that I will also age-wise soon be entering a new decade. So here’s to a new beginning and a higher sense of clarity. Please enjoy my posts, I have many to come, and feel free to share your thoughts with me, online or in person. I am always up for a late night drunken discussion!