Introduction

I named this blog as such to establish not only the type of content I wish to discuss, but to also try to use common sense while searching out some of life's answers to questions either we all have, or maybe some questions that no one else has even thought of yet. This mission statement proposes that maybe, just maybe we can find the answers we're looking for if we just look hard enough. 

Knowledge in this world seems like a leaf blowing in the wind. It's possible to catch it and keep hold of it, but if you let it go for even a moment, you can lose it forever. However, this is an age of information, whether it's true or false, it's flooding the streets and being shoved into our faces. Some people are learning how to check facts, research, cross-reference, have new ideas and experimenting those ideas to try and make something concrete for others to learn, some people believe in things because they were taught by someone else, whether or not they can prove what's true and what's not. There are also those who hear things through the grapevine, where information could possibly change as it changes hands; this person tells this person, that person tells another, and so on... The former is what I'm hoping to achieve.

So what do we do with the information once we get it? Do we take hold of it, teach our children, teach others? Do we bother to know for sure that what we're passing on is legitimate? Let me give you an example of what I mean. We know that 2+2=4, right? We know because of (originally) the Scientific method and common sense that 2+2 will never equal anything except 4. It's a fact that none in their right mind can argue. Real, true knowledge is like this. When you have something in math, science, history, etc... to be true, that's just what it is. Nothing can make it untrue. This applies to the opposite as well. When something is false, no matter what you do, what you say, or what you believe, nothing will make it true. When something is true, the further you research it will further establish its truthfulness. When something is false, further research will help prove its falsehood. I realize this seems redundant of me, but I thought it necessary to stress the importance of these things. 

To be brutally honest, I personally can't stand it when someone just decides that the rest of the world needs to hear them speak and wastes that precious time preaching what they think is a fact when in fact... it isn't. People tend to get irritated with me because they just felt like saying something that wasn't really important, but on the contrary, I think it was. Even the smallest idea can build and destroy nations if you look at the big picture.

That being said, I hope to bring some new things to the table and maybe try and help myself and others reach the conclusions they seek out, separating fact from fiction, the sensible from the ridiculous, and maybe post some unanswered questions to think about for later.