Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

Conspiracy theories have become quite commonplace in society. They pervade many cultures and subcultures and exist on both sides of the political spectrum.        They are nothing new. Conspiracy theories have been around in various forms for centuries. They have been formulated and developed over the years to demonize individuals and/or certain social, political, and ethnic groups and turn opinion against these groups with the intent of either deligitimizing or outright destroying these individuals or groups.     The advent of information technology, in particular the internet, has made the creation, development, and propagation of conspiracy theories much more rapid and much easier. The internet gave fringe groups and their conspiracy ideation a larger platform with more potential for their ideas to enter into the mainstream.       Conspiracy theory development gets its causal root in the natural uncertainty of the human condition and ...

Existence, in one of its primary functions, is a system of information designed to inform conscious entities within the system of its nature, depth, substance, and power and give conscious entities a platform by which they can have experiences, play games, learn, and interact with other conscious beings.     Information is a massively essential component of conscious experience. You can render the information of existence into two distinct realms of information; abstract information and concrete (physical) information.  The Creator operates in both realms. As the Creator of existence, God created both the abstract and the physical. Both realms, like the infiniteness of the Creator's creative power, could very well be infinite themselves.       As for our finite, limited, and rather primitive world, humans experience God primarily through the abstract, although many people can have very physical experiences as well. God Himself is thought of by many as an ab...

Every day, I fight an internal battle. One that no one sees. I fight my fears, my insecurities, and I try to contain my anger. Sometimes it gets the best of me. Sometimes my resentment and bitterness gets me in trouble.  The memories are often what troubles me. Its hard to shut them off. Every day, at least once a day. At least. I find myself duelling with an enemy that is not outside of me. It's a darkness within me. I have a tight leash on it for sure, but I have to fight this inner anger and hate everyday.  I'm sure most, if not all of us wrestles with ourselves and fights an internal battle against our own darkness and our memories of past mistakes, past failures, and past disasters.  I sure do. I wrestle my own mind. I wrestle with God. I wrestle with friendships. Its always a battle. Its a daily-recurring internal war. I win everyday, even when my "enemy" gets the best of me. I win...because I make it home to my bed every night. I make it through the day every d...

.   Information and Information gathering are ingrained and essential components in armed conflict. Information analysis, gathering, and comprehension makes up the brunt of strategy development and the planning of operations during war.         The two primary branches of information (abstract information and concrete information) both play a role in the development and carrying out of war.  Concrete information usually deals with the "hows." In other words the physical components of war. The weapons, troops, transportation, and the locations and amounts of these things. Abstract information usually deals primarilly with the "whys" of war. These include the ideologies and belief systems of the conflicting actors of the war. Abstract information often includes the objectives and goals of the combatants as well as their justifications and reasoning for waging the conflict to begin with. Concrete information is easier information to gather intelligence on...

Systems, whether human, mechanical, or economic, vary greatly in complexity and sophistication. However, most man-made systems are quite rigid and often uncompromising in their procedures and policies.      This rigidity is what distinguishes man-made and human systems from natural systems. Natural systems are more fluid, and as a result are more complex and adaptable. A human brain is a natural system, and it is far more complex than any artificial networked information system than any computer network or AI we have designed as a species.       It is much more fluid and organic than a rigid mechanical or software structure. Fluidity, like the flow of a river or the formation of a mountain range or the fluidity of a human brain may appear random in its development and processes, but fluid systems are just immensely complex.       Fluid systems are more adaptable and allow for greater liberty of mobility for the parts of that system ...

       Glory isn't always fun. It often hurts, can be difficult to achieve, and the process of achieving it can be quite brutal at times. The thing that defines glory the most is victory over adversity. Without the challenge, the victory wouldn't be as rewarding, and the glory would be minimal at best.      There is a substantial difference between earthly glory and heavenly glory. Earthly glory is fleeting. It may last a couple hours, days, maybe months, sometimes years, but eventually earthly glory dies. The victories humans achieve fade in their emotional and mental power and the glory is forgotten and starts fading away as time goes on and those who experienced the glory grow older and start to pass out of the world.     No matter how that winning touchdown to clinch a come from behind victory, getting the girl of your dreams, or winning a war against a wicked and murderous enemy, glory in this world will always fade away and lose i...

      "What is truth?" A question often asked as a rhetorical tool and sometimes as a means of copping out of accountability and responsibility for one's actions and words.       It was a question posed by Pontius Pilate while questioning Jesus and His claim that He was "witness to the truth."  If you want to define truth in a simple but potent way, truth is what is real. Truth is what actually exists.         When you tell the truth, you are saying things that are real and do, or did, happen and exist and apply in a measurable, substantial way to the context of the conversation.         Truth is a form of information for a conscious mind that has a backing to it based on reality, and is provable or able to be validated. Even so, much truth remains undiscovered or shrouded in enough uncertainty where you can deny the legitimacy of some truths. Truth and uncertainty have a precarious relationship because of t...

It cut so deep That blade of hate It cut my spirit It changed my fate To those outside I may look fine But within me Lies a wounded mind My thoughts were poisoned My hopes subdued My trust in the world Is darkened and skewed My wounds may not Have shed much blood My wounds are mental Tears fell like floods Tho I've lost much My faith is strong In a God who made Me kind and strong Though I have hurt I'll treat you right I won't cause you hurt You I won't strike I'm not a very violent man Tho, I fight quite well with words I try to be a hero, brave, If only just with words Though wounds heal Scars still remain Physical scars don't hurt that much But mental scars leave lasting pain Even so, I'm healing now God's angels walk with me As I grow strong and heal now God soon will make me free

Across the infinite existence.  In realm upon realm God guides my big spaceship. He is at the helm Across the infinite existence In the heavens above There are countless forms of freedom And countless forms of love One form of love is victory One form of love is glory One form of love is freedom In this neverending story One form of love is heaven And heaven's bigger than you think There will be plenty of banquets to feast on And plenty of stout beer to drink One form of love is beauty One form of love is faith One form of love is galaxies In the endless expanse of space One form of love is complexity One form of love is wonder One form of love is lightning One form of love is thunder One form of love is battle But not always with a sword My biggest guns and weapons Are the fire of God's word Out of the many endless forms That love and freedom take The greatest of all loves Comes through the fathoms of His grace.

   Superweapons probably aren't just reserved for Hollywood movies. If we were to use some reasoning skills, we can deduce, knowing how governments think, our level of technological advancement, and the objectives of a nation's armed forces, that the United States government probably has an arsenal of weapons that many of us can only imagine, some of which are much more advanced then we know, and some the civilian world doesn't think exists and may not think could actually be possible.      You don't give away your hand at a poker table, and as a result the U.S. military wouldn't disclose certain weapons and technology to the public in order to protect their investment and strategic advantage the weapons give. Now all of this is purely hypothetical, but if I were a government or military leadership I would most definitely invest in weapons and technologies that are creative and innovative whose utility could give my country a strategic advantage in war and I wou...

In previous posts I have talked about a hypothetical abstract realm of existence that exists independently of the physical but is projected into the physical through matter and energy that takes on the qualities and nature of these abstract forms and ideas. Many of these abstract forms and ideas are what are called "universals."   Universals are, in short, any abstract entity or "thing" that is shared by physical objects. The state of being a chair, or "chairness" shared by all objects fitting the definition of a chair is considered a universal. The quality of being green is a universal shared by all objects that are green.        Universals have been discussed since the time of Plato and Aristotle, and have represented a difficulty in philosophy that has been debated for a couple thousand years now. It is a debate on whether universals, being so abstract, actually exist. Plato argued for a realm of reality where perfect constructs of abstract forms and id...