Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

A dying world God's throneroom glistens The sins of men Who never listened A sadness deepens A wound bleeds red On the broken ground Of a world soon dead The Lord of hosts His angel army They destroy this world But never harm me My sins are purged With healing fire The Sword of Michael Cuts through the liar He's cast to Hell He and his fear That poisoned my world Until the final year

What makes a human being interested in, or fascinated by, certain subjects or ideas?      This is a question I have asked myself while I was studying psychology and dabbling into philosophy. I am a firm believer that interests and fascinations are innate in someone's nature, and they become readily apparent at a fairly early age in most humans.        Even so, I also know that interests and fascinations change over time, but things you once loved to read about and study and partake in don't ever completely go away. I believe it is both a biological and spiritual phenomenon with what humans are interested in and fascinated by.           There is an element of conditioning or "nurture" involved, but this usually happens to people and children after an initial interest in a field or activity is already shown by the individual. Some could even make the argument that there are predetermined natures in humans, an almost biological or neurological drive towards certain subje...

Concepts are such an amazing component of reality. They give us understanding of an immense array of the components of reality. I have written before about how I believe concepts and ideas form the code by which both the abstract and concrete parts of our reality are made to exist.      I would argue this concept code that is essentially the DNA of the physical reality runs even deeper than the atom, deep, deep down into the realm of our reality that is unimaginably small. The quantum realm as it is called by scientists.          I would make the argument that this concept code of such massive complexity and a language we humans, being within this reality and subject to its laws instead of being on the external of it, cannot possibly comprehend and decipher or decode, at least not right now, and if we ever decoded this absolute and supreme concept code, we could manipulate reality to almost inconceivable levels bounded only by the scope of the imagination of mankind.        I believe t...

To Divide and Conquer the Agents of the Void:              I had this image in my head a few years back now that was such a powerful metaphor and the makings of a good story. In this mental image, I saw these scientists, philosophers, and intellectuals peering into a blackness. Into a void or emptiness. Into a darkness. These people lost faith in and betrayed the light, and became deluded and deceived into thinking the answers to the mysteries of existence came from the void.         A potent deception indeed, and these people worshiped and deified the nothingness of the void, and their deification of the cause of their blindness and mental darkness led these people to start committing atrocities and horrors in their world, destroying the beauty and wonder of the histories and monuments and achievements of the cultures and peoples of the world these void worshipers lived on. The fruits of the void, it being the opposite of light, the opposite of existence, and the opposite of the divin...

Four years ago or so, I was talking to the professor who taught my Origins of Life philosophy course here at MSU. In terms of my philosophical interests, not too much has changed with the exception of the depth and diversity of thought I am now interested in. Back then, I was still very much fascinated by infinity and eternity. This professor and I had a conversation on the topic, and she introduced me to the concept of bounded infinities. To demonstrate this concept, she taped two pieces of paper in a funky way where the papers were wrapped and twisted to where you could rotate the paper and spin it to where if you were to walk on that object, you could walk forever in a bounded spatial plane.  This professor had no idea the wonders and possibilities she just opened up for me. I became aware of some hypotheses about the broader existence. Imagine our universe not being unique, nor is it the only one of its kind. Imagine the spacetime matrix of our universe being an isolated and bounde...

The Perfection of Love: On restless nights, my mind takes me to many places. I go from reliving trauma to being struck by the wonder of the possibilities of my future on earth as well as my future in eternity.      I realized something in my meditation. No matter how much success I have in existence. No matter how much money I may make. No matter how many dreams I get to live in life or in eternity. No matter how many miracles I witness or am a part of. No matter how many victories I have or enemies I vanquish. It is all fruitless, baseless, empty, shallow, and pointless if I do not have love, if I do not show love, if I do not give love, and if I do not feel love.          Without love, ranging from the love of my LORD to the love of my friends and family, to the love of my neighbors, to the great challenge of the love of the world and the love of my enemies, without love, existence loses a cornerstone. Without love, even the bonds that str...

The Absolute Code: Concepts are the code that programs and lays the foundation for reality. Concepts, ideas, and the labels that identify all the facets and components of reality can be analogous to a movie many of you are familiar with.           The green fancy symbols that make up the code that forms the matrix in the movie "The Matrix"  are a good baseboard to explain how I view our reality has a similar code that lays reality's physical and conceptual foundation. Human language, like english or the hundreds of other languages on earth, allow us to label and identify the components and parts of reality.            Mathematics and numerical concepts are a language in their own right, and are not based on the culture or history of a particular group of people with a shared verbal language, making math and number codes a much more universal and international language.           Ev...