Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."  James Madison: Federalist 51: Government has always been considered by many to be a necessary evil. Because of the natural tendency of human beings towards misdeed and the fallibility of our nature, government exists as an attempt to manage and direct its subjects toward acceptable and productive behavior.       Unfortunately, the government is run by people just as fallible or corruptible (if not more so) than that of the governed, which is why you check power and put a leash on the powerful. The quote above reflects that fallibility of humanity and the hypothetical infallibility of the divine.  Such propensity towards mistakes and corruption is why the founding fathers tried to design a system that contained, controlled, and restricted to an extent the power of the powerful.   Unfortunate...

    What makes a human being valuable? Is it what they do? How they think? What they look like? What they accomplish?  The short answer is...all of the above to an extent, but its much deeper than that. The value of a human being should never be contingent on things like race or sexuality or gender. The value of a human being lies mostly in our sentience. Our minds. The fact that we feel. We think. We love.  These are intrinsic in our nature. The fact that we are isolated, individualized samples of consciousness essentially renders every human being into an isolated world. Who is to say one world is more or less valuable than another.  Our intrinsic worth comes from the shared nature that we have with God. We are conscious, sentient and aware, something that makes us unique amongst all other forms and substances of the existence.  This awareness, the feelings of pain, the feelings of pleasure, our capacity for growth, our capacity to learn, our capacity to ...

Creativity is one of the most important parts of the human condition, and one of the most essential parts of existence in general. Existence being the creation of an all-powerful, infinite Creator.       Creativity is, from my perspective, where the image of god is most greatly demonstrated in the human condition. If you create, you are acting out the very essence of a Creator God.          For me, the greatest gift God ever bestowed on me was creativity. He put my ideas into my mind. He sowed a hope for an eternity beyond my wildest imagination. He gave me that imagination.  The concept of an infinite creation, unlimited in its scope, depth, wonder, and glory and unlimited in the things it contained would have never crossed my mind had that Creator God never put it there.      God is the Creator of creators. He created subordinate conscious beings who shared in a fraction of His creative capacity, and put them in pos...

    Hierarchies are a naturally occurring arrangement of a wide range of systems in reality.  They occur in the social and political systems of human beings (and possibly other conscious beings) as well as non-conscious, physical systems like stars, galaxies, and computers. I would argue that they are a necessary, and inevitable, component of existence.   Existence itself being constructed of a complex hierarchal arrangement of consciousness, forms, ideas, space, time, energy, and matter.     In politics, government, and society, the arrangement of a hierarchy is the determining factor of a wide range of social vices and virtues, in particular the applicability of things like power and liberty, as well as the enabling of oppression and subjugation.  The economic and social hierarchy determines the enabling or restricting of upward mobility and the fluidity of the hierarchal system (whether or not you can move to different positions in the hierarch...

If I was rich, I wouldn't be free. Kind of an odd statement. Usually wealth entails a level of freedom that the poor and economically disadvantaged don't have. This is true in most contexts, but not in the freedom I am referring to. If I was rich, I wouldn't have the liberty of the mind that I have at this point in my life. I would have never needed to.       Wealth would have given me a freedom to move more easily and acquire resources more easily, and this would have deprived me of the base incentive for deep thought; the need to ask questions. If my base physical needs were met in absolute abundance where all the finer, luxurious, and more leisurely comforts the rich take for granted were easily at my disposal, I wouldn't need to ask deep, meaningful philosophical and existential questions.   I'd have all I'd ever want and need at my immediate grasp.   This would have prevented me from coming to many of the conclusions and understandings I have...

    Aside from love, liberty is probably my favorite aspect of the nature of the Creator. Freedom and liberty are of the highest value and the highest priority in my life on earth. I absolutely loathe oppression and bondage. I despise it, detest it, and hate it to its core.        I've mentioned before that I think liberty is an inherent human right, one that should be protected, nurtured, and fostered in every human society and nation. The desire for freedom is wired in every human being on the planet, both those in bondage and those who enjoy it and are blessed with it.          To me, the Creator of existence is a God of the highest liberty, and the bestowing of liberty upon His creation is an act of the highest love. Love itself being the most preeminent component of God's nature. God's infinite creative capacity provides for an infinite amount of opportunity and endless levels of freedom. An infinite Creation is the biggest pos...

I dream of a day... Where insanity no longer exists. Its darkness purged out of existence by an absolute truth. I dream of a day... Where the lies of this place that poison the minds of this world and cause such pain and such death are eradicated by the purest of light  and the most perfect of truth I dream of a day... Where I wake up  and no longer question my sanity what is real or what has happened to me.  Where truth is an ultimate and it is absolute and all the darkness of my life is brought to light and all the voids of my existence are filled to the brim overflowing with nothing but love I dream of a day... where my fears are destroyed where hate no longer poisons my life and the darkness and confusion that sows these are burned up by the light of truth.  I dream of a day... Where blights of the mind  and poisoned thoughts and all the other products of the sin here will no longer be lifelong curses I dream of a day... Where I am absolutely unequivocally c...