Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

"Thought is not reality, but it is through thought that our realities are created." -Sydney Banks  The philosopher should be king, as Plato the philosopher argued, because the philosopher would be the only one who can understand the perfect form of "the good," the ideal goodness in its perfect state. This truth, in Plato's thinking, would possibly lead to the ideal society.  In fact, most of human reality has been shaped by thought and thinking. Our governments and societies have been shaped by ideas about how to arrange our hierarchies and what policies we make with our laws. These ideas all came from the minds of people at some point, just like all ideas do. Even our empiricism and processes of inquiry that form the basis of our sciences were engineered by the thinking of philosophers. The scientific method itself was developed and pioneered by Gallileo. Thinking, and thought, is the foundation of all our fields of knowledge to some extent.   If you change you...

200 years. We've been in this sector of the Prime galaxy for 200 years. We were originally sent here on a reconnaissance mission, scouting the star systems here for dark life. Well, we found what we were looking for, and our recon mission quickly shifted in its objective to that of an urgent extermination mission. Dark life is the perversion of life, the anti-life, a dark experiment by the adversary after he and his followers rebelled against the True Creator ages ago. Dark life consumes, perverts, and drains star systems of their resources and value. It sucks the goodness and quality of the worlds it infects, like a parasite, a wasting disease of a planet. I've been in the Orion Legion of the Heavenly Host for the better part of the last two centuries or so.              The Orion Legion's primary function was to scout for Dark life in the billions of star systems in this galaxy, and when we find it, we exterminate it and cleanse the worlds it infect...

       A few years back, I watched an old World War 2 propaganda cartoon called "Education for Death." It was an anti-Nazi propaganda piece depicting the education and upbringing of a young German boy named Hans. Hans was a fairly normal German boy just born in the wrong place at the wrong time.     In one of the scenes, a Nazi instructor drew a picture of a wolf and a rabbit on the chalkboard, and the animation of the film depicted the wolf eating the rabbit. The instructor asked the class what this lesson meant, and Hans, in his innocence, said "the poor rabbit."  The instructor got upset, and punished Hans for his response. He then asked the question to the rest of the class to get the proper response.   "The world belongs to the strong!" "and to the brutal!" said the rest of his classmates. "The rabbit is a coward and it deserves to die." and so on.      The reason I am writing this is because much of this mentality hasn't ...

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."      -Ghandi It is far more ethical, far more noble, far more righteous, and far more just to restore and correct than destroy and throw away. It preserves the dignity and value of a person and makes them useful and productive instead of wasted potential. Restoration addresses the most important part of justice and injustice; causality. When you restore or correct, you are finding a solution to a cause of a problem that is effective, ethical, and useful instead of just a reaction to it.        Retributive justice is purely reaction-based. When someone does something wrong, you punish them for the sake of punishment alone with no intention to actually fix the cause of the problem or violation. It is often merciless and rarely impartial, and it leads to more of a throwing away than a redemption or restoration.  It often feeds off of hatred and can be quite oppressive. In fact, retributive justice has...

    Of all the liberties I seek after, whether it be spiritual liberty, mental liberty, economic liberty, mobility liberty, etc., there is one liberty that I actually haven't hashed out much in my thoughts and writings, and that is the liberty from deception. The liberty of truth and the knowledge of truth. It is a liberty that is often elusive in a society as confused and distorted as this one is.       Right now, our culture is poisoned by lies. We are told lies about God, lies about our nation, lies about what is right and wrong, lies about our friends and family, and lies about what is good for you and bad for you. Deception is often the harbinger of death. If there is one thing that has killed more people than any other sin or vice, deception outdoes them all in terms of bodycount. Lies kill. Lies can kill in droves. Just look at the holocaust or Communism.           The liberty from deception is a liberty that leads to a life ...

        In the broad scheme of things, everything gets accounted for, and every imbalance corrected. I believe wholeheartedly that in terms of higher authorities and the divine, there are truly no secrets  from God. He knows all the backroom conversations, all the hidden crimes, all the atrocities, and all violations committed against Him and His law. He sees and hears everything because He is everywhere. No part of His creation escapes His awareness.           Nemesis is a concept that stems from Greek mythology, and it is defined as "the inescapable agent of someone or something's downfall." In the Greek legends, Nemesis was usually summoned by hubris...an arrogance or conceit that offended the gods and required a punishing or correcting. Nemesis was a deity, a goddess who would bring about divine retribution on those who crossed a line ethically or morally or who had undeserved fortune.  The concept of Nemesis is tied into the id...

Even when I fail, I still love you Even when I do things you don't want me to do, I still love you. Even when I'm angry at you, I still love you Even when I lose all my dreams, I still love you Even when the pain becomes almost too much to bear, I still love you Even when I witness so much hate, so much destruction, so much venom, so much devastation I still love you Even with all my disappointments, all my mistakes, all my lapses in judgement and my lack of self control I still love you I love you no matter what, God I don't blame you for the darkness of my life I don't blame you for my own mess-ups I don't blame you for any of it. I just want to go home to you. I'm sorry for my part to play in the suffering of my life Even with all this difficulty and all this evil I still love you And I will always love you, even as eternity grows unfathomably long