XKCD comic: "How it Works"

"Crawling around my brain."

There definitely is something therapeutic about free association.
And that is what I have already found about this blogging thing (which is not to say that I'm telling massive quantities of my thoughts - but enough). It gives me the chance to ramble as I really think that I need sometimes (although sketching somehow is the ultimate form of how I think - no matter how creepy SOME people think my drawings are - when I hear the part of "I wish I was a girl" that says "crawling around my brain" that is exactly how I feel about life.. especially life in art). And I am fully aware that I only have one follower at this moment.. (unless someone is stalking me..) Which doesn't bother me, because somehow even writing to myself is therapeutic.
That being said I would like to point out the glaringly obvious: later, if more people follow my blog, I will offend some of them (Cue that same person making fun of me), and, yet, I still feel as though I want to, and will, state my thoughts and opinions - which, yes, may reach a borderline state on somethings I am sure.
And I will change my opinions a couple of hundred times before I die. So, I guess this is a disclaimer.

"I don't want to be a judge and I don't want to be a jury. I know who I am, Lord knows who I will be." - Paul Simon

I wish I could tell you that I'd take this approach on life - but I won't and can't always do so. Sometimes I really feel as though something is worth pushing over a few people for.

For better or for worse I would ask that I be able to state my ideas.. good, bad, or indifferent without having to apologize every five seconds. Feel free to disagree.. but just realize that I'm human too.

Divinity

Maybe I'm just a little Baha'i.. but it seems odd to me to assume that any religious group (perhaps with a few exceptions like Wicca and Scientology - which I actually, contraversially enough, don't believe should be classified as 'religions') can proclaim that their deity(es) (despite the polythestic, monothestic, henotheistic, or any other -istic form of the nature of the deity(es)) is/are any different from the God(s) (I'll stop being overwhelmingly politically correct here) of other religions.
Allah, Brahman (and the many deities which are said to have shown the nature of Brahman), the Tao (The Way), the God of the Jews/Christians, Amaterasu, Krishna (in a Hare Krishna sense), etc. It all seems to be the same to me. A divine force that, despite differing views on the nature of the divine force, is the same throughout all religions. To me an insult in the name of a deity - no matter the religion - is an insult to divinity of one's own religious beliefs.
The hard part about holding this view of divinty is being willing to stand up for divinity despite what we personally see as being "odd" characteristics in another relgion's views of deity. Maybe it shouldn't be, but I, at least, tend to let insults to the viewed divinity of religions that do not quite conform to divinity in my paradigm slip by without saying a word.
I guess a lot of my ranting goes back to a day in College Writing where a student in the class insulted Allah. It was, perhaps, the first time that I personally felt attacked by an insult thrown carelessly at divinity that did not exactly conform to my ideas of divinity at the time.

Then again, I'm a Freshman with next to nothing to show for it.
There's nothing like College to remind you that you know absolutely nothing!

P.S. - I promise I wasn't trying to write this in the most confusing way possible.. it just ended up being that way.