jumping on the bandwagon

The new colours and pretty pictures are an addition to make the blog feel a little less depressing. It was noted that the previous design tended to make the blog posts seems a lot more disheartening than they really were. Our hope is that our new cleaner and joyous arrangement will bring glee to your day and hopefully make you want to spread the word of our blog and also possible have a go at shotgun blogging yourself. The idea is to keep the look changing so if you hate it don’t worry it won’t last for long. Enough business and advertising time to get on with something less interesting.

The current trend at the moment is to bring up all ones person issues and lather them across the eyes of our so very few readers. Instead of being all original and breaking the trend and hence providing an entertaining read I feel much more comfortable following it and saving myself a glorious amount of thinking time to spend on even more trivial aspects of my life (they do in fact exist).

I am a very paranoid person as it has become so aware to me recently. To give you an idea of what kind of level I am at the other day I was doing loops of a certain road concerned that I got caught by a red light camera for driving through an amber light (not in any way illegal). I got so paranoid that I thought I did it again and had to repeat the whole loop. It is just become a part of day to day life, every form I fill must be checked multiple times in case I make and error, I always read the fine print so I don’t make a mistake. The day before university placements came out I spent a good 5 hours going over and over millions of different sources on the internet concerned that I may have not filled out a form a should have.

Now you must be wondering where on earth I am going with all this blabbing about my troubles but it has taken me to an interesting place, religion. My own personal understanding purely involves the presence of something. My reasoning is not ancient scriptures or prophets I have met but the human need for comfort when in a stressful of troublesome situation. It is impossible to have yourself surrounded by the company of others 24/7 so it is a simple solution to my little problem. This is where my problems with religion come from though because most of them do not wish you to create your own God and to decide your own rules by which to live because these have already been chosen by a higher being. Technically the rules Catholics follow were not created by any higher being and where just decided upon by man just the same as my own personal rules. Religion is so hypocritical and it is simply just infuriating that it’s impossible for people to see it. It is an excuse to let someone else thing for you and avoid making your own decisions. It has become more than a source of personal comfort and instead just a manipulative tool to create an excuse for an action and decision.

I really do understand the importance of the higher being but I dislike what it becomes when it is no longer a personal issue. Faith is a very powerful aspect of the human spirit and organised religion preys upon it to gain power and control. It holds back humanity from taking steps forward and provides too many convenient excuses to avoid tackling real issues in our world. I am comforted by my own faith and nobody else’s but still able to view the world in a logical manner.

So here is my little lazy personal piece that took little effort but it meant I could re design the blog at the same time making my opening paragraph relevant otherwise I would have simply looked quite the fool. I am sure these new colours have made your day and you just can’t wait to tell the world about our blog... do it