Been a while...

It's been a while since I lasted posted. I've been sidetracked lately with massive amounts of programming and learning. I've been reading every book on web dev that I can lay my hands on particularly .NET and PHP centered books and of course MSDN's Developers Center. XML has really caught an interest in me, at first it seemed so simple then when I started getting into SOAP, XSLT and other things it was more challenging and lots of fun. I have rarely had time to spend with friends and things of that sort. I've been stuck in a logical analytical mind set, which means I have a hard time socializing. Logical and rational thinking do not flow well when socializing, especially with right brainers.

Recently my contemplations of been focused on one of the three fundamental questions of life, our meaning for existence. My thoughts on this keep going in circles and the only thing that keeps me on track is my faith. At times I can’t keep myself from thinking life in itself is meaningless, I look at a typical person’s life and ask myself “what does it accomplish”, they learned, sustained their life through work, experienced joy and sorrow, and reproduced and in turn their offspring does the same, a cycle which usually does not benefit the greater good for humanity nor does it seem to accomplish anything besides continuation of the cycle. We have barely achieved anything in the past few thousand years, yes drastic technological advancement and social reformation has occurred, but have we evolved as humans, do we operate in a higher level of cognitive thought? We have increased in knowledge but are we anymore wise than Solomon or the Greek philosophers? We still have wars, we still steel, we still need, we still have irrational and massively inefficient bias. The only think in this monotonous cycle that is worth living for is God.

If you would like to comment(anyone and everyone) on what your thoughts are on the above paragraph, I want to know what others think on this. It would be greatly appreciated.

Oh I recently took the Life languages test online and guess what I’m a contemplator! Had you all fooled didn’t I!