Useless fact of the day:

At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.

Always nice to know for a jolly ol' pirate as meself, arh, shiver me timbers.

So anyways, it kinda struck me, as I was trying to come up with some headline. Usually, I would just say something meaningless like "Another day, Another Blab" for instance. And as I tried never to repeat myself, it eventually became a bit of a task. But silly me, why not just make a headline out of the topic of the Blab ? However meaningless the Blab might be ? And besides, if I wind up not following a topic, I can always change, or even set the topic after I'm done with the Blab. And with time, I might make a topic for all the old Blabs.

/me smacks himself in the head with a large trout.

To recap a bit on the last Blab, the Anti-Alco one, (which I now prefer to call the Pro-Non-Alcohol Blab, courtesey of Aslan I believe) I have had some great responses from some of the people who actually read it :). Surprizingly, many agreed with me, on many of my "arguments". Ok, some things seemed as if they had come across wrong, (they probably did :) so I had to explain myself a little bit on some areas.

First off, I'm not saying that the occasional wine or beer for enjoyment is something I look down upon, and while I'm at it, I don't look down upon driking, I just don't like it, and don't want to do it. No matter how hard I tried, I still think it did come off a bit "Holier than thou", but I say again, that was not my intent, I was just venting a lot of built up anger :)

So the topic is Neutrality today. And what do I mean by that ? And where am I getting it from ?

Well, it actually has something to do, for me, with the previous Blab. A while back, when I was younger and dumber than I'm now, as I saw it, I had a neutral stance towards alcohol. I didn't drink, end of story. Or so I thought. Eventually as people found out, I ended up being a bit of an outcast, and in opposition towards those who did drink. Strange, but true, with the stance I took, I just seemed to be in the opposition, and very different than they.

But, it isn't, ofcourse, only on this area that people are dubbed either pro or con. It's basically everywhere else too. And it's something that lies deep within humans, and it has always been there to cause conflict and segregation. I say, let the differences be differences, and lets all get back to enjoying the things we have in common :)

So am I AGAIN preaching Peace, Love and Harmony ? Well, sorta, or rather, I'm preaching Pro-Non- War, Hate and Disharmony. The Peace and etc. part would probably be concidered as something of an impossibility. But with a little effort, the War and etc. should be accomplishable, just takes some changing of ones mindset and principles.

Now, this is a tricky area. I'm basically saying here, that if you don't agree with me here, then you should change yourself ! :)

Well, what I'm actually trying to say is: Stay Neutral !

If you disagree with someone, or don't have same opinion, taste, whatever, just don't try to impose your views upon that person. Now I'm saying: "Don't Impose". But you could always try to present your views in a civil manner, and perhaps the other person will concider it. THAT is what I'm trying (emphasize on "trying") to do/say here. And in the peace vs war thing, who could disagree ? Well, if someone did, they should not try and take it out on others in any way. And that goes for anything. If someone doesn't like what you do, don't go dissing on that person or anything, just respect that view, and let it be, live and let live. If the other person starts attacking you, you could civilly try and explain that there's no need for such an uncalled attack, and the person won't gain anything by it, but rather lose. If the person can not understand that, then too bad.

I think most people could agree on this, and should. Yes SHOULD ! People should support the fact that there should place for others, that neutrality is an option and that the world doesn't revolve around themselves.

I think - nay, believe - that it's on of the single most important things, this simple fact, that on this earth, and in your life, you are to live your life in a way where you don't hurt other people, be it with your behaviour, which might derive from your beliefs, principles or persuasions. Do not push other people out of the way, do not harass them, do not inflict any kind of pain upon them. Be this if at all possible ofcourse, and it should be pretty easy to determine when you're hurting others. If not, one should aspire to be good, even great at determining it.

For instance, teasing other people for fun. It might not always be so much fun. It can be a rather thin and fine line from the person feeling good about the attention, and being affectionately teased by friends, and to feeling hurt and down about what the person is being teased about/with. So tread carefully! Just so you all know, when I call someone "wanker", it's all affectionately, and I'm not out to hurt anyone :)

Mind you, and note this ! It's not ALWAYS a good thing to be neutral at anything, but a lot of times, ignorance leads to the wrong stance and opinion about somethings, adn you might not have ALL the info needed about a subject to be able to determine what's right or wrong in some subject, whatever it might be. And in ANY case, it's never as Black & White as it might seem.

So, bring back Neutrality ! Stay Vigilant ! Observe and stay Neutral until the stance is to be taken !

... or something like that...

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Oh and BTW, the Gnug Blab Compilation isn't out yet, but it's on the way. But I want to thank TAG_JAG aka Grey Lemming (or rather. as he put it: Grey Lemming Publishing Inc.) for coming up with that wonderful idea :)

This was all for now I guess...

I shall be adding to this if I think of anything... Yeah he keeps saying that... Well, hehe, I mean it, and at some point, I might go through ALL my Blabs, and catch up on loose threads, and add stuff...

That will be the day !

Gnug215 out! :)