A new start.

I'm not quite sure why I've decided to start a brand new blog here on Blogger.  I know what I want to do with it: I'm going to be posting my ideas that I'm hoping to distill into a book.  Or rather I'm going to (I hope) start writing it and posting my efforts here.  I'm just not sure why I'm choosing to do that here, rather than at livejournal where I have my regular blog.

Anyway, here's an outline of my book.  It's not complete, but does give you an idea of where I want to go with this.

This book is an attempt to understand how the world works.  It starts with some observations about chaos and order.  It goes into rules that apply to any skill that we want to master.  It explores how these same rules apply to spirituality as well as practical skills.  It tries to develop a method for seeking happiness s that will work for both the atheist and the believer; the eastern spiritualist and the western materialist.  Finally, it shows that we have free will or, at the very least, it is reasonable to believe that we have free will.

This is a lot of ground to cover, I'll try to go through it step by step.

1. First, people often think of order as good and chaos as evil.  This isn’t correct.  Stubbornness, bigotry, and ignorance and problems with order.  Creativity, change and surprise can be good things from chaos.
2. Order and chaos can build on each other.   Think of a house being built.  At the beginning (trees, foundation, old house) there is order.  At the end (the new house) there is order.  In between, there is chaos. 
3. So…order à chaos à higher order.The building process proceeds through six levels: Awareness, Learning, Understanding, Creativity, Results, Maintenance.  In the case of the house, the first three levels would lead to the blueprint, the fourth and fifth levels are the physical building process and the last to keeping the house in good shape

I think that's a good start.