So, while generally being interested in philosophy and while specifically reading Julius X's page of banter, I was struck by what is one my deepest convictions.
Reality exists in an objective form independent of conciousness.
There's all sorts of consequences of that belief, and I'm still hashing some of them out. I'll post some more as my thoughts progress, but for now I've got to get going - meeting some friends for the afternoon.
I really believe in the whole 6 degrees of separation thing. I find Rob's blog rather randomly and then find out that he links to Dan. Then I find that Dan links to Cliff and I somehow know all of these people. Weird!