Kull Wahad!

I find it distressing that both thescattering.blogspot.com and scattering.blogspot.com are blogs about poetry. Has no other Dune fan decided to use that domain? Well, faminetimes.blogspot.com should suffice...

Greetings.

I originally started making a blog called The Postmodern Prometheus for a class, but that'll be bogged down with crappy assignments, so I've decided to make my own, school-free blog, as I should have done a long time ago. People have asked me if I had a blog, since I like sharing my crazy ideas on Facebook, and I've never had the urge to make one until now.

So, what is The Scattering about? Simply, this blog will be a place for me to express my opinions about things--mainly books, video games, movies, philosophy and whatever else I want to talk about. It will be a log of my views and opinions on a scattering of topics (see where this is going?). Also, it is a reference to a very important event in the Dune timeline: the time when humanity broke free from its bondage and spread out into the universe, discovering new things and, eventually, bringing a new danger upon itself that the Golden Path had prepared it for. As you've probably guessed, I'm a huge Dune fan. But I won't let that be the only theme of this blog--that would defeat the purpose, after all!

I'm an English Lit major (and I've read over 450 books in my lifetime), and I love science fiction...so I have experience with crazy ideas. I'm also agnostic, and take it to the extreme: I don't "believe" in anything. It is a philosophy that has been built over the course of my life through my experiences, my college courses, my reading (especially from Frank Herbert and Kurt Vonnegut, whom I will always recommend to everyone who hasn't read them yet), and my own thought processes. This allows me to look at things from different angles without too much difficulty.

I'm always open to suggestions, questions, and recommendations, so feel free to share anything.