Fisrt Post in my new Blog!

Ok i know you all (By all i mean the 3 people hat read my blogs ) Have been waiting for me to get this site up and running. To start off i would like to tell you all what took so long. I wanted to buy a website that that hosting and everything cause for some reason i thought i could come up with enough content to fill up a webpage. Well i was wrong so i got my *cough* $200 some dollars back *cough* and just had “Thegateisdown.ocm” point to the *FREE* blogging service. so now that thats cleared up i will explain this odd name “The Gate is Down”

If you have never read Ender’g Game I am going to have to ask you to go out and read the book before continuing for two reasons. One the book is freaking amazing and two you might understand the title of this blog after reading it. In Enders game the main character (Ender Wiggin) drills into his “Solders” heads that the enemies gate is down, the idea behind this was to give a stationary point that can be used to refer to other parts of the space that they played “The Game” in. since they played in a weightless environment  thier were no directions so by saying that the gate is down it provided the same direction as North, South, East, and West provide to you and me. This quote “The Gate is Down” is used one other time in the book and it is in the final battle and it is used as words of encouragement to Ender. The idea here is that it reminded Ender to think simply and also in the book it was used to relive some of Ender’s stress. So by now you are probably wondering what the heck i am talking about and how this all relates to a blog well i will tell you. I believe that if we don’t have some point in our lives to look to to base everything off of then we are lost and hopelessly struggle. Now i could turn this around into a sermon and preach at you but i would rather not. If there is one thing i know it is people don’t like to be told how to live their lives and they don’t like to be told they are wrong. Therefor the easiest way to teach someone is to give them the raw facts and let them make a decision

I Intend to put a lot of myself into these blogs and i only ask that you respect that. I will answer any and all of your questions and i welcome you to disagree with my points but the flip side of that is i expect you to listen to my rebuttal and also respond to that.  I do not in the slightest way want impress my own thoughts and beliefs upon you i want you to come to your own conclusions and I want you to voice your opinions and please above all else don’t believe everything i say. There is to much of that going on in the world already and i too am guilty not taking the time of research something before voicing my opinions (as you all know)

Well that took a while to write but i am glad that i finally have this up and running! I will probably post a bulletin on MySpace saying that this site is up and running and blog on MySpace saying the same thing

Well i can’t wait for your comments on this and future blogs and i hope to get some of the same responses that i got to previous blogs :0

BTW: I think you may have to register to post comments!!!

-Josh