I am a worm, released from the can. I am very delicious. Please keep your cool when you handle me.
We need politics, and I think the people who think that politics is either completely stupid or just plain unnecessary are kind of ignorant of what politicizing has given us, and how the system, however seemingly flawed, has actually done more good than bad; without the system's existence, people would most likely take the laws into their own hands, which in many communities would mean self-destructive anarchy. Anyway, my personal beliefs on politics are ones which I would rather not classify according to a generalized system of belief, since I believe that Liberals and Conservatives nowadays (in pretty much any country, not just the Philippines (y home base) or the States (of Amurrica)) are (in general) as stubborn as mules when trying to uphold their beliefs, to the point of being destructive to both themselves and their nations; however, in general, they do seem to lean more on Modern American Liberalism when it comes to social policy, Socialism when it comes to fiscal ideology, and Modern American Conservativism when it comes to fiscal practice.
Note though that my political views are, at the moment, kinda malleable, so really my statement here with regards to my political beliefs may be rather, er, inconsistent.
I am a Protestant Christian, and though I consider myself to be a fairly pious person, I often seem to be contrarious to this fact, as I greatly lack in practical virtue, and I am quite used to thinking in modes a bit too....Classical for Christian values; and so, in these terms, a lots of times I find myself locked in conflict. In general, I believe myself to be fairly tolerant of differing spiritual beliefs, but fairly intolerant of a lack of spiritual beliefs (ie agnosticism and not atheism, as atheism I view as somewhat spiritual, being a firm belief in the lack of anything spiritual, and not something that, to me, immediately seems like a mere lack of thought on the subject); spiritualism is, in my opinion, a necessity in all people's lives, and people who do not give even a tiny poop about it are, in my opinion, lacking in a full acknowledgement of their own humanity.
Also, I absolutely hate people hating on religion because of all the bad things it has supposedly done, for two things: first, to me, they often seem to forget that many more good things exist because of religion, an example of which is science, which, however stunted in growth by the Catholic Church in the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods (and, in certain fields, even now), could not at all have existed without the actions (which were primarily motivated by a belief in God and not merely a sense of curiosity) of medieval monks; second, they also forget to distinguish between a religious system and the religion itself, blaming both instead of solely the fallibly human system alone, as the religion itself, ie the set of beliefs it defines and encompasses, is always, regardless of specifics, made and formed for the benefit of humanity and beyond.
Music? I dunno, though my beliefs on it are in a sense way more comprehensive than on the above topics, they're not really as impassioned, and so they'd seem rather awkward if I presented them here. I will say this, though: I consider myself an eclectic, but I sort of have a general aversion to Alternative music that's too experimental, modern mainstream pop music, deafeningly loud dance music, Heavy Metal (and variations thereof, such as Death Metal), Progressive Rock, and Hip-hop with awfully meaningless rhymes; I have, meanwhile a general attraction to Romantic Music (not music about love, but music by Brahms, Wagner, Strauss, Mahler, et al.), 60's rock, Vocal Jazz, and perhaps Folk Music, though really I listen to music more by artist than by genre (with my favorite artists being, primarily, Björk, Joni Mitchell, Richard Strauss, Johannes Brahms, The Beatles, U2, and Ella Fitzgerald).
