Describe How Things Tie Together

That's the simplest way I can tell you the purpose behind this blog, to help me articulate  my current views and opinions on how things tie together. Because that's something I tend to do naturally: figure out how things are connected and how they work.

I do so because I believe that an ordered mind created everything we can perceive, and the creation is equally ordered.

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