Considering the domain name of this site, I have yet to comment here on the combined concept of Zen and Pirate in my own personal world view. With this in mind, I would like to elaborate on why this names is fitting for this site.

Zen: Zen, from my point of view, is nothing more then a way of life. Many people grasp Zen and, without guidance, bend it into their own personal world view without regard for the history behind the concept. This type of heavy handed manipulation of ideas into the realm of metaphysics is rampant in human history. Indeed, Zen itself is a bastardization of other, earlier ideas! The important difference between the bastardization of Zen versus that of other similar ideas is that Zen was manipulated with the requested guidance that it’s parent ideas prescribed; It’s bastardization was committed with a certain amount of grace, ingenuity, cleanliness, and humilty.

As a way of life, Zen feels nonintrusive and quiet but holds with it a certain power due to simplicity. It is these concepts that are most often dragged out of context by non-skeptics. It is also these concepts that are so easily forgotten.

Pirate: Pirate, from my point of view, is nothing more then a way of life. Modern humans enjoy the concept of Pirate because of its original history even while they minimize it into a single, consumable, unrelated archetype. The comical and commercial aside, at its heart, the existence of Pirate has historically been rooted in necessity. The extrapolation of it’s original place in history as an escape for those in hard times to it’s modern day, confused, singleton still maintains that necessity even if the real gain has been lost for a fleeting one.

As a way of life, Pirate feels grimy and raw even as it keeps the allure of dreams becoming reality. Humans have forgotten the potency of such ideas and have placed it on a pedestal in the museum of fun things not to take too seriously. That potency needs to be reclaimed by those with the grit to understand the need for necessity itself.

Both: The basic concepts of Zen and Pirate amount, together, to a nonintrusive, quiet, dream, while holding onto a grimy and raw simplicity of existence. Put another, equally worthy, way, the two together exists as a grimy and raw dream concealed within a nonintrusive, quiet simplicity. These ideas came together to form the basis of this site and all of the posts found here.

I hope this helps anyone who ever finds this place to understand it’s direction.