My name is Josiah McClurg.
But I guess you knew that already. I suppose the reason you’re visiting this site is because you know me a little and are a tad curious.
This part of the site is to save you the trouble of reading my blog or spending time with me in person:
In about one year from now, it’s very likely that I’ll have an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa.
My personality is often at odds with my actual abilities. I’m willing to discuss just about anything. But, speaking with me can sometimes be like video chat over dialup: A blurred, blocky image and garbled, broken audio.
I’m rather average, physically. My face never broke any mirrors, but that actually might be because I try to avoid looking in them. I probably should work out more, but then again, I do run to my late classes on a weekly basis.
Mentally, I’m a die-hard truth-seeker. Unless you’re going to explain a way for society and individuals to live like there isn’t an absolute, unified reality, I’d rather that you don’t talk to me about the non-existence of truth. Sure, I won’t ever be able to understand reality in it’s entirety, but in order to accomplish anything meaningful, we have to make a best guess about it. If that guess checks out after thorough investigation — in history and science and religion — in the physical and spiritual experiences of oneself and others, we call it truth. I include spirituality in the list because to me, there’s no need to limit the human quest for understanding to just the physical world. Just as we are given physical senses with which to relate to the part of reality which is made of matter, we have been given spiritual sensibilities with which to experience a relationship with God. Moreover, if you are really pay attention, you might find as I have that the two realms are a whole lot more inter-twined than you might think.