Welcome to Day Ruiners!

Welcome! Thank you for visiting my humble blog. My only hopes for each subsequent post are that you leave my blog having laughed, learned, and had your day somewhat ruined. My posts will fall into one of two catgeories. Either I will expose a historical figure who is revered as a "good" person and argue that they aren't or vice versa. Most will probably be the former.

"Why Anthony? Why attack these revered and inspirational figures? Aren't you just a little cyncial and bitter? You should really just grow up and stop disappointing everyone you meet."

Now, I usually agree with what my Grandma says but this time she's wrong. I see myself as more of a realist in a world of people that idealize things. In this blog I will have posts about Mother Theresa, Abe Linclon, Gandhi, and other historical figures that have very strong inspirational ties to people all over the world. I would like to state at the beginning that I don't expect to change anyone's views on anything contained in this blog. People are always going to believe what they want to believe despite how much information to the contrary there is around them.

Therefore, for yours and my own good, take a deep breath and open your mind to the possibility of it being dramatically changed by the contents of this blog. Also, don’t accept what I tell you in this text as absolute truth either, because like you I am just a small part of an average sized species on a relatively insignificant rock floating through a vast, nightmarish, and fascinating universe.

What I can promise you is the most accurate knowledge to my ability, credible and numerous sources, and hopefully enough laughter to ease the inevitable pain of the burden knowledge has. Through my own experiences I have felt the anger and frustration of my beliefs being challenged. I understand how upsetting it can be when new findings shatter an image of an event or person that we previously had. Therefore, trust me, that the joy I felt when I changed my mind-set to being open about new information was life changing. So, all that being said, disconnect your emotions from the knowledge you brought into this text and be open to learning. If you can do those two things the following posts will be much more enjoyable.

Socrates said once, “The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.” I hold this statement to be the backbone of this blog for two reasons. The first is self evident, we must be open to the possibility that we actually know nothing or else we will never learn anything new. Secondly, historians have very little information that Socrates even existed at all. Thus, here we have a quote by someone who we thought for certain existed stating that we should of never been certain that he existed.

That brings my intro post to a close, stay tuned for an eye opening Abe Linclon post coming soon!