Weigh your world with a good measure of solid logic. This might reduce the amount of time you take to find out if you're going to be wasting your time or not.

Are you really worried about the clouds? Find old literature. Check the library, or online, you'll find well written material that may broaden your scope of understanding of the English language as well as natural phenomena.

Literature may also help you understand what philosophy should be used for.

Being creative? Dive in. Delve hard. But don't drag others down with your imagination. You cause suffering, which is pretty low brow. You might call it moronic behavior.

Edit: what I mean to say is, your toast might look neat, but any belief put upon the pattern created by your toaster, would be time poorly spent. As creative as you are, it's toast, not a message from Mary.

As an old chainman, I've never seen anything other than a legal sized pin used for land identification (Canada,) so this sounds pretty interesting; I've also never heard of buried lead plates.