--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fair enough. I think I care what people think because I truly want to > > change how certain people think. Hopeless endeavor, eh? > > > Just typing out my own perspective seems like a lower but achievable > bar for me. It often comes out of the juxtaposition with someone > else's post. > > I never have enough info on people here to understand what their > beliefs mean to their happiness and sanity to assume that they need to > change theirs. Even when I consider some POVs as completely fucking > nuts! People hold beliefs for so many psychological reasons that the > epistemological solidity of a position is often irrelevant to the > humanistic relevance. > > That comes off as somewhat condescending, but I'm sure many view my > own beliefs as just as removed from reality. So the playing field is > even, we all circle each other with our "better" perspective. That > works for me. I can feel as "right" as I want as long as I take into > account that this is the same perspective everyone else has. It > connects me to people who I totally disagree with. We are both humans > enjoying being right. While unable to understand how full of shit we > are in our blind spots! > > Ain't it grand! >
I don't expect to change how people think here on this forum. I am always hoping to try to find a way to have my TB friends maybe open up to another point of view on certain issues. From my reading here I rather doubt that I will have an effect. And of course, I am here to learn too and figure out where I stand and what I know and don't know. And to get abused a bit along the way!
