--- 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! > It's grand and not grand. I think for people here things are pretty much OK and we are all enjoying being right. Except maybe Kirk. Or even Edg. Where are they anyway?
I think I want to change my TB friends because they are not happy. I know I don't have that kind of power.
