Why is this here? pt1

I am a person that is always interested in becoming better than I already am.  Part of improving yourself is being able to look at the things that you have done in the past and learning from them.  Your record is there to show where you were at the point in your life that you happen to be looking at.  Then once you see where you were or maybe still are, you can compare that with where you want to be and begin planning what steps to take next.

When I first started these posts, I thought that they would be a good way of sharing my point of view with the world. Many people have asked me what I think on a great number of different subjects and they usually find my answers to be interesting. I know though, that quite often they do not really understand where it is that I am coming from. My general point of view is so different from that of the average person as to be completely incompatible with their understanding when only individual slices of what I think are known.

Each little piece requires understanding of two or three other things in order to make perfect sense. And each of those other things requires other things. Often times people can not wrap their head around how I make a decision. Usually this is because there is something that I accept to be true, that they do not, which then becomes the basis for a system of ideas that then builds until my conclusion is the only one likely to be true. The conversation though never gets to the system of ideas because the person spends too much time arguing about the thing that I accepted as true in the beginning. And then while explaining the basis for how and why I believe that thing to be true we find other things that I accept as true that they do not.

All of the things that I believe to be true, I have determined through rigorous testing, seeking evidence that it is true and seeking evidence that it is not. Most of the arguments I get into with people about what I believe versus what they believe are about their feelings. I present facts and they say they do not feel that what I am saying is true. They feel that I am wrong. But when I ask for the evidence to back up their claims suddenly the subject gets changed or there is just a repeated assertion that I am wrong.

It occurred to me recently that the things that I am sharing here are my thoughts in bits and pieces. The individual parts may not get through to a person any better than a face to face conversation.  But here at least, I am not interrupted and can continue my chain of thinking from beginning to end.  And maybe, just maybe once there is a large enough collection of my thoughts, ideas, reasons and ideals, the whole will begin to make sense to some of those that have struggled to understand me. That is one good reason to keep writing but it's not what guides my hand from day to day.

More tomorrow :)