Hello Humanity, I hope you’re well.
In this, being the first of many posts, I thought I would make a case as to why you should read this blog and why you should listen to me– a fellow human and stranger on the internet.
Let me make this plain and simple: you shouldn’t.
You shouldn’t trust a random person on the internet, hell, you shouldn’t trust anyone you don’t know.
You should verify, research, experiment, and fact check every single thing you read on the wild west that is the web. As such, everything you come across should come under your scrutiny until you have verified it’s validity personally. You’re doing yourself and others a disservice when you don’t.
Don’t add to the cacophony of the mass populous living in black and white. Live your life in Full Color by being an active/critical thinker, use your mind, question everything that comes before you, don’t take everything at face value– not even from the so called “experts”. Question the experts (even experts get paid and have their own motivations for doing things), make sure they are able to justify their thoughts, after all, if they are an expert they should be able happily and easily explain if you ask nicely. Come to your own conclusions, be able to say how and why you have them, and check to make sure they still hold up every once and awhile– make sure the status quo hasn’t changed because it can and does often.
You are a human who ingests information and disseminates it back into the world. It is better to be responsible in the ingestion of information and the dissemination of it. You will be better human for doing this. In that sense it is necessary to open up to your ideas/beliefs of being wrong and not blindly have such faith that you are incapable of error; it is better not to fall prey to arrogance that you know the absolute truth whenever you are able, sometimes we are unable to do so.
Every human is capable of fault
We must remember Hanlon’s razor and Tarzwell’s razor. A.K.A. – People are dumb and people are dumb when they succumb to their emotions. I am a person, you’re a person, we’re all people– we’re all capable of fault, each and every single one of us. We aren’t perfect– perfection is unattainable after all. Part of the beauty of being imperfect is the learning and re-learning along the way, this is nature, this is what it means to live.
“A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.”
-Alan Watts
I ask you not to trust me, but trust your own opinion in whether or not what I write is worth your time. Do your own research, I trust you to make the right decision because only you know what’s best for you.
I hope in time to earn your trust.
All the best,
FCP