Par-teey! One Year of A Divided World!
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Today is the one year anniversary of A Divided World! In the past year I have truly enjoyed writing the many posts for this blog. In the process I have learned an incredible amount, especially about economics and about what is really causing periods of global warming, which is not at all what Obama and other progressives are telling you. The whole point of this website has been to examine not only how world-views like mine are formed, but also how others who have very different beliefs form theirs. How do they conflict, and how can we evaluate what is actually true?
IÂ had hoped I could generate many more comments and conversations between ideological opponents than I have, which is something of a disappointment. People on all sides of the ideological wars need to find some way of civilly discussing their differences together in a rational way if we are going to continue living with each other. The alternative is Civil War. Nevertheless, just examining my own beliefs in the light of the conflicts with others has forced me to learn a great deal more in order to reconcile them with perceived reality, or to amend them to make them consistent with that reality.
Others will clearly disagree with many of the judgements about the nature of reality I make. Do any of us totally agree with any other human being about the nature of reality? Certainly not if we try to think for ourselves. We come to these judgements in the light of our own experiences, and from what we read and discuss about the experiences of others. We try to bring these multifarious perceptions somehow into a self-consistent picture of the world. The many opinions I have expressed in these pages have come from almost 70 years of life —experiences of a life working with engineering teams for a common purpose; experiences of both hard and rewarding economic times, times of growth, inflation, recession and stagflation; and worst of all, experiences of combat and the loss of loved ones.
Each of us forms our opinions about the nature of reality through such experiences. Hopefully, each of us forms our world views under the discipline of reason to make them into a self-consistent whole. One of the most important things we know about reality is that it is self-consistent. We may not yet totally know its self-consistent nature, but it must end up that way. This is why those of us who violently disagree with each other must engage in dialogue. We have to understand why our different beliefs are so inconsistent.
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