Prologue: Critical Thinking

Warning:  If you follow this blog, I will most certainly offend or piss you off at some point or another.  Be prepared for it.  Please don’t take it personal, I am not attacking you I swear haha.  I strongly urge you to be open-minded. You’re going to disagree with or question some of the things I say.  Good, because if you do there’s a great opportunity for you to do one of two things.  You can either strengthen your own knowledge base, beliefs, morals, values, views, and opinions so on and so forth, OR you can alter them.  

Which option gets chosen should not really be a “choice” at all.  If you can question me, you can and MUST question yourself and the world around you as well.  Do it.  If whatever it is I choose to provide isn’t good enough for you, the onus is on YOU to dive deeper.  Don’t accept what I have to say if I don’t provide adequate sources, or enough information, evidence and viewpoints from alternate perspectives. Even if you feel I’ve done well, are you sure I’m not completely full of shit?  Cuz even I’m not so sure sometimes haha.  Now if you “think” I’m full of shit, are you sure?  Or is it possible that you don’t realize that you yourself are the one that’s full of it?

Figure it out.  Dig and dive down into your own rabbit hole. You must confirm and discover things on your own.  When all is said and done, there needs to be some sort of conclusion.  DO NOT “make” a conclusion. Making a conclusion equates to pulling an opinion out of your ass backed by nothing (which is what many people do regarding absolutely everything in life).  You must “arrive” at a conclusion.  By arriving at a conclusion, I mean you have taken into consideration every bit of information that you have currently come across.  This is where the “choice” of whether to strengthen or alter your convictions comes in to play. 

It is possible however, that you, I and everyone else may arrive at the wrong conclusions.  Could be due to ignorance, misinformation, disinformation, lack of information, or whatever else.  It happens.  The goal is to arrive at the best conclusion at the current moment of time.  It’s not permanent, it’s not fixed in stone.  It may be amended, reversed or discarded completely if or when additional information or evidence arrives.

Moral of this story: critical thinking is your friend.  Well... it SHOULD be your friend.  Unfortunately, most people were never taught, or never fully grasped the concept.  And those that understand it still disregard it in their everyday lives.  THIS is the single most detrimental thing to human civilization as a whole.  Bold statement right?  I'm not kidding.  I'm not exaggerating. If the world was full of critical thinkers, applying critical thought to any and every aspect of our lives and the world around us, the world would be immensely different, downright unrecognizable by current standards.  Think about it.... 

Whether you think you have a handle on what I'm trying to convey to you, I suggest you visit and read the critical thinking Wikipedia page to get a more formal definition and understanding of it.  I said read, not skim.  Don't skim my blog.  Don't skim anything.  One definition of skim is to to read, study, or examine superficially (concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; shallow) and rapidly.  Does that sound like a sound basis for critical thinking?