Category: Thoughtful Musings
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More Thoughts on Finding Truth: You have to actually want to find it!
Honestly looking for truth is nothing at all like honestly wanting to be right. Wanting to be right encourages people to shout loudly and try to undermine the credibility of others. It discourages reconsidering your thinking because that might mean that you were wrong. In contrast, looking for truth involves lots of watching and listening. …
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Finding Truth in a Post-Truth, Fake-News World—Part 1, observation, reasoning, and investigation
It is now winter in Minnesota (we had a HIGH temperature of 19 below zero Fahrenheit a week or so ago!), and our campervan, although fitted with a solar-panel-powered electric blanket and a small propane heater (including appropriate propane and CO monitors), can’t keep us warm when it gets that cold. Thus, Mary and I…