It was a slow day.
Perhaps he was curious about other's opinions. Perhaps he was slightly torn and wanted to think out-loud with others as a sounding board.
All such are fine with me.
The assumption and owner mandate is to be charitable with one another hereon.
Sure, we'd all prefer certainty and solid, irrefutable proof. Life's not like that.
As my boss noted at the Special Collections dept . . . about the TRUTH in pre Nazi Germany--it was the absolutely flakey, off the wall organizations, broadsides, pamphlets, posters etc. which FIRST AND MOST ACCURATELY--AND EARLY ON--PEGGED HITLER FOR WHO HE WAS, WHAT HIS VALUES WERE AND WHAT HE WOULD DO.
This sort of fact is blithely swished aside as folks cleave to their MSM and similarly born biases when assessing all kinds of things.
I don't find THAT very impressive, personally.
We ALL see through a glass darkly no matter how much "scientific" proof we have about a given subject. We never have 100% of the evidence. We never have 100% of all the facts on all sides.
The realities we all have to wrestle with and operate within are at best very rough approximations of whatever "objective" reality is. In fact, as has been demonstrated with quantum physics, as I understand it--there is no such thing as "objective" reality, to begin with.
At some point all the hue and cry about objectivity is mere whining because someone else's SUBJECTIVITY is so starkly different from one's own. And perhaps there's too much insecurity to allow the very real possibility that the other person's subjective reality may have more practical implications than one's own.
Alas, I race off to a rant. I'll stop here.
Should have added All to my addressee list:
It was a slow day.
Perhaps he was curious about other's opinions. Perhaps he was slightly torn and wanted to think out-loud with others as a sounding board.
All such are fine with me.
The assumption and owner mandate is to be charitable with one another hereon.
Sure, we'd all prefer certainty and solid, irrefutable proof. Life's not like that.
As my boss noted at the Special Collections dept . . . about the TRUTH in pre Nazi Germany--it was the absolutely flakey, off the wall organizations, broadsides, pamphlets, posters etc. which FIRST AND MOST ACCURATELY--AND EARLY ON--PEGGED HITLER FOR WHO HE WAS, WHAT HIS VALUES WERE AND WHAT HE WOULD DO.
This sort of fact is blithely swished aside as folks cleave to their MSM and similarly born biases when assessing all kinds of things.
I don't find THAT very impressive, personally.
We ALL see through a glass darkly no matter how much "scientific" proof we have about a given subject. We never have 100% of the evidence. We never have 100% of all the facts on all sides.
The realities we all have to wrestle with and operate within are at best very rough approximations of whatever "objective" reality is. In fact, as has been demonstrated with quantum physics, as I understand it--there is no such thing as "objective" reality, to begin with.
At some point all the hue and cry about objectivity is mere whining because someone else's SUBJECTIVITY is so starkly different from one's own. And perhaps there's too much insecurity to allow the very real possibility that the other person's subjective reality may have more practical implications than one's own.
Alas, I race off to a rant. I'll stop here.