Thanks to all for keeping discourse progress oriented and respectful. A good way to achieve this this progress is through the exchange of ideas, regardless to whatever degree they may differ from ours, and consider them thoroughly and objectively. I found my intellectual growth was only possible when I started treating my positions and opinions as malleable - and when I adopted a willingness to reevaluate them based on new evidence or new viewpoints introduced to me, my universe began expanding. While this leaves me as a man without a tribe somewhere in the middle, I discovered I don't need to identify with a group in order to possess an identity, either. That, coupled with the fact the Dali Lama said I'd achieve full consciousness on death bed, and I've really got two things going for me.


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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