I am going to start a new run of entries on this blog centering around my personal beliefs, what they are, how I justify them, and why they matter to my life.

This blog was founded on the principle that writing is good for me and philosophy is better. I am purposely putting my belief set out there for people to look at, pick apart, criticize, comment on, and generally fiddle with. I believe that, by doing this, is is properly airing my ideas to the wind and allowing myself to better develop how I understand and view the world.

Because I consider no belief of mine to be sacred or untouchable, I will be presenting a wide array of beliefs in these upcoming entries and I encourage you not to shy away from making any commentary about them. Go ahead and decimate my justifications with quick-witted logic; make me think, make me defend, make me sidestep, I don’t care.

I promise to respond to every single comment.

I only ask one thing: that you respect the principles of good philosophic engagement by respecting myself as a person, yourself as a person, and the audience as people. Comments that are incendiary, racist, abusive, or otherwise unproductive to the discussion will be removed — if you want to flamethrow, there are other places for that. Here we strive to be mature, thoughtful, and reflective.

I also encourage you to contact me at any point and request a treatise on a particular belief or viewpoint; I’m happy to take requests to weigh in on this or that — just let me know your amusements.

Each posting will be spaced out at least 2 days in between to allow for folks to comment and catch up. If the discussions are particularly interesting, I may delay that further. It all depends on the traffic.

I think that this will prove to be an interesting exercise both for myself and my readers. I wish you all well and much success as we all learn more about ourselves together.