Monday; December 11
When I was a youngster, my dad would jokingly say, “Don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is already made up”. I would kind of chuckle at the absurdity of the comment, but the older I get the more the applicable the concept seems to be. While there are times preference drives our actions – we like what we like; however, the real problem is when mere conviction trumps truth. It is easy to fall into the rut of believing what we want to believe whether there is evidence to the contrary or not. It is no longer that we acknowledge the appeal of our preference; it becomes dangerous when we fail to realize the difference between preference and truth. I don’t have any problem with liking what we like, but we must be careful when we become so closed minded that we are blind to any effort at establishing reality. If we want to do something or believe something because that’s our preference; that’s fine as long as we don’t become adversarial to accepting true understanding. We can be con