The original title of this Board was "Sticking One’s Neck Out". I chose that name because I thought that maybe, in these times that we live in, there was a need to interrogate long held beliefs and convictions.
I still do, but I thought that I’d try a slightly different approach. An approach based on posing a Question that surrounds what may be a Truth. And Truths do not need acceptance for their ongoing existence.
I suspect that many of those beliefs and convictions formed part of our education and upbringing in our early years, at a time when we were youthfully vulnerable and we accepted them without much question.
Now that we are older and possibly more independent in our thinking, we may be a bit more circumspect in what we accept as our core principles and beliefs.
What prompted me to start the original Board came about as a result of a message I posted elsewhere on S.I., incorporating this Board’s original title.
A day or so later someone living, literally, on the opposite side of the world to myself, stated that she had been searching for "something" and happened to find "it" in what I had written.
I’ve repeated it as the first post on this Board, and I’ve also created the following link should it ever move off the first page.
Message 24815414
It got me thinking that maybe others will have empathy with what I post, and could possibly also add to, or expand on it.
Irrespective, I will be writing it as I see it.
Needless to say, there could be others that disagree and have their own viewpoint.
Both approaches will be welcome here, as long as respect for each other is central. |
