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Feb. 25th, 2013 02:01 pmI've been trying to figure out how to personally deal with the wrong thinking I've been subjected to from others. And I don't just mean that people disagree with me, that'd be just silly. Specifically, I refer to flawed logic and, even worse, people stubbornly holding to faulty logic. I want the truth, period, regardless of how it may impact me. It is such that others who refuse to acknowledge truth, usually in favor of some pet ideology, bug the crap out of me. It eats at me. Even months later sometimes, I find it to be like a mouth sore that you can't stop tonguing. I'm not positive, but I think it often worse when I am no longer in the company of the given individual(s), as I no longer have opportunity to discuss or argue my beef.
I know that people have the freedom to be wrong, to hold to wrong ideas, but it still bugs me like no other. Illogic is anathema to me. I'm always willing to be proven wrong, to be shown a new, valid means of thought, but I just don't know how to handle when people refuse to listen, change, or even acknowledge that they might be in error. I struggle with knowing the line where correction should begin. I'm pretty sure no one would say it wrong to correct someone's faulty math, say when doing a checkbook. Most everyone would object to telling someone that everything they think, do, and say is wrong. Where is the line? Naturally, it seems to be an organic, shifting line, which is always annoying. It's so much more difficult having to determine the boundaries in every situation. Sigh.
I know that people have the freedom to be wrong, to hold to wrong ideas, but it still bugs me like no other. Illogic is anathema to me. I'm always willing to be proven wrong, to be shown a new, valid means of thought, but I just don't know how to handle when people refuse to listen, change, or even acknowledge that they might be in error. I struggle with knowing the line where correction should begin. I'm pretty sure no one would say it wrong to correct someone's faulty math, say when doing a checkbook. Most everyone would object to telling someone that everything they think, do, and say is wrong. Where is the line? Naturally, it seems to be an organic, shifting line, which is always annoying. It's so much more difficult having to determine the boundaries in every situation. Sigh.
