This I believe

There is this interesting "This I Believe" written by Penn Jillette, of Penn and Teller. I really enjoyed the essay, as it has a few profound points (to me.) He writes, "I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," ..." I found that to be true, and sad. Especially since so many people who, despite truth and fact and faith, stick their heads in the sand and ignore the very foundations of morals, freedom, peace, etc.

Anyway, I liked the article. I like that someone can just accept that maybe what we know as truth can actually change. That truth has a perspective and we can impact that truth. In physics it was believed that Newton's laws were absolute. Then along comes Einstein and he sees the laws as guidelines and ends up appending the laws, changing the laws, providing new truths.

Being wrong is not really new to me as I have for years professed that I try to keep my opinions flexible and I am male. Who am I to say my opinion is better than yours? Of course, we should all do everything we can to support and understand our own opinions. Too often do we hear someone elses words and claim them as our own without doing the research. How hard is it to listening to the opposition and then either accept an verify the information, or disagree and disprove the information?

Okay, it is difficult. Some of the crap that comes out of the talking heads is so offensive, so hateful ... Yet, you have to spend the time or you wake up one day and you've lost sight of what is important in your own life. Whether that includes a faith in God or not.

This I believe...for now.