Why me?

You might ask, who are you and what are your qualifications to write about philosophy, religion, science, ..., and even life? And, why should I read what you write?

I can tell you about me, my education, my background, all the degrees I have, all the work I did, all the good books I read that have influenced me, the personal life experiences I had (marriage, kids, losses, etc...) You might then be impressed with the messenger, or not. Either way you'll be subtly coerced to form an artificially high or low value of the message. 

There are of course many wonderful lectures freely available from experts on various fields in the internet. Even a few select channels in youtube.com could feed our intellectual appetite towards obesity :-) There are also many wonderful books in your local public library that would provide you expert, scholarly information on any subject you might be interested.  So, if either of those is to your liking, you may start there and come back later.

For a good reason, most of the verbal and written information out there are produced by thinkers, authors with a good name. Yet, for you, some of that message will suffer from the halo associated with the messenger and might influence you in a way that might not be best for you. Who can tell? 

One way to reduce such harm is to be a critical consumer of ideas. And, I am sure you are. Yet, when the messenger is a larger than life figure, are you going to be as daring a critique of the messages of that messenger?

There are of course some good old books whose authors are anonymous. Many of them are known as scripture. Some others that are apparently "channeled" many of which I wouldn't trust to be too useful. After all, as the old saying goes, just because they are dead doesn't mean that they are smart! There is at least one book known as a channeled work that I trust quite a bit. But, let me not bias you further by divulging that. 

I hope you've given some thought as you read so far on the conundrum of messenger v message.

Instead, give the message a spin. Try it on. If it rings true and if it doesn't give you a bad feeling in the stomach, send me some thanks. This is after all as free of charge as most of the internet where the power of thoughts come alive as words on your screen. By the way, talking about power, check out why believing in the aphorism "power corrupts" might not be such a good thing here. 

PS. I will add an "about" page somewhere to briefly introduce the author of these pages if you insist on getting to know about him. For now, I just sprinkled some hints, and a blatant name tag in one of the pages. If you are up for a treasure hunt🙂But, remember that the treasure is not the real treasure. Nor is the target the real target.