Originally Posted by Ken Howell
Sorry, Amigo, teaching wisdom isn't in my job description or my tool kit.

I'm not sure that it can be taught logically. (Experientia docet.)

� Pray for it. (And for humility.)

� Lay your fondest intellectual convictions on the altar.

� Get ready to change your mind.


Well, gee, that's pretty much the way I do it already. As a matter of fact, I never would have gotten anywhere near where I am unless I had been willing to lay my fondest intellectual convictions on the altar with humility and gotten ready to change my mind. I'd probably still be a nominal Republican with very little political awareness other than "Republican good, Democrat bad."

I don't know whether you've been watching, but right here on this very forum I've undergone a great many intellectual changes as I learned new things, some of them pretty sweeping. And I'm sure there are a great many more changes still in my future, if the Lord is willing. I had hoped that you'd be part of some of them.

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain--that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." --Lysander Spooner, 1867