I am a skeptic. I started asking questions when I started talking 50 years ago. I think that 99% of all the questions I ever asked were directed to myself in my head. Of all those questions I ever asked myself, I would guess that the top ten questions get asked over and over again as if we are addicted. 

I found my reasoning, for my reasoning some years ago. As a good skeptic, I have learned the pitfalls we can step into if you let your mind go unattended. Reading Greek philosophers will get you a long way, and after that, there are endless philosophers and other thinkers who have put our behavior under a microscope. We are good at believing the things we live with, the thoughts that have been with us for a long time, and the stories we hear around us. Questioning yourself, your life, and the people around you who live the same direction is hard; saying goodbye to a world you know and know is not true because it claims to be true is hard.  

Being skeptical and act on the consequences is not something you choose. I never wanted to ask all these irritating questions, as my siblings and friends did when they were 6 and 7, but it ebbed away in them. You can train to become more skeptical, but we all know it is primarily a character trade, a gift from nature like red hair or brown eyes.  Most people are not skeptical or don’t act if the answers tell them to go another way; they are skeptics but of the cowardly kind. 

So, I am skeptical about writing about this, about hoping it might change a few minds. As I said before, you can read and get educated by starting at the beginning of philosophy. These books have been lying around for thousands of years with little effect besides on a few who are already believers. What will my mediocre writing add to what is already said? I do it for the most part for myself. It keeps my mind organized, and it also keeps my faint hope that I will one day know what to write alive. And be honest, would it not be the best for this world if everybody wrote their ideas in a blog that no one reads.