Taking the High Road

So sad. I refuse (anymore) to bait friends over subjective disagreements. The friendships are too valuable! I always felt my friendships could withstand diversity of opinions, but the recent political climate makes keeping a level head a veritable challenge.

Smart, intelligent people I know make erroneous choices and it saddens me. I have deduced that it boils down to news sources...where they choose to get their information. After all I wasn't there in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Had I been there and even been closely observing, invisible activities may have been at play, so this is why forensics and investigation are vital. Therefore, opinion of events can only be gathered on what professionals espouse. But some, like myself, look at materials available and often can't believe my eyes. And won't.

I concur how lack of time and intense passion about an issue can make one satisfied, therefore: no longer curious. Though I do not believe everything I read in school or see on the internet as legitimate, discretion and good judgment are more needed than ever in the pursuit of an answer. So you make good contacts and skeptically listen, just soak it all in, using your good judgment and discretion always. You are being objective.

There is an underbelly. What has saddened me most, lately, is the genuine denial I have seen -- those who get their information from sources that, though may not practice actual deceit, reticence is a form of lying. Add that lack of informing to denial and you have concocted a recipe for a lot of wrong and harmful thinking. Naivete plays a part when one is OCPD and cannot possibly comprehend political and military events/decisions on the grandest of scales. 

It's so sad.