Challenges

How easy it is to think I am the only one, or the first one, who ever thought these thoughts!

It is difficult to bring up unpopular ideas, or ideas that go against the grain of a large portion of anyone's culture, because there is always the certainty that they will not be discussed with an open mind, but merely crushed by the fear of even thinking them.

Having thought them and then finding that others in the distant past thought them too, makes me feel a little sad, knowing I was not the first.

But it also helps validate these thoughts.  If others, with much greater minds than I have, could think them, then perhaps I am closer to the truth than might be popular.

After all, being a common, or popular, thought does not guarantee that something is the truth. 

History is full of absolutes that eventually proved to be false. And not just false, but terrifyingly dangerously false.

Human beings are more comfortable with the fabrications they know than ones that challenge their traditions.