" The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple."

-Psalm 119:130 (ESV)

 Here is how I feel sometimes and was feeling today. That prompted a series of tweets on critical thinking:

I've fallen down the rabbit hole into a dystopian "wonderland" of bizarre relativism.

Can someone pinch me back into reality or has the whole world set aside any perspective on truth and compassion?

"Truth is whatever supports my world view?"

Is that it?

All else is bias?

My bias?

At least it has been:

People, though flawed and fallen, are also good-hearted, reasonable, and still yearning for truth, justice, compassion, and connection.

People want to think and do right and live the Great Commandment.

Prove me right.

We will need some grace.

Another bias: Humans have the ability to think … but it takes a lot of effort.

Another bias: We can be easily duped by any side of an argument, but we also have the responsibility not to be led along.

We accumulate evidence to support our next argument unless we are actually open to finding truth. That is not to say that we throw out all our premises and principles, but that we acknowledge them as filters & stay aware of the ambiguities and challenges to our ideas of reality.

Just because a piece of evidence is too weak to support your world view, it is not not necessarily a threat to that view … it is just not your best argument.

We are tempted to rely on weak evidence and arguments, sometimes, to support very valid viewpoints. We should not resort to that. We can come up with better points.

Sometimes thinking – sound thinking – requires an appreciation of basic arithmetic.

I was going to say not to let anyone label you as this or that.
But realistically, you cannot stop them.
You cannot regulated what they call you or how they think about you.
But you do not have to wear the label.
If it doesn't fit, then quit letting it stick.
Your life.Your call.

In every court, including the court of public opinion, there is evidence on both sides to be weighed and evaluated. The jury decides (in criminal court, beyond reasonable doubt, in civil court, preponderance of evidence). You are the jury. Do your job.

Good thinking is not enough.

Symbols are easily misinterpreted.

Sound decisions are marks of true wisdom.