Sailing to Byzantium

This blog is about my spiritual journey and my quest to find meaning (or lack thereof) in life. As such, it is primarily a journal of sorts, an internal dialogue. I appreciate comments and input. In fact, I find them absolutely invaluable. I like to hear many different voices from many different perspectives. You are absolutely welcome to read my posts, make comments, and engage in discussion with me and with other visitors.

That being said, this is not a public forum; it’s my blog. You don’t have the right to be here, and you don’t have the right to make comments. I will delete comments that are antagonistic or generally un-useful, and I will even block users and IP addresses who detract from rather than add to what I am trying to do here. I’ve done it before.

That being said, I want to re-emphasize that, I welcome all points of view. If you start to step over the line into irritating territory, I’ll make sure to let you know long before I take any kind of action. Allowing diverse points of view is generally valuable enough to me for me to tolerate an awful lot before I decide that your voice is hurting more than it’s helping. I’m not going to block you for saying a thing so much as for the way you say a thing.
If you’re looking for a heated debate, I suggest you go elsewhere.

Furthermore, I feel the need to point out that the posts I make are not self-contained. They are part of a rather long narrative and are thus heavily embedded in context. If in a post I appear to have neglected some argument or point that you think I should have considered, the chances are at this juncture that your idea has already come up and I’ve already dealt with it and moved on. Most of the people who comment on my blog are fairly regular- many of them have followed my internal monologue from the beginning. If you’re just tuning in now, you are at a slight disadvantage, context-wise.

To help you get caught up, I have assembled a collection of links that comprise the most salient stops along my journey. I’m not saying you have to read them all (or any of them), but if you want to get a real sense of the continuity of my internal monologue and contribute meaningfully, the resource is there.

If it’s not worth it to you to get caught up in the discussion, you might want to consider whether it is worth it to engage in the discussion at all.