miru's attempted philosophy

Hello reader(s), and welcome to my project page.

Here I go by miru and post thoughts which allegedly qualify as philosophy.

There are a couple reasons why I might be writing this page:

• I’m writing this page because I think people believe too much and justify too little. 

• I’m writing this page because I'm tired of hearing self-assured people spout their unjustified opinions without any self-reflection, and I think far too many people (especially online) are confident in reasoning that’s based on vague feelings, mere assertions and thought-terminating clichés.

• I’m actually writing this page because I'm just frustrated and jealous that I can't be as sure of myself as the people I see as being very clearly wrong.

Throughout my day-to-day life I often come across people who believe in ideas that I think need to be corrected. However, despite being confident enough in my thinking to want to start a philosophy blog, I find challenging these people on their ideas to be deeply stressful. This feels like a serious predicament to me; philosophy is one of relatively few subjects where I think I have meaningful contributions to offer, and yet the motivation I get from wanting to challenge other people’s ideas as I’m confronted with them—one of the things that most often makes me want to engage in discussions about philosophy—also consistently makes me feel frustrated and anxious.

Part of my neuroticism here probably comes from being very particular about managing how I appear whenever I try to convince people that I’m right about something. I want to show people that my ideas are worthwhile, but I also desperately want to avoid coming off as the type of overly self-assured and nonetheless embarrassingly wrong person I’m so often annoyed by. That process of trying to appear confident enough to seem trustworthy but not so confident that I seem arrogant is decidedly not helped by the self doubt I get from my many vivid memories of messing up in social situations and a general lack of credentials that could make me seem like I know what I’m talking about. With those in mind, can I really be sure I’m not being confidently wrong?

 This page in many ways exists as a response to that question. For the purposes of this page, I‘ll be writing under the assumption that my thoughts might be worth something and that I am competent enough to speak on them. My ideas might be known and obvious to others, but I won’t be claiming that I’m the first to have had them; they’ll only have to be of interest to me to be posted here. While the topics I post about may vary, each one will feature a line of reasoning that I’ve come up with to ease my doubts about the my conclusions being valid. These thoughts will certainly still risk being founded on vague feelings and mere assertions—at least to the extent that I'll always be motivated by feelings and any premise presented without explanation can be seen as a mere assertion—but I’ll at least be willing to admit I’m satisfied with how well they each justify the way I allow myself to feel.

The thoughts on this page are presented "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied. While I find my conclusions generally agreeable and potentially obvious, deciding whether this says more about me or the quality of my thoughts is left as an exercise for the reader.

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