Will’s Comments (group member since Aug 09, 2011)

Will’s comments from the Autodidacts group.

It's good to meet you, Isaac and Helen. Gerald, your group is already attracting interesting people. Good job.

Gerald, you are one well rounded son of a gun. I guess I am as well. I've long been a fan of assisted, mentored, or "taught" education -- the traditional brand of education -- but I also espouse self-education. I believe that guidance is important, but autodidacticism is also important. A straight 50/50 blend is ideal.

For the latter half of that ratio, it will be a pleasure for me to take part in supporting each other.

When I think of teaching myself, I think of a six-month period in 2006 when I wrestled with some terrifying revelations about certain world events. Without getting into the details, I can tell you and the other, future members of this group that the experience showed me that up was down and down was up -- at least as far as my understanding of the world was concerned. My whole mythos was turned on its head.

Since then I have gradually increased my appreciation for stories -- your typical "fiction" stories as well as the "facts" that are actually just stories that guide and define us as beings of consciousness. It is now my personal mythos that the universe is made of stories, not atoms. I choose to believe this in all its glorious self-contradiction.

To that end, I am in search for my story, for the stories of others, and how they affect us in this plane of existence. Stories exist in the fabric of everything we "know" -- math, science, politics, religion, underwater basket-weaving and everything else.

As a result, I am, of course, interested in and open to everything that can be known -- and maybe a little of what can supposedly never be known.

Thanks for having me here.