{"id":77,"date":"2020-11-17T16:03:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:00:57","slug":"about-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/index.php\/about-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let’s get this out of the way first: meditatum<\/em> is a Latin word that means “to ponder.” No surprise there… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This website is about big questions. Years ago, I was in a business support group, and my mentor taught me something I have never forgotten: if you want to elevate a conversation, elevate the questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to solve big problems, you have to ask big questions. Small problems are everywhere, but I will try to avoid getting too distracted by them. For example, this is not a political blog. I care a lot about politics, but the problems we see in politics come from what our society believes about bigger topics like epistemology. I would rather focus on epistemology than politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I discuss big questions here, I do not necessarily provide big answers. I am respectful of the fact that these topics have been debated for thousands of years by people much smarter than me. I tend to avoid dogmatism, partly for that reason, but also because my own epistemological beliefs lead me away from dogmatism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will be writing a lot about philosophy here and the intersection of religion and philosophy. I also enjoy writing about finance and entrepreneurship and how to live a meaningful life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing that is important to me is originality in thought. I am not going to regurgitate what I read from books here even though I read a lot of books and am influenced by them. I write from a perspective that is probably not unique to me, but to the best of my knowledge, is not found exactly the same elsewhere. For that reason, a lot of what I write is experimental and probably flawed. You are welcome to pick it apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some might wonder why I don’t allow comments on this website in the way that is typical on blogs. I have owned a blog before (I authored a music blog for ten years), and frankly, I got tired of moderating comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hate to be blunt but many people that write comments are not very qualified to opine. And often, they are dogmatic, angry, and shrill. As I once heard, “those that know the least know it the loudest.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love discussing big questions with thoughtful people, but I have no interest in getting down in the mud with non-thoughtful people. I have actually noticed that the more thoughtful comments always come in through the contact form or email so I prefer you to communicate with me that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have comments or questions, I am happy for you to contact me here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s get this out of the way first: meditatum is a Latin word that means “to ponder.” No surprise there… This website is about big questions. Years ago, I was in a business support group, and my mentor taught me something I have never forgotten: if you want to elevate a conversation, elevate the questions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditatum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}