A World View Sans Anomalies Does Not a World View Maketh

When it comes to viewing our world, universe and likely unseen cosmos around us, most of us have loud opinions as to their substance, mechanics and Creative intentions (or lack of them). Such opinions may be said to be one of the following:

1. Strictly factual; 2. tenable; 3. dreamed-up; 4. hoped-for-but-inane; 5. cynically-drugged-away-into-nowhereland; 6. darkly inane; or, 7. non-committal.

Or, rather, as is likely the global norm: All seven of those determinations may be bound together into one preposterous, improbable and ill-considered mish-mash.

Every existing religion, philosophy and "non-belief" system has its extremes, and those extremes nowadays all dance up to the edge of nutty. They really really do.

When it comes to believing in silly things, no one has the market cornered as yet.

Regardless, we all hold a wide variety of beliefs - and apart from the state of our emotional and psychological health at any given moment (a discussion entirely unto itself, particularly when it comes to rampant cultural denial in these scary times), we live our lives by those beliefs - be they valid, invalid or, as is again the global norm, somewhere in-between.

Part of the problem here is so few of us desire to even discuss such subjects, in the first place. (Frankly, if you've taken the trouble to read this treatise this far - and I truly thank you for having done so - you're a member of a teensy minority.)

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My personal world view - how I perceive the nature and mechanics of our world and universe(s), philosophically speaking - gravitates strongly toward embracing number 2, above, tenability, as its primary criterion.

Tenability has several synonyms, but the most appropriate of these, for the sake of this discussion, are: believability, credibility, defendability, viability, plausibility, and maintainability - themselves oftentimes synonyms for each other.

I think most folks should support tenability as a way of forming their personal world views - to go along with active investigation, seeking consistency, and keeping tabs with one's own psychological/emotional health, which is hugely influential.