I've been getting into a habit of telling short autobiographical
   sketches, lately. It's nice to tell my story and there's usually
   a point that's related.. I don't strive to prove anything, just
   tell a story that might allow someone to see things from a
   different perspective, "mine" - and it's only mine. I expect
   that much of the things I feel and think are shared among some
   humanity, not universal, and a few things are entirely unique to
   me.

   I don't know why I've been doing that lately, but it makes me
   feel good,   I like doing it because it takes the arguing down a
   little.

   it can be dangerous, releasing one's life-history up for
   potential criticism, which I think is why sometimes people give
   fictional tales and say "I". It's an old tactic of lawyers and
   politicians and public speakers for a long time.

   But I like combining stories from myself, with whatever points I
   want to make hiding inside of it, and having them be *actual*
   things that really happened. That way, if someone says, "Oh,
   you're full of crap! that never happened to you!" I can prove
   that, yes, indeed it did because... well, it did.

   I used to try to argue "pure ideas" but then I realized, at
   least from my perspective, there's no pure ideas - they all have
   a history of some kind and came from "some place": they didn't
   magically fall from the sky or become embedded in our DNA, at
   least I don't think