Dear Zguvpron,

Welcome to the Forums.

It is very nice to meet you. I admire you for your open mindedness and fair mindedness. Those virtues are often difficult to find. Perhaps I am biased because I am a philosophy instructor. I hope you will find these Forums a warm, friendly and helpful site. You sound like an interesting and remarkable person and I will be interested in reading whatever you post here.

When I was in graduate school working on a PhD in philosophy I had professors from so many diverse outlooks. One was a Marxist. Another had a passion for American philosophers. There was a man whose beliefs centered on ideas of Medieval thinkers. One woman was interested in Asian ideas. There was a nihilist atheist philosopher. One professor had been in a Communist prison and had very anti-Marxist views. There was an Aristotelian, a Platonist, a Logical Positivist, a Linguistic philosopher and many others.

These individuals disagreed on almost everything and yet we would all get together for dinners, parties, picnics and such and there was a lot of friendship and camaraderie. People would go all out to help colleagues in trouble. Those were very happy times for me and the memories of that times are very vivid and cherished. You seem quite philosophical to me and I think you would have been most welcome in that group.

I wish you the very best here on the Forums and in your continuing life journey.

Sincerely yours, Yao Wen PS: Sorry my command of English is not very good.