Ok I actually read this earlier and started responding, but then I stopped because I didn’t know exactly how to respond. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with me. I feel a lot of truth in this here. I really needed to accept 1 and 2. I finally have been coming around to them. As far as the other part I think I actually have a fresh, yet recycled, perspective on that. I hit this wall in my personal relationships and realized I have to do a 180. I checked out the logical fallacies thing and I plan to really learn them nice and good. But as I am now, I already have a pretty good grasp intuitively. I can tell when they are happening, or if I am doing them. But also I feel like when I approach a conversation about this planning it out in my head, I could never actually accomplish my goal of getting them to see my perspective. Me winning a math competition against them is not gonna make them listen to me more. So actually what I need to do is listen to them and put myself in their shoes, and stop trying to fix them or tell them what to believe. Even though it doesn’t feel fair that I should have to meet them 100% of the way and do 100% of the effort, by certain measures it is completely fair. Also I need to let go of my fear that I am wrong. If I am right and I discovered the truth then I don’t need to be afraid because it will stand up to the most exhaustive scrutiny. I should welcome their skepticism and criticism because those are both noble things, and I know when they are genuine they cannot hurt me. I need to enter their reality where I am the insensitive bad guy, and feel it emotionally. Because honestly it is my fault that I acted against natural law. I preached natural law but acted against it. That’s why nature rose up and kicked me in the ass like the great compassionate mirror that it is. It is a common fault of youth to be so brazen, proud, and idealistic, but nonetheless it doesn’t mean it was ok how I treated people.

Pardon the rambling. Thinking aloud here.