Experiment

Every time I come back to Minds I get embroiled in the controversies. Every time it happens I shake my head in disbelief and wonder how it is that when I'm just walking along MINDing my own opinion, I manage to encounter so many people impinging with others over point of view. When did point of view count for anything anyway? As they say in Invercargill "Everyone's a cunt, just make sure you're a good cunt". Pretty rude in some people's OPINION. Do we need to make a fuss? Do we need to moralize language? Can't we rise above? I feel as if I have OPINION fatigue. 

In the midst of my current Minds drama (N.B. - use this word carefully and will not choose another less potentially confusing word because that what these encounters FEEL like to me. FFS) I have had to look carefully at my place in the community of Minds and what that means to me as a child of God wandering this strange and bitter land. In an innocent conversation recently I used the words "I am on his side". Correlation is not causation - however shortly after that it became obvious that there were sides now and not a conversation. I am sorry that it happened. 

I have reflected a lot on Peterson's 10th Rule - be precise with your speech. I was imprecise with my speech. The thing that I should have said which would have been more representative of what I was trying to convey was, "I think I share his point of view" and then hopefully the other people in the conversation would have been able to say "so what? I have an opinion too". 

If this had been the tone of the resultant discussion I would not have had to check in with how I feel trying to establish a place for myself in the world of creatives. and whether or not I want Minds.com to be the vehicle for my future development. (Yes, I'm putting all my eggs in one basket - I don't have time for multi-platforming. I'm not a Millennial.)  

Additionally, if this had been the tone of the resultant discussion, we would have stayed in the realm of swapping information and perspective. As it was tempers flared. Everyone was hurt. Bloody Hell. 

So my current round of soul searching has brought me to the place where I have had to decide that regardless of anything I am wanting to separate my opinion from my work. To do this I have started another channel which I have called Bobdub's Opinion. In future I will post my work here on my main channel and keep reminding and news stories and conversations on the other channel and see if that helps to protect me from wandering into opinion when I am wanting to focus on work....

Wondering if it will work.