Common sense

For reasons philosophical and perhaps (my detractors say) personal, I've never trusted people who use "common sense" as their platform in politics, their interpretation of scripture or their financial decisions.

Common sense tells us pictures can't travel through the air, any more than metal airplanes. Common sense tells me machines can't add and hummingbirds can't fly backward.

Reality is a lot more our creation than a given. The more we learn of the Enneagram and how different each person's world is, the less credence we give to "common sense." Here is an opinion I like -- by the British philosopher, Erich Heller.

Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that.