"I'm a bit afraid to read too much about it, a bit scared that it will actually make my eyes and view on things become smaller and more judgmental, but I hope it wont."

What reading philosophy (and lucid thinking, for that matter) does is just the opposite: it makes the world larger, deeper, and more profound, while at the same time, one becomes aware of the distinctions that make judgments tentative.

Hi, I'm a 26 year old guy from Sweden.
I already like this forum, and know that whatever I find here going to be interesting!

But since english is not my first language and philosophy often involves pretty advanced thinking and language, I just hope I'll be able to explain my philosophical thoughts from my brain into english in this forum :bigsmile:

I have never been studying philosophy, and don't know much about it. Everything philosophical I say today only comes from the heart lol. I'm a bit afraid to read too much about it, a bit scared that it will actually make my eyes and view on things become smaller and more judgmental, but I hope it wont.

As a person I feel like I'm "everything, and at the same time "nothing"". I don't mean "nothing" in bad way, but that I can understand people from all social groups. But I also see and understand the groups' weaknesses/negative sacrifices, and therefor don't take the full step inside the group.
I think many people feel like this, but still are inside or outside of the group because of wrong reasons. I want to believe I'm not :rolleyes:

I have friends from many kinds social groups, some groups that have a hard time accepting each other.
In a way it feels like they don't deserve "the full me", and in another way; it feels like I don't deserve them 100%.
Sometimes it feels like I'm just studying them all from the edge.

Sometimes I don't know if I'm just brutally honest about life, or manipulative about the situation, to make it all come to a morally/empathic right conclusion.

The result? I guess that it is a philosophical, poker playing, truck driver, that is everything but at the same time nothing.

I just don't know if I'm everything because I'm nothing, or if I'm nothing because I'm everything Just trying to make the right decision on the way.