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Please Keep an Open Mind and be Polite

While here, I ask that you maintain the proper etiquette of a free and critically-thinking truth seeker. This can be achieved by following this sequence:

• Learn Ignorance – Admit your inability to know all, and allow yourself to become an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge claims
• Actively Listen – Read, watch, or listen with the intentions of being able to paraphrase what has been said. This helps to ensure that what has been said is well understood, enough that one may repeat it.
• Suspend Judgment – Before criticizing or dismissing, grasp what is being said in its own context, and what is meant by the speaker. Don’t look immediately for flaws, but focus on comprehending what is being said and what the intentions of the speaker are.
• Don't Regress to Infancy - Do not change the focus of the topic to more comfortable topics (like overlaps with fiction, religion, family life, etc.) that are not directly related, except perhaps by common words, syntax, homophone, etc.
• Critically Think – Consider what has been said, and whether or not it is in line with those things understood to be more fundamental. If so, decide where the adjustment should be made to your beliefs, whether the thing is truly fundamental or not, and if the other thing is right or wrong because of it.
• Silence is Golden – Be impeccable with your word. Don’t share half-baked ideas that will earn you disrespect. Speak only that which is fully fleshed out.
• Make Good Faith Arguments – Address matters as they actually are and as they were intended to be read by the author.
• Constructively Criticize – If you think there is something wrong, criticize with the intentions to be constructive, and offer an alternative to the position you are criticizing. Ask yourself if you are fairly applying your criticism, and if it would also be true if used against you.
• Nonviolently Communicate – Communicate in manners that are not aggressive or attacking toward the individual, but which are open, polite, and considerate, and that address the content instead of the individual.
• Practice Conagnition – If proven wrong, move past the shame, admit it to your own benefit, and allow the new knowledge you replace your old knowledge with to enhance your power and increase your potential.

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