...and now for something a little different

Steve [Nagarjuna] and I are going to try something a bit different with the new year.

This past year, Steve has had Naked Reflections as the focus of his blogging and I've had a host of ill-defined blogs to which I am giving equal-opportunity neglect.

So, this year we're going to try using Thoughts Chase Thoughts as a place where opposing ideas meet, based on what we find out there in the blogosphere. We're going to take representations of opposite sides of a dispute and see how they can be reconciled. Or, at the very least, we're going to see if we can understand what the crux of the dispute is.

Does it come from different ways of apprehending the world? Is a conflict due to different weightings of what's important? How well can we find a middleground that satisfies both sides? Maybe we can just sidestep the rancor and divine solutions.

Or, in other types of situations, Why did things develop the way they did? How did we get here!?

We at TCT will diagram the conflict and then invite bloggers who've written about the topic to 'come on down' and post their comments here.

Anyway, it's something new to try, fitting for the name of this blog, and I think it will be fun.

The New Year starts tomorrow.