've been having fun lately in studying the roots of various
   systems of thought; I often see people talking online as if
   their worldview fell out of the sky as it were; and have been
   having particular fun poking fun at New Atheists who are in
   discussion groups (I tends towards a more agnostic - an "I
   *really* don't know - view - a "could be any of these in the
   end"] - because I've learned more about the historical context
   within which the "I'm simply rational" way of thinking came out
   from.

   It's hard; I've had to decouple a lot of my own assumptions to
   find roots; and I'm still working on it. I'm not looking for a
   "theory of everything" that exists, but rather find out what it
   is that I *already* believe and "what is my worldview anyway?" -
   and then tracing it back so that, hopefully, in the end, I'll
   know what schools of thought I'm coming from so that I can be
   honest in discourse.

   I've never had mathematical training, wasn't trained in
   psychology, wasn't much trained in anything; I've been handed
   whatever worldviews I picked up along the way; and I'm trying to
   pick apart my own assumptions until I'm at least left with a
   history trail, if not any further conclusions