Thanks to JB for her comments on Susan Boyle, and I think I often do need a good beating-up for too often beating my self up.  Although I still think I’m right about this Boyle thing, at least for me, but I don’t want to put that on anyone else.  Maybe everyone else loves Susan Boyle for who she is and there’s nothing cynical about their feelings.  I hope that’s true.  However, I’m pretty sure that’s not true for a single element of my life, which is kind of depressing, but it’s also encouraging, in that it’s a good reminder I’m broken and need God’s help.

Anyways, a quick point of clarification: JB says I overthink the Boyle situation.  That might be true, but that doesn’t make it wrong.  I’m not sure what “overthink” means.  Certainly, what can think about a problem and, by thinking longer, alternate from a previous (possibly correct) position to an another (possibly incorrect) one.  However, at fault here is not the length of time one thinks but rather the changing of one’s mind from one position to another.  This does not have to happen when one thinks for a long time.  Here’s an analogy: if I drive a car for a long time, it might break down.  It does not break down, however, because I drove it.  It breaks down because the engine failed, or what have you.  Now my driving might make this break-down more possible, just as my thinking for a long time might make a change-of-mind possible.  But ultimately neither the long drive nor the long spate of thinking are to blame.  And besides, if I didn’t take long drives or think for a long while, how could a wanderlusting nerd like me have fun?