Dudes, y'all are way over my head and I did some pretty "deep thinking" during my drinking and my inclination was still to figure out the why's and wherefores of it once I quit. Like Dee said, "error."
Very freeing to relegate my deep thoughts to things like spiritual and academic consideration from Friar Richard Rohr. Or Shakespeare. Or Brene Brown.
My Dad is one of the wisest self-described 'simpletons' I have ever known. I have learned a lot from understanding that my impulse to "drill down," as he calls it, can do me a lot more unnecessary harm than any hopeful or 'smart' intellectualism I might get.
Quite happy to live more on the plane of sane simpletons.