Inconsistency and incoherency drive us to revise our perceptions, understandings, and beliefs to be closer to reality. Or should, anyway.

I have done that a number of times when my beliefs didn't accurately explain or predict lived experience, most notably when I left the Christian faith.

Conflicted is my natural state. If I'm not conflicted, I start looking around for what's wrong, or missing ...

As a young man I had very little. We were very poor but both my parents worked. Later I am poor and trying to raise a family. I was always frugal though and my mother knew how to pinch pennies. Today I am a bleeding heart liberal but I will not loan you any money. If I did that I would have no money. Yes, I'm conflicted.

No, I don't think I ever have, but I can see how it would happen and be possible to be conflicted. It might happen to me at some point in my life, but hopefully I can avoid it. I guess it's a thin line though.