Conjunctions not Periods

When we write, we must end our sentences with a period, a question mark, or sometimes an exclamation point. Not so with dialectical thinking. Good thinkers punctuate their thinking with conjunctions, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, or ellipses. Some writers use up a lot of phrases before they deem it necessary to come to a "full stop," the British term for a period. Nonetheless, they terminate their sentences with an appropriate punctuation mark.
Most English speakers find the German language hard to read. Their sentences tend to be confusingly complex. In the theological writing of Karl Barth, I have found German sentences that traveled more than a full page of fine print before coming to a halt
However, it remains true that writers must use terminal punctuation for their sentences. Good thinkers, however, punctuate their thinking with conjunctions and a variety of punctuational pauses, but never come to a full stop until they encounter the need to act on their thought.
Dialectical thinkers can bring their thought to termination. Thinkers can act. They know the entire point of thinking (unless they are playing intellectual games) is to determine the best course of action at a given point in time and space. But until they must act, their thought continues as they connect one idea to still other considerations.
This is a simple picture of the punctuation of good thinking.
My wife and I are thinking about attending a dulcimer festival in a few weeks, but we question whether we can afford it, however, (please try to read this entire, but admittedly interminable, sentence) for our psychological well-being, it might forestall greater expense in the future, thus we have reserved a room at a Bed and Breakfast establishment for Saturday night–the festival begins on a Friday and concludes Sunday noon–meanwhile my wife is suggesting we fork out the money for another night’s lodging so that we may be there for the entire festival since this is all the vacation we will have this year (have you begun to get the point?), even though we admitted in the beginning that if we go at all, it will take a small bite out of our retirement investment, and that would be a dangerous precedent, especially in a time of major recession (2009) so we don’t know what would be the wise course of action because there are so many things to consider on the one hand, but on the other hand. . . .
We all know that a sentence is a series of words that begins with a capital letter, then proceeds through . . . and ends with full stop punctuation. Remember however, that although sentences must have terminal punctuation, good thoughts end only when they must. Until then they end with conjunctions that link to further considerations. Conjunctions constitute the core of the grammar of the dialectic.