As soon as someone makes it clear they see confusion as a virtue, (everything is fluid & ambiguous & that's great!) stop trying to clarify.
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I'm starting to see this comes down to personality type. Some people like to live in a fog of possibilities & narrowing them is unsatisfying
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My friend said 'I don't need to know the answers' &what she meant was 'I don't want answers. I like the illusion of choosing my own reality'
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Which is fine to a certain extent. If you can own it & not insist everyone else refrain from seeking answers or that there are no answers.
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No-one should be compelled to accept an objective reality exists & that the best way of knowing things about it is evidence.
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And usually ppl who dislike this idea do still accept their children need to eat & receive medical care & other important reality things.
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They can still be responsible adults & they do engage with the world on an assumption that reality exists whether they admit it or not.
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This makes me think they're fundamentally intellectually dishonest - an analogous situation; http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/929221-my-practice-as-a-scientist-is-atheistic-that-is-to …
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They don't try to be honest. They don't think in terms of honesty because reality doesn't exist.
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Isn't this the whole root of Descartes's "I think therefore I am."?/
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Yes. Solipsism.
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I'm very tempted to do a philosophy Ba, but the OU's price hikes over the last few years make it a bit prohibitive "for fun".
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