(August 6, 2021 at 5:16 pm)Nomad Wrote:(August 6, 2021 at 11:43 am)Angrboda Wrote: The siren song of the idiot. "I'm not wrong." No matter what facts or opinions are levied against them, they maintain an irrational confidence in themselves.
I'm reminded of how Mystic Knight used to argue that having confidence in the truth of one's proposition is an indicator that it is true. It's sad and dangerous.
Quote:You see, one thing is I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainties about different things, I’m not absolutely sure about anything.
Richard Feynman, physicist.
Incidentally, the opposite of a fundamentalist.
High need for cognitive closure. https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Need_for_closure
Low tolerance for ambiguity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity_...ntolerance
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
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Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist