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I did not read past your second paragraph. I am far less invested in this than you. I'm not interested in analyzing every aspect of my existence, and I don't care how you feel about what I think. So you go stare at your navel if you are so unsure of your own beliefs while I am going to continue being pretty damn comfortable with exactly who I am.
Have a nice rest of your day, but if you reply to this I won't even bother to read it.
Someone totally didn't become insecure because their beliefs were challenged and now proudly struts their "conviction" as a fig leaf for their total lack of a rebuttal
Whatever lets you sleep at night
I actually do have a problem with my sleep schedule,so thanks
I struggle to see how this doesn't amount to some kind of self-directed dogmatism,* but perhaps your answer is that it is and that's good.
*Maybe that's a weird thing to call it, but the claim seems to be that you should believe what you believe because it's what you believe, and ever questioning it is somehow a sign of weakness. I don't think I expressed being unsure of what I was saying, but if I take your claim about how far you read at face value, then you seem to be saying that any level of scrutinizing one's own beliefs makes that person unsure of their beliefs, which is just kind of a weird claim to make. You understand that the point is not to float in eternal doubt but to develop beliefs that withstand scrutiny, right?