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Nice take-down, and I appreciate the points you raise, but isn't > if you're not willing to engage with your doubts, then you have no business putting your tho
by sfink 3y ago
Nice take-down, and I appreciate the points you raise, but isn't
> if you're not willing to engage with your doubts, then you have no business putting your thoughts into an essay under the pretense of intellectual honesty.
kind of talking about every essay, ever? The only people free from doubt are on ventilators and definitely aren't writing a lot of essays. The very act of writing an essay is engaging with (a few of) your doubts. And if you're writing it for others to read, you're painting it over with some level of pretense.
Just because he's not engaging with your personal hobby horse of uncritically accepted Christianity doesn't mean he doesn't have something to say. Show me a being with a pure mind, free of any self-contradiction or self-avoidance.
Really, please do, so I can pet it and make it wag its tail.
> the author knows exactly what was wrong, but considers it a virtue to lie to themselves about it.
As do we all. Only the topic varies.
- noqc 3y ago>kind of talking about every essay, ever? Absolutely not. Only the bad ones. An essay is an argument with yourself. If you take the explicit position that you should ignore your doubts, as this author does, then what you are putting on paper is your personal confirmation bias. My hobby horse is not christianity, my hobby horse is the thing that he has insanely distilled from christianity as the part worth keeping. The author had a bad experience as a teen applying to elite colleges for no other reason than because he was supposed to, and the conclusion he should be drawing from this observation is so obvious that you might not even notice that he doesn't.