nshepperd comments on Crisis of Faith - Less Wrong

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Comment author: nshepperd 22 June 2013 09:29:31PM 7 points [-]

The Litany of Gendlin is specifically about what you should or should not believe, and your feelings about reality. It says nothing about telling people what you think is true — although "owning up to it" is confusingly an idiom that normally means admitting the truth to some authority figure, whereas in this case it is meant to indicate admitting the truth to yourself.