I gather a conversation involving the phrase "true believer" is going on. I haven't been a party to it, and don't know in what sense the phrase is being used, but just considering the phrase itself, I don't like the idea of being a "true" one, just abstractly, and generically (and knowing nothing of the conversation). This is simply because it seems to imply that there's some virtue in believing something whatever it's relation is to the actual truth, facts, regarding the subject of the belief.
That was clear to me as I typed it, but I'm not sure it's so clear on the page.
Anyway, I missed that conversation, but I can say that I believe some things very strongly, but if someone called me a "true believer" of them, I'd take it as an insult to my aspirations to live in the world as an adult.
If it stops being credible tomorrow, I hope I don't cling to a belief. |
