... maybe you're NOT just popping in and out of existence. Maybe there IS a such thing as objective truth.
If you live in grey areas, and not black and white, surely you are open to the possibility that you are dead wrong.
Binary thinking IS primal. You either survive and thrive, or you go about life thinking that nothing is absolute, and you end up spending your life defending a past awful choice, to the point that you go mad. That is the end result for people who can not accept that some things they do or think are actually objectively wrong.
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You might be up for this read (link below). Mine is quite a different approach with respect to Peterson's (the psychologist you're lauding on many posts, hope I did not misspell his name).
https://steemit.com/onemanyproblem/@apollonius/mere-tolerance-an-answer-to-professor-dario-antiseri-s-proposal-of-moral-relativism
He's okay, but I believe the best approach against relativism is to go straight to the absolute, then, of course, you have to show the frightened relativist that the absolute is not "scary", it is not "absolutist" or "tyrannical". It is no more "absolutist" than the bones are "tyrannical" to a living body.
But you will have to do some serious reading. The original print out of the pdf is 14 pages, so you can gauge the length.
Indeed all maybe's so not absolutes. Doesn't mean there is not a framework build on wrong or right, it's just build on the current knowledge and you are open minded to change in these areas.
And it's not that you go around constantly affirming things are not absolute. You just use the information at hand and change your opinion accordingly without being invested in them....