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Newguest Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Confused with/persist

Hi

There are ideas, beliefs, habits, reactions, feelings, senses, actions, behavior, and so forth, that you have become confused with and you persist as those.

--- I'm not sure how to undrstand that I became "confused with" them and I "persist" as them?

Thanks
  

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The sentence is poor. I suppose that 'confused by' and 'persist in' are meant. You are confused by your ideas, beliefs, etc and you persist in remaining confused by them.

— Mister Micawber

  • The sentence is poor.
  • I suppose that 'confused by' and 'persist in' are meant.
  • You are confused by your ideas, beliefs, etc and you persist in remaining confused by them.
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The sentence is poor. I suppose that 'confused by' and 'persist in' are meant.

You are confused by your ideas, beliefs, etc and you persist in remaining confused by them.
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Hi

I'll give you the whole sentence. Maybe it'll be clearer:

These "false conditions" are called false because they aren't actually you, they are ideas, beliefs, habits, reactions, feelings, senses, actions, behavior, and so forth, that you have become confused with. And you persist as those.
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Ah. A bit different. Still not the best phrasing, but I presume that it means that 'you' (= your true self) have become entangled with (= confused with) the various ideas, etc (i.e the false conditions) you have absorbed over time. And you continue (persist) to be seen (by others? / by oneself?) as the false conditions adhering to the surface of your true self.

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Thanks for the explanations MM!
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