As an atheist, I enjoy discussing metaphysics and philosophy, but recently I find myself getting bored talking about the same things over and over with different people. What I enjoyed was the sense of epiphany from a nice deep conversation. I haven't had that in a while. Have other people been having this problem. Hitting a philosophical wall behind which only nonsensical gibberish lies.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I haven't run into this because I am introverted and mostly only talk to people who are interesting enough to actually hold a deep conversation.
ElijahStone
Level 2
Oct 17, 2017
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You are fortunate to have such wonderful friends. I live in Ohio. There's only so long people put up with philosophy before they need to talk about squirrel hunting. lol
Read what the German philosopher Feuerbach had to say as to why humans created religion. Also read Erich Fromm's ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM, as why humans willingly give up their freedom of thought to become "true believers" in total system ideologies -- both religious and political. Would be glad to discuss them with you.
wordywalt
Level 9
Oct 17, 2017
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Will do. 
I'm a mathematician, and I never feel that way with math. It always seems there's still another fascinating thing to learn in some area of math. If you look hard enough, I'm sure there's still new works in the philosophy world to fascinate you.
Dylan
Level 5
Oct 16, 2017
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If you have not already done so, you might try exploring the area of existentialist philosophy. It shows such precision, clarity, and connections without contorted metaphysics that it might appeal to a mathematician.
Way ahead of you. I've read a lot from Sartre and Camus, and love both their works. German existentialists like Nietzsche or Heidegger I'm not so familiar with.
My biggest life problem has been varied interests. i learn a little here and a little there, but cant' stick with one subject or idea too long without gettign bored and wanting to think of other things. By the time IO graduated from college with a BA, which required 200 units, i had accumulated over 600.
Anyway, I think it is healthy to look for and develop new interests. Peopel change careers and life paths all the time, and are usually happier for it. If philosophy is starting to bore you, it may be time to enlarge your field of interests.
snytiger6
Level 9
Oct 16, 2017
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Same... I have a lot of interests and trying to go deep. Really deep in any one is so challenging. The longer you stare, the more beautiful it becomes. However, the longer you stare, more subtle and slowly that beauty reveals itself. It is nice to look around. I simply have hit that point of subtlety in my discussions of philosophy. For such a long time philosophy had been this winding rabbit hole full of wonderful questions and discussions. It's just a bit sad to see the approximate edge of what I will ever discuss or understand in philosophy. Of course I will try to push further. But if there is an edge to a person's experience of a certain subject. wouldn't it be disappointing to find? This isn't to say that there isn't significantly more to philosophy. Just that I might never experience, understand, or appreciate those things beyond this edge. I guess i'm just being melodramatic. Prematurely mourning the death of philosophy upon glimpsing a possible horizon.
The more fields that one explores, the more unexpected connections one finds. The real growth areas in knowledge are in the catchment areas or overlaps between fields.
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