T38 - Delusions - C 10
People delude themselves because it makes them happy.
posted by Russ | 4:31 AM
Portrait Of A Seeker Of Essence
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6 Comments:
Traci from Hoboken
If delusions make you happy then you're more deluded than you think you are.
We all NEED our delusions. Without them we would feel lost. Personally, I'm not even sure of the extent of mine or even what all of them are but without them I'd lose my identity. Who would I be?
Traci from Hoboken
You poor baby. Come to mama. Come bury yourself in my fake breasts.
I see that you get it.
Gene from St. Louis
Here’s an American delusion from the past: Vietnam (60's and early 70's). That war
was based on a principle from the 1950's which, by the 1980's, turned out to be
utterly false: the Domino Theory. Even McNamara admitted in memoirs/interviews
in the 1990's that his foreign policy assumptions were wrong during that time. So,
what does that say? 50,000 Americans and perhaps hundreds of thousands of
Asians died for other peoples’ delusions. What does that tell you about history,
future wars and where you want to place yourself in the political
and philosophical spectrums which will be in place during the rest of your lifetime?
Jesus from New Nazareth
Another psychological reason for why people need religions: they’re compensation for the powerlessness that people feel in their lives. People feel helpless to effect the world around them. Impotent in this sense. They know who rules their lives from economic and political points of view and it’s not them. That’s why a lot of people don’t exercise their voting right. Getting back to religion, people can use religion rebelliously to thumb their noses at happenings in our material world by having the last say in rational conversations (of any kind, with individuals or with social conventions or with news or information about the world): “Yes, I understand that you say one thing and do another and yes, what you say makes sense (even though I know I’ll get screwed in the end), so I have my Faith and even though it can’t be proven I’ll take the irrationality of my Faith over your logic and rationality and your ‘truth’ anytime. And anyone who doesn’t agree with me (and my choice of irrationality) is going to hell.”
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