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**abubycera** · 06-04-2012, 08:57 PM

This topic is about a delusion--something people believe that isn't real. This particular delusion is a bit bizarre I would say, but you run into people every day who have more conventional delusions. Some think the criminal justice system protects them. Others believe that al qaeda is a real organization that poses grave danger to them. Still others believe that what they see and hear on the nightly news on their television sets represents the real world. Lots of people believe that the government 'issues' money, yet they have no idea how. Everybody has some kind of delusion. Most delusions are very widespread. Multitudes have the same delusion. The Truman Show delusion is rare, so we think it's weird. However, if half the population had this delusion, and you didn't, who would be the weird one then?

Most of us here at GSUS think we are less deluded than the general population. I don't know how many people consciously ask themselves if they could believe something that someday would turn out to be a complete lie. I do. In fact, I check a lot of things I believe (meaning I take them as truth) regularly, and hold them up against evidence that they are not true regularly.

And I know all you people are being paid to support my show. Aren't you? Fess up.

Hatha

Hatha,
Good points all... except I think you missed one thing. The difference between most "mass delusions" (criminal justice is there to protect, etc.) and the "truman show" kind of delusions is this:

Any delusion that places the deludee in the center of things, as a "special" individual (a "Truman" character), is more likely to be a falsehood, and more likely to indicate mental illness. For example, thousands of men believing in a supernatural Jesus being is one level of delusion, but thinking YOU are Jesus is a whole new can of crazy!

06-04-2012, 08:57 PM	#28
abubycera Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 467 Senior Member	This topic is about a delusion--something people believe that isn't real. This particular delusion is a bit bizarre I would say, but you run into people every day who have more conventional delusions. Some think the criminal justice system protects them. Others believe that al qaeda is a real organization that poses grave danger to them. Still others believe that what they see and hear on the nightly news on their television sets represents the real world. Lots of people believe that the government 'issues' money, yet they have no idea how. Everybody has some kind of delusion. Most delusions are very widespread. Multitudes have the same delusion. The Truman Show delusion is rare, so we think it's weird. However, if half the population had this delusion, and you didn't, who would be the weird one then? Most of us here at GSUS think we are less deluded than the general population. I don't know how many people consciously ask themselves if they could believe something that someday would turn out to be a complete lie. I do. In fact, I check a lot of things I believe (meaning I take them as truth) regularly, and hold them up against evidence that they are not true regularly. And I know all you people are being paid to support my show. Aren't you? Fess up. Hatha Hatha, Good points all... except I think you missed one thing. The difference between most "mass delusions" (criminal justice is there to protect, etc.) and the "truman show" kind of delusions is this: Any delusion that places the deludee in the center of things, as a "special" individual (a "Truman" character), is more likely to be a falsehood, and more likely to indicate mental illness. For example, thousands of men believing in a supernatural Jesus being is one level of delusion, but thinking YOU are Jesus is a whole new can of crazy!
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