Delusions vs. Reality

[firekitten15]

People will never not be interesting...
What they think and what they want to hear don't always seem to match up with what other people see and know.
What are people's thoughts on this?

 

 

[Troy Spiral (13)]

It seems crazy to 'self-examined' people that this sort of delusion is pretty common.  People just never learned to look at things even remotely objectively.   It's all about how "I feel" or "what I believe" not... let me look into this and see what is going on with <whatever> without putting my personal nonsense into it.  The level of cluelessness that first girl had is this concept gone insane.  

I think about it pretty often and even read books about this subject.  'Why People Believe Weird Things' and "50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True" are two of my favorites.  They might be a bit of a hard read.   There is a really interesting chapter in Shermer's book (weird things) about "why SMART people believe weird things".   Even people like say... me ... that should know better believe things not based on fact and are blind to it without realizing it.  It's just a frustrating quirk of the lizard part of our brain that we make huge mistakes but would have no idea that we did it without massive proof.  Our memory and perception are flawed more than we realize.  So idiots have no chance.  Hah.

[Vater Araignee]

MY EARS ARE BLEEDING!!!!

All right Firekitten, what is your address so I can send you my shirt for blood stain removal!

 

*walks away mumbling about fucking snowflakes and their subjective realities*

[TronRP]

However, the wedding proposals were adorable...

[firekitten15]

21 hours ago, Vater Araignee said:

MY EARS ARE BLEEDING!!!!

All right Firekitten, what is your address so I can send you my shirt for blood stain removal!

Uhm...I suggest Bleach