The delusional top ten

[Al B. Sure!]

i think another major delusion is that conservatives and right-wingers are evil, selfish, greedy, racist, etc. i mean its ridiculous how far liberals will go to vilify people with such unfounded adjectives

[Az]

how about these guys for delusional?

http://www.vhemt.org/

[Spiffor]

Elijah:
Your last post is absolutely true (in my illusions ) save for one thing.

[note: since I'll be talking about reality and truth, a few little definitions won't hurt: in my vocabulary, "reality" is the objective state of affairs that surrounds us; "truth" is what we percieve and how we evaluate reality. I prefer to do these definitions first, because otherwise, we'd have some confusions]

I think truth is always based on reality and is never completely baseless. While we cannot have access to pure reality, some truthes are more "real" than other because they're more connected to reality.

For example, AFAIK, the Flat Earth Society doesn't take into account the fact that the globe has been circumnavigated or that you see stars very differently depending from where you stand on the planet.

[Dinner]

I agree. These fools should go extinct.

[Whaleboy]

Albert: We're all evil!

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
i think another major delusion is that conservatives and right-wingers are evil, selfish, greedy, racist, etc. i mean its ridiculous how far liberals will go to vilify people with such unfounded adjectives

This is an ordinary olitical strategy. You conservatives do exactly the same (and even worse) when accusing the liberals of being faulty for terrorism, traitors, "un-Americans" etc.

[Buck Birdseed]

There's only one truly big delusion and that's the absurd claim that I could be wrong about anything. Pah!

[Whaleboy]

Spiffor: I concur entirely, except that "reality" to a point can always be made to be subjective.

Its the classic Russell thing really. The desk that I'm typing at is made out of wood, its me that perceives it as a table. The wood is made of organic molecules, then atoms, then subatmomic particles, then energy, then fluctuations in 4 dimensional space time . I can literally (although not, for obvious reasons) go on forever. There is no objective state of affairs independent to human perception so a "steady state reality" is non-existent. As such, all we are left with is truth as you put it, which defines our reality.

[Rogan Josh]

Originally posted by skywalker
It does...

See... delusional....

but this is in clear violation of the first post...

Well, considering every candidate before my post was conected to religion, I can hardly be blamed, can I?

[Whaleboy]

This is bad

But it gets worse

Her insightful and playful cartoon collections include "Nina's Adventures" and "Depression is Fun".

I can say now, with utmost fortitude and determination, that in the face of this adversity, I will continue breeding, and even if I am the last sexually active male of the human race, I will continue to work to propagate my DNA!! It looks like the future of the human race is down to me....

[Az]

I'd just like to point out that there is a hebrew translation, but there isn't an arab one. You've got to give one thing to the muslims; Their loons are more conventional.

[Whaleboy]

Translation of what?

[Az]

of that vhemt site.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by elijah
Spiffor: I concur entirely, except that "reality" to a point can always be made to be subjective.

Its the classic Russell thing really. The desk that I'm typing at is made out of wood, its me that perceives it as a table. The wood is made of organic molecules, then atoms, then subatmomic particles, then energy, then fluctuations in 4 dimensional space time . I can literally (although not, for obvious reasons) go on forever. There is no objective state of affairs independent to human perception so a "steady state reality" is non-existent. As such, all we are left with is truth as you put it, which defines our reality.

I´ve got to totally agree with Elijah.

And as we all differ somehow in the way in which Informations are processed in the Brain and have Differences in our Sensory Cells (for Example the Numbers of Receptors in our Eye for Blue, Green and Red) the world is seen diferently by every Person.

Our Differences in Education also mean, that every Person interprets certain events in a different way.
A good Example of Differences in Education is the Difference beteen medieval and modern people:
Medieval People knew, that Sun (which evolves around earth) sank below the Horizon, because Earth is flat; they also knew that we only perceive the Outside World, because our Eyes emit some kind of Beam (he same Beams which can hurt you if the Person wehich stares at you has an evil Gaze) and that Maggots in rotng Flsh came out of nithing by he Power of God.
We know, that Sun just vanishes because Earth revolvs around axis and that our Eyes don´t emit Beams, but that Beams of the Sun are reflected and enter the eyes and we know that Flies just lay their Eggs into the rotting Flesh and that it is these eggs which bring up maggots.

To a lesser extent much interindividual Differences in Education are still to be found throughout the world and lead them to interpret things differently (for example Differences between a poor Muslim Farmer and a western Scientist).

Maybe Science in some hundred years (as long as the humans survive this long) will find our way of thinking delusional

[Al B. Sure!]

And as we all differ somehow in the way in which Informations are processed in the Brain and have Differences in our Sensory Cells (for Example the Numbers of Receptors in our Eye for Blue, Green and Red) the world is seen diferently by every Person.

i always wondered about this but is it possible that i see the leaves on the tree (which i call green) as the colour that you call purple? while the colour of leaves you see as the colour that i call black? or is there an objective colour system?