Posted: Mar 13, 2018 10:36 am
Fallible wrote:Keep It Real wrote:Cito di Pense wrote:...people generally do as they please and believe what they want to.
Iain Banks (RIP) wrote exactly these words in the intro to one of his novels. I disagreed with him and I disagree with you. People do not believe what they want; they believe what they perceive to be the truth.
I have to agree with you there. People don't decide they want to believe something and then just believe it.
It's just the other side of the coin that says you can't make yourself believe something. I have expressed the opinion that people believe what they want to believe, at least as adults, at least when they've been offered alternatives. Nobody really knows much about this shit, although the psychobabblers do write reams and reams about it.
To say someone believes what they perceive to be the truth comes straight from the Department of Tautology Department.
Fallible wrote:There's nothing here worth engaging with. Come back when you reliably feel like you can make a post which isn't 90+% sucking your own cock. Regards.
Sounds like you're saying he's doing it because he wants to.