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Wishful Thinking a powerful (but negative) force?

Poll: Is wishful thinking a powerful force that affects belief strongly? Is it powerful but doesn't affect actual real belief and is actually a form of self-delusion?
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Wishful thinking powerfully affects actual beliefs.
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Wishful thinking is a myth and doesn't affect beliefs at all, it isn't even a form of self-delusion or self-deception.
0%
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Wishful thinking doesn't effect actual belief but makes you think it does, you go into self-denial when you succumb to it and it's a form of self-delusion and deceiving yourself.
11.11%
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Turtle thinks too much xD But I like these threads ^__^
44.44%
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You're posting too many polls and threads today! Stop it now you uninteresting annoying person!
22.22%
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Wishful Thinking a powerful (but negative) force?
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Wishful Thinking a powerful (but negative) force?
October 30, 2015 at 11:37 am
How powerful is wishful thinking and merely wanting and hoping something to be true, when it comes to affecting ones beliefs?

And does it really have an affect on beliefs at all?

I personally think wanting something to be true has no effect on beliefs at all, you're either convinced or you're not....

...But I do think wishful thinking is a very powerful (and bad) force, because it actually makes us in denial and self-deluded into thinking we believe something when we actually don't.... we just want to believe it so much and can't face the fact that we don't really believe it.

I think a lot of psychosis is like this too. I've been psychotic in the past and I wonder if I actually believed any of the delusions of granduer I had even when I was delusional, or I was just unable to cope and in an escapist way I was self-decieved and believed that I believed all these crazy "positiive" things and went to my "happy place" in my head while ignoring reality.
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Wishful Thinking a powerful (but negative) force? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2015 at 11:37 am

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