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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.
22.22%
 2 22.22%
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%
 0 0%
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%
 1 11.11%
Turtle thinks too much xD But I like these threads ^__^
44.44%
 4 44.44%
You're posting too many polls and threads today! Stop it now you uninteresting annoying person!
22.22%
 2 22.22%
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Wishful Thinking a powerful (but negative) force?
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RE: Wishful Thinking a powerful (but negative) force?
October 30, 2015 at 10:24 pm
Or how much you refuse to pretend otherwise even if you know deep down that your wishes are impossible bullshit.

I think the kind of wishful thinking I keep talking about, that kind where one is deluding oneself...

...I think it's all a matter of individuals who use wishful thinking as a form of escapism.
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RE: Wishful Thinking a powerful (but negative) force? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2015 at 10:24 pm

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