(May 25, 2017 at 3:26 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(May 25, 2017 at 3:19 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I'll just plead ignorance on this one. Whatever it was, it was apparently just to clever for subtle for me at the moment. Work is so stressful right now I put my xanax in a Pez dispenser.
Might be time for you to ask your doctor if you may be suffering from cognitive dissonance. I wonder if the Betty Ford center could help?
(May 25, 2017 at 3:24 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: So when people get paper cuts, they don't really hurt, people just think they do? Or maybe it does hurt, but there isn't anyone actually feeling it?
Pain is certainly going on. That we can ask whose it is gives some insight into how hypnotism can sometimes allow people to disassociate from pain.
Or scarier you can hypnotize people to re-experience pain . You don't need to be physically injured to experience pain
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
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