(August 10, 2020 at 3:20 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: In one of my undergraduate classes we recreated an experiment from Elizabeth Loftus in which people saw videos of accidents and were subsequently asked to estimate each car's speed.
The variable that changed across participants was the word used to describe the accident. We asked how fast the cars were going when they "hit, "collided," "smashed," etc. The results were simple. People's estimates of the speed correlated with the intensity of the word.
To think you are not altering the accuracy of an idea by framing it with the least charitable words (e.g. magic) is to grossly misunderstand how the mind works.
Your going to have to deal with the negative baggage that your religion has created. If you can't, then maybe it's time for you to change.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
