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How can you tell the difference between reality and delusions?
June 13, 2017 at 1:26 am
This is a very interesting question, thanks to someone else chatting with me whose name I won't disclose in the best interests of everyone's safety and anonymity.
For someone who's delusional, how to tell the difference and find reality?
What sorts of thinking do you do? What kind of research do you do? What kind of experiments and experiences do you try out to verify if something is real or not?
I don't know good ways to it but I guess, one should identify the sources of delusions, get to the root of it and evaluate.
Existentialistically speaking, one may evaluate if delusions are practical, positive or not... and whether to live with it or change it.
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RE: How can you tell the difference between reality and delusions?
June 13, 2017 at 3:53 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2017 at 3:54 am by ignoramus.)
If someone actually believes what they are experiencing, then to them it isn't an illusion at all but reality.
(If a crazy man was sane enough to call himself crazy, then he's not crazy).
Interesting but how does this differ greatly from billions of theists who are happy living (or dying in some cases) with their delusions?
Society has deemed this behaviour as perfectly acceptable.
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RE: How can you tell the difference between reality and delusions?
June 13, 2017 at 4:59 am
You can't know whether something is delusional unless you have a context in which to view it. In the context of my normal human activities, people are delusional who think they can fly. In another context, everything I think and "know" might be completely false or illusory.
I'll settle for truth-in-context: in the world view in which I think and function, some things are true and some aren't, and that's good enough.
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RE: How can you tell the difference between reality and delusions?
June 13, 2017 at 5:13 am
Here's something to ponder everybody...
Put your philosophy hats on first...
What if Trump is the good person and we're the arseholes!
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RE: How can you tell the difference between reality and delusions?
June 13, 2017 at 5:52 am
If you have delusions you need other people to tell you they are delusions. We have medication for that.
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RE: How can you tell the difference between reality and delusions?
June 13, 2017 at 6:00 am
Punch it. If it punches back, it probably isn't a delusion.
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RE: How can you tell the difference between reality and delusions?
June 13, 2017 at 6:26 am
Yet, illusions can also be forms of delusions.
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RE: How can you tell the difference between reality and delusions?
June 13, 2017 at 7:54 am
(June 13, 2017 at 6:23 am)bennyboy Wrote: (June 13, 2017 at 6:00 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Punch it. If it punches back, it probably isn't a delusion.
Boru
You're thinking of "illusion." If you think you can punch me without serious consequences, you are suffering from a delusion.
If there are serious consequences, that would convince me that you're not a delusion. Pay attention.
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
