Morality is relative to a value system, but religious values are based
on the delusion of an imaginary god.
I disrespect those that are based
on the delusion of an imaginary god.
The problem comes when people think they do, and then try to influence others based
on that delusion of knowing.
Therefore... any confusion is
on your delusion of thinking you'll get a AAA game for free at launch.
Anand Giridharadas, the author of a forthcoming book
on the delusions of Silicon Valley's tech elites, pours scorn on the idea that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg could possibly be a potential successor to Trump.
Not exact matches
Yes, but its status quo is too wedded to corruption, easy credit, coal and
delusions of global grandeur to make the kind
of commitment needed to develop clean energy
on the scale China needs to continue industrializing.
Like so many frauds, Sam Israel's big con — a decade - long deception that cost investors millions and ended with the hedge funder
on the lam as one
of America's Most Wanted — began with a small act
of self -
delusion.
On the organizational level, positive
delusion can be a morale boost for your team, as it provides momentum, which is also great source
of productivity.
«Instead
of doing it to protect gun owners» rights, they appeared to be part
of the [non-existent, right - wing paranoid
delusion of an] assault
on gun owners» rights,» he said.
«Hitler was not insane or deranged, or suffering from drug - induced
delusions,» he writes, «or laboring under the effects
of some chronic disease such as syphilis, or acting in an unresolved hypnotic trance:
on the contrary, he was sane according to any reasonable definition
of the term, and fully responsible for his actions.»
Dispelling Myths # 5 and # 6: «Extraordinary popular
delusions and the madness
of crowdfunding» by NCFA Canada
on August 18, 2013
If you want to buy this book click here: The Myth
of the Rational Market: A History
of Risk, Reward, and
Delusion on Wall Street
If they later educate themselves out
of their insane
delusions, then fine, but WE — the SANE ones, shouldn't rationalize WHY they're stupid — we should just acknowledge they are stupid and move
on.
Delusions get people crazy and then they might kill or not depending
on what sort
of things they are thinking about.
But you hold
on to you
delusions of nefarious conspiracy and complicity.
Sorry, you believe that the majority
of western civilization is built
on a
delusion or that somehow in the last 200 years people suddenly grew special reasoning skills never known to man before.
These people are are large block
of voters and make decisions that affect us all based
on these
delusions.
Is that why they go to great lengths to force their
delusions on the rest
of society?
The suggestion that life in gilded cage is better or worse than the life
of the owner who changes the paper
on the bottom and puts food in the dish is a godless
delusion.
Religious people pushing their
delusions and blind certainty
of reality
on others.
If you accept that ignorance is bliss for us religious believers, why do you get off
on robbing us
of our happy
delusions?
But thank God we are here 2000 years later,
on the other side
of centuries
of horrific manifestations
of our own
delusions and unrepentant quest for power.
issue here is they believe it their moral right to enforce their
delusions on the rest
of the world.
That purported experts
on mental illness should enable the acting - out
of a cultural
delusion is egregious enough.
Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions
of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern
of political self -
delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip
of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept
on doggedly voting D.
Once you fully let go
of that
delusion and see us for what we are, just another specie vying for survival and dominance based
on instincts that evolved before we had the ability to inflict widespread death, suffering, and destruction
on other people, there is less cause for cynicism.
Religion is a mental illness and those that insist
on perpetuating the fantasies,
delusions and lies hold those
of us, that see it for what it is, hostage.
No, only the dimwits with an agenda to force their
delusion on the sane part
of society do.
Your beliefs are important to others because many
of your cult's members want to impose their views
on others through the legislative process and the more extreme members would like to create a theocracy based
on your
delusions.
Dawkins said: «I'm thrilled to see The God
Delusion come to life
on stage for the first time and for the message
of the book to be given a new lease
of life in this exciting way, it's going to be a treat for audiences.»
That makes a difference to me, just as not living my life
on drugs or under the influence
of some other
delusions.
Dr. Peter Boghossian, professor
of philosophy at Portland State University, in a great talk
on faith - based epistemology: «I disagree with granting religious
delusion as an exemption, and I want to mention there's a budding young scholar here at Portland State University, Renee Barnett [sp?]
You communicate
on the level
of a 6th grader with
delusions of grandeur.
When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and
on which we depend; when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the
delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice
of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desires.
two other people arguing will need to work that out not you so if you stay out
of it it usually works out... god is psychological security for those who need it... nothing wrong with that but reality will soon come calling... usually
on a death bed when people for the first time really see they are alone... or you can beleieve a
delusion... whatever makes you feel better.
Those
of us who are not sucked into the
delusion of religion evaluate it
on empirical evidence, not emotional evidence.
The other is based
on self
delusion, suspension
of disbelief, wishful thinking ingratiating kowtowing to a mythical deity.
Thus the God takes pleasure in arraying the lily in a garb more glorious than that
of Solomon; but if there could be any thought
of an understanding here, would it not be a sorry
delusion of the lily's, if when it looked upon its fine raiment it thought that it was
on account
of the raiment that the God loved it?
Au contraire, Keith, I think that Reality is bravely tackling a problem (religious
delusion) head
on, where many
of the inflicted (the religious) dwell.
It is a suitable acclamation for a remarkably good book
on faith and science, which comes to publication providentially ahead
of Richard Dawkins's autumn offering, The God
Delusion.
And should one run the risk
of losing faith by examining its true foundations, he is certain to be chilled by the dictum, in Hebrews 6:4 - 6, that «It is impossible for those who were once enlightened... if they fall away, to renew them again...» Those who originated a religion based
on deception and
delusion clearly knew that if the conditioning broke down or wore off, it could not work again.
If you are wrong and jesus is false, then the amount
of your life wasted
on a
delusion would be truly sad.
@End, True, I wouldn't claim to know that religion won't be classified as a mental illness
on those grounds, but it would be so inconsistent were that to happen that, barring political agendas, I would imagine that the field would reel from such an obvious bias against one particular type
of delusion while ignoring so many others.
«Faith is a device
of self -
delusion, a sleight
of hand done with words and emotions founded
on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up.
But Hell is not a creation, just a result — not a result
of creative will, but
of human choices, based
on the
delusion that we can do better than God.
ah geez, so true, at bible school we were so brainwashed to believe they were
on another plain that you soon felt like there was a gap between your connection to reality and the
delusion of superspirituality
Fortunately, it is exactly that insistence
on delusion and denial, and this refusal to accept or adapt to the realities
of the modern world, that is causing organized religion in the US to crumble more and more rapidly.
Some are just more prone to
delusion and mental illness because they are mentally to weak to handle the reality
of life
on earth is all you got, nothing more.
When I reflect
on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact
of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses
of religious belief which stem from the works
of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth
of so much
of what these critics
of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique
of the language
of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions
of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a
delusion?
Christians are some
of the most kind hearted people I meet
on a consistant basis, a lot
of them come from good homes and really choose to do good, but with their
delusions and conviction in hallucination, they terrify me that they have real decision making power in the US...