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Offline roamer_1

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Re: How to Break an Illusion
« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2016, 01:08:34 am »
Quote from: truth_seeker on November 14, 2016, 06:24:18 pm
Assuming the protesters are the ones experiencing the illusion, and not us, [...]


ROTFLMAO... There's your problem right there.

It's easy enough to break the frame - just look at what people thought of trump on his last run at it. Look at his words just 5 years ago as compared to now.
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Offline Smokin Joe

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Re: How to Break an Illusion
« Reply #26 on: November 15, 2016, 05:09:21 am »
Quote from: Longmire on November 15, 2016, 12:20:27 am
Easiest of all is not to use such meaningless and subjective labels in the first place.  :shrug:
Yeah, "He Won" is pretty subjective. :tongue2:
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How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis
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