Benefit and belief

alex23 wuwei23 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 00:03:22 EDT 2011


On Oct 18, 6:52 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> A belief that doesn't match reality is a delusion. That doesn't change
> when someone thinks it's an epiphany: it's still a delusion.

Apparently there was some talk about removing delusional as a
classification from the DSM due to its definition being, in part, that
it was an _unshared_ belief (which seems to be a loophole for not
locking up the religious). With the advent of the internet, it's
almost impossible to _not_ find someone who agrees with you, no matter
how batshit crazy you might be :)



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