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I wouldn't conflate belief and delusion like this
Mhh, you are right! I made a big jump from belief to delusion here:
[...] their belief in some supernatural power on their side is what gives them power.
So essentially, I need to face that, apparently, I believe in the power of humans deluding themselves [...]
Here, I framed delusion as simply a stronger belief. As if believing something really hard necessarily makes it a delusion, where it doesn't matter anymore if there's incontrovertible proof against it. So yeah, you're right, it's not fair to frame delusion as just a strong belief. You can believe in something really hard and still not be deluded. Good point!
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Ohh, I remember @elvismercury posting about this! This is the perfect time to bring it up again. I've been writing for myself in a journal pretty consistently for a while, and I started to wonder about other forms of writing that could help me. Like this!
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I wouldn't conflate belief and delusion like this. They are related only in that they are points of view without incontrovertible proof in their favor. Delusion is believing something that is incontrovertibly false.
Belief is an ingredient of delusion like flour is an ingredient of cake. But flour is not cake and cake is not flour.
I'm not delusional for believing I can be an opera singer. If I sing operas, even only in my lonesome, I am an opera singer. To be an opera singer only requires you do certain things. That's not belief or delusion. It is fact.
Maybe I want to be an accomplished opera singer though. Maybe I want to walk into a room and have beautiful women whisper to each other "he's that opera singer." Or maybe I want to get invited to sing at the best operas. Or whatever. If what I want is more than merely being a thing I can readily achieve in isolation, I should probably unpack that.
Believing that I can avoid defining what I want from life in detail and still get what I want from life in detail would be delusional.
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