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Old 07-29-2015, 07:28 PM   #40
Flyndaran
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Default Re: Social Vulnerability: Daddy Issues (?)

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2 View Post
Give an unclear answer, get a confused response. And a true belief is as capable of getting people to act crazy as a false one. How many people have you seen in fiction getting into trouble because they believe things like "my husband is trying to kill me!", "shapeshifting aliens are infiltrating our cities!", "Revelation is upon us!", "I am a princess from a land on none of your maps" and "my child has disappeared and everyone is denying she ever existed!" and either they are freaking out unproductively or are just trying to convince people of an unsupportable proposition that is totally out of their ken?
When the bonkers is real and rational, the rational becomes bonkers.
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