pretty sure that was all tongue in cheek
Posted on 10/19/2016 3:25:39 PM PDT by marktwain
Here’s a little thought experiment for you:
If a friend said he could see a pink elephant in the room, standing right in front of you, but you don’t see it, which one of you is hallucinating?
Answer: The one who sees the pink elephant is hallucinating.
Let’s try another one.
If a friend tells you that you were both abducted by aliens last night but for some reason only he remembers it, which one of you hallucinated?
Answer: The one who saw the aliens is hallucinating.
Now let’s add some participants and try another one.
If a crowd of people are pointing to a stain on the wall, and telling you it is talking to them, with a message from God, and you don’t see anything but a stain, who is hallucinating? Is it the majority who see the stain talking or the one person who does not?
Answer: The people who see the stain talking are experiencing a group hallucination, which is more common than you think.
In nearly every scenario you can imagine, the person experiencing an unlikely addition to their reality is the one hallucinating. If all observers see the same addition to their reality, it might be real. But if even one participant can’t see the phenomenon – no matter how many can – it is almost certainly not real.
Here I pause to remind new readers of this blog that I’m a trained hypnotist and a student of persuasion in all its forms. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to learn the tricks for discerning illusion from reality. And I’m here to tell you that if you are afraid that Donald Trump is a racist/sexist clown with a dangerous temperament, you have been brainwashed by the best group of brainwashers in the business right now:
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.dilbert.com ...
I wonder what scared him off.
Remember, he is "officially" supporting Gary Johnson.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3482345/posts already posted.
He has become a ‘Lilly-Livered Yellow-Belly Duck and Cover Coward” in my opinion.
Wouldn’t want him in my fox hole.
Only sticks his nose out when it is ‘safe’
He uses the “official support” line for humor purposes. At one time he was “officially supporting” Hillary because he was afraid he might be targeted for Arkancide if he didn’t.
I think he’s really pretty much apolitical but is fascinated by Trumps persuasion skills so how can he not be “supporting” Trump?
I have been in some Facebook exchanges with a friend and professional colleague (a PhD in Image Science) who identifies as a "traditional Republican." He is a #NeverTrump guy.
He sees the pink elephant--and nothing you can say will dissuade him. Last night he even claimed that Hillary Clinton is merely corrupt "within normal parameters."
What got me going on this line of thinking with Dave is when he claimed that the Donald "hated women." I paused at that. Am I supposed to believe that a guy who runs beauty pageants hates women? I reflected that The Donald has been accused of bullying women verbally--but shoot, he treats male people who piss him off the same way.
Dave thinks that The Domand is racist. Really? "Mexican" is not a race--neither is Islam. The guy married immigrant women--twice.
For the most part, I am keeping my powder dry. And if, God willing, The Donald wins the election-- I am going to enjoy looking at the minority vote totals that he gets.
I’m not sure he actually left. Then again, he may never have boarded, and now finally is.
Originally, he was supporting Hillary.
Answer: The one who sees the pink elephant is hallucinating.
Just a simple case of drinking too much Delirium Tremens Beer
you have been brainwashed by the best group of brainwashers in the business right now
Very true... problem is the indoctrination started as soon as the child was conceived...
I’m kind of OK with Scott Adams for now, but he makes a TON of logical fallacies in this post.
For example, there was a point where the “pink elephant” was that the Earth orbited the Sun. Well, turns out that “pink elephant” was true.
Then there are fake pink elephants such as anthropomorphic global warming (AGW). Most people apparently have bought into that scam.
Hence, it’s not about how many people believe something. It’s about what is true and real.
Truth: Hillary will be the death of America as a free nation. Period. If we get lucky and work hard enough, Trump may win, in which case this nation may last a little longer before the snowflakes elect a Marxist such as Hillary. But for one, I’d like another few years of freedom...
The engineer speaks.
Thank you for sharing. Don't call us, well call you, just as soon as entrepreneurs visualize something never imagined before, create it, and need someone to provide maintenance once it is brought into existence.
Silicon Valley VC? Lol... :spit:
It has been going on full bore since at least 1960.
The mechanism to do it did not exist much before then.
It was television, then the Universities (teacher colleges), then the schools, then the pop culture.
I believe he is makeing the same point you are.
Tell Dave if he’s a traditional Republican he can kiss his second amendment rights away once the squishes confirm Merrick Garland and/or Hillary packs the court. He has no Republican principles.
I like the line that “Trump hates immigrants”.
Someone said that on a talk show, and the host said, “Well, he married two of them.”
See your can disagree about policies ...but to accept slanderous lies via media manipulation as the truth...that the danger to all no matter what their political position
We're seeing a state propaganda machine in action and it's truly frightening
I have pointed that out—he doesn’t get it. I don’t think that he is a gun owner.
Be back
Tell Dave if he’s a traditional Republican he can kiss his second amendment rights away once the squishes confirm Merrick Garland and/or Hillary packs the court. He has no Republican principles.
Ugh...well, at least you tried.
pretty sure that was all tongue in cheek
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