No, people are not self aware. I knew I was “different”, when in 10th grade, I went to a weekend long leadership conference. On the last day, they had a motivational speaker, getting 200 teenagers all pumped up. Seriously, there were girls at my table who were crying.....this guy was just stoking up everyone’s emotions. And I felt myself also with the euphoric feelings, until CRASH! I woke up. It was so strange, but I realized that I was being deliberately manipulated into feeling something.......and so it just stopped for me. But I looked around, and everyone else was totally swept away. And I was alone. It is a lesson I never forgot.
And I remembered it watching the last election and the raptures people were experiencing. They are trying to recreate it again this year, but apparently, I am not the only one that woke up.
it’s bizarre to me. robin roberts, if that’s what her name is, that interviewed him when he CAME OUT for gay marriage, said she had CHILLS. i mean SERIOUSLY, how can you be a grown up, ostensible professional journalist and say that kind of crap?
I thought you were coming out of the closet here. ;-)