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MrPatan on March 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Call yourself titles

"Lying to ourselves" is arguably one of the main functions of our brains, and one of the reasons we ended up with such big brains at all.

Who would object to using this built-in capability for positive purposes for once? Baffling.

Remember, it's not a lie if you believe it

klabb3 on March 25, 2023 | [–]

A wise man I know once said that the difference between man and animal is that while some animals like apes CAN be indoctrinated (the banana experiment) humans WANT to be indoctrinated.

2h on March 26, 2023 | [–]

> Remember, it's not a lie if you believe it

poes law in full force here

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

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