Explaining belief in the absurd

**The Stranger** · 09-22-2012, 17:58

Originally Posted by Fragony

I didn't disagree with yourstyle, if you take it there that's ok. It' weird but who am I to judge you. It's just different

is that response to me? if so im a bit lost as to what it must mean, sorry :P

(and i dont mean that sarcastic or anything, i really do not understand it)

**Fragony** · 09-22-2012, 18:12

Originally Posted by The Stranger

is that response to me? if so im a bit lost as to what it must mean, sorry :P

(and i dont mean that sarcastic or anything, i really do not understand it)

I am really ok with it don't worry. If that is what you prefer that's ok, I just won't it's too much

**The Stranger** · 09-22-2012, 18:24

lol wtf :P

**Fragony** · 09-22-2012, 18:33

Originally Posted by The Stranger

lol wtf :P

It's about the absurd n'es pas you are my first victim

**The Stranger** · 09-22-2012, 18:35

im still flabbergasted.

**Fragony** · 09-22-2012, 18:53

Originally Posted by The Stranger

im still flabbergasted.

What fun would it be if you weren't

**Ironside** · 09-22-2012, 19:35

Good to know facts. We have a "rejection center" that rewards us when we are rejecting information we're disagreeing (in particlar with an aggressive response, and that's more or less the standard response to bizzare theories). We also have a justification center. In that center we're always right, no matter how bizzare it seems, even for us. So to make up that we're right, we'll make up theories even if it's bizarre.

As pointed out in the article, have enough emotional input into something and you have to be right in this, in particular if you did something evil (to say sub-humans) or was exposed for something nasty (that you deny was something nasty).
Alternate is not being able to comprehend the other person/action. If you can't understand that anybody can be so nice (or evil), then you'll need to make up something in terms you can comprehend.
Of course, sometimes things leaks through, so we have to be even more bizarrre in the denial. Nazis=good, holocaust=evil, so to keep nazis=good, then holocaust can't have happened.