Cognitive dissonance is when people feel discomfort due to discrepancies in their own thoughts or beliefs. As an example, someone who takes pride in being honest, feels such discomfort when he tells a lie.
Another example of cognitive dissonance is the discomfort felt by members of a cult when they seek to explain how the end of the world was postponed, as their apocalyptic prophecy did not come true. The term was in fact coined by psychologist Leon Festinger in his studies of such cults in the 1950s.
The opposite of cognitive dissonance is doublethink, a word that first appeared in George Orwell’s 1984. Doublethink is the ability to accept two contradictory beliefs at the same time, while being totally unaware of the contradiction. In Orwell’s own words:
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.
This morning I saw an excellent example of this on someone’s Facebook wall (translated by FB from the Icelandic, so not perfect):
Tertullian, one of the church fathers, born in the late second century, made the following observation regarding the birth, death and resurrection of Christ:
Natus est Dei Filius, non pudet, quia pudendum est;
et mortuus est Dei Filius, prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est;
et sepultus resurrexit, certum est, quia impossibile.
In English:
“The Son of God was born: there is no shame, because it is shameful.
And the Son of God died: it is wholly credible, because it is unsound.
And, buried, He rose again: it is certain, because it is impossible.”
Here, the contradiction is religious; only God can contradict himself, the absurd is allowed only to God; we mere mortals are bound by the rules of nature and the rules of logic. The only exemption is that through profound religious experience we can transcend the rules of logic and believe the absurd, hence “It is certain, because it is impossible.”
Does doublethink have a religious dimension then? Has the person who believes two contradictory statements at the same time in some way transcended reason, and entered into a religious dimension? Or has he simply lost his mind?
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Fantastic point. They’re opposites!
We’ve all decried the normies for ‘cognitive dissonance’ when in fact this was doublethink…no wonder you only get a blank stare when you point out the contradictions.
Oddly enough, I’ve said this exact thing (that cog dis is not doublethink) here at TBP before and been told to fuck off.
Now I don’t know if I’m having cognitive dissonance, or if the numbnuts who told me to fuck off was engaging in doublethink. I may not sleep trying to figure it out.
Visionaries are never appreciated in their time.
FACT: While most Americans have wasted much time on Tech/internet a small percentage have been working their ass off trying to restructure their life and find an ideal place to live outside the hell called the U.S.
Remember when we weren’t an embarrassing 3rd world country?
Yes I do remember. Reagan was President. Went downhill from there.
Lew Rockwell = Nut Job
Hi, Langley.
I’m not here to save souls or discuss soul ponzi, I’m old enough to know some things are/were taboo. Though I will say that the preacher sounds like a low information person, and would refrain from blindly accepting counsel from any such individual.
“Here, the contradiction is religious; only God can contradict himself”, sorry, wrong. People contradict themselves quite regularly.
Praise the Lord and pass that collection plate.
Peace, L.
They lied to you about open borders…they lied about Hillary’s 30,000 deleted emails…they lied about spying on Trump…they lied about Russian Collusion…they lied about a perfectly fine Ukrainian phone call…they lied about massive Biden corruption in Ukraine and China… they lied about the Hunter Biden laptop…they lied about the origins of Covid…they lied about the need for lockdowns and masks…they lied about the need for Covid vaccines…they lied about the vaccines being “safe and effective”…they lied and covered up all the deaths and injuries from the vaccine…they lied about the success of miracle drugs Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin…and they lied about the stolen 2020 election…and just days ago, they lied again about the clearly rigged and stolen 2022 midterm election.
You’ve all been the victims of nonstop severe gaslighting for decades now. You’re all part of a human psychology experiment in the limits that government and media can go in propaganda and brainwashing that FAR too many didn’t understand…while you can see they’re lying right in front of your eyes.
No wonder so many have CD.
All part of the plan.
Remember that everything you are fed isn’t real.
My Vaccine passport is going to give me more Freedumb.
My “vaccine passport” is a Glock 48.
You can upgrade to be “fully vaccinated” with a sig p365.
No upgrade.
A Glock IS the upgrade.
Lead loss-of-function injection
This site has all he information about the endless lies-
https://big-lies.org/index.html
Methinks in context this means only God can contradict God.
Because he has no power to truly undo anything God has done, Satan’s MO becomes inversion…men are women, truth is misinformation, freedom is slavery, war is peace, et al.
You miss the whole point.. Come back when you have recovered from your numbskullitis.
i’m a simple person. Call it what You will.
1) You arrived at a ‘Belief’, route immaterial.
2) That ‘belief’
was summarily executed, objectively proven Wrong, Blown Up, Torn down AND asunderwas a big LIE.3) On MULTIPLE Fronts
A) You continue to vote.
B) Buy on credit, invest in the
StockCattle Market. AND bitcoin/alternates/Tulips.C) REFUSE to acknowledge the existence of satan and his angels.
You could have stopped at B and it would be just as true.
The Current Events Quiz is a daily quiz on the latest news. Each bit begins with John Boy asking, “You ready, girls?” and a sound bite of the “John Boy and Billy Pep Squad” — a group of cheerleaders — announces: “Ready? OK! Comb your hair and take a whiz, it’s time for the Current Events Quiz! Taaaaaaake C! Yay!” The Current Events Quiz is simple in format: Billy asks the caller a question and provides three answers. The first two are realistic sounding answers, but the “C” answer is always a “comedy option” punchline. The caller must choose C to win the prize package, even if it is the wrong answer. There have been instances where people, despite the fact that they are (repeatedly) told to take C, will choose A or B. This results in a buzzer, and allegedly their name is put on the “Wall of Shame”, a wall which has a list of names of people who have failed the Current Events Quiz. On “Reverse Angle Friday” of each week, instead of callers calling in for the Current Events Quiz, listeners can email or fax their phone number to The Big Show, and they will choose one and call them back.
Funny– reminds me of that psychology experiment where they bring 8 actors and one testee into a room and ask a simple question ” what color is this banana?’ The first 8 people, actors in-on the experiment say “orange”.. by the time the focus of the experiment gets to answer they have been “primed” and an amazing 65% of the people answer that the banana is orange.
So many will set aside truth to be in the larger group.
I talked to two strangers yesterday who told me they won’t even bother to vote anymore.
Kind of late to the party Huh?
Better late than never.
I entered the anti-party party after voting for Harry Browne for Libertarian prez in 1996. Last vote ever. There cannot be a libertarian .gov. They are antithetical.
The cause of and solution to, all of lives problems.
I see this gay bar shooting is being attributed to a Maga supporter. Would be to it too far of a stretch to suggest this is how their going to put FTX on the Republicans when it turns out he used FTT’s to fund his gun purchase??
this shooting is just as fake and gay as all the others.
But the perception by the fugnorant masses is all that matters. Everything is a psyop, and all roads lead to depop and merciless, inescapable technotyranny over the unfortunate survivors.
Technocracy Party of Canada.
As for Tertullian , me thinks the contradictions all belong to him , not God ?
Hurry up and collapse already, or God Almighty, please smite the Sodom States of AmeriKa.
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https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/11/20/u-s-embassy-to-vatican-celebrates-transgender-day-of-remembrance/
This may be God’s version of hell.
I am at the point where I don’t give two shits. If these morons want to jab themselves to death the hell with them.
As long as they stay the hell away from me.
As long as their spike protein shedding stays away from you.
Such a person certainly entered into a ‘religious dimension’, just not one that is aligned with reality.
Video from the 1930s shows the depopulation agenda. Amazing. It’s been in play for 100 years.
https://www.roxytube.com/embed/kRW3lsGd85Q5vSz
Omg, want some CD? New York Toons(Times)- 5 Unusual Covid Symptoms- And what to do about them.
http://www.nytimes.com/article/unusual-covid-symptoms.html
“Covid” was, is and continues to be a lie. “They” will make up any damn thing they want to pretend it is a valid disease. Stop cooperating. Tell “them” to f*** off.
Good Job. Most people can’t see vaxx damage, but you might if you read it.
From ‘The Usual Suspects’ … one of the last lines spoken …
‘The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.’
The same idea is present in an excellent book ‘The Anurag Sagar’ — ‘The Ocean Of Love’ … available to download here …
It’s a fascinating book …
https://ia800503.us.archive.org/11/items/AnuragSagarOfKabir/Anurag-Sagar-Complete.pdf