I continue to be amazed at the amount of "I have never seen this happen and therefore it never happens" beliefs that exist online.
@thewebrecluse This phenomenon underlies so much, too. It's the driving force that makes social bubbles so toxic. My mother-in-law's friends are all liberals so she categorically refuses to believe data showing that elderly people tend to support the GOP. My MAGA cousins don't know anyone who doesn't love Trump, so his bad poll numbers are clearly fake. I've met many people who argue, "It's cold here, so Global Warming is a hoax." As if they don't know what a 'globe' is!
@Myana EXACTLY.
You know I'm always going on and on about everyone's individual reality including how they understand language etc.
This doesn't happen in MY reality and therefore it doesn't happen in anyone elses.
This isn't what that word means to ME.
This information doesn't match the information I found in MY reality.
and on and on ...
@thewebrecluse I get this at work all the time
My stepmother used to say that to me a lot. I would share something that happened to me and she would respond “I don’t believe that”. Like I was lying about it happening.
I eventually quit telling her anything of substance.
"I don't believe that."
There is SO much power in that sentence isn't there? It's so simple. So final. So absolute. The denial is so concrete.
She taught my half sister (her daughter) to say it too. I finally can step over the rage and just walk away when she says it now.
I don’t care what she believes.
@LnzyHou I think at this point no one cares what anyone else believes either ... there's no truth.
There is no such thing as consensus reality ... only beliefs.
𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙛: certainty, conviction refer to acceptance of, or confidence in, an alleged fact or body of facts as true or right 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙛.
The definition needs to change and have added ...
... 𝙤𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙗𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩 𝙚𝙨𝙥 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙣𝙚'𝙨 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙍𝙀𝘿 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮.
I realized a long time ago that this was an extreme form of what we talked about in philosophy as #UnperceivedExistence (if a tree fell and no one heard it etc etc) but there is very little logic involved in a BELIEF that your LACK OF witness to an "event" means that the "event" didn't happen for ANOTHER PERSON or GROUP OF PERSONS.