1.What you want to happen.
2.What you think will happen.
3,What actually happens. (You forgot this one.)
Without 3. it is impossible to declare if someone is delusional after all we all have our own version of "want" and "think". es0teric or someone else mentioned awhile ago that they didn't like to analyze unfinished work, and I could see why they wouldn't want to do that because the lack of all 3 create too many "delusional thinkers".
Haha you're right..which was why I deliberately omitted 3, because when compared to reality, everything else is something we "conjure up" and then we would be talking about how everyone here might be "delusional" -me included- but that wasn't what I was trying to get at.
I was only drawing comparison between (1) and (2). As Tyrion Lannister (Tyrion also wants a cameo appearance here alongside foxy lady's Dumbledore XDDD) puts it "a wise man once said you should never believe a thing simply because you want to believe it".
"What we think will happen" is defined by logic and rational reasoning and sometimes even intuition (but even for intuition one can argue that it is less about suddenly "knowing" the right answer and more about instinctively understanding what information is unimportant and can thus be discarded i.e. as a "common wisdom" emerging over what information was superfluous and what was essential)
For "What we want to happen", we want what we want and it is not always logical (I want to fly without being on an aeroplane XDDD). I guess what I was trying to say is, the two are shaped by completely different factors and when they are not aligned, it creates a sort of cognitive dissonance if you will.
Does orange juice give me buzz? If yes, 10 orders please XD.
lol I will spike the orange juice just for you XDDD
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