Delusions that could be real, but they're not

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Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
– RAW

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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away” – Philip K. Dick.

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It’s not a lie if you believe it.

Although I know you aren’t explicitly endorsing that Pandora’s box of unintended consequences and moral hazards Wikipedia certainly does so.

So all I have to do is convince myself of something absurd, and I can do anything I want with a clean conscience! Yay! Wikipedia Rocks!

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“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.” – Charles Fort.

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Wow, quotes from Fort, Dick, and RAW, three of the biggest influences on my worldview. Thanks guys. You rock.

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I’m going to take comfort in assuming that George Costanza isn’t one of your other biggest influences.

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I knew those all those economists were full of shit.

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Correct. But I do love those old Seinfeld episodes.

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It is, in fact, like something from Philip K. Dick’s actual life.

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I don’t know… There’s an awful lot of people out there who believe things that could be true but aren’t…

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