or motivated reasoning

maybe those are the same thing

people don't just go in random directions

they go in directions that satisfy some emotional need

perhaps a need to feel special or powerful or insightful

or to justify other beliefs

i see that a lot on both the right and the left

Psychology to me is the most fascinating area of study

I don't believe we put enough attention or emphasis on it

As a culture

psyche logos

*I noticed when we started to knock off the jezebel energy, I had a dream where his....we were in an underground base, and his physical body started to rehabilitate. Like he, like it was someone coming out of a coma. And I got the vibe that that was representative of us knocking off the toxic feminine, rehabilitates the divine masculine. We need the divine masculine in balance with the divine feminine to speed time.*
-Lauren Pritchard, 2020

See, there is a sophisticated thought in there

see

It's just clothed in crazy language

And symbolism

people can get to the right answer by different rationalizations

or mysticalizations

Yes

Different cognitive mode

this goes with one of the thoughts that has been occupying my mind lately

which is that we come to conclusions first and then rationalize them

this is way over my pay-grade

i can't find the sophistication

and then most people think that they came to the conclusion by thinking about it rationally

I think you're probably right about that

The rationalization is like a justification after the fact for the conclusion you've already come to intuitively

life is way too complicated for anyone to navigate it with pure logic

we use a variety of other means to get through life without thinking about it

and logic is insufficient for action anyway

ultimately

language usually uses pure logic

to navigate people

basic language

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/242778668009652224/672126051824173057/we_all_post_cringe_sometimes.jpg

language isn't how people make decisions, or it is only part of the way that people make decisions

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Using language is a decision

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she just said Prince, the musician/recording artist, was an angelic deity known as the purple one.