Bernd
2025-07-01 01:34:31 ⋅ 1d
No. 343983
Several days ago, I had shared with my friends the video of the pastor who claims to revive the dead. Exactly that video that another Bernd posted. Then my imagination took off, and to cut a long story short: Okay, Bernd, how would you discover you're not part of a set-up?
I want real arguments. Going to a psychologist or a psychiatrist isn't a refutation, nor is saying you let your imagination run wild. Just think, if they can raise a child from one of those terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda or the Colombian rebels to believe that (a) they're in a chronic war and (b) there's no escape and that only that path exists. Why couldn't they have raised you to believe your life is normal and that you're actually part of a gigantic circus?
>Hurr durr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Show_delusion
>But
https://youtu.be/hpcGWkORCJo?si=7_j51qPOLMSvJZ6b
Bernd
2025-07-01 12:13:32 ⋅ 1d
No. 343989
>Why couldn't they have raised you to believe your life is normal and that you're actually part of a gigantic circus?
I see something similar happening all the time. As someone interested in solving mental illness and issues, I often notice how abused people get raised to believe the constant mistreatment they received as a child or young adult is normal. It takes years of work and actual deprogramming to unlearn everything, but generally speaking you just have to force yourself to accept new environments and share your experiences with other people. You can see this experience simulated in children who were raised up in American cults, for example.
(I even googled "truman show cult" just now and there's a lot of ex-cult members relating to the show apparently)
Bernd
2025-07-01 15:42:45 ⋅ 1d
No. 343994
at this age the indoctrinated circus world view would be so deeply ingrained that it would be hopeless to try to change my thinking
Bernd
2025-07-01 20:05:46 ⋅ 1d
No. 344006
>>343989
That's a good example. They do the same thing with many children in the Middle East and Africa. Also here in Latin America.
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control
But I'd like to take it to its most radical level. Have you ever seen or heard about a topic and suddenly places you frequent or people you talk to bring up or mention that topic as if they've always known about it or been there?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Experts will say it's because when we touch on a topic, we're more attentive to when it reappears. It's like you've been walking past that Coca-Cola billboard your whole life, but only when you drank the drink did you begin to realize it was advertising for that company. However, you still have a strange feeling that everything now revolves around your interests or vision. (A strategic deception of the brain, they'll argue.)
Well, The Truman Show would take it to the radical level that it's not an accidental topic, nor a change in perception.
With what arguments, in the Cartesian style, could we refute that we are not part of a show or something worse? (I honestly find that impossible.)
>>343994
>The truth will set you free
Oh, I made a huge mistake with your post. Bernd, especially your pics. But anyway, here's the thing:
But I take it to the most psychosocial (not physical) extreme. What if what surrounds us is a staged scene? Like The Truman Show, The Matrix, or The Island.
But especially The Truman Show. Could you rationally escape that?
I know you see moving on as an option. But I don't know if that answers my question.
Bernd
2025-07-02 03:24:02 ⋅ 21h
No. 344014
>>344006
i'm saying that i'm too old and have lived too long believing these Truman Show beliefs I have been indoctrinated to be able to understand another kind of world view
