Not at all. i dont believe in delusions. I prayed everyday for 2 years for this woman I have always known to be the one. We met at the end of college and she went away to med school. At first she rejected me but after two years my wishes came true and she finally called me up and accepted me. It was the best feeling I have ever felt. I always knew she was the one from the moment I met her. Every day I would pray and god would send signs telling me its meant to be with us. We have been dating each other for 1 year and we are planning our wedding for next year. there is no such thing as being delusional if god makes a promise to you. I tell every single person I meet who has any doubts about their hopes and dreams about our story and that they have to believe in their dreams and prayers for them to come true. if something is meant to be its meant to be and you have to hang in there.
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> i dont believe in delusions.
This is interesting to me.
I have been close to a number of people who suffered profound delusions. Are you asserting that their mental absurdities were actually things that happened IRL?
If so, that's a pretty unique worldview.
I took this to be a question of what reality is. If you are delusional that is your reality. To someone delusional those of us "normies" could appear crazy. It's all in your point of view and level of objectivity. To your point delusion is a sliding scale, but to believe that you are the most valuable employee at your company is an order of magnitude different than believing there are lizard people trying to poison your pizza while you can't see it in the oven. The objective far end is outside of what I think this person was getting at.
literally yes! miracles and prayers and signs are really real. even going beyond my own story: 70 members of my family were killed in a pogrom in lithuania and the rest perished in the holocaust. my great grandfather was the only one to escape germany along with his two siblings. they fled south africa when the riots happened in the 70s. today our family has completely repopulated!!!! that is one of the most unlikely thinigs to come out of our scenario but the orthodox side of my family all has 20+ kids each. even the things that seem a little hard to believe are true if you have god on your side. ben gurion said "to be jewish is to believe in miracles". i literally make it my job in life to tell people delusions are not real. Because god granted my prayers I tell literally everyone anything you can imagine and believe in is real.
> that is one of the most unlikely thinigs to come out of our scenario
I mean, I'm glad to hear about your family being safe but that's frankly not a huge stretch of the imagination? Collectively the chances of it all happening are very slim, but that could be said about everything that happens in specific enough terms. A once-persecuted family having a thriving family tree isn't a unique or even unlikely result from that scenario. It's a story of familial peril and triumph, but not really one of defying the odds.
To reiterate what the parent was saying - there are degrees of delusion that range from "serendipitous coincidence" to "actual hallucinations caused by taking drugs". At some point along the line, surely all sane people would agree that delusion loses it's basis in rational thought...?