08-27-2011, 12:36 PM
(08-27-2011, 12:22 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote:When personal bias (hope or fear based) - not one's unique 'distortion' - fills in the gaps in understanding, or when desires greatly overextend what is known with what one would like to see. We promote our bias in order to influence and reinforce our own and other's prejudices. Further, we often do this because we perceive that the ends justify the means - this is the 'consequentialist' attitude. That is the dishonest approach, and in this manner we prostitute unconscious. It's a form of lying to oneself, and others, which energizes and only necessitates further fantasy-drama catalyst.(08-27-2011, 01:46 AM)zenmaster Wrote: People can't help it due to their lack of honesty before posting - it's quite fool proof, and a large part of how we get something out of the experience here.
I'm not following what you mean by "lack of honesty before posting".