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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: one_less who wrote (41794)4/7/1999 2:06:00 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
choosing to ignore
You are talking in riddles now. This is not unusual behavior within a closed meme set. The further you get from the all powerfull magician who can grant your every desire (so long as your desires are acceptable within the set) the more stressed you get. So the pattern always returns to the center, back to the magic where you feel happy in your heart. It's a self-reenforcing delusion.

Every successfull set of ideas (meme set) has both a reward system for maintaining consistency, and a penalty system if the ideas are contradicted. Those that don't just don't catch on with many people and the ideas are forgotten (although since the invention of writing they can rise again often with the missing component supplied by a later generation).

I maintain the scientific method is a superior meme set because it is constantly expanding and it's results are useful to both the scientist and the world at large. The internal rewards are good when you understand a difficult item and great when you discover something new. It has a self correcting mechanism of peer review and repeatability which reduces the number of contradictions. The penalty set tends more to having your theory laughed at or ignored, than to getting burned at the stake or beheaded. One of it's best qualities is that it coexists well with other meme sets. I know some religous scientists who maintain that there are some questions they don't ask because they don't really want to know the answer. There is no central authority or guidebook that insists that we ask every question that comes to mind.
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