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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (8697)	2/27/1998 3:17:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 20981

I have experienced a couple of times a person telling a lie so long he starts to believe it. It's almost like self hypnosis or a waking dream. Yes, I think self-hypnosis comes close. Think, too, that OJ may have been one of those: in the end he really BELIEVED he hadn't done it. In his case, of course, I suppose it was a way of not having to come to terms with the enormity of his act, but probably this is common enough even when the lie isn't such a whopper. And recently there was the guy who was buried at Arlington, thanks to his "service" in the Merchant Marine. People close to him said his story tended sometimes to change, and didn't always hang together, but--as is so often the case--they didn't question him about it. And they suggest that on some level he really DID believe he'd served...