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- DictionaryDe·lu·sion/dəˈlo͞oZH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. a false belief or judgment about external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions: "he began to experience hallucinations, delusions, anxiety, and agitation along with dizziness and nausea"
9 hours ago · Samudaya (Cause of Suffering): Understanding the various conditions and attachments that give rise to suffering, such as desire, ignorance, and delusion. Nirodha (Cessation of Suffering): Discovering that liberation from suffering is attainable by eliminating its causes and achieving a state of enlightenment.
9 hours ago · On a technical/operational level, the transhumanist delusion of omnipotence exerted on the material/corporeal nature of the living drives us to experiment with new plant and animal hybridizations, with increasingly sophisticated laboratory techniques.
Or for some people it's a part of a delusion, such as zoanthropy or clinical lycanthropy, which i already knew was a thing, but i didn't know some people identify physically as a non-human for other reasons.
9 hours ago · It was a tattered, blood-soaked 'cancer of delusion', and the devil clung to the hope of a goddess for dear life. ...And it was obvious to everyone what it had made her. Somewhere, between the jet black fog of creation, and the cloudy white fog of the present, everything became misaligned. From within, it still felt undefinable.
9 hours ago · Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion. George Macdonald, p. 603.
