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Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>"Why Do I <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suffer</span></a>?" <br>Examining <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelfDeception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfDeception</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/philosophies-in-psychology/202504/why-do-i-suffer-examining-self-deception-and-wisdom" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ph</span><span class="invisible">ilosophies-in-psychology/202504/why-do-i-suffer-examining-self-deception-and-wisdom</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>The “Average <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a>” is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/believer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>believer</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a></p><p><a href="https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/25/the-average-christian-is-a-believer-in-lies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul</span><span class="invisible">a/2025/03/25/the-average-christian-is-a-believer-in-lies/</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atheism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atheist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atheist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfdeception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfdeception</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/heller-joseph/75457/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Joseph Heller</b></a></p><blockquote>The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.</blockquote><p><b>Joseph Heller</b> (1923-1999) American novelist<br><i>Catch-22</i>, ch. 34 “Thanksgiving” (1961)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/heller-joseph/75457/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/heller-joseph/75457/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=character" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>character</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=cognitivedissonance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognitivedissonance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rationalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationalization</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfdeception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfdeception</span></a></p>
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