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@fmf said
I haven't been trivializing it at all.

Of course you have. You have been throwing it around like a custard tart for weeks.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Let's be honest sir, you should have bailed out a long time ago...

I don't think so.

And I don’t think banter like this is you at your best.

@fmf said
Of course I am. I am using the word delusion in its everyday sense. I am not pretending to be a psychiatrist.

You are using it in a strange, watered down, FMF sense. it is not the same.

@fmf said
I don't think so.

And I don’t think banter like this is you at your best.

Subjective.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Of course you have. You have been throwing it around like a custard tart for weeks.

I haven't been trivializing it. The key examples I have used relate to my own former religious beliefs. I don't trivialize those or, indeed, anyone's religious beliefs. If I say that I perceive my former belief in the doctrine of atonement to have been a delusion, it does not mean I am trivializing it.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
You are using it in a strange, watered down, FMF sense. it is not the same.

I am using it in the standard everyday sense as found in the Cambridge Dictionary.

@fmf said
This might be the moment to bail out having previously stated your view coearly if you now think a fifth mention of the same rhetorical gimmick is all you have left.

I don’t think banter like this is you at your best.

@fmf said
I haven't been trivializing it. The key examples I have used relate to my own former religious beliefs. I don't trivialize those or, indeed, anyone's religious beliefs. If I say that I perceive my former belief in the doctrine of atonement to have been a delusion, it does not mean I am trivializing it.

Sir, please stop throwing delusions around like custard tarts.

@fmf said
I am using it in the standard everyday sense as found in the Cambridge Dictionary.

Is that the sole dictionary in existence? Do the ones that speak of incontrovertible evidence not exist in FMF world?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I don’t think banter like this is you at your best.

Just pointing out that you now riffing on the "throwing custard tarts around" thing is not as worthy as your earlier argumentation.

@fmf said
Just pointing out that you now riffing on the "throwing custard tarts around" thing is not as worthy as your earlier argumentation.

I think the custard tart thing has hit home and you now realise you have been trivialising what it actually means to have a delusion.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Is that the sole dictionary in existence? Do the ones that speak of incontrovertible evidence not exist in FMF world?

No. There are many dictionaries. I have not been referencing a definition that mentions "incontrovertible evidence". I have been clear about the standard everyday definition that I have been basing my perspectives on

@very-rusty said
Called the Trump syndrome if you say it is true enough times, hopefully most people will believe it. 🙂

-VR

That concept has been doing the rounds in university studies since the 1970's.
Goebbels stated it long before that.

@fmf said
No. There are many dictionaries. I have not been referencing a definition that mentions "incontrovertible evidence". I have been clear about the standard everyday definition that I have been basing my perspectives on

May I suggest you widen your points of reference?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I think the custard tart thing has hit home and you now realise you have been trivialising what it actually means to have a delusion.

It hasn't "hit home" at all. I just happen to think, as rhetoric goes, it does a disservice to you.