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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Driving me nuts... #141433 03/27/2005 1:13 AM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5 USA Biblio stranger Biblio stranger Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5 USA Okay, there's this word I'm looking for and it's driving me nuts because not only can I not remember it, I can't remember the exact definition. It's an outlook on life where you decide that if you think something happened, then it happened; Reality and truth are determined by the majority. I found this word while reading 1984 but have since returned said book to the Library. An example of this word is: Guy #1 believes he flew around the room. Guy #2 believes that Guy # 1 flew around the room. Therefore, Guy #1 flew around the room. Help please... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Driving me nuts... #141434 03/27/2005 11:37 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5 USA Biblio stranger Biblio stranger Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5 USA Haha, I found the word I was thinking of! solipsism: 1.The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified. 2. The theory or view that the self is the only reality. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Driving me nuts... #141435 03/28/2005 3:19 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Don't you love that "ah-ha I have it" feeling, Biblio. (Except when it arrives smack-dab in the middle of a conversation with somebody else, like, "yes, I think we should landscape the, - ah-ha, solipsism, ya, that's it, solipsism, silly me, how could I have forgotten that - ya, um landscape the front lawn, don't you dear ? " Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Driving me nuts... #141436 03/29/2005 6:43 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin belligerentyouth old hand belligerentyouth old hand Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin > found the word I was thinking of! I myself went to a solipsism conference the other day; we all got together and talked about our own universe. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: solipsism conference #141437 03/29/2005 1:29 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky ! Oh, by, thanks for letting me start my day with a good laugh! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Driving me nuts... #141438 03/29/2005 10:39 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Parm my beg to differmints. What Guy#2 thinks has nothing to do with Guy#1's solipsism; he's just a figment of Guy#1's imagination. I don't think solipsism is quite the word you're looking for. I think the word you're looking for is history. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Driving me nuts... #141439 03/30/2005 1:36 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass well Fong, solipsism may indeed be the word he was thinking of, but his description sure didn't make *me think of it. but then I'm probably thinking only of myself again. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Driving me nuts... #141440 03/30/2005 6:36 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass dr. bill suggests that what Guy #1 and Guy #2 have got going there is folie à deux. folie a deux noun [F, lit., double madness] (ca. 1892) : the presence of the same or similar delusional ideas in two persons closely associated with one another (C) 1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Driving me nuts... #141441 03/31/2005 4:26 AM Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 176 Texas Dgeigh member Dgeigh member Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 176 Texas folie à deux Or 'WMD' for short. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Driving me nuts... #141442 03/31/2005 11:20 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 > 'WMD' Isn't that the orthocousin: for lies - adieux! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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