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#141433 03/27/05 01:13 AM
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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...


#141434 03/27/05 11:37 PM
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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.



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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 ? "


#141436 03/29/05 06:43 AM
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> 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.


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! Oh, by, thanks for letting me start my day with a good laugh!


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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.


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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.


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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






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folie à deux

Or 'WMD' for short.


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> 'WMD'

Isn't that the orthocousin: for lies - adieux!



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