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| Prominent examples of wishful thinking include: | | Prominent examples of wishful thinking include: |
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− | * Economist Irving Fisher said that "stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" a few weeks before Stock Market Crash of 1929, which was followed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression Great Depression]. | + | * Economist Irving Fisher said that "stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" a few weeks before Stock Market Crash of 1929, which was followed by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression Great Depression]. |
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− | * President [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy John F. Kennedy] believed that, if overpowered by Cuban forces, the CIA-backed rebels could "escape destruction by melting into the countryside" in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion Bay of Pigs Invasion]. | + | * President [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy John F. Kennedy] believed that, if overpowered by Cuban forces, the CIA-backed rebels could "escape destruction by melting into the countryside" in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion Bay of Pigs Invasion]. |
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| While being a poor method for making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a particular form of [[logic]]al fallacywhen it is assumed that because we wish something to be true or false that it is actually true or false. This fallacy has the form "I wish that P is true/false, therefore P is true/false."[1] Wishful thinking, if this were true, would underlie appeals to [[emotion]]. | | While being a poor method for making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a particular form of [[logic]]al fallacywhen it is assumed that because we wish something to be true or false that it is actually true or false. This fallacy has the form "I wish that P is true/false, therefore P is true/false."[1] Wishful thinking, if this were true, would underlie appeals to [[emotion]]. |
| + | <center>For lessons on the topic of '''''Wishful Thinking''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Wishful_Thinking '''''this link'''''].</center> |
| ==Quote== | | ==Quote== |
− | There is sometimes a tendency for [[mortals]] to want a solution to their world’s problems, a program, an agenda, a [[revelation]], a [[religion]], some sort of [[state]], some apparatus that will address these problems and solve their [[dilemma]]. This is [[wishful thinking]], and it may lead to [[truth]]ful [[thinking]] for in truth it is in and upon and through your willingness to engage yourself in this [[divine]] friendship we offer sharing it with others with respect for who they are even as you discover more of who you are; it is this [[process]], this [[action]] where [[our Father]] becomes active, and his action is that influence that is [[Change|changing]] your world, gradually eroding the grip of [[fear]] yielding to the [[relaxation]] within that [[state]] otherwise sought but now found in [[love]]. Yes, it is the state of love that we would establish, and how else can love [[grow]], assume its place filling those voids in your [[heart]], in your lives than in and through [[friendship]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Friendship-2001-04-04] | + | [[Faith]] and [[desire]] go hand in hand, for everyone [[believes]] in what he wants and ''wishful thinking'' is how the [[ego]] deals with what it wants, to make it so. What you desire, you will see. If its [[reality]] is [[false]], you will uphold it by not realising all the [[adjustments]] you introduced to make it so. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=21.3_The_Responsibility_for_Sight] |
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| + | There is sometimes a tendency for [[mortals]] to want a solution to their world’s problems, a program, an agenda, a [[revelation]], a [[religion]], some sort of [[state]], some apparatus that will address these problems and solve their [[dilemma]]. This is [[wishful thinking]], and it may lead to [[truth]]ful [[thinking]] for in truth it is in and upon and through your willingness to engage yourself in this [[divine]] friendship we offer sharing it with others with respect for who they are even as you discover more of who you are; it is this [[process]], this [[action]] where [[our Father]] becomes active, and his action is that influence that is [[Change|changing]] your world, gradually eroding the grip of [[fear]] yielding to the [[relaxation]] within that [[state]] otherwise sought but now found in [[love]]. Yes, it is the state of love that we would establish, and how else can love [[grow]], assume its place filling those voids in your [[heart]], in your lives than in and through [[friendship]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Friendship-2001-04-04] |
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| == External links == | | == External links == |
− | * [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16156178&dopt=Citation A study demonstrating wishful thinking in memory] | + | * [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16156178&dopt=Citation A study demonstrating wishful thinking in memory] |
− | * [http://thedict.net/wishful+thinking.html Articles About Wishful Thinking] | + | * [https://thedict.net/wishful+thinking.html Articles About Wishful Thinking] |
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| [[Category: Psychology]] | | [[Category: Psychology]] |