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It could be true, but it sounds indistinguishable from wish-thinking.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: What Does 'Jesus Loves Me' Actually Mean? Valerie Tarico 2010
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It could be true, but it sounds indistinguishable from wish-thinking.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: What Does 'Jesus Loves Me' Actually Mean? Valerie Tarico 2010
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It could be true, but it sounds indistinguishable from wish-thinking.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: What Does 'Jesus Loves Me' Actually Mean? Valerie Tarico 2010
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The so-called Abu Omar case will test whether the Obama administration can successfully unravel the tangled web of ineptitude, cowardice, and naïve wish-thinking that have permeated the Bush administration's campaign against Al Qaeda.
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Political predictions are usually wrong, because they are usually based on wish-thinking, but they can have symptomatic value, especially when they change abruptly.
Some Thoughts For Washington Generals “Conservatives” - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009
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If you really care about the unborn, you wouldn't argue/hold/try to enact wish-thinking untenable laws.
Asked at the Saddleback Forum "when does a[n unborn] baby get human rights," why did Obama say the answer is "above my pay grade"? Ann Althouse 2008
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~ Exclusive excerpts from Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great -- "There are four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking."
Speedlinking 4/26/07 William Harryman 2007
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English writers who consider Communism and Fascism to be the same thing invariably hold that both are monstrous evils which must be fought to the death: on the other hand, any Englishman who believes Communism and Fascism to be opposites will feel that he ought to side with one or the other. 3 The reason for this difference of outlook is simple enough and, as usual, is bound up with wish-thinking.
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Political predictions are usually wrong, because they are usually based on wish-thinking, but they can have symptomatic value, especially when they change abruptly.
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It is a tough or realistic worldview which fits in with the American form of wish-thinking.
joeldenning commented on the word wish-thinking
The religious impulse, according to Freud, cited by Christopher
Hitchens at page 247 is "ineradicable until or unless the human species can conquer its fear of death and its tendency to wish thinking.
September 3, 2012