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Self Fulfilling Prophecy

  • 23-04-2014 2:52pm
    #1
    snaphook
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭


    Have you ever fallen victim of it?

    The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that they were right from the very beginning.

    As an example, a relation of mine has for years felt that I have no time whatsoever for her. This was always untrue but in recent months their behaviour has resulted in them acting in a selfish and arrogant way when meeting up with me. Insults have been thrown and public displays of anger have been shown, their behaviour has thus resulted in me wanting to have nothing whatsover to do with them. :confused:

    Anyone else experience this phenomenon?


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  • #2
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    snaphook wrote: »
    Have you ever fallen victim of it?

    The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that they were right from the very beginning.

    As an example, a relation of mine has for years felt that I have no time whatsoever for her. This was always untrue but in recent months their behaviour has resulted in them acting in a selfish and arrogant way when meeting up with me. Insults have been thrown and public displays of anger have been shown, their behaviour has thus resulted in me wanting to have nothing whatsover to do with them. :confused:

    Anyone else experience this phenomenon?

    Misusing :confused: in posts that are not originally confusing and subsequently confusing people.


  • #3
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,602 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    I had a cat in a box with a single atom of a radioactive isotope that had a 50% chance of decaying within 24 hours.
    When it decayed it would trigger a mechanism that would release a poisonous gas that will certainly kill the cat

    Due to quantum uncertainty, the only way to be sure whether the single atom had decayed or not was to observe it, and due to superposition, the atom before it is observed exists in all possible states at once, therefore the cat is, theoretically, both dead and alive at the same time.

    I made a prophesy that the cat was certainly dead, so I left it in that box for 2 goddamn weeks without food or water, and when I opened the box, sure enough, my prophesy came true.


  • #4
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    I always believed that verbose copy and pastes in italics would confuse someone someday.


  • #5
    on the river
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭on the river


    that i get at least two thanks a day on boards. and i did.


  • #6
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    I am definitely not going to respond to this thread.


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  • #7
    snaphook
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭snaphook


    *sigh*


  • #8
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    ye I do it all the time with study, when I've a lot of work to do, I'm worried about not having enough time to get it done, then I end up stressing out about that so much that I'm not doing the work.


    an actual response OP, there ye go


  • #9
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    snaphook wrote: »
    Have you ever fallen victim of it?

    The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that they were right from the very beginning.

    As an example, a relation of mine has for years felt that I have no time whatsoever for her. This was always untrue but in recent months their behaviour has resulted in them acting in a selfish and arrogant way when meeting up with me. Insults have been thrown and public displays of anger have been shown, their behaviour has thus resulted in me wanting to have nothing whatsover to do with them. :confused:

    Anyone else experience this phenomenon?

    no


  • #10
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Akrasia wrote: »
    I had a cat in a box with a single atom of a radioactive isotope......

    Is that you erwin?


  • #11
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    I just posted about an annoying classmate who does stupid shít, I suspect I will go to school tomorrow and see her doing stupid shít.


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  • #12
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    snaphook wrote: »
    Have you ever fallen victim of it?

    I was out for a walk on a very wet day and I recalled the recent comments of a friend. "Corvus, if there was a hole you'd fall into it." I then saw a pothole ahead of me which filled me with dread and before I knew it I fell into it.


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