nov 25th, 2009
in case you were wondering what this sort of delusion is called, here's the answer: pareidolia.
an amateur parsing of it is pare + idol + ia: let me attempt to say what it means -- para (like), idol (idol), that is, the tendency to make things idols :-)
perfect description of the "i saw the arab corpse on the side of a freeway overpass in LA" type paranoid delusion.
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