otherwise known as, the Macbeth effect
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(07:40:58 PM) blissful: have u read Macbeth?
(07:41:18 PM) blissful: all the witches do at the start is put a wild idea into his head (...“you could be king”...)
(07:41:22 PM) blissful: and thats it
(07:41:33 PM) blissful: he takes it, and the rest follows
(07:41:40 PM) blissful: this is just like Satan's work, how he traps us
(07:41:48 PM) blissful: it is his suggestion
(07:41:55 PM) blissful: and our ego which accepts it, and acts upon it
(07:42:13 PM) blissful: and thats all it takes to make a nobleman with wife and loyal battle hero
(07:42:27 PM) blissful: into a treacherous murdering animal
(07:42:47 PM) blissful: on his own at the end
(07:43:07 PM) blissful: if he'd just ignored them there would have been nothin -he would have been happy, as he was at first
(07:43:12 PM) blissful: u see what I'm sayin?
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