SH Archive Delusional: Etymology of the Word

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Delusional: characterized by or holding idiosyncratic beliefs or impressions that are contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom of mental disorder.

Anyone thinks that this word has something to do with the word Deluge?

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[Timeshifter]

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Username: Timeshifter
Date: 2019-11-20 09:55:16
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Deluge, Overwhelm, with emotion, thoughts, ideas, concerns, hunger...

Delusion out of deluge... Delugional....

 

[Magnus]

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Username: MagnusOpus
Date: 2019-11-20 10:51:19
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Wouldn't the etymology be related to illusion? Mebbe a hybrid of the two?

 

[Archive]

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Username: Recognition
Date: 2019-11-20 13:38:36
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Delusional comes from delude: delude (v.)

• "deceive, impose upon, mislead the mind or judgment of," c. 1400, from Latin deludere "to play false; to mock, deceive," from de-"down, to one's detriment" (see de-) + ludere"to play" (see ludicrous).
• Related: Deluded; deluding.

Perhaps insanity from being deceived and then mocked about memories of the deluge?

 

[Archive]

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Username: HulkSmash
Date: 2019-11-20 16:48:14
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Do the letters G and D get interchanged sometimes in old languages? I couldn't find anything in a quick trip into the interwebs, but I am no linguist.

 

[JimDuyer]

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Username: Jim Duyer
Date: 2019-11-23 15:28:35
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I think that the curious part is this: Delusion, from the Latin
dēlūdō (present infinitive dēlūdere, perfect active dēlūsī, supine dēlūsum); third conjugation

1. I deceive or dupe
2. I mock

So we have a two part structure here - the act of deceiving someone, and then the follow-up of mocking them for that same delusion. Sort of like the Illuminati spreading their BS and then meeting in secret to laugh at us? Or the governments when they sell us their own line of BS and then laugh when they cash their checks?

 

[Archive]

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Username: Recognition
Date: 2019-12-06 11:09:10
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Can't remember if @HollyHoly already suggested this, but, could AD actually stand for after After Deluge? Makes way more sense. Especially when you remember that 1700s would have been 700s, etc.

 

[Magnetic]

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Username: Magnetic
Date: 2019-12-07 00:48:55
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Can't remember if @HollyHoly already suggested this, but, could AD actually stand for after After Deluge? Makes way more sense. Especially when you remember that 1700s would have been 700s, etc.

BC would mean before a great comet! A Russian researcher shows that Christ in Russian iconography has comet like features, alas it was on last years crashed hard drive.

 

[JimDuyer]

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Username: Jim Duyer
Date: 2019-12-08 15:10:07
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Or Alternative Dimension .... As in, after one group of extraterrestrials failed in their war against the evil ones from the cosmos, and thus the evil ones now have full reign to do with us as we wish. Which will change within the next 20 years or less.