Monday, April 18, 2011

World Literature (4/18)

What is "denial" ? Why might people deny what they know to be true?

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  1. -I think denial means when people do not want to admit something then they will start to lie. So basically I think if you are in denial to something then you are lying and you are trying to keep secrets.
    -DIAMOND

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  2. Denial is rejecting a statement that is said to be true. Often the person doing the denying is denying something said about themselves. That statement may or may not be true. Someone may deny something because it is simply not the truth, or they may deny the truth if it somehow hurts them (often their reputation).

    However, sometimes people deny something they know to be true simply because they do not want to deal with that truth. Often that truth is something so horrible that the feeble human psyche cannot handle it. Often that truth is inevitable but the person procrastinates thinking about it because they don't want to feel helpless or overwhelmed or depressed.

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  3. I think denial is were the person don't want the other person to know that they are wrong and make it seem like they are right.

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  4. Denial is when someone turns you down. Something that you hope want happen to you because it kind of hurtful to face.To me I just think its some that you don't want from someone.

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  5. Denial is when you refuse to believe reality. When you make up excuses even though you know what is going to happen. People might deny because sometimes there is a possibility that they can change their future and what everyone thinks is true really isn't. It could also be that the truth is so bad or so good that it can't be accepted easily. That it bends reality or bends what the person thought of was reality that they refuse to acknowledge the idea.

    There is a smudge on my computer and it reminds me of an iguana on a branch. I don't know what it was made of. I think it was my niece yesterday when she kept poking and high five-ing the screen. Yeah probably it. I hate how my sister and dad are so mean to Artemis. She is only a kitten and doesn't know better. She has feelings too and she knows what pain is too. They don't seem to care though which honestly pisses me off. Maybe there is a deep reason why they don't like Artemis. Like cat attack in their past. Maybe they are in denial that all cats aren't bad. I just connected this back to the topic. I'm so awesome...Yeah :D
    My lip is bleeding. I'm a vampire. I wish I could tele-port. YAY TIME DONE! :D

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  6. Sometimes people don't want to believe what has happened. For example, if there was a horrible event in your or someone else's life it's easier to forget rather to face and accept. Some people need evidence to believe something has happened too. Without it, it could have been something made up.

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  7. denial is when u don't want to let the other person be right. You will never say that your wrong your always right right right, but you know that you might be wrong but you don't want to sound dumb or something else so yo Deni that your wrong.

    ARIANA WARREN

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  8. They want to believe that something is true or not true so they tell themselves that it is. Sometimes they just can't believe something so they tell themselves that it's ok and everything will be fine. They are blinded from the truth.

    I have nothing else to say so ya. I already finished reading Night...again. I didn't think it was as good the second time. I think it's so weird that when I read a book, if I don't know what the person's face looks like in the book, I just imagine it as a blurred face. Like for Twilight, I know what the characters look like because of the movies but in Night, I have no idea what the characters look like so I just blur out their faces. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

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  9. to deny is to like someone say something that you did do but you denied it. Which you know that you did.

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  10. I think denial is when your denying something that happened or something you said.

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  11. Denial is like when you can't own up to something weather it being true or it being a lie. People might deny something to be true because they don't want a negative outcome of a situation to happen.

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  12. To me, denial is to reject something that is true. People deny things because they might not some people to know specific tings about them so they reject it. Or they might not want to accept the truth.

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  13. To deny is to like someone say something that you did do but you denied it. Which you know that you did.

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  15. - they might be in denial because the truth my hurt , they might not like it . when their in denial they are thinking what they want to think and not the truth . There blind and not seeing the truth . Being in denial could be good or bad . the truth might be good or bad .

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  16. They might be in denial because they are scared of what the truth will become. It makes people almost feel a little more comfortable trying to avoid the truth, although they know that what has happened or is going to happen to them.

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  17. Denial is when someone won't admit something that is true. Also, when someone denies something because they either believe that it's false or they don't want to believe that it's true.

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  18. The action of declaring something to be untrue. People might deny something so that they don't get in trouble for doing something that they did/didn't do.

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  19. People who are in denial are trying to avoid some kind of consequence or responsibility.

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  20. Denial is when people know something but choose to not believe it. They believe that it either doesn't exist or happened. I think people deny what they know to be true because they don't like it. If they can pretend that it's not true then in their mind it really didn't.

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  21. To me denial is when someone won't admit something to themselves. Something like a secret that no one else knows, but only you know it. Or it can be a lie that you told someone, but your the only one who knows that it's a lie and your keeping the truth on the tip of your tongue.

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  22. Denial is when you refuse to believe something that you know could be true. You might want to deny something when you don't want to believe something or you don't want to suffer the consequences. People also will try to avoid the truth because they don't want to believe that whatever they are talking about is true.

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  23. Denial is when someone won't admit to thing that is true. I think people deny things that are true to keep from dying or being tortured. Some people might deny that they are a Jew so that they don't have to suffer. I don't know why people do the things they do.

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  24. Denial mean when someone doesn't admit do something that they know is true. People deny because they don't want people in their business or they just don't want to believe that it's true so they convince their mind that it's not.

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  25. When you see something or hear something that is against what you believe, and you know it to be true, many times you will go through denial. You deny it's existence because you don't want to believe it. You don't want to believe that someone's dead, or alive, or doing something that seems extreme.
    People deny things that are true because they quite like the way things are now. They don't want any responsibility, they don't want to change around the truth; they would rather ignore the truth and stay the same.

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  26. Denial is convincing yourself to believe something that is opposite of the truth. Maybe people do it as a coping mechanism to not have to deal with the agony of the truth.

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  27. Denial is when you don't want to believe something, or you don't want to face something that is most likely true. The truth is hard to wrap your head around depending in what it is, and that might be a reason why some one would deny it. I sorta feel like it's kinda like "out of sight, out of mind" in some ways. If the truth causes unwanted feelings denial sometimes is what people use to get out of that.

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  28. people might deny just so they can do what they want. denial is saying something thats true

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  29. what is denial somebody that disclaim something they did. Sometimes you just don't want to get in trouble by the law our their parents. I think they tp neverous what their puinshment is going to be. I think peopple don't want to g to jail.

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  30. DENIAL!, denial is when you declare something to be untrue! I think when you are in denial your lying to yourself and to others about the truth and what's real!. Most people are in denial because they don't want to believe the truth or they are ashamed of there truth! hmmm! something to think about

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  31. Denial is when you will do anything to not believe that something is true even if all the facts are going the opposite way.

    Why? Because the event it too horrific, or they are ashamed.

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