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[itweresport]

What is doublethink? I have not heard this word before.

[OOC: Sorry for the short post.]

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[whateverthemess]

It's the act of simultaneously believing two opposing ideas to be true. This is a bad example, probably, but believing that theft is wrong and at the same time believing that if a person has no choices left, stealing is a viable option could be considered a form of doublethink.

[itweresport]

I...like it not.

[whateverthemess]

Why's that?

[itweresport]

I like not that there may be two truths. I feel confused by it.

[rayney_day]

You've been talking to O'Brien, haven't you?

[itweresport]

...Nay, I have not.

[rayney_day]

Where'd you hear it, then?

[itweresport]

It were a word I read. Is it a bad word? A word that must not be said?

[jungledoctor]

Doublethink? That's from 1984 isn't it?

[itweresport]

I do not understand.

[jungledoctor]

It's been about 20 years since I read it but I'm pretty sure that's a concept from the novel, 1984. Have you read it?

[itweresport]

It is a book?

Private

[greatlightother]

Where did you hear that word?

Private

[itweresport]

It were only a word I read.

Private

[greatlightother]

You...read.

I see.

[itweresport]

Nay, I do not know O'Brien. I only read the word.

[itweresport]

I am not from 1984. My year be-

What mean you by this?