On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 2:06:16 AM UTC-4, Hopalong Hirschowitz wrote:
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t. I think he post them just to get a rise out of gullible fools.
meone else down, or to puff up his credentials as an "expert." Then he ela borates them to double-down on the authenticity of his story.
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ative facts" and alternative realities, and the import of the big, particul ar case we're living through at the moment tends to sharpen one's attention to how this all works. Big consequences tend to focus the mind.
I wasn't referring to him. I was referring to us. <g> The "big consequences " I was thinking about are the political consequences we're facing on the l arger stage of current events.
Avoidance is a complex issue in psychology. It can really shape one's life, as it obviously has done with Gunner.
lying, which normal people think of as being either pathological or deeply cynical, may actually function in a way that isn't clearly psychosis or si mple cynicism. It may be a learned way of controlling one's environment and life; an alternate narrative that both protects oneself against painful co nfrontations with reality, and that provides a more acceptable story line t o explain one's own failings and problems.
al withdrawal
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wrote:
ed to
's
t. I think he post them just to get a rise out of gullible fools.
meone else down, or to puff up his credentials as an "expert." Then he ela borates them to double-down on the authenticity of his story.
s
t.
o,
.
ds
om
ative facts" and alternative realities, and the import of the big, particul ar case we're living through at the moment tends to sharpen one's attention to how this all works. Big consequences tend to focus the mind.
I wasn't referring to him. I was referring to us. <g> The "big consequences " I was thinking about are the political consequences we're facing on the l arger stage of current events.
Avoidance is a complex issue in psychology. It can really shape one's life, as it obviously has done with Gunner.
lying, which normal people think of as being either pathological or deeply cynical, may actually function in a way that isn't clearly psychosis or si mple cynicism. It may be a learned way of controlling one's environment and life; an alternate narrative that both protects oneself against painful co nfrontations with reality, and that provides a more acceptable story line t o explain one's own failings and problems.
al withdrawal