--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > This is ridiculous. He is getting your goat > > and you are letting him. > > Bingo. > > The key to whether you and Judy can continue to discuss > thing amicably may depend on how she answers this. If > she claims it isn't true, after having spent almost half > of her posts this week dissing me,
That would be 9 of 31 posts. It's just Barry's *opinion* that 9 is "almost half" of 31, you see. Since one opinion is as good as another and there are no such things as "facts," it would be terribly unfair to accuse him of lying. I suggest that her > statement should be read into evidence in the case of > Ms. I Never Lie vs. Reality. "Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings.[1] "Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted unconscious impulses or desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them. "An example of this behavior might be blaming another for self failure. The mind may avoid the discomfort of consciously admitting personal faults by keeping those feelings unconscious, and by redirecting libidinal satisfaction by attaching, or "projecting," those same faults onto another person or object.... "In psychopathology, projection is an especially commonly used defense mechanism in people with certain personality disorders: 'Patients with paranoid personalities, for example, use projection as a primary defense because it allows them to disavow unpleasant feelings and attribute them to others'.[17] "Indeed, all 'the primitive defenses, such as splitting, [projection] and projective identification, are commonly connected with primitively organized personalities, such as':[18] "Borderline personality disorder Narcissistic personality disorder Antisocial personality disorder Psychopathy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
