Narcissism
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aliantha
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Because it's all about him.
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"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
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It's all about what I perceive. 
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Linna Heartbooger
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So at least you know you may be wrong?
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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Vraith
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Heh...I'm always sure I am wrong, at least in part. I know it, at least as much as I "know" anything.Avatar wrote:Oh, I'm always open to the possibility.
--A
I just also, at the same time, tend to think I'm LESS wrong than the peeps I'm disagreeing with.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Linna Heartbooger
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More assumption checking needed more for this one, maybe, then!? 
And as for vraith, given what you just said, do you find it often hinders getting anything done?
(Why I think it might for some people... well... I won't mention that just now!)
And as for vraith, given what you just said, do you find it often hinders getting anything done?
(Why I think it might for some people... well... I won't mention that just now!)
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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Vraith
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Not really. But I can see why you ask the question...aren't there dozens, maybe hundreds or more, people who've made a living or even gotten rich with self-help books/articles/columns/shows that always include the advice toLinna Heartlistener wrote: And as for vraith, given what you just said, do you find it often hinders getting anything done?
"STOP SELF-DOUBTING"
"You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you"
And all the self-esteem stuff.
And those are real problems. For some people they can be as crippling as being blind and legless...
But I don't think it's a mind/thought problem of doubt...
It is an emotional/personality problem of doubt...
An individual can easily suffer from both.
Everyone needs some portion...but not too much...of both.
They are probably partially related/interconnected...but not necessarily.
Like: there are people who are spectacularly gifted with love and understanding of music, but incapable of learning to play an instrument.
There are people who can play anything they hear, on any instrument, instantly...but music is without any meaning/content to them.
Most of us have more or less some quantity of both.
Anyway, being wrong about thoughts/beliefs doesn't hinder me much.
I even gave it a label in a Lit. Theory paper/system I invented for a class: Passionate disinterest. [which I soon realized fails to get at what I mean by it...but hints in the right direction].
The other kind impedes me in some areas...and I think it is the flavor that impedes most people if/when doubt hinders them.
[and total lack of that second kind is a reasonable approximation of what a narcissist is...and good reason, from available evidence, to believe you are not one.]
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.