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Re: Why You Should Care About Nukes

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On 4/21/2016 3:34 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Michael, you're dealing with a lunatic. Lunatics do not have to make
>> sense. This is what makes them lunatics.
>
> ...
>
>> Why are you wasting your time trying to reason with a lunatic?
>
> You don't understand my logic.  I enjoy taunting the kooks and lunatics
> here.  It's a form of entertainment for me.  I get to look in the asylum
> without ever leaving my chair.

Taunting a lunatic encourages the lunatic.
Because lunatics usually crave attention -- any attention, bad, good, or 
neutral.

>
> I know I will never introduce common sense to the likes of Roger, Sefton
> etc.  They are most likely incurable.
>
> One thing that I find interesting is how just about all lunatics have this
> one thing they obsess over.  Roger with that picture (not any old picture
> of 9/11 destruction or even the original NOAA 9/17/2001 photo his picture
> is based on, but that particular one with all the kookery added), Sefton
> with precessing spinny things, the tornado guy with the nonexistence of
> water vapor, etc.
>

The obsession is a mask for something else.

For Rocky and Sefton and Jacoby, there's an element of defusing the 
feelings of loneliness and disenfranchisement, the feeling that somehow 
they've been cut out of society. Rather than owning that their seclusion 
is due to their own behaviors, they'd rather blame it on imagined 
persecution. To justify the persecution, they foster mistrust. To 
justify their mistrust, they dream up conspiracy. All of this chain is 
to rationalize their sense of alienation.

For Sefton and Seto and McGinn and Wublee, there's a strong element of 
wannabeism. Unwilling to work for recognition, they tell themselves that 
being a genius requires nothing more than self-assurance of genius and 
questioning everything that science has done. Derision only fuels their 
Galileo-persecution complex. They want to feel smart, so they will lie 
to themselves endlessly in any way possible to preserve that feeling, 
because the alternative is a debilitating black plague of inferiority. 
Telling them they are not as smart as they think they are only causes 
them to inflate themselves further.

The article of obsession is irrelevant. The emotional causes are the 
true source. Beating on the article of obsession is like treating blood 
sepsis by spraying the arm with Bactine.


-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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Re: Why You Should Care About Nukes "Rocky" <wookiee@att.net> - 2016-04-21 13:10 -0500
  Re: Why You Should Care About Nukes moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-04-21 19:19 +0000
    Re: Why You Should Care About Nukes Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 14:36 -0500
      Re: Why You Should Care About Nukes moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-04-21 20:34 +0000
        Re: Why You Should Care About Nukes Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 16:56 -0500
    Re: Why You Should Care About Nukes "Rocky" <wookiee@att.net> - 2016-04-21 14:39 -0500

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