---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Anyway, I suspect he'll try to keep this up for a while, because it's getting him what he really wants, which is attention. salyavin808 <[email protected]>
Whoever they are they are certainly bitter and twisted and clearly dysfunctional enough to be a long term TMer... So, you once lived at a TM Center for what, 12 years - until they kicked you out, and so now you're bitter and twisted and dysfunctional as a long term TMer. Can you spell cognitive dissonance? Already done. The way I figure it, these guys' (Steve, Richard, and now Ak_Ak) fantasies must revolve around "ruining my day" by revealing deep, dark truths about me that I don't want revealed, the way Judy's used to. At least, that's the way it seems to play out in their minds. In the real world, back when I actually bothered to read their crap, the most their posts ever provoked in me was laughter (at them, not because they're comic geniuses or anything) and occasional feelings of pity. But that got old real fast and was an obvious waste of time, so I figured why bother. So they're all -- including Jim/Ak_Ak -- auto-consigned to the dumpster now. But this brings up a question. Steve's and Richard's posts have gone straight to the crapper (like attracts like) for over a year now, but they still post about me compulsively, several times a week, and in Richard's case every day (I can tell this from a 10-second scan of Neo, without having to actually read any post they write.) Now Ak_Ak will be joining them in that great cosmic porta-potty in the sky, and no doubt he will keep compulsively posting about me, too. The question is, WHY? Who do they think their "audience" is, except each other? I think we're agreed that they're cultists who are acting out the cult mentality here, but I really DO wonder who they perceive the *audience* for their cult apologetics and character assassination to be. There is a psychological study in this. If anyone could stand to be around these guys long enough to study them, that is. :-) I don't get it either. Maybe they see it as a victory over someone even though it doesn't get a response. Maybe they imagine a vast army of lurkers out there who they think must feel like they do and they then bask in the non-existent applause at every "hit". Feeling good about themselves, that's what it's all about. A little brush-up for the ego. Odd way to carry on though, wasting all that time. The interweb is full of people like that, trolling along while their life ticks away, maybe they've got no imagination for anything else - they certainly don't display any in their posts.
