--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: <snip> > > > > What do you think it is that these two TMers are > > > > reacting to here, and are so uptight about? > > > > What do you think it is that makes Barry assume > > that anyone who challenges him is doing so > > because what he's said makes them "uptight"?>> > > Paranoia, I suppose.
Well, he's feeling very besieged right now, which freaks him out, so he has to cut his "enemies" down to size in his own mind. He does that by imagining that they're "uptight" because whatever he said was so threatening to them, rather than acknowledging to himself that they're laughing at him because he's such a fool, which would be unendurable. He makes himself feel more powerful that way.
