Re: Narrow handlebars

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:07:37 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 4/30/2024 9:29 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:

 
Frank, you're trying to rationalize with a willfully ignorant troll ...

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Yes, and a socially crippled misanthrope who lives a life of
self-imposed limitations, and has never accomplished anything worth
telling.
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IOW - you shouldn't worry about trying to defend yourself against a
willfully ignorant idiot with a 4th grade reading comprehension...

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I know. That's why I almost never bother to respond to his online
yapping, just as I didn't respond to the noisy little dog next door.

No, you don't respond because you know I'll blister you with my
response.

The narcissist perceives every disagreement - let alone criticism - as
nothing short of a threat. He reacts defensively. He becomes
indignant, aggressive and cold. He detaches emotionally for fear of
yet another (narcissistic) injury. He devalues the person who made the
disparaging remark.

By holding the critic in contempt, by diminishing the stature of the
discordant conversant - the narcissist minimises the impact of the
disagreement or criticism on himself. This is a defence mechanism
known as cognitive dissonance.

Like a trapped animal, the narcissist is forever on the lookout: was
this comment meant to demean him? Was this utterance a deliberate
attack? Gradually, his mind turns into a chaotic battlefield of
paranoia and ideas of reference until he loses touch with reality and
retreats to his own world of fantasised and unchallenged grandiosity.

When the disagreement or criticism or disapproval or approbation are
public, though, the narcissist tends to regard them as Narcissistic
Supply! Only when they are expressed in private - does the narcissist
rage against them.

The cerebral narcissist is as competitive and intolerant of criticism
or disagreement as his somatic counterpart. The subjugation and
subordination of others demand the establishment of his undisputed
intellectual superiority or professional authority.

https://www.healthyplace.com/personality-disorders/malignant-self-love/narcissists-disagreement-and-criticism