On Sep 29, 1:11=A0pm, Robert Redelmeier <red...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Robert Myers <rbmyers...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in part:
>
> > On Sep 28, 12:19=A0pm, Robert Redelmeier <red...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote=
:
> >> Entirely true. =A0Then why do you discuss as if you had
> >> determined "The Truth" and we should just believe you?
>
> > I'm expected to explain your insecurities to you? =A0
>
> Hmm ... inquiry as an insecurity? =A0I suppose so --
> I'm insecure hearing about things without making an
> *****sment of their reliability. =A0I don't mind that.
>
So much of what you direct at me is along the lines of when did you
stop beating your wife. You've accused me of talking "as if"
something were true. I wonder if there even is such a thing as the
truth and, in any case, I don't think I've discovered it. I do think
I've figured out a few things that you with your "logic" aren't even
aware of. In any case, the qualities that you attribute to me are
projections of your own insecurities.
> > In another forum, someone much more influential than you
> > asked me about the Matt Damon character in "Good Will
> > Hunting." =A0Go see the movie.
>
> I own it.
Then you learned nothing from it about the central character in the
movie. In some respects the movie is pure fantasy: MIT and therapy
are both inaccurately ****trayed. On the other hand, the writers
clearly understood what made Will Hunting tick much better than you
do. In particular, they understood how childhood abuse had shaped him
into the maladaptively combative adult he became. Who knows, maybe
there's something like that behind your swaggering bravado, too. I
rather doubt it, though.
> Will Hunting was self-effacing, tentative
> and demonstrably correct. =A0You are none of these.
>
Really? Revisit the scene at the bar in Harvard Square. And Will
Hunting would not have been in the least interested in whether he was
believed or not. His actually audience was his intellectual peer. In
any case, I didn't essay the comparison, someone else did.
> > If I don't entertain or amuse, then don't bother with me. =A0
>
> <shudder> =A0I do not look for entertainment or amusement from you!
>
Then don't bother with me.
> > Just don't try to bring me down to your level. =A0For one
> > thing, it isn't going to happen.
>
> Perhaps not, irrespective of the directio****ty you assign.
> As I have repeatedly said, I'm not trying to teach you anything.
>
> > *Now* you have been patronized.
>
> Really, I don't feel it.
>
Small wonder. You are very well defended, and I'm not a therapist.
Robert.
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