"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:


Obviously not, I have told you what I earned last year. Are you
intimidated by what I earned last year? Does it make you feel insecure
that I earned more money than you? It makes Harry insecure about what
I
earned last year. Now Harry knows that when I say I earned more than
him
it is the truth.


Uh, Bertie, I don't want to burst your balloon, but the last time I
earned
as little as you claimed you earned last year was in 1976. That was the
last year I worked for an ad agency in the District of Columbia, and I
earned about $90k the senior account executive. Just as that year was
ending, I opened my own marketing communications company with the help
of
business commitments from prospective clients, and completed the
following
year, 1977, earning more personally than you claimed you earned last
year.

That was what, 28 years ago?

Your claimed earnings of $115,000? Nice, but no big deal in the DC
metro
area. There are thousands of GS-15 government employees who earn that
here.

Ok, so what did you earn last year?



"Narcissists are grandiose. They live in an artificial self invented from
fantasies of absolute or perfect power, genius, beauty, etc. Normal
people's
fantasies of themselves, their wishful thinking, take the form of
stories --
these stories often come from movies or TV, or from things they've read or
that were read to them as children. They involve a plot, heroic activity
or
great accomplishments or adventu normal people see themselves in
action,
however preposterous or even impossible that action may be -- they see
themselves doing things that earn them honor, glory, love, riches, fame,
and
they see these fantasy selves as personal potentials, however tenuous"

"Narcissistic men can be infatuated with their own looks, too,
............. but are more likely than women to get hung up on their
intelligence or the importance of their work -- doesn't matter what the
work
is, if he's doing it, by definition it's more important than anything you
could possibly do"

"Narcissists don't volunteer the usual personal information about
themselves, so they may seem secretive or perhaps unusually reserved or
very
jealous of their privacy. All these things are true, but with the special
narcissistic twist that, first, their real life isn't interesting to them
so
it doesn't occur to them that it would be interesting to anyone else and,
second, since they have not yet been transfigured into the Star of the
Universe, they're ashamed of their real life. They feel that their jobs,
their friends and families, their homes and possessions aren't good enough
for them, they deserve better. "