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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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*JimH* wrote:
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Bert Robbins wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
Bert Robbins wrote:

Chuck,

Glad you are back safely. You buddy Harry has been having a rough
time this weekend and could use some consoling.

Oh my! Bert sure turned his tail under now that Chuck's back.
That
was funny.
The funniest thing about Bert is that he believes he is anything
more
than a nitwit. He and the rest of the right-wing low-brain-output
types declare "victory" after "victory" here, but so far, the only
trophy they have won is the the booby prize.

But don't mess with Bert. He earns as much as a government
employee.
And now you know that I make more money per year than you do.




Sure, Bertbrain. You make more than I made in the early 1970s. I'm
impressed.

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Tell us about your job as senior executive in 1976 when you earned
$205,000/year (current USD) Harry. That salary is especially
impressive
for one in his 20's.

I was a senior account executive, not a "senior executive." I suppose I
could explain the difference to you, but...why bother, eh? An ad agency
account exec performs a number of duties, including managing the
account
services department, determining the need for advertising, and
maintaining
the accounts of clients. I also wrote all the copy for my accounts.

And since you know I was not in my 20's, and have been advised of that
at
least a half-dozen times, you're lying when you keep repeating that
mistruth.


If you were in your 30's and making $205,000/year that is equally
impressive.

Let's assume you were 35 in 1976......that would make you 64 now. Are
you
that old?



"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"

"Narcissists' fantasies are tableaux or scenes, stage sets; narcissists
are hung up on a particular picture that they think reflects their true
selves (as opposed to the real self -- warts and all). Narcissists don't
see
themselves doing anything except being adored, and they don't see anyone
else doing anything except adoring them. Moreover, they don't see these
images as potentials that they may some day be able to live out, if they
get
lucky or everything goes right: they see these pictures as the real way
they
want to be seen right now (which is not the same as saying they think
these
pictures are the way they really are right now, but that is another story
to
be discussed elsewhere). Sometimes narcissistic fantasies are
spectacularly
grandiose -- imagining themselves as Jesus or a saint or hero or deity
depicted in art -- but just as often the fantasies of narcissists are
mediocre and vulgar, concocted from illustrations in popular magazines,
sensational novels, comic books even. These artificial self fantasies are
also static in time, going back unchanged to early adolescence or even to
childhood; the narcissists' self-images don't change with time, so that
you
will find, for instance, female narcissists clinging to retro styles,
still
living the picture of the perfect woman of 1945 or 1965 as depicted in The
Ladies' Home Journal or Seventeen or Vogue of that era, and male
narcissists
still hung up on images of comic-book or ripping adventure heroes from
their
youth. Though narcissists like pictures rather than stories, they like
still
pictures, not moving ones, so they don't base their fantasies on movies or
TV."