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" JimH" wrote in message ... "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Lord Reginald Smithers wrote: Harry, My only question is were you lying today or were you lying on July 20,2002 when you said: Harry Krause wrote: My heritage? You mean my Russian-Polish-Ukrainian-and-possibly-German (the borders moved a lot) grandparents? "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... It's just another Smithers' lie. I was born in Connecticut, my mother was born in Massachusetts and my father was born in Pennsylvania. I was reared in Connecticut. If you want to call me a "Yankee," or a "Yankee-American," that would be appropriate. One member of my family has some ancestors who arrived on these shores from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany in the 1700s and 1800s, while other ancestors were already here - they were Native Americans, as it were. And since the Native Americans supposed came across the Bering Straits, why that makes that relative of Russian heritage, I suppose. There's no doubt about Smithers' heritage, of course. He's purebred Assho*e American. -- 20 January 2009: The End of an Error. My, my....Smitherscum certainly is a busy little obsessed asshole, eh? So, three years ago, someone asked about my "heritage," and I responded with sarcasm four of the possible countries of origin of my grandparents, and Smithers thinks "Russian" is my heritage, even though I am second-generation American, of parents born in the United States? Well, that means my relative whose ancestors came from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany, and who is part Cherokee must also have Russian heritage because of the Bering Straits connection. Unfrickenbelievable. What a gem you are Harry. Not really, when you consider.............. "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." |