[quote]Bismark wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Bismark wrote:
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]Bismark wrote:
[quote]NorCal916 wrote:
That’s a good take on him Pat. I especially like the 2/3s perspective. [/quote]
If memory serves me, Pat doesn’t hold a doctorate in psychology, and I’m unsure if he has a bachelor’s degree in the field for that matter. The psychological analysis of statesmen is no easy task. Even if he had advanced training in psychiatry, which he doesn’t, that alone would still be insufficient for the complex and daunting requirements of the task. As evidenced by the CIA’s political psychology program launced in 1965, such a Herculean intellectual endeavor requires many highly qualified individuals working in close collaboration.[/quote]
MOAR TEXTBOOK RECITAL![/quote]
What an articulated and cogent argument. Arguments are supported by evidence. I cited an influential work in the field of political psychology, “The Psychological Assement of Politcal Leaders”, whose author, Jerrod M. Post, served 21 years with the Central Intelligence Agency where he founded and directed the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior. Dr. Post brings a lifetime of experience to the groves of academe. [/quote]
If you need to talk about the fragile persona you put forth, desperately seeking a positive reinforcement in the form of attention and recognition of intelligence that you so desperately want others to see in you; hiding an underlying weakness and insecurity about yourself, my door is open.
It’s a little sad that you consistently have to be seen as ‘the smartest guy in the room’ in order to garner some modicum of self esteem in order to move forward in life with some degree of self worth. At least the people on T-Nation think your a genius, right? It’s not much, but it’s something.
Your life and humanity is not worthless, you shouldn’t need feel as if you have to ‘wow’ a bunch of anonymous people on a forum in order to feel good about yourself. This need to be superior by using big SAT words on a forum should not be what defines you. You’re fragility is duly noted. If you need we can tell you everyday what a superior intellect you are, but in the end that means very little. I hope you get better. [/quote]
Cute. More internet psychoanalysis from someone who lacks the credentials to do so in a clinical setting, and yet another attempt to avoid actually addressing my post. I post in this forum as a form of catharsis and to practice argumentation. It does not follow that I seek intellectual validation because I do not constrain myself to the vernacular. Writing in such a manner wouldn’t serve my purposes, and my writing style is hardly inaccessible. If my posts read like Kant, you might actually have a point. I also fail to see how using basic terminology from fields pertinent to the subject on hand constitutes an attempt to “wow” the posters who view and participate in PWI. It’s simply an attempt to bring a modicum of rigor to the discussion. Personally, I have learned a great deal from other posters who do so on a regular basis. Thanks for the concern, Dr. Pat, but I’m perfectly sercure in the modest intellect that I do possess. [/quote]
Oh please. Let’s cut the bullshit shall we? You’re not adding any sort of ‘rigor’ to anything. You derail threads and focus on minutia in a post as much as anybody else here. What you do is put on an act, a transparent one that everybody sees through, which is why you get so much crap for it.
It’s nothing more than a big “Hey look at me!” sign, in as much as if you were standing on the beach butt naked spinning a sigh that says just that.
You demand evidence from people making assertions when you make assertions and don’t back them up yourself. Like when you asserted that the blood and treasure spent in Iraq and Afghanistan was demoralizing to the military but failed to provide any evidence for it.
Basically, you’re not fooling anybody but yourself.
And like I said, you don’t know what credentials I hold, I don’t talk about my resume. I don’t need the attention. One can read my posts, or not read them it’s all good to me. If I get bored, I don’t post. If I want to, I do. And you can believe me, or not, I don’t really care.
Like everybody else, I will share an opinion on a topic, which holds as much value as anybody else’s. The only thing that creeps me out is when people get a hard-on for me and deliberately target me beyond what I say in a post. Those are the things I find weird.
But yes, you are just putting on a show here, I don’t need a psychology degree to figure that out. I don’t understand the motivation as there are better forums with more academic rigor than this one on a body building web site.
What we do have, is interesting characters and that’s why I like it here.