"maryann kolb" <mkolb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>I just read some of the stuff on MOBIRDS about the banding
> controversy. I find it very interesting what the anonymity of the
> internet does to various personality types. there are many people who
> suffer from Paranoid Personality Disorder to a very mild degree who
> seem to be freed by the internet to give voice to that part of their
> hidden selves. We (the Carolina Bird club) have to deal with a young
> man who is mild and self effacing in person but whose emails are full
> of invective, sarcasm, and just plain bad stuff. In person he acts as
> if the emails never existed. Strange. As a former avid and actual
> student of Psychology, I find it all fascinating.
>
> Sorry if this is boring to you all.
>
> Mary Ann
> Barnwell, SC
>
It's not boring. I find it very interesting in a sort of
ironic/hypocritical
way. What you have done is, in a very roundabout way, called everyone who
posted something you apparently did not like "crazy" by: 1) credentialing
yourself as knowledgeable in "Psychology" (with a capital "P" no less); 2)
diagnosing those people with "Paranoid Personality Disorder" a psychiatric
diagnosis; and, 3) bolstering your authority by identifying yourself as
one
and the same as the "Carolina Bird club" or in your words "We (the
Carolina
Bird club)," which is also a form of ad populum argument (implying that
others agree with you in order to sup****t your assertions).
Part of the irony is that by spouting an unsup****ted psychiatric diagnosis
that requires far more symptomology than apparently presented you have
unwittingly indicated that you apparently don't really know all that much
about the Psychology of which you claim to be an "former avid and actual"
student. So, instead of dismissing comments that you don't agree with as
having been made by people "who seem to be freed by the internet to give
voice to that part of their hidden selves" (which is an ad hominem attack
and which avoids the assertion with which you disagree), why not simply
restate whatever it is you find to be disagreeable and explain why it is
that you disagree with it. All the other nonsense just provides a little
more anecdotal evidence in sup****t of the old saying about the reason
people
take psychology cl***** or become psychologists.
Eric Miller (a former avid and actual student of communication, rhetoric,
forensics and a few other useless disciplines)
www.dyesscreek.com
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