[Kevmo]

Oh, I got the point, wa-ay back, many threads ago,
***If you got the point you would not have written what you wrote, which reinforced what I write.

[7MMmag]

***If you got the point you would not have written what you wrote, which reinforced what I write.

The person you are primarily fooling in statements like the above is yourself.

Read Becker's Pulitzer Prize winning "Denial of Death" to gain better understanding of where I'm coming from, in regards to the pathological tendencies I've been discussing. The pathology is not yours alone, but as I've previously hinted at, quite common and only all too human...

You've been posturing yourself (here on FR) as something of an 'heroic figure'. By your own telling, you are beset by enemies (who made of lessor 'stuff' than yourself) and treated unfairly by the only, shall we say --- regulatory powers that be.

"...it is not that children are vicious, selfish, or domineering. It is that they so openly express man's tragic destiny: he must des­perately justify himself as an object of primary value in the uni­verse; he must stand out, be a hero, make the biggest possible con­tribution to world life, show that he counts more than anything or anyone else."

"...It doesn't matter whether the cultural hero-system is frankly magical, religious, and primitive or secular, scientific, and civilized. It is still a mythical hero-system in which people serve in order to earn a feeling of primary value, of cosmic specialness, of ultimate usefulness to creation, of unshakable meaning."

from Select Quotes from “The Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker

The fear of death, and the subsequent vital lies as Becker called them, which man tells himself in denial of this fear, even the fear of being diminished in rank within a group, and/or in personal one-to-one interactions --- it appears to me you are a captive of, due to the attachment to Rossi and this possible scientific advancement.

The attachment, the emotional investment being one of transference in this instance, to gain and take part in "the heroic", for by the heralding and defense of the "science", your fate and standing (personal reputation) stands to gain, to take part in this transcendence, this new victory, this possible immortalization.

It's no wonder really, you become upset when your own inner narrative concerning what is occurring here is challenged. You must deny that my own words to you, mean not what I myself intended them to mean and further explained them to mean, but must mean instead something lessor, something small-minded and simple. For to contemplate that multiple others have witnessed the same tendency, this same "transference" and it's psychological ramifications, is too much, for it means accepting a small death, a possible diminishing of standing. For not only has a weakness been exposed, but you have been also caught frantically denying the same.