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Originally Posted by Ella
Could you be reading too much into it, Meri? I mean...if she lacked that much confidence, she wouldn't be appearing out of her comfort zone on national TV, in addition to featuring in almost every women's mag imaginable talking about her marriage break-up.
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I could be reading too much into it, but her actions are entirely predictable and right out of chapter 1 of the psychology textbook. Won't bore you with the theory, but I'll use the analagy of that classic scenario of going into a relationship 'on the rebound'. A person has been dumped and feels deeply hurt, so what do they do? Throw themselves straight into a situation where they are vulnerable to getting smashed again. Why? Because of the irrational belief that this is a potential means to restoring that shattered confidence and self esteem. Of course, this is a neurotic coping pattern (ie. one that gets repeated over and over despite the fact it doesn't work) because the person's dismantled self esteem creates an expectation of failure, which invariably becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy (see Simone's performance the other night). Oops - promised I wouldn't bore you with the theory. Sorry El.
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What's easier to believe: that a guy was born without sex in the manner of several Greek demigods and grew up to be able to transmute liquids and alter his body density yet couldn't escape government execution, or that three freemasons in a vehicle made with aluminum foil in an era before digital technology escaped our atmosphere, landing on the moon, broadcasted from there, and then flew back without burning up?
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