Go ahead.. don't.
Don't think of a rhinoceros
Go ahead.. don't.
Imagine an actor saying the following:
Imagine me saying the following-
????How Can You Imagine Something That Doesn't Exist??????
How about this.Originally Posted by xerx
Don't think about fucking off.
Go ahead... don't
I thought of a unicorn, because when Marco Polo first saw a Rhino he wrote down that he had seen a Unicorn.
I find it interesting that the horn on the Rhino was so important to his concept of Unicorn, even though he was riding on a horse. Nowadays the horse part is more important. Funny how conceptions change over time.
Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.
LII-Ne with strong EII tendencies, 6w7-9w1-3w4 so/sp/sx, INxP
ok, I'm thinking of a rhinocerous-like object filled in spottily by my imagination
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