BUT.... a bit put off with seemingly simple questions from him....this one especially....not so much the original question...we all have brain freeze occasionally .....but the response to Dan McEntee really bugs me
He has been doing this for years, that's how he got tossed off Stuka Stunt, and why people have been begging Bob to kick him off here for years. He bullies people while playing the victim, he admits he trolls and is delighted when he gets a response. As near as I can tell, he is every bit as clueless as he seems in terms of facts and logical reasoning skills.
But from observing over the years, I would speculate that he has some rather serious personality disorders. I think he genuinely needs medical or psychological help. Of course the very same disorders prevent him from getting the help he needs, and makes him delight in the attention he gets for going around intentionally insulting people, picking fights, claiming he is making "lists" of his enemies (for reference, I think I was probably the *first* on his model airplane list, although probably not the top any more). He is very good at manipulating people. This puts him somewhere in the malignant narcissist area, I would guess, with paranoid and maybe even schizophrenic aspects, just from observation. I am also sure he has *other* lists, from the other forums he inhabits. He has been thrown off at least one - Stuka Stunt - for pretty much acting in the same asshole manner.
Just this thread offers a great example. He genuinely believes that people call and email each other behind the scenes to pile on and conspire to insult him. The notion that anyone would bother to plot against someone who is so obviously a troll reveals the delusional paranoia, and the narcissism to think he must be really important. He even has a few followers. He LOVES it when these discussions go on, because it reinforces the idea of his great importance and relevance. Of course, what is really happening is that he asks a stupid question, someone calls him on it, he attempts to bully and insult them, and others come to defense of his victim. Nothing to do with any plot or caring about what is going on with him, most of us just hate to see someone we like (Like Dan and Sean, Bill Morrell, etc beat up by such a worthless individual.
This creates a feedback loop where his delusions of relevance are reinforced. Eventually, the thread gets locked or he deletes it to cover up his own painful ignorance - and later claims he already knows the answer, and he was just "testing" us or actually invented whatever it was. At that point Bob or someone makes him go back to his rathole, then a few weeks later, be can't take it anymore, and out he crawls again.
BTW, he is far from the first person like this "in stunt" - a phrase I use advisedly, since he is not in any way involved in stunt. We have had at least one individual with roughly the same set of issues (some of which he was at least partially aware of although powerless to stop) that was far more "effective" in his delusions. This person eventually overcame these issues, with some significant outside assistance.
Brett
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