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::::It looks like the reverse psychology worked. I knew it would! :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 08:04, 13 January 2015 (EST)
::::It looks like the reverse psychology worked. I knew it would! :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 08:04, 13 January 2015 (EST)
:::::Perhaps sometimes someone will explain you the difference between "being funny" and "looking silly". --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 10:56, 13 January 2015 (EST)
:::::Perhaps sometimes someone will explain you the difference between "being funny" and "looking silly". --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 10:56, 13 January 2015 (EST)
Cons and August: What a pleasure it is to see you two! And in my house, no less, rather than those very noisy places like the Community Portal and Main talk. Those places are too noisy to think clearly, and remind me of a shopping mall just before Christmas.
You two are among the most fascinating people at CP.
So come on in, let me take your coats. Sit on the sofa, or anywhere you like. Can I get you anything? Coffee? Tea? Leftover Christmas fruitcake? Nix on the fruitcake? That's too bad; I've been trying to get rid of it for 3 years.
AugustO: You've done really good work on relativity. I don't think relativity denial will be back here any time soon. Though I did get a nibble on the [[Talk:Theory_of_relativity#An_argument_against_relativity|relativity page]]. I think I may have scared him off with my rather stern reply. I guess I do that to people.
Cons: I'm intrigued by your reference to "reverse psychology", though I'm having a hard time figuring out who was using it on whom. Maybe we were both using it. My understanding is that, in its simplest form, it means asking for the opposite of what you want, so that the (presumed hostile) other party will give you the opposite of what you asked for, out of hostility. Which is, in fact, what you really did ask for. The most famous example in literature is the "Please don't throw me in the briar patch" line, spoken by "Brer Rabbit" in the ''Uncle Remus'' stories. Of course, Brer Bear and Brer Fox (these were corruptions of "brother") then throw him in the briar patch, wrongly believing that he will hate it.
Then there's "reverse reverse psychology", in which you are onto the "reverse psychology" of the other party, so you ask for what you '''do''' want, so that the other party will see through your "reverse psychology" and give you what you in fact want. And it can go back and forth endlessly.
So I don't know what you meant. This:
::"User: Conservative deleted my user page!!! I'll show that User: Conservative who is boss!! I am going to keep editing Conservapedia! I'll show him!".
wasn't meant to show anyone who is boss. (I know you are, of course.)
::From the movie Miracle: Jimmy Craig with finger pointing at the coach after winning game after being pulled the previous game: "I showed you didn't I! I showed you didn't I!" Coach Herb Brooks: "Yep. You sure did Jimmy."
Haven't seen it (I don't watch very many movies), but I consider the ''Uncle Remus'' story a much better example of what I think "reverse psychology" is. The movie line you are quoting seems more like a case of personal vindication with a bit of gloating. Also very common and very understandable. But I wasn't doing that either. I wasn't showing you who is boss. The only thing I could possibly have been showing is that I was aware of the well-known fact that users without user or talk pages can edit.
What I said, in context, was "I believe that CP's presentation on relativity is in good condition, so no further editing on my part will be necessary. I will leave now." I didn't say I would never come back. You knew I'd come back, didn't you? How could I stay away? And in any case, that guy from Hungary came along with his "theoretical argument against relativity". How could I possibly resist that?
I see that my home state is still described as "treasonous", and that I promised TAR that I wouldn't revert that. So we're going to have to continue meeting here in my "house".
Come back soon!
[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 00:18, 15 January 2015 (EST)