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which they dislike and/or deny in themselves.
This is a kind of theory I came up with and I just keep seeing evidence for it and different versions of it. Have you ever met someone who said "I don't like people who play head games"? And then THEY turned out to a habitual head gamer? (In fact the line above is a kind of "head game").
Some other examples: In another forum here, one frequently sees one poster giving another an impolite gloves-off lecture on how THE OTHER PERSON is not polite. A woman on a bus got bumped by an 8 year-old boy and she proceeded to make a complete ass of herself by yelling at the boy's mother, "You need to teach him some manners!" Until the kid was in tears. (I stepped between her and the boy & mother, and asked her as innocently as I could pretend 'was she injured, should I call 911 and she directed her anger at me then but that was my intent -- to get her to stop yelling at the poor kid.)
It has often been said that "it is far easier to find our own faults in others than to see them in ourselves." And this is something akin to that. Any thoughts?
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