[ SECRET POST #3235 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3235 ⌋

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Comments

[feotakahari]

I think the truest expression of the human condition is horoscopes. After all, they have to feel accurate to everyone who reads them.

[ketita]

Ha, I love it.

[feotakahari]

I'm not entirely joking. For instance, Bertram Forer assembled this as a one-size-fits-all personality analysis, cobbled together from horoscopes, that most study subjects thought was accurate:

You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.

[ketita]

That is interesting. I'm not really joking either - I think there's truth to it. But I'd never thought about it in those terms before.

[sarillia]

"You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself."

I don't understand the "yet" in this sentence. How is the second clause supposed to contradict the first?

I guess I'm in a nitpicky mood.

[(Anonymous)]

I imagine it might be a leftover of Bertram Forer cobbling this together out of horoscopes, if he didn't go back and massage the diction. But it makes sense (to me, at least)—if you want other people to like you, you think that you have justifiable reason to be liked, but being self-critical means that you think you have justifiable reason to be criticized.

[sarillia]

I don't think wanting to be liked necessarily implies that you think you deserve to be. There are plenty of self-loathing people who don't like themselves but want other people to. I can see your argument but I just don't think it's a given.