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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana></FONT><FONT face=Verdana>Tony,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><TD class=headword><STRONG>reaction formation</STRONG></TD><TD
style="WIDTH: 4.5pt"></TD><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> (<I>plural</I>
<B>reaction formations</B>): In psychoanalysis, a defense mechanism
in which somebody condemns something that has a strong, driving unconscious
appeal.</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>reaction formation</STRONG> is a <A title="Defense mechanism"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism">defense mechanism</A> in
which <A title=Anxiety
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety">anxiety</A>-producing or
unacceptable <A title=Emotion
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion">emotions</A> are replaced by their
direct opposites. This mechanism is often characteristic of obsessional
neuroses. When this mechanism is overused, especially during the formation of
the ego, it can become a permanent character trait. This is often in those with
obsessional character and obsessive personality disorders. This does not imply
that its periodic usage is always obsessional, but that it can lead to
obsessional behavior. <STRONG>Example:</STRONG> A man who is overly
aroused by pornographic material who utilizes reaction formation may take on an
attitude of criticism toward the topic.</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#b5a679><FONT size=5>R</FONT>EACTION<FONT
size=+2>-</FONT><FONT size=+2>F</FONT>ORMATION </FONT></STRONG>: <B><FONT
size=+1>The blocking of desire by its opposite</FONT></B>. "Reaction-formation"
is the term Freud uses to describe the mechanism whereby the <A
href="http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/theory/psychoanalysis/definitions/ego.html"
target=_self>ego</A> <I>reacts</I> to the impulses of the <A
href="http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/theory/psychoanalysis/definitions/id.html"
target=_self>id</A> by creating an antithetical formation that blocks <A
href="http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/theory/psychoanalysis/definitions/repression.html"
target=_self>repressed</A> <A
href="http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/theory/psychoanalysis/definitions/cathexis.html"
target=_self>cathexes</A>. <STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>For example, someone who
feels homosexual desire might </FONT></STRONG><A
href="http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/theory/psychoanalysis/definitions/repression.html"
target=_self><STRONG><FONT
color=#ff0000>repress</FONT></STRONG></A><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000> that
desire by turning it into hatred for all homosexuals.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>Perhaps you and Farris might confront and thus deal directly with your
personal demons discretely in private, rather than so obviously exhibiting
them in public. I am sure that everyone would benefit, especially you and
Farris: both your stultifying repressions and secret frustrations could be
at least partially deadened. And after you have relived your tensions,
perhaps you might be able to pass on your personal experiences with the
cure and your newly found contacts to Cultmaster Douglas Wilson and his apparent
secret admirer Douglas Jones, both who appear to need such therapy
quite badly.</DIV>
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<DIV>Your internally inconsistent post also reveals the grave doubts you
have about your masculinity and sexual identity when you have to resort to
posting outright lies. For example:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT
size=3>"</FONT>Saundra's determination to avoid reality by choosing to
doubt what has by now become commonplace, rather than investigate, is
disappointing if not surprising."</FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Included in this thread is a post by Saundra giving the URL to the story
from the <EM>Chicago Tribune</EM> which casts a very different light on the
story posted originally by the salivating, non-critical Farris. Saundra
investigated; you did not. It is one thing for you and the gullible,
narrow-witted Farris to delude yourselves thinking you are <EM>agent
provocateurs</EM>, but, in reality, quite another to so clearly exhibit
yourselves as sexually frustrated liars.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
<DIV></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>From: "Tony" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:tonytime@clearwire.net"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>tonytime@clearwire.net</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>To: "Art Deco" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>deco@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Cc: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:21 AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The maladjusted and
those who enable them...</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>> Wow Doug, you really flushed out the extremist, sodomite activists
with your <BR>> entirely reasonable and justified outrage over the public
school's abhorrent <BR>> support for inappropriate, dirty and unhealthy
behaviors. Saundra's <BR>> determination to avoid reality by choosing
to doubt what has by now become <BR>> commonplace, rather than investigate,
is disappointing if not surprising.<BR>> <BR>> And how about Wayne's
complete refusal to address your message in favor of a <BR>> masturbatory fit
of name calling? You know you have hit upon the truth in a <BR>>
persuasive manner when these folks, who seem determined to defend the <BR>>
indefensible, respond in a childlike snit.<BR>> <BR>> Keep up the good
work partner.<BR>> <BR>> Best, -Tony<BR>> ----- Original
Message ----- <BR>> From: "Art Deco" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>deco@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2>><BR>> To:
"Vision 2020" <</FONT><A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>><BR>> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 7:25 AM<BR>> Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] And you all say that we have a political agenda?!<BR>> <BR>>
<BR>>> Replaying:<BR>>><BR>>> This kind of right
wing/religious bullshit is what happens when misguided,<BR>>> stupid,
and/or tyrannical people depend on superstition for their moral<BR>>>
beliefs rather than observation and reasoning.<BR>>><BR>>>
W.<BR>>> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>>> From: "Sue Hovey"
<</FONT><A href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>suehovey@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2>><BR>>>
To: "Saundra Lund" <</FONT><A href="mailto:sslund@roadrunner.com"><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>sslund@roadrunner.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>>; <</FONT><A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>><BR>>> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:31 PM<BR>>>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] And you all say that we have a political <BR>>>
agenda?!<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>> Note Waltz's final comment,
"All our kids are great kids, whether they <BR>>>> are<BR>>>>
gay or straight," is, I believe, the point of these classes. Too bad
she<BR>>>> doesn't get it.<BR>>>><BR>>>> Strange the
Trib article doesn't even mention the nondisclosure contract<BR>>>>
bit, which, if true, would be a significant issue for the press.
I<BR>>>> seriously doubt there is anything to the claim students have
to sign a<BR>>>> contract promising "not to tell their parents."
Public school folks who<BR>>>> work with teenagers know they tell
everything--to everyone, except maybe<BR>>>> their parents, until they
turn 40 and around the dinner table tell us all<BR>>>> that stuff we
really don't want to know now.<BR>>>><BR>>>> Mrs. Walz's
daughter was hurt when her beliefs were challenged. But<BR>>>>
that's<BR>>>> how kids grow, and adults, too. To be called on to
examine ones beliefs<BR>>>> is<BR>>>> not to say they are
necessarily wrong; but as one who grew up believing<BR>>>> pretty much
what Mrs Walz would have her daughter believe, I wish someone<BR>>>>
had challenged my attitudes when I was 17 or so.<BR>>>><BR>>>>
Thanks for the lin.<BR>>>><BR>>>> Sue Hovey<BR>>>>
----- Original Message ----- <BR>>gt;> From: "Saundra Lund" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:sslund@roadrunner.com"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>sslund@roadrunner.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>><BR>>>> To: "'Sue Hovey'" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>suehovey@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2>>;
<</FONT><A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>><BR>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:01
AM<BR>>>> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] And you all say that we have a
political<BR>>>>
agenda?!<BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>>> Hi
Sue,<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> You might want to check out this
link to a story that was in the Chicago<BR>>>>>
Trib:<BR>>>>> </FONT><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2arte6"><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>http://tinyurl.com/2arte6</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana><FONT size=2>>>>><BR>>>>> Not surprisingly,
the story is actually quite a bit different than the<BR>>>>> drivel
Doug Farris wants us to believe. Seems to me the
religious<BR>>>>> reactionaries need to get their stories straight
-- it's hard to make <BR>>>>> the<BR>>>>> argument about
the whole nonsense of some confidentiality contract when<BR>>>>>
everyone knows about the event in advance and parents can opt to not
<BR>>>>> have<BR>>>>> their children participate.
Notice, too, the names & how Ellen Waltz,<BR>>>>> whose name
appears in the Trib, seems to be changing her story
:-P<BR>>>>><BR>>>>><BR>>>>> Saundra
Lund<BR>>>>> Moscow, ID<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to
<BR>>>>> do<BR>>>>> nothing.<BR>>>>> -
Edmund Burke<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> ***** Original material
contained herein is Copyright 2006 through life<BR>>>>> plus 70
years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or
<BR>>>>> reproduce<BR>>>>> outside the Vision 2020 forum
without the express written permission of<BR>>>>> the
author.*****<BR></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>