yes tis I jimbo
:) Good to see you back, old thing!
the reason i ask is i had a visitor during the week at my house and during conversation i said about something i was interested in ,this person said outright that i was wrong so i got the relevant facts up on google this person then changed the whole subject around to what i said was was what he said and that what i pulled up on google supported their point both myself and suzy just sat there open mouthed not able to say anything
Interesting. Hmm.
I wonder if there is a control/security thing going on there? Being right is about the world being as you think it is, which for some people entirely defines your place in it and perhaps even who you are.
If someone shows that sort of person they are wrong they have threatened (or demolished) their worldview and therefore they no longer know where they fit in the world and feel their identity is under attack, so they react in a way that reaffirms their rightness about the world and their place in it...?
Just speculating. Could be wrong.
does proving you are right whilst knowing you are not really massage that ego i wonder
Or is it just a dominance thing? Or maybe (if my answer above is relevant) they really believed that they said what you said and you said what they said.
Either way it's a headf**k!
Funnily enough I'm dealing with a bloke at the moment who cannot admit he's made a mistake, no matter how unimportant it is, which is very similar. Under the circumstances (very dull) I just move on...