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St_Expedite said:

Yeah, you'd think a "18th Century Hell-Rake and Gentelman [sic] of Leasure" [sic, yet again] would have the sense not to throw stones.

Oh no, wait. No, you wouldn't think that at all.

A rake is a stock character, a man who wastes his (usually inherited) fortune on "wine, women, and song," incurring lavish debts in the process. The rake is also frequently a cad: a man who seduces a young woman and impregnates her before leaving, often to her social or financial ruin. To call the character a rake calls attention to his promiscuity and wild spending of money; to call the character a cad implies a callous seducer who coldly breaks his victim's heart.

During the Restoration period 1660-1688, the word was used in a glamorous sense: the Restoration rake is a carefree, witty, sexually irresistible aristocrat typified by Charles II's courtiers, the Earl of Rochester and the Earl of Dorset, who combined riotous living with intellectual pursuits and patronage of the arts. The Restoration rake is celebrated in the Restoration comedy of the 1660s and 1670s.

Swiftsure said:

You obviously have not met many 18th Century hell-rakes have you? We tend to be known for, whoring, dueling, drinking and marrying heiresses.

here, for you eluciditon, obviously you did'nt cover this at that fancy Community College of yours:

Swiftsure said:

You obviously have not met many 18th Century hell-rakes have you? We tend to be known for, whoring, dueling, drinking and marrying heiresses.

here, for you eluciditon, obviously you did'nt cover this at that fancy Community College of yours:

St_Expedite said:

The awesome thing about this guy is, I don't have to lift a finger to make him look like a half-retarded jackass. He does it all himself.

Psychological projection (or projection bias) can be defined as unconsciously assuming that others have the same or similar thoughts, beliefs, values, or positions on any given subject as oneself. According to the theories of Sigmund Freud, it is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, feelings—basically parts of oneself—onto someone else (usually another person, but psychological projection onto animals and inanimate objects also occurs). The principle of projection is well-established in psychology.

To understand the process, imagine an individual (Alice, for example) who feels dislike for another person (let's say Bob), but whose unconscious mind will not allow her to become aware of this negative emotion. Instead of admitting to herself that she feels dislike for Bob, she projects her dislike onto Bob, so that her conscious thought is not "I don't like Bob," but "Bob doesn't like me." In this way one can see that projection is related to denial, the only defense mechanism that some argue is more primitive than projection. Alice has denied a part of herself that is desperate to come to the surface. She can't flatly deny that she doesn't like Bob, so instead she will project the dislike, thinking Bob doesn't like her. Another, and an ironic, example is if Alice were to say, "Bob seems to project his feelings onto me."

Peter Gay describes it as "the operation of expelling feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable—too shameful, too obscene, too dangerous—by attributing them to another." (Freud: A Life for Our Time, page 281)

Swiftsure said:

You obviously have not met many 18th Century hell-rakes have you? We tend to be known for, whoring, dueling, drinking and marrying heiresses.

here, for you eluciditon, obviously you did'nt cover this at that fancy Community College of yours:

UpTight said:

So I take it Condi will have your vote in 2008?

Subrosa said:
I really wish we had one conservative member who would regularly post on the CE board who wasn't completely inept at making logical arguments or salient points. It would make me very happy. Whatever happened to Michael_DeSade? Hell, I'm pining for Helter, even.

UpTight said:

So I take it Condi will have your vote in 2008?

UpTight said:

So I take it Condi will have your vote in 2008?