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RE: Defended my home - 12/10/2009 12:22:14 PM

Marc2b

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I’m not one hundred percent convinced that it is a hoax. I know he told another poster (on page fourteen) that it was but the impression I got was that he was blowing them off because he didn’t want to deal with their disbelief (or the insult that it implied). You know, the way some one says ”yeah, yeah, you’re right,” because they know they are not going to convince them and are sick and tired of listening to them.

Another poster mentioned that the post times are in Pacific Time. I just tested this to be sure. That post (this is a test…) reads as having been posted at 11:54 am. Where I am sitting (in the Eastern Time Zone, same as Orion) it was 2:54 pm when I made the post. That confirms the time difference. This means that the OP was made at 9:18 am, Eastern Time, nearly six hours after the alleged incident. Plenty of time for the subsequent events to take place.

As for the level of detail in the original post: My impression of that was that he was engaging in a known psychological process where we immediately start second guessing our actions and so we detail exactly what we did as a justification for our actions. We want to be sure we did the right things. The most recent case of this happening to me was about three weeks ago when I witnessed an accident. A car turned in front of a motorcycle, causing the cycle to hit it.

As I stood nearby, watching the paramedics (nobody was seriously hurt – the cyclist had a broken ankle) and waiting for the police to interview me, I kept going over the events in my head. Did that lady turn before the green arrow disappeared, or after? It was after. I’m sure of that. But the biggest thing going around in my head was how much time elapsed between the instant I realized a collision was going to happen and the instant the collision occurred. Why? Because I needed to justify to myself that I didn’t have time to honk a warning. That there was nothing I could have done to have prevented the collision.

The entire first paragraph of the OP reads like that – an “I did everything right, I had no other choices,” justification.

Two notes to make sure I am clear on everything:

First, until Orion comes out and says, "yes everybody, it really was a hoax, I made the whole thing up just for the fun of it," I still have no reason to disbelieve him. I will continue to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Second, when I say that Orion was trying to justify his actions, I am not in anyway implying that he did anything wrong. I am merely, as I said, remarking on a known psychological process.

Edited to add: so who makes that cartoon? I want to know who has been spying on me and my mother.

< Message edited by Marc2b -- 12/10/2009 12:28:02 PM >

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