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jpenny2 posted...

I think a lot of his supporters are stuck in an "us vs. them" mentality, which Phil encourages. They probably don't even know why they want Phil to wear the vest, but since the detractors think the vest is stupid, then his fans are going to keep the streak alive to stick it to them. It didn't start out like that. In the beginning, the vest was just a silly thing that was slightly better than having no tip goal at all. But now it's a way to rally against the haters.

That's the best explanation I can come up with, although maybe I am mistakenly trying to apply logic to a group of people who are clearly not logical. Otherwise, his fans are getting nothing. They're actually getting worse than nothing since the vest has resulted in extra begging (hint, hint, hopefully "we" can keep the streak going) and time taken away from gameplay to go put on the vest once the goal is hit.

That actually doesn't seem too far fetched. Still I wonder how you are "sticking" it to the detractors by giving Phil money.

You are out of that money, you are worse off because you spend money on nothing that gives you anything worth of any value, you get treated as shit, while the detractors just sit back and laugh at your stupidity. While I fully get herd mentality, if you stop to think for a second and ask yourself the question WHY you are giving Phil money, I cannot come to any conclusion that would end up with you actually giving him money.

Truth is, if you read the threads on KF about Phil's most prominent whales, most of them have... to put it politely some kind of affliction. I like to think that Phil doesn't prey on those kind of people intentionally, but we've all seen how malicious he can be, and we all know he believes he is entitled to the money he gets and will defend it till his last breath.

Still, I will give him the benefit of the doubt on that till evidence suggests otherwise. Still, I don't believe that Phil actively lies (and by that I mean, choosing to lie), nor that he is a pathological liar (having the need to do in order to make yourself seem more than you are), but it just happens naturally. I've unfortunatly had to deal with a narcissist for most of my childhood (my father), and the thing is they don't see their past selves as part of who they are today. As such they will tell stories differently today, because how they see that today is no longer part of that past. And there is where the lies occur. It's not that he choses to create an intricate web of lies. He views his past events as his past self: something that is disonnected from him, and as such he will explain them as he views them based on the person as he is today.

This is why a narcissist can never grow as a person. They don't learn from their pas experiences like you and I do, they disonnect themselves from that person. If you listen to Phil talk, it happens way more often than you think. Because something happened in the past, it's not relevant anymore and as such cannot be used against him.

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