People Calling Ford ‘Brave’ And Kavanaugh ‘Unhinged’ Have No Idea What Courage Is

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When you say "Ford's selective memory is not a well-documented phenomenon." is that based on your gut feeling or actual knowledge?

You are familiar with the Dunning Kruger effect I am sure. Can you back up your statement?

I had an experience with a guy, ex-south African army working for/with me when I was an anti-poaching ranger. This guy was tough as a bullet.

He went out to an area catching a ride but came back four days later on foot. He had stopped at a village and found everyone there dead but for a grandmother and a baby. Five females and two males somehow died of illness in a two week period. HIV might have explained two or three easily, malaria a couple more however it seemed an epidemiological statistical freak.

Anyway, he buried the bodies for the overwhelmed grandmother (pretty much only the very old and young did not have HIV) and came back.

He had the location of the village wrong and he had only just come back from there. He was 110% certain of the location but it was not the place. We found it 9km away. He was certain the village had been moved, really really freaked him out but the grandmother knew him and there were the graves.

Burying the ripe corpses was an overwhelming event. He was a good guy, a decade of military & ranger experience and his brain did something weird.
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Who were you working for doing the anti-poaching gig? A U.N. thing (but being paid by the U.S.)? I had a bud that did that too... from a different angle. Around '94 ish.... I think.
 
vanzandt said:
Who were you working for doing the anti-poaching gig? A U.N. thing (but being paid by the U.S.)? I had a bud that did that too... from a different angle. Around '94 ish.... I think.
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I was around :) TBH VS, Pointy is an obsessive troll so give him a sniff and he will be trying to get my identity.

I was first in the Congo vicinity in '94 though so never know, I may have encountered him. Africa had this weird massive place however you keep running into people thing going on.
 
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"When you say "Ford's selective memory is not a well-documented phenomenon." is that based on your gut feeling or actual knowledge?"

Dramatic events can cause memory suppression. But in a majority of the cases it it the event itself that is suppressed and not so much the events around it. Ford's recollection is of the dramatic event itself and very little of the surrounding details. This is not the norm. Can Ford's way of remembering things happen? Sure. But it is not a majority finding.

Also Ford has been trained as a clinical psychologist. One of the thinks a clinical psychologist is trained to do is to retrieve repressed memories. Doctor heal thyself.
 
Ayn Rand said:
"When you say "Ford's selective memory is not a well-documented phenomenon." is that based on your gut feeling or actual knowledge?"

Dramatic events can cause memory suppression. But in a majority of the cases it it the event itself that is suppressed and not so much the events around it. Ford's recollection is of the dramatic event itself and very little of the surrounding details. This is not the norm. Can Ford's way of remembering things happen? Sure. But it is not a majority finding.

Also Ford has been trained as a clinical psychologist. One of the thinks a clinical psychologist is trained to do is to retrieve repressed memories. Doctor heal thyself.
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So Dunning Kruger effect informed you? Got it. A lot of that going around here I'm afraid.

Guess it is the trading that attracts people prone to this.

Ok two second google and:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...kavanaugh-allegations/?utm_term=.c6cb247634a2
 
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