If you are reading this then you are obviously aware of many Websites and blogs that are full of hate. What is hate? It’s interesting the definition the dictionary provides; “the object of extreme aversion or hostility.” Hum “hostility” that also has an interesting reference in the encyclopedia.
Psychologist George Kelly, defined hostility as, “the willful refusal to accept evidence that one’s perceptions of the world are wrong.” An example of hostility, “A person who repeats the same pattern or tells the same story over and over, seeking validation or approval.” Now where have you seen this?
You will find most of the fame seekers here exhibit this behavior.
August 3, 2008 at 1:18 am |
… By that definition you need to be wrong to be hostile…
Pity I can be hostile and right at the same time.
For instance, a hypothetical situation.
A co-worker is stealing my money, it’s caught on CCTV, I show it to him, then aggressively I threaten to report him, I’m being hostile.
I suggest using a better definition of hostility.
Virgil,
The definitions come from the pros. They are correct.