re: #23 Charles Johnson

My take is that Joy genuinely didn’t remember some of those posts, asked around for someone who could check it out, then got hooked up with an “expert” who sold her a bill of goods. If she were trying to fool people about this, I don’t think she would have admitted to some of the posts last year when this first came up.

This is what I think. She saw the stuff and said I don’t remember that! Maybe I was hacked! And then the “expert” confirmed the idea.

I entirely believe she has no memory of things she said and doesn’t really believe she said them, Most people have a highly inflated opinion of their own memory which is completely wrong.

Here’s an example: many years ago when I got married and didn’t change my name, my dad said that someday women would give up this nonsense of insisting on not changing their names. I told him I thought he would be happier about it since it is HIS name.

Fewer years ago, my dad married his current wife - who didn’t change her name. I said it’s a good thing you changed your mind about women not changing their names, huh? And he not only had no memory of ever saying that, he denied he ever felt that way or ever would have said it.

Of course I could be the one who is remembering wrong - but that doesn’t change my central point - people have terrible memories and don’t even know it.