Just so you know, my main motivation in replying to you in this discussion and others like it is not to argue with you, but to keep on public record a view that is different to your own. This is not so that I am declared correct by you or someone else, it is so someone who reads this thread has at least access to a different perspective.
My motivation is the previously mentioned sense of familiarity. I recognize my thinking patterns of that time in how you write, and in parts of what Adam has written ("projections" you'll undoubtedly think), and I know how seductive these patterns are are, and how they can take over unseen. So I write warnings: there is something wrong with actualism. Richard's writing is full of it, too.
As for trying to be more right than others, the specific phenomenon that I have in mind (let's call it X) has not happened to me in replying to this thread, no. Though I admit that the phrasing wasn't very fortunate, as in, there are instances (let's call them Y) where one might want to be more right than others, which are not instances of X, and in which I see no problem whatsoever. Even then, my writing is not an instance of Y; oh how I wish I was wrong

But nowadays I require more objectivity from my evidence, even more so when it concerns things that I want.
The sentence that alerted me to X was:
Adam .:
These doubts are hard to admit to as there is something arising in consciousness about being proven wrong despite how many times I have argued fervently (to myself and others) to the contrary. Specific individuals come to mind and I think to myself "good job adam now you are letting them win." I think "they aren't even really free themselves this will just strengthen their self-deception if they see you writing this."
This kind of thing reeks of X. Fortunately Adam is at least aware that this kind of mental dynamic is happening. "Good job adam now you are letting them win" and "they aren't even really free themselves etc" betray two different patterns of thought that I associate with actual freedom (it is splattered everywhere in the AF website).
I would have engaged in X if I had, for instance, pitied you for being trapped in the actualist meme, or if I had tried to use the things you write to support my own worldview, or if I used my jhana powers to feel OK even when you write things I dislike, and then mentally declare myself superior for this OKness. The common theme, I guess, is to subtly disregard what someone else says by mentally placing them at "a lower level" (which can be done in many ways).
However, I expect that in reading this, you will think that it is reasonable and that it should not be done. And in doing so you have engaged in phenomenon Z. X and Z exist together, support each other, and there are many more letters in this intricate alphabet, the beautiful mental edifice that is actualism. For instance letter W: coming up with a reason for having done something, easily and on demand. Or letter V: the belief that it is possible to interpret reality without beliefs. Or U: the belief that it is possible to see reality directly, as it actually is.
Indeed it is a very powerful act of magick

How are your purely calorific energies doing?