Posted on 02/05/2016 6:27:18 AM PST by huldah1776
She's a successful law professor and a Sunday school teacher, with a host of family and friends. But her interpersonal calculus centers on how to manipulate and outmaneuver the many people in her life. Welcome to a world of ruthless cost-benefit analysis, charm, and grandiosity.
I have never killed anyone, but I have certainly wanted to. I may have a disorder, but I am not crazy. In a world filled with gloomy, mediocre nothings populating a go-nowhere rat race, people are attracted to my exceptionalism like moths to a flame. This is my story.
Once while visiting Washington, D.C., I used an escalator that was closed, and a Metro worker tried to shame me about it.
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Regardless of my laziness and general lack of interest, I was actually a great lawyer when I was trying. At one point, I worked as a prosecutor in the misdemeanor department of the district attorney's office. My sociopathic traits make me a particularly excellent trial lawyer. I'm cool under pressure. I feel no guilt or compunction, which is handy in such a dirty business. Misdemeanor prosecutors almost always have to walk into a trial with cases they've never worked on before. All you can do is bluff and hope that you'll be able to scramble through it. The thing with sociopaths is that we are largely unaffected by fear. Besides, the nature of the crime is of no moral concern to me; I am interested only in winning the legal game.
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So...what’s the polar opposite (and as such equally mentally malformed) of a sociopath?
In my view sociopaths are just higher level narcs. Everything falls along a continuum and a sociopath is just a #10 narc. They have no feelings, remorse, or empathy for anyone except their pathetic evil selves. They are like alien robots in human form. They are the personification of the devil walking among us.
Back when I was taking some late-in-life college courses, the prof was discussing a "disgusting" book. Forgot the name, but it detailed how to screw everybody so you can get to the top. He spent a good 15 minutes vilifying the author and the subject.
Stopping to catch his breath, he asked for a show of hands of those who would read it. Mine was the only one that went up. The rest of the class looked at me in horror or revulsion.
He said (with a superior smirk) that evidently I agreed with the tactics (and was therefore a Bad Person), otherwise why in the world would I read such a book.
I explained that I could then recognize the tactics some back-stabber would use in trying to get ahead of me, and take appropriate counter-measures.
There was a "Look, there's Elvis!" moment as we moved on to something else. After class a couple of classmates came over and said that they never thought of that.
Be advised people, "Psychology Today" is not an authoritative source, more like a grocery store checkout pop magazine.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. One of the rules Maj. Gen. James Mattis gave his Marines to live by in Iraq, as quoted in Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) by Thomas E. Ricks; as excerpted in Armed Forces Journal (August 2006).
Those with the traits she discusses are irresistibly drawn to GuvCo's seats of power like june bugs to a campfire and moths to a flame.
Most people equate understanding with consent. If they disapprove of something, they seek to ensure they don’t understand it - celebrating ignorance as proof of superiority. They can’t grasp that you can (and should!) understand something as a means to better justify disapproval. Ergo they celebrate ignorance as moral superiority.
Explains a lot about the Left...strange, coming from a group touting themselves as “liberal” and “diverse”...
I’m concluding the difference between a narcissist and sociopath is the latter has no qualms about killing you (the former at least still recognizes murder is wrong, and can’t degrade himself by doing it).
The phrase long predates 2006.
Sociopath's know when they are doing something wrong, which is why they spend time hiding their tracks or creating allusions to get you off their backs. Good case Bernie Madoff. And Barack Obama.
Even in self-defense, killing should be a need, not a desire. Wanting to kill someone, either a general desire to kill or a desire to kill a particular "deserving" person, is a sign of being crazy.
Obama is one of the most evil people alive today. Despite his destructiveness, I would like to see him live for at least another year (self-interest - it's easier to repeal his harmful legacy if he's not a martyr). Beyond that, I would like to see him live long enough to sincerely repent his actions. It is not our place to remove people from God's world unless they present an immediate danger to innocents.
wouldn’t surprise me if she had neglected to mention a body somewhere with her DNA on it.
George Washington chose not to be a king but to be a president and only 2 terms. How many of those running today would make the same choice?
George Washington, The Man Who Could Have Been King (great read)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/639135/posts
“Everyone has that little voice inside them that tells them to do or not do something. Everyone.”
Can that be proven? I understand how it’s axiomatic to our theology, yet from experience I’m not convinced that _everyone_ has a conscience (and I don’t mean suppressed or malfunctioning, I mean literally doesn’t have one).
The conscience is connected to the soul and also connected to the will. If you need more of an explanation than that see a good preacher or priest so they can give you a better answer.
Men like Washington exist in all times and ages, but you won't find many in our times' GuvCo.
Washington and the rest did their best to show the way, but in these times we elect ours using Alinsky's rules, not Vattel's, not the Father's and not the Son's.
I've read that sin has a sort of gravity in that sin attracts sin.
After all these years and good times, our sin-saturated world has the gravity of a black hole.
Once we cut the cords that tie and anchor US to something solid, we get pulled in and pulled down.
Not good, right? Ah...but humans can rationalize anything, good or bad, right or wrong, whatever.
So, instead of letting trouble trouble US...why not fundamentally transform by redefinition, all meaning and identity to be in our own image and then sleep well at night?
Done! Problem solved. What a handy tool to have in the human bag of tricks!
“humans can rationalize anything, good or bad, right or wrong, whatever.”
Which is why shrinks came up with Cognitive Therapy. I personally go with the Bible. That’s pretty cut and dry.
Fortunately, as you point out, He also gave us what we need to learn how to use it as intended.
Plus...the free will to decide, one way or another, until our time is up.
Which candidate does this best describe?
Don’t think Trump is a sociopath, but he sure is a malignant nacissist.
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