Posted on 08/04/2006 4:26:21 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
Trolling?
Do you claim to understand God?
It's a simple question, please try to answer it and quit the personal atacks.
Change makes them fallible, that's anathema to dogma, and diminishes the Church's power.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Category
Personality Disorders
Etiology
Like most personality disorders, there are many factors that may contribute to the development of symptoms. Because the symptoms are long lasting, the idea that symptoms begin to emerge in childhood or at least adolescence is well accepted. The negative consequences of such symptoms, however, may not show themselves until adulthood.
Symptoms
The symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder revolve around a pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and sense of entitlement. Often individuals feel overly important and will exaggerate achievements and will accept, and often demand, praise and admiration despite worthy achievements. They may be overwhelmed with fantasies involving unlimited success, power, love, or beauty and feel that they can only be understood by others who are, like them, superior in some aspect of life.
There is a sense of entitlement, of being more deserving than others based solely on their superiority. These symptoms, however, are a result of an underlying sense of inferiority and are often seen as overcompensation. Because of this, they are often envious and even angry of others who have more, receive more respect or attention, or otherwise steal away the spotlight.
Treatment
Treatment for this disorder is very rarely sought. There is a limited amount of insight into the symptoms, and the negative consequences are often blamed on society. In this sense, treatment options are limited. Some research has found long term insight oriented therapy to be effective, but getting the individual to commit to this treatment is a major obstacle.
Prognosis
Prognosis is limited and based mainly on the individual's ability to recognize their underlying inferiority and decreased sense of self worth. With insight and long term therapy, the symptoms can be reduced in both number and intensity.
http://allpsych.com/disorders/personality/narcissism.html
One Big Bang immaculate conception is just as good as another, Monsignor.
But just like the Big Bang, evolutionary theory is based on an appeal to false authority... the theory of evolution is rooted entirely in a premise that the origin of life is on the Earth. Logically, we know this is not the case at all since the Earth is not of its own origin...
If creationists believe in a flying spaghetti monster as the mocking bird evolutionists will squawk, then the evolutionists must believe in a boiling pot of primordial spaghetti sauce... both are appeals to false authority, which is an informal fallacy of logic...
Because spacetime curvature goes to infinity, and our current models can't cope with this.
If you're interested in singularities you might read Kip Thorpe's Black Holes and Time Warps. It's very interesting and accessible. Of course this is chiefly about black holes and the Big Bang was more like a white hole if anything, but it gives you some idea why we can't really say much about the nature of a singularity.
marxist troll place marker...
That didn't answer my points.
Drop it. Drop it now!
You have some rather unusual fixations. Instead of FR, you might want to mosey on over to a website that caters to your particular fetish.
That still doesn't answer my points.
Knock it off.
Bless you!
Maybe you should put this thread in the smokey back room... where it belongs... or, at least look at a few other places on it where some questionable personalities left similiar items...
fruit of a bitter spirit placemarker
"PUI," (Posting Under the Influence); second infraction....
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