I'm not falling for that.

Oh and just to add they may also laugh off the accusation when confronted. This is due to the fact when people are aware it becomes difficult to carry on manipulating them. We are not programmed to recognise their charming behaviour as threatening which is why the adopt the characteristics in the first place.

Anyway, Im off.

See you all soon

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"Ah! Evian skin cream"

Entertainingly, today I was described as the Anti-Christ by a certain hysterical blogger.
Psychopath & Sociopath jibes really can't compare to that !

On a serious note, there are various books on all of this and how advantageous it can be to adopt the behaviours of psychopaths in the world in which we live. It doesn't actually make you a psychopath... 'Ruthless' maybe, but in some quarters that used to be considered a virtue.

We live in the times in which we live. Now everything is medicalised into a 'condition' or 'syndrome'. It shows a lack of grasp of the human condition. I actually find it all rather naïve.

Human beings are capable of most things. I'm sure there are very few of us who wouldn't kill, in extremis, to prevent our loved ones from being killed/raped/tortured...  Would that make you a psycho ?

Anyway, to equate all these serious issues to the discussion of clothing is well and truly mad.

As is denouncing those you dislike as being the Anti-Christ.

- An insult that really doesn't quite work if your target happens to be Jewish ...

This is all just hype & hyperbole.  Things which have always worked for me !   

Don't get sucked in, is my advice.

(Rude and obvious joke about how it's better to get sucked off avoided. Let's keep this joint clean.)

As you were -

All psychopaths are higher functioning.

The evolutionary advantage that the general combination of personality traits bestows upon the sociopath is palpable.

Psychopaths benefit society, and are occasionally embraced by it, because they get things done - often (but not exclusively) at the least possible expense to their own time and resources.

It is however almost impossible to make any meaningful diagnosis. The achievements of a psychopath do not define them, nor do their methods, it is their attitude towards these achievements and methods which is the essence. But the attitude they possess is not necessarily the one which they will advertise, or even concede, nor is it one which may be inferred by others.

This is a great thread & very valid.

What use are the attitudes of the 19th century in the 21st ?

A classical education is now a handicap.

I love how I never provoke any of this -

It's all the others who throw about all the mental health and religious stuff. Class and sexuality stuff too....

It tells you about them far more than me.

I'm just....  Incognito. 

As ever, let's spin this on its head -

Some guys get called Psychopaths/Sociopaths/Anti-Christs by others....

We all now know this to be true.

None of them are actually medically qualified or in Holy Orders but they do like to use these words...

So....

Why ?

Do they resent the freedom that others give themselves to do what they want ?

Do they secretly want to be as free as a 'Psycho' themselves but dare not dare ?

-  Merely a talking point.



- Yes, this is an Inane conversation...

I didn't start it ...

Actually, I stand by the position that there is nothing so nasty, vindictive and capable of vendetta as a gaggle of very basic secondary school educated women who have never had a rigorous academic, graduate or vocational education that required them to apply themselves.

Edit: I might add, I state that as a committed and devout feminist post-Guardian reader.

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