--- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], obbajeeba <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > It is very creepy. > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: (snip) > > > You know what, Xeno? I'm much more interested in *your* > > > "state of mind." I find your obsessive fascination with > > > Robin's current "state of mind" (i.e., sanity)--your > > > attempt to find a way to publicly pin a psychiatric > > > diagnosis on him--more than a little unhealthy. And the > > > sneaky way you go about it is just plain creepy. > > > > > > Now, what about the Mystery Cultist? > > > > This particular question I have no interest in. If this > particular question is answered by someone later on, and > I happen to read that answer, then fine.
That's OK, Xeno. If you see Barry's response this morning, you'll probably be able to figure out what it was all about. > I have not pinned a diagnosis on Robin I didn't say you had done so. I said you've been trying to find a way to do so, which you go on to admit: > I have associated one with him, actually two. Sociopath > and Narcissist. Sociopaths seem to have narcissistic > traits. > > The reason I am thinking this is I do not feel Robin's > statements about his feelings are true However, you haven't been able so far to come up with any evidence to support this thought. It appears to be nothing more than a gratuitous personal attack. > and Robin seems to be the centre of his world in a way > different from anyone else here. Whatever that means. Again, no evidence. > I always interpreted statements about 'his sincerity' to > be hollow, not sincere. And again, no evidence. All just empty conjecture. > But someone like you, or Ravi, who seem to have very > empathic traits, it could be you have fallen for this > deception. Notice how all of a sudden Robin's purported "deception" is no longer just conjecture but, in Xeno's mind, an established fact. Still without any evidence whatsoever. > I have rather few empathic traits, though I do have some, > yet you consistently interpret what I say using highly > emotional language; Non sequitur. > Ravi does this too, even when he > describes me a practically a robot, which makes no sense > at all. Makes perfect sense to me. Although, frankly, I suspect the robot-like absence of affect in your posts is just a tactic on your part to make yourself sound dispassionate and objective. > Of course all this is hypothetical in the absence of any > professional diagnosis. Robin's actual 'status' is probably > much more complex than this simple attribution. Or perhaps he's just a normal human being now without any personality disorders or sociopathic traits. You see, the only people here who insinuate--or simply declare--that Robin has some kind of diagnosable mental pathology are the folks who have tangled with him and, er, not prevailed. It doesn't occur to the people who have gotten along with him just fine that there's anything seriously wrong with him. Have we all just "fallen for" a deception perpetrated by Robin? Are we all blind to his pathology? In another recent post of Xeno's suggesting Robin is a sociopath, he presented a quote from an article that claimed sociopaths could perfectly fake empathy, such that a sociopath would appear to be entirely normal in this respect. As I pointed out at the time, if this claim is true, its only significance with regard to a specific individual is that an appearance of normal empathy does not *rule out* sociopathy. It is not evidence *for* sociopathy, as Xeno was hoping to suggest. Unless Xeno can come up with some convincing evidence of mental pathology from Robin's posts to FFL, his relentless determination to portray Robin (in Robin's absence, no less) as personality-disordered looks like pure malicious vengefulness. > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I guess you missed where this post of Ann's was discussed > > > > > at some length in the recent discussion, Xeno, huh? Too bad; > > > > > you thought you had discovered something that was being kept > > > > > under wraps. > > > > > > > > > > Now, any ideas about who the Mystery Cultist might be that > > > > > I quoted, the one person here who actually tried to excuse > > > > > Robin's striking his students in the private setting before > > > > > there were any seminars?
