On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Ravi Chivukula <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear Xeno - please don't try to twist and manipulate my words. It was a > hypothesis - based on your, yes, lack of empathy and this manipulation. I'm > obviously not a professional, I'm just indulging in the time honored FFL > tradition of dishonesty and innuendo by slapping psychiatric labels on > others. > And the supreme disinterested-ness of my highly evolved, enlightened state of mind as I compassionately assign a psychiatric label on Xeno must be obvious to everyone other than the clueless, hapless Xeno. > > RE: According to Ravi, I am a sociopath, or perhaps even a psychopath. > Sorry, no empathy, no feelings of shame. > > > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> ** >> >> >> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@...> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > --- In [email protected], doctordumbass@ <no_reply@> wrote: >> > > >> > > It seems like the people most interested in curing these npd >> > > and socio/psycho-paths are those who feel threatened by their >> > > behavior. >> > >> > On this forum, it's become almost a tradition among >> > certain people here to diagnose FFL members they don't >> > like with personality disorders as a way of putting >> > them down. Or I should say "pretend to diagnose," >> > because those who do it don't have a clue as to >> > whether such a diagnosis is accurate. In many cases >> > these faux mental health experts demonstrate an >> > amazing degree of ignorance of their targets' actual >> > personality traits as shown in their posts. >> > >> > The whole thing is disgracefully inappropriate and >> > vicious, and those who indulge in it (Barry, Curtis, >> > Share, Xeno, and their toadies) should be ashamed of >> > themselves. >> > >> > The "cure" idea, BTW, has nothing to do with >> > compassionate intent. It's just an extension of the >> > putdown. >> >> According to Ravi, I am a sociopath, or perhaps even a psychopath. Sorry, >> no empathy, no feelings of shame. 'Pretend to diagnose' is accurate. I do >> not know of anyone here who has the credentials to make a real diagnosis. >> It is just fun here, unless one is so deadly serious about life that the >> weight of the world is on the shoulders. >> >> Whether people with these states of mind can be changed or not is a >> legitimate question. The idea of 'cure' always suggests something abnormal >> that a proper treatment will somehow 'fix'. I prefer to think of human >> mental characteristics as being points on a Bell curve and each aspect is a >> property of nature, made by nature, but some of those points very far from >> the centre of the curve may have very strange properties for the individual >> that has that point, and that those with points closer to the midpoint will >> find that distant outlier intolerable. >> >> My thought is, if one is on FFL, then there has to be something very >> strange about one to begin with. We are all nut cases looking for heaven on >> a flat screen. >> >> >> > >
