I was watching a video on YouTube about regional accents in the US and when it was over, a video on narcissism showed up. Eight questions a narcissist can't answer. (They all involved having to admit some sort of personal weakness or listening to another person.) Then this one was next:
Essentially, this therapist says it's impossible to work with psychopaths and he doesn't.
And that's why nobody except complete toadies who shower Trump with praise and adoration manage to have any longevity in his administration. This explains his relentless fight to overturn the election and his ignoring of norms and laws.
It doesn't explain his followers. Well, I can understand other psychopaths supporting someone who supports their horribly anti-social behavior, but we can't have that many psychopaths in this country.
There wasn't any discussion of what happens when two psychopaths get together. Do they bond? Or do the quickly fight for dominance?
Sure, the word narcissist has been used to explain Trump since early on. Some have even used the word psychopath. But now that we've seen Trump non-stop for four years, this description seems spot on to me.
Yes. You have described Christians. All of them are nuts, their delusional separation of spirit and matter. In a trance.
ReplyDeleteAnon, did you watch the movie? It describes very specific behaviors and while I'm sure many Christians might fit the description, most surely do not. I did another post recently on delusional disorder that some may fit.
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DeleteChristians are not the only ones to separate spirit and matter, for sure: I only referenced them. I did not suggest any answers. And there is no fixed certainty.
You think you have to physically die first? That sounds like certainty, which you said you do not possess. Would you be willing to transcend that fixed belief?
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DeleteThis idea of certainty seems quite central to the content, and to the way of imaginationless literalism, of what many think. And who could say when anyone might waken from this two-dimensional trance and bloom into its own. Existential crisis is built into these fixed occidental ideas of separation. There is not. We are not separate, but distinct. That is key, and this contemplation never ends. Our nature is interdependence. And with that, there cant not be motion, absolute abstract motion - cause and effect, karma and reincarnation. We can - and do - enter into primordial awareness and the radiance of its expression. We are that, poured forth into form. A finishing of a biological involution is not a precursor to any reification or thing.
DeleteAllopathic medicine continues to do its institutionalized best at medicalizing people, further turning them into objects, rendering them impotent (see also technology, aka the digital fentanyl). Dead but not gone. Objects do not have an imagination. And a rigid fundamentalism - literalism - never heals what is ultimately a broken imagination. And any analogy absent of correspondence is literalism, a fallacy, for the delusional accolyte, dead to its own living imagination.
Sorry to hear it. Do go well. Finis.
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