ARE YOU A PSYCHOPATH?

I don’t think I’m a Psychopath, but I certainly recognize dozens in Washington DC and in NYC on Wall Street. There are also hundreds in and around Hollywood California. Not too many in the rural areas in the middle of our fine country. Name someone who fits this description.

Guest Post by Jesse

The Hare Psychopathy Checklist

This is from sources on the web, and is based on Robert Hare’s psychopathy checklist.

1. Look for glib and superficial charm. A psychopath will also put on what professionals refer to as a ‘mask of sanity’ that is likable and pleasant.   It is a thin veneer.

2. Look for a grandiose self perception. Psychopaths will often believe they are smarter or more powerful than they actually are.

3. Watch for a constant need for stimulation. Stillness, quiet and reflection are not things embraced by psychopaths. They need constant entertainment and activity.

4. Determine if there is pathological lying. A psychopath will tell all sorts of lies; little white lies as well as huge stories intended to mislead. Psychopaths are gifted or dull, high functioning or low performing like other people. An untalented psychopath may harm a few; a highly talented psychopath may lay waste to nations. The difference between the psychopath and others lies in their organic lack of conscience and empathy for others. The sociopath is trained to lack empathy and conscience. The psychopath is a natural.

5. Evaluate the level of manipulation. All psychopaths are identified as cunning and able to get people to do things they might not normally do. They can use guilt, force and other methods to manipulate.

6. Look for any feelings of guilt. An absence of any guilt or remorse is a sign of psychopathy.  They will often blame the victim.

7. Consider the level of emotional response a person has. Psychopaths demonstrate shallow emotional reactions to deaths, injuries, trauma or other events that would otherwise cause a deeper response. Other people are satisfaction suppliers, nothing more.

8. Look for a lack of empathy. Psychopaths are callous and have no way of relating to others in non-exploitative ways. They may find a temporary kinship with other psychopaths and sociopaths that is strictly utilitarian and goal-oriented.

9. Psychopaths are often parasitic. They live off other people, emotionally, physically, and financially. Their modus operandi is domination and control.  They will claim to be maligned or misunderstood to gain your sympathy.

10. Look for obsessive risk taking and lack of self-control. The Hare Checklist includes three behavior indicators; poor behavior control, sexual promiscuity, and behavioral problems.

11. Psychopaths have unrealistic goals or none at all for the long term. Either there are no goals at all, or they are unattainable and based on the exaggerated sense of one’s own accomplishments and abilities.

12. Psychopaths will often be shockingly impulsive or irresponsible. Their shamelessness knows no bounds. You will ask, what were they thinking? And the answer was, they weren’t because they did not care.

13. A psychopath will not genuinely accept personal responsibility. A psychopath will never admit to being wrong or owning up to mistakes and errors in judgment, except as part of a manipulative ploy.   They will despise and denigrate their victims once they are done with them.  If they have any regret it is that their source of satisfaction supply has ended and they must seek another.

14. Psychopaths lack long term personal relationships. If there have been many short term marriages, broken friendships, purely transactional relationships, the chances the person is a psychopath increase. Watch especially how they treat other people in weaker positions and even animals.

15. Psychopaths are often versatile in their criminality. Psychopaths are able to get away with a lot, and while they might sometimes get caught, the ability to be flexible and adaptable when committing crimes is indicative.

If you should find yourself in a business or personal relationship with a psychopath, the best advice is seek counseling if you need, obtain assistance if you must, and run if you can. You are a diffused and multi-faceted person with many interests. A psychopath is powerfully focused on obtaining what he wishes from others, without many prohibitions or distractions. Avoidance is the best policy. Long term confinement is their best treatment.

I do not think the repetitive sociopathic behaviours and psychopathic tendencies of the Roman imperial leadership to be accidental. The mad emperors kept recurring because they were the creatures of what that culture had become, and they stood as emblems at its apex.

Men are social animals, and can go mad in groups, as well as alone. Psychopathy can be the black hole at the center of a whole galaxy of madness and sociopathy under the right conditions, and the results can be flamboyantly destructive, as we most recently saw in several places during the 20th century.  The psychopaths can thrive anywhere that deception is an advantage, but their prime hunting ground is a system in crisis, a controllable chaos lacking a well defined rule of law.

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Tim
Tim

@ stuck –

You’re welcome. After all I’ve read that you’ve written about your faith journey, I thought you’d probably like the guy. Hell, New Jersey is so small, you can probably drive down the street and go see the guy one night!

His liberal teachings actually brought me back to the Bible. After my salvation and baptism at about age 27, for me, the pendulum had swung entirely to the other side, and I dismissed the Bible and Christianity as complete nonsense.

I found that guy on youtube and his teachings on the Bible actually make sense to me. So, no, I don;t think the Bible is the literal word of God, but I also don’t think it’s complete falsehood,either. I’d rather listen to Bill’s teaching than any dozen preachers in a “traditional” church setting.

El Coyote
El Coyote

TPC says:

The bible is a parable, at least thats what I’ve always been taught, even by my right-wing Catholic mother.

“There is a spirit world, that is what Anon is talking about.”

Hardly, he ties everything back to a literal interpretation of the Bible at every turn.

Paul says the bible is allegory, a representation of a spiritual meaning using concrete examples. That is a better word than metaphorical which would be simply a figure of speech.

El Coyote
El Coyote

Nonanonymous says:

“Without an understanding of demon possession, it is impossible to understand the psyche of these individuals. A person possessed by a devil spirit is a willing accomplice. “The devil made me do it” is not an affirmative defense, but a confession.”

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

Stucky

Tim

NJ is small, but crowded and the traffic is horrendous. It takes Ms Freud half an hour during rush hour to make the 3 mile trip home.

Anyway, he’s in the southern part of NJ near the shore, but north of Atlantic City. I’d say a little over an hour. I showed Ms Freud some of his stuff. She like it. We agreed to visit the place some time this summer when we go to the beach. If and when it happens I might just do a quick writeup, if it was interesting.

“I don;t think the Bible is the literal word of God, but I also don’t think it’s complete falsehood,either.” —— well that’s a perfectly reasonable way to look at it. Cheers!!

El Coyote
El Coyote

The 405 can slow down to 20MPH. That is hell. Did you ever read the short story ‘Freeway”? The people on their way to hell are stuck on the freeway for eternity.

Three MPH sounds terrible, that is one reason I have not gone farther south than Irvine in years.

Stucky

Hey, El Coyote,

What did you think about my movie write-up? Agree? Disagree? Don’t give a shit? Spill the beans, Mr. Burrito.

Stucky

OK, El Coyote, try to beat this —– “Commute from Hell: Russian Drivers Endure 125-Mile Long, 3-Day Traffic Jam”

Commute from Hell: Russian Drivers Endure 125-Mile Long, 3-Day Traffic Jam

El Coyote
El Coyote

Stucky
says:

“The vast majority of biblical themed movies are huge disappointments to me. My three favorites are 1) Jesus Christ Superstar, 2) The Last Temptation Of Christ, and, 3) The Life Of Brian.

I also liked Samson and Delilah, the 1950 version because I was a big Victor Mature fan, and I used to fantasize (heh-heh) about Hedy Lamarr and me being naked together.”

Your a perv, lusting after Delilah. I agreed with your assessment. Bible themes seem to suffer the Hollywood treatment. Nowhere does it say one of the thieves had his eyes plucked out by a crow. Perhaps Mel was taking out his frustration with Joos with this movie.

Noah sounded ridiculous on the surface without going to see it. I can accept the implication that the hundred plus years would suffice to make a watertight vessel. I did not see a reason to make up shit about fallen angels helping out. And then the bullshit that man was not supposed to survive just got to be too much. Are we supposed to feel guilty? Or should we hate god for his anti-human plan? What a fucking stupid premise this movie has.

SOG seems to be a teen idol movie, with the messiah smiling amiably, almost stupidly.Doesn’t sound like the messiah who said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem.. It looked corny on the surface and I skipped it.

You would make a more credible Jeebus, Stuck, I’d totally believe you. Why can’t these folks get actors instead of pretty boys to portray Jeebus? Actors – people who have a concept of the backstory, not these superficial flakes whose only backstory is their Twitter ratings.

Zarathustra

Having driven a lot in the LA area I can say that Houston drivers are a LOT worse. Rudest fuckers I have ever seen. As bad as the 405 is (and I have driven it quite a bit), any of the Houston freeways within 10 or 15 miles of the downtown core are near parking lots during rush hour. What makes it worse is that the fucking exits are on both sides, so you have to change lanes frequently.

Don’t even think of arguing with me on this point. I am currently doing work at a plant near downtown. I left the place at just after 4: PM and it took me over an hour to reach home in SW Missouri City (google map it if you wish). Tomorrow morning I have to go back, but I’ll do it at 9:30 AM to avoid the rush and it will take me a half hour, as it did this morning, which included a backup near the 610 due to a three car accident that obviously was the result of people following each other too close when the speed of traffic was varying constantly.

Fuck Houston drivers. They suck.

El Coyote
El Coyote

Your temporary coming out post, Queen For a Day really showed your skill at make-believe, which is what acting is.

Stucky

Me? A Jeebus with moobs??

Hey, it sounds like we’re on the same page regarding Bible-themed movies. I figured we would be.

Regarding the hundred years to build the ark, sure it MIGHT be enough time …. but, … but … wood rots. I don’t see how it kept the wood from rotting for a hundred years.

Well, I’m done for the day. So is Ms Freud. We got a nice baked cod dinner with pumkin-rice and a Spitzbuben cookie to eat. I’ve been recording the new TV series “Resurrection” — not too bad, so far – and so we’ll be watching that.

And that’s the way it is.

Zarathustra

El Coyote, A few years ago I rented Jeebus Christ Superstar to watch it with my oldest daughter. It has to be the worst movie ever made. Nothing but a bunch of hippies dancing with roman ruins as the backdrop…most boring movie ever.

PS, Remember, I’m a boomer. I probably say the fucker when it came out and I don’t remember if I liked it or not. I remember the theme song word by word as it was so overplayed, but I had totally forgotten it (which should have by itself told me how bad it is).

I would prefer to watch Howard the Duck over Jeebus Christ Superstar.

El Coyote
El Coyote

It’s 6:40 pm here. not going to the gym today, got errands to run.

Z – JCS was cool. I haven’t seen it since it came out but like the Rocky Horror Show, you know every scene. There are movies I have forgotten just leaving the theater.

Then again, I realize your POV is different, sort of like if I was to watch a fawning biopic of Al Sharkton or Shelly Addlebrain..

El Coyote
El Coyote

Stucky says:

“Regarding the hundred years to build the ark, sure it MIGHT be enough time …. but, … but … wood rots. I don’t see how it kept the wood from rotting for a hundred years.”

It was gopher wood after all, that stuff last longer than redwood, almost 150 years and don’t forget, the place was like a steam bath with moisture rising from the ground. It was also sealed with pitch so that effectively, he was building an ark with railroad ties.

Zarathustra

el coyote, the biblical account of the ark is not only bullshit, but it’s a ripoff from the babylonian epic of gilgamesh. The fucking ark was round and it was made from woven reeds. Support the floor with reinforcing wooden beams and it would have worked. The biblical ark is a joke.

El Coyote
El Coyote

talk to moses, he wrote those books. I had read about that Gilgamesh deal. and I have heard that the story of a flood is almost a universal tale. I learned a long time ago that a fundamentalist approach does not work for me, and fundies tend to look foolish and if they wake up to the conflicts they lose faith.

Consider: a person instructed in the constitution would lose faith to see the nation’s leaders violating near sacred principles of freedom and democracy as spelled out by the founding fathers. As Stuck pointed out, the bible was written back in the day when women had few rights, the religious leaders were the authority on matters of science and government.

You would not suggest we throw out the constitution because our leaders don’t follow it and neither should we throw the bible out because it doesn’t explain all scientific matters. we shouldn’t throw it out because it isn’t as interesting as fifty shades of gray or any other of SAH’s favorites. There is the story of a king who found the scriptures after some enlightened group had discarded it. What if some benighted group had burned the bible or the Avesta writings a few generations ago? Would it be fair to this generation or later generations?

SSS

Re the horrible traffic jams and commute times cited by Stucky and Zara above, let me say this about that. I lived in the DC area for 20 years and got up at zero dark thirty just to avoid that shit. And now, I live precisely 90 SECONDS

El Coyote
El Coyote

Zarathustra says:

“It has to be the worst movie ever made.”

that would be dazed and confused or just about any movie made in texas except for no country for old men. but wait, texas chainsaw was an excellent thriller. best little whorehouse, the right stuff, but all the others suck.

SSS

WTF?

Let me continue. I’m retired and live 90 seconds from the parking lot where I play golf. I have to navigate a single stop light. If it’s red, 120 seconds tops.

Don’t envy me. No one leaves without a struggle. I’m no exception.

El Coyote
El Coyote

O dark thirty is precisely the time everyone enters the 14 going into the LA basin. It is known as the Indy 500, doing 75 from Mojave to Santa Clarita before merging onto the 5. If you get caught in traffic, it is better to skip the 5 and go south on the 210 and jump onto the 605 then the 91 to Anaheim.

A journey of 100 miles here is a short trip and a round trip of 250 miles is very doable in one day.
I did a 500 mile roundtrip to Vegas one day on my birthday, I left at 8am and got back by 11pm cause I had to work the next day.

El Muchacho
El Muchacho

You drive an El Camino?

El Muchacho
El Muchacho

You drive an El Camino?

El Coyote
El Coyote

El Dorado

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