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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“[Hillary] Clinton tells Maddow that she [Hillary] was an obstacle to Russia’s plan to undermine our democracy, and suggests we should be scared of the Kremlin’s grand designs. The lengths these people will go to protect their privilege and deflect from their own failures is staggering, and a real threat…

I’ve said that Russiagate is an act of elite projection. For example: we hear endless warnings that the Russians seek to undermine confidence in US democracy. But what is the impact of Dem elites, like Clinton, proclaiming that ‘the legitimacy of our elections is in doubt’?”

Aaron Maté

“The lady doth protest too much methinks.”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“In the narcissist’s surrealistic world, even language is pathologized. It mutates into a weapon of self-defence, a verbal fortification, a medium without a message, replacing words with duplicitous and ambiguous vocables.

When narcissism fails as a defense mechanism, the narcissist develops paranoid narratives: self-directed confabulations which place him at the center of others’ allegedly malign attention.”

Sam Vaknin

“She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.”

George R. R. Martin, on Cersei Lannister

“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”

Voltaire

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“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest…A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“There’s a reason narcissists don’t learn from mistakes and that’s because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. It’s always an assistant’s fault, an adviser’s fault, a lawyer’s fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they’ll say, ‘what mistake?’

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.”

Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only enduring crime is pride.”

Sophocles, Antigone

“Pride goes before destruction, and arrogance before a fall.”

Proverbs 16:18

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AS TIME GOES BY

Guest Post by Jesse

“For I behold the heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars which you have made. What is man that you are mindful of him? or the Son of Man that you dwell with him?  You have made us a little less than the angels, and you have crowned Him with glory and honour, And have set Him over all the works of your hands.”

Psalm 8:3-5

“Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term to describe persons who were self-absorbed, and psychoanalysts have focused on the narcissist’s need to bolster his or her self-esteem through grandiose fantasy, exaggerated ambition, exhibitionism, and feelings of entitlement.”

Donald W. Black, DSM-5 Guidebook

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How to Recognize a Narcissist

Article is located at http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/traits.html#contra

[Images inserted by Maggie for those who prefer pictures to words.]

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Almost everyone has some narcissistic traits, but being conceited, argumentative, or selfish sometimes (or even all the time) doesn’t amount to a personality disorder. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a long-term pattern of abnormal thinking, feeling, and behavior in many different situations. The traits on this page will seem peculiar or disturbing when someone acts this way — i.e., you will know that something is not right, and contact with narcissists may make you feel bad about yourself. It’s not unusual for narcissists to be outstanding in their field of work. But these are the successful people who have a history of alienating colleagues, co-workers, employees, students, clients, and customers — people go away mad or sad after close contact with narcissists.

How many narcissists does it take to change a light bulb?

(a) Just one — but he has to wait for the whole world to revolve around him.
(b) None at all — he hires menials for work that’s beneath him.

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This is a compilation of observations I’ve made from various people known well for many years. Most of these traits apply to all of the narcissists I’ve known, but that doesn’t mean that they’ll all apply to the narcissists you know. My narcissists are all high-functioning — that is, they’ve maintained gainful employment, marriages and family life — and there may certainly be narcissistic traits that I haven’t observed among the narcissists I’ve known. You can go directly to my full commentary on narcissists’ traits or you can select what you’re most interested in from the pink box below. Narcissicism is a personality disorder and that means that narcissists’ personalities aren’t organized in a way that makes sense to most people, so the notes below do not necessarily go in the order I’ve listed them or in any order at all. Interaction with narcissists is confusing, even bewildering — their reasons for what they do are not the same as normal reasons. In fact, treating them like normal people (e.g., appealing to their better nature, as in “Please have a heart,” or giving them the chance to apologize and make amends) will make matters worse with a narcissist.

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NARCISSISTIC ARROGANT PRICK

Happy holidays from a narcissistic arrogant prick who runs a Wall Street bank that has paid out $20 billion in fines for their criminal behavior. Instead of being taken away in cuffs and sharing a cell with his buddy Madoff, he frolics in his $50 million penthouse with his obnoxious spawn. The family was just about to sit down and dine on baby fetus souffle and truffles, washed down with the blood of the millions of people he has foreclosed upon.

“Season’s Greetings and Fuck You America. I’m a billionaire and you’re not.” – Love Jamie

I can’t wait for the 2015 Dimon Holiday card.

 

“We play tennis in the house because we’re transgressive and also we have billions of dollars and no accountability.”

“Don’t the Dimons look giddy? Maybe they read Judge Rakoff’s essay and thought the coast is clear w/all the fines paid.”

“Lack of humility is the petard on which Jamie Dimon has hoisted himself all year. His holiday card comes across as Nero fiddling while J.P. Morgan’s reputation burns.”

“This is a card that expresses sheer exuberance in the sender’s circumstances. Personally, I think this card accurately represents [a] value system which is narcissistic and unrepentant.”