On the airplane, I read the book "The Sociopath Next Door". Its a great resource. About 4% of humans are sociopaths. 1 out of 25.
So you run into them for sure. They have no conscience and can't really love, but they can act like it....because nothing makes more sense to a sociopath than to have someone who will do anything for them, so they learn the tricks to get others to love them.
Sociopaths use people, without regard to the damage done to the other person, sometimes they even relish the damage. Sociopathology has not been eliminated by evolution....they are still smooth enough to procreate.
They consider people who do the right thing, even though it is not to their personal advantage to be "defective".
But they will also steal, lie, even kill you if they think it will benefit them and they feel the risks of getting caught are low. they often have a need for a power trip to control others, even by confusion...that is "enough control" that they get off on it.
And they will backstab, and cause losses for others, as that makes them relatively "better".
No think about someone who gets rich which creating pollution and disease whilst controlling their serfs that give them wealth and self worth. Think about the power of "you can't prove I am killing your children".
Now do you see why so many sociopaths are drawn to nuclear power?
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As an aside, Psychopaths are a subset of sociopaths, and the Nihilistic tendencies also fall in this universe, and there are varying degrees of each and different mixes.
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I am a semi-pro liespotter. But when up against the sociopath, they can be smooth, even charming, and they can lie with no emotion, no easy giveaways.
4% is not "common" but if a sociopath thinks you are a good target, watch out. It could be years before you find out the truth, especially because we naturally cut people some slack if we think they are our friends, or at least they act like our friends.
So it is an important skill to be able to identify sociopaths early on. And watch out, because all psychopaths are also sociopaths.
Here is a summary from another site
1. SUPERFICIAL charm. Smooth, engaging and charming, a sociopath will never become tongue-tied or embarrassed.
2. OVER-INFLATED sense of self-worth. Sociopaths believe they are superior human beings.
3. PRONE to boredom. They feel the need to be stimulated constantly.
4. PATHOLOGICAL liars. Sociopaths will be deceptive and dishonest.
5. MANIPULATIVE. They will say and do anything to deceive and cheat others.
6. LACK of remorse. No sense of the suffering of their victims.
7. LIMITED range of feelings. Don’t expect them to express anything other than happiness or sadness.
8. CALLOUS. Cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate and tactless are apt words to describe them. (but not all the time, they can learn to be charming and warm.)
9. THEY live a parasitic lifestyle. Sociopaths are often financially dependent on others.
10. THEY can’t control their behaviour. When challenged, sociopaths will appear irritable, annoyed and impatient.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2298558/Why-didnt-I-realise-perfect-man-sociopath-Charming-Handsome-So-attentive-But-Mel-married-sinister-truth-emerged-.html#ixzz3W7Xd4X9m
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From Doctor Goodheart, some more Soisiopath-spotter help
How
To Spot A Sociopath Or Psychopath - 10 red flags that could save you
from being swept under the influence of a charismatic nut job; via A
Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-spot-sociopath-10-red-flags-that.html
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From other readers
eyesoftheworld
GOM – it was good to read your comment above – about how studying
psychopathy presents a whole new world.
The book Sociopath Next Door was
recommended by Stock who is now a socio-spotter! Good onya!
We all
need to become one too because this 'personality disorder' is killing
the planet – and doing it with awareness of this fact. The more we know
about them, the more we can spot and protect ourselves from their
fallout. Like this metal-character that comes in here and lies in that
peculiar way that psychopaths do. He is easy to identify. Many of them
are way more suave. If I see his name on a comment, I bypass it. Don't
need to waste time trying to figure out what's wrong with he/she/it. It
is a psychopath. Don't want to waste bandwidth but I am pasting in here
the list of main traits of these entities:
• glib and superficial charm
• grandiose (exaggeratedly high) estimation of self
• need for stimulation
• pathological lying
• cunning and manipulativeness
• lack of remorse or guilt
• shallow affect (superficial emotional responsiveness)
• callousness and lack of empathy
• parasitic lifestyle
• poor behavioral controls
• sexual promiscuity
• early behavior problems
• lack of realistic long-term goals
• impulsivity
• irresponsibility
• failure to accept responsibility for own actions
• many short-term marital relationships
• juvenile delinquency
• revocation of conditional release
• criminal versatility
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Sam – people born with psychopathy (maybe 6%+ of the population) do
not have souls in the way we understand that term. There is no core to
evolve. Study this illness and understand the clinical dilemma – most
therapy relies on appealing to that core which empathizes with the
'other'. The psychopath does not feel empathy, sympathy, responsibility,
shame, fear (unless their food source is challenged – we are their
food), or connection to other humans. This is why treatment is not
successful. You can use the term sociopath or psychopath (one is easier
to type than the other!) but we are talking about the extreme end of the
anti-social personality disorder scale. All of these terms have been
used to describe the condition. Other sources of information on this:
The Mask of Sanity – available online – free pdf
http://www.quantumfuture.net/store/sanity_1.PdF
Without Conscience by Robert Hare
Snakes in Suits by Babiak and Hare
many articles at sott.net
You all personally know people with this condition – learning about
it will help your personal life and your ability to spar in the chatroom
with them. Or give you the courage to just ignore them…
Excerpt from one part of the studies: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/17716999_Ischemia_of_the_lung_due_to_ionizing_radiation_quantitative_studies
>Differential broncho spirometry in man has shown that the percent of oxygen uptake of one lung, which is a measure of the percent of pulmonary blood flow to that lung, correlates closely with the fraction of radioactive particles in that lung (10). It has also been shown that radioactive particles and labeled red cells undergo a nearly identical distribution in the lung (11). Our results confirm the finding that radiation injury causes pulmonary ischemia. They indicate that the degree of ischemia is influenced both by the duration of survival following irradiation magnitude of the radiation dose. Our observations were made over a 10-month interval, which is about half the life span of the Swiss mouse. We did not observe evidence or reversal of the intensity of ischemia. Therefore we conclude that the process is irreversible although further studies through an entire life span would be required to establish this point irrefutably. <Necropsies of more than a dozen of the mammals revealed ischemia of the lungs. On-site techs report that the dolphin's lungs were white. Ischemia is inflammation and constriction of the vascular system. There was no blood supply reaching the organs; these animals suffocated in their home environment. Mass stranding are up worldwide [see google]. Previous research shows this outcome is predicted when mammals are exposed to ionizing radiation.
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The below from "Lots wife"
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Hot Tuna?
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"You have to watch your food like a hawk. My daughter had some tuna in oil....very small tin. I had been warning her. But dad is crazy. I found the tin going into the recycle, it still had a bit of oil in it. So, me being me, I got out my geiger counter and took a reading.........it went ballistic.
It just keep climbing and climbing. I didn't think it was going to stop......It stopped climbing when it hit 38K counts per minute....I didn't know my bGeigie Nano meter went that high. The oil seemed OK, the tin seemed OK, but a tiny flake of leftover tuna the size of a match head was on the lip of the tin, that is what set it off. Don't eat ANYTHING from the sea....anymore. That tuna was toxic radioactive nuclear waste, and not food."
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38,000 counts per minute would be around 1000 times background, using this model Geiger counter!
I sent this email to get more information on this very high detection.
Do you still have the sample?
If you are located in Australia, and still have the sample, I could test it, if you posted to me.
If you don't have it, if you provide the information below, I may be able to source some here, and test it.
In what country was the tuna tinned?
In what country was it purchased?
Here is the reply to my email query.
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This happened over 6 months ago.
I can only assume it was canned in the USA. tuna in oil. At that time I thought the reading was coming from the oil in the tin....I didn't notice the flake that was on the outside top edge of the can. I got it stuck on my finger and washed it off. After this, is when I couldn't get a reading from the tin or the oil again. I realized that the flake which was gone down the drain by then was the cause.
I thought my Geiger counter was malfunctioning at the time, which it never has before or since. The count was going up and it freaked out my son as we watched it climb. The highest reading I have ever gotten until then was 164 CPM off of a milled piece of pine, but at that time I was (and still am) learning how to use the geiger counter.
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A small number of tests on different brands of tinned tuna have been conducted here recently, and over the last couple years. There was nothing to report from these tests. This is only one community testing lab, and each test takes 24 hours, or more. A large variety of mainly Australian food products have been tested, so statistically the number of tinned tuna tests conducted here at this stage is very small.
It obvious more widespread food testing needs to be conducted.