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I'm looking for critiques of the fMRI tests being explored for identifying sociopaths. Here's one:

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One of the most obvious mistakes in Fallon’s reasoning is called the fallacy of reverse inference. His argument goes like this: areas of the brain called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex are important for empathy and moral reasoning. At the same time, empathy and moral reasoning are lost or impaired in many psychopaths. So, people who show reduced activity in these regions must be psychopaths.

The flaw with this argument – as Fallon himself must know – is that there is no one-to-one mapping between activity in a given brain region and complex abilities such as empathy. There is no empathy region and there is no psychopath switch. -- source

Let me correct the argument, which the author has twisted to fit his purposes.

"Certain areas of the brain are important for empathy and moral reasoning. At the same time, empathy and moral reasoning are lost or impaired in many psychopaths. So, people who show reduced activity in these regions under certain specific test conditions are likely to be psychopaths."

It's underhanded to say "must be psychopaths". That sets up the logic to fail, as does leaving out the specific test conditions that illicit the responses in normal people but not in psychopaths.

Our critic wishes to lecture us on logical fallacies, yet cannot construct the correct logical pathways that Fallon and other scientists follow.

Note also the twisted claim "There is no empathy region and there is no psychopath switch." Given that we understand so little about brain function, how empathy originates from brain function, and how psychopathy comes into being, such definitive statements are, at the very least, foolish.

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Placed in a brain scanner, psychopathic criminals watched videos of one person hurting another and were asked to empathise with the individual in pain.

Now scientists have found that only when asked to empathise did the criminals' empathy reaction, also known as the mirror system, fire up the same way as it did for the controls. Without instruction, they show reduced activity in the regions of the brain associated with pain.

"The predominant notion had been that they are callous individuals, unable to feel emotions themselves and therefore unable to feel emotions in others.

"Our work shows it's not that simple. They don't lack empathy but they have a switch to turn it on and off. By default, it seems to be off." -- source

So if sociopaths have to be asked to turn their empathy on...

Upon reflection, I think this article got it wrong. Empathizing with another's pain is not necessarily indicative of well developed empathy. For a sociopath to imagine himself feeling the physical pain another person feels is not equivalent to feeling another person's emotional pain.

Another study suggests something different from the earlier study:

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Our results demonstrate that while individuals with psychopathy exhibited a strong response in pain-affective brain regions when taking an imagine-self perspective, they failed to recruit the neural circuits that are were activated in controls during an imagine-other perspective, and that may contribute to lack of empathic concern. -- source

The bottom line is what has been observed for centuries -- that sociopaths lack the empathy response that normal people have. Suggesting that sociopaths have empathy but just need to be reminded to activate it is moving into the absurd. Sociopaths would no doubt approve of such a belief, as it certainly makes their game that much stronger and effective. I can just see the sociopaths saying, "It's your fault for not reminding me to activate my empathy."

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You will find the silliest use of words among people who think they the masters of our language. The word “sociopath,” for instance, is now used instead of the more accurate term “psychopath.” That is because “psychopath” is used in movies and among the general public so those who don’t want to sound like common people use the term “sociopath.” -- source

No, it's not because people "don’t want to sound like common people" that they use the word sociopath instead of psychopath. It's because the controlled media has changed the meaning of psychopath to mean serial killer. Sociopath has yet to have its meaning completely distorted and is therefore more meaningful. Most psychopaths / sociopaths are not serial killers. Because the public mind equates psychopath with serial killer, I prefer to avoid the term psychopath and use sociopath instead. It's to avoid misconceptions, not to avoid sounding like common people.

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A psychopath is a person who can feel no real sense of guilt. He could blind a baby and never feel the slightest real qualms about it. There are at least five million psychopaths in the United States, and they make up the overwhelming majority of our clergy. -- source

At least 5 million! They also make up the overwhelming majority of lawyers, politicians, business leaders, military leaders, and other authority figures, including religious leaders!

This world is in a heap of trouble, needless to say. At least now you know why.

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"Let there be floods of blood," declared Krasnaia gazeta, the official newspaper of the Red Army in 1918. From the enemies of the revolution, there should be "more blood, as much as possible."

A few months before, the Bolsheviks had seized power from the provisional government that had been installed in the final days of Russia's Romanov dynasty. The revolution ushered in what would become a century of ghastly sadism.

The world will mark the 100th anniversary of that revolution this November 7. Yet while the Soviet Union is no more and communism has been discredited in most eyes for many years, it is hard even now to grasp the sheer scale of agony imposed by the brutal ideology of collectivism.

Few now dare question the degree of human misery that communism inflicted. Yet there were many, during its height, who fell victim to what Solzhenitsyn called "the desire not to know." They either refused to acknowledge the facts staring them in the face, or actively tried to cover them over with lies. -- source

Communism got a really bad rap. It was never about "communism" per se. That was just the façade, the mask, the deception. It was really about sociopathy being in the driver's seat and having an unrestrained hand. The sociopaths called it communism, but since when is the mass destruction of communities the definition of communism?

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For some time, debate also roiled over whether Joseph Stalin's summary executions, liquidations, forced labor camps, and endless other crimes against the Russian people were a departure from the so-called ideals of the revolution, or their all-but-inevitable result. The opening of Soviet archives put that debate to rest: Russian communism was a regime of terror from the very beginning. -- source

It would be more accurate to say "Jewish sociopathy was a regime of terror from the very beginning." The Jewish infiltrators were running the show, not the Russians. The Russians were the victims, by the tens of millions, or so I've heard.

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In 1918 Iakov Peters, deputy to Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of the secret police, declared that "anyone daring to agitate against the Soviet government will immediately be arrested and placed in a concentration camp." The enemies of the working class, he promised, would be met with "mass terror."

For sanction, Peters had the word of none other than Lenin himself. "Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers," Lenin ordered in 1918. "Publish their names. Take from them all the grain. Designate hostages. Do it in such a way so that for hundreds of versts around people will see, tremble, know, shout: They are strangling, strangling to death the bloodsucker kulaks." (The term "kulak" referred to peasants well-off enough to hire workers.) "It is necessary secretly—and urgently—to prepare the terror," he ordered shortly thereafter.

Over the next several months the secret police of the Cheka carried out mass executions in a campaign that would become known as the Red Terror. In "Red Victory," W. Bruce Lincoln writes that one early estimate claimed the Cheka shot "more than eight thousand people in the twenty provinces of Central Russia before the end of July 1919, but by all accounts that figure was a gross understimate."

It was also just the beginning. -- source

Communism is not about terror. Sociopathy is.

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In 1997, a French publisher published "The Black Book of communism," which tried to place a definitive figure on the number of people who died by communism's hand: 65 million in China, 20 million in the Soviet Union, 2 million in Cambodia, 2 million in North Korea, and so on—more than 90 million lives, all told.

Many of them died by famine. But the famines were man-made disasters: the result of expropriation, forced collectivization, and other policies. -- source

Policies dreamed up by sociopaths.

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The publication of the Black Book precipitated a debate over whether communism was as bad as Naziism. -- source

You have to appreciate the irony here. They are comparing "rule by sociopaths" to "rule by non-sociopaths opposed to rule by sociopaths". Naziism was truly "national socialism" in its most genuine form, while communism was really sociopathy in sheep's clothing.

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But depravity was woven into the sinews of communism by its very nature. The history of the movement is a history of sadistic "struggle sessions" during the Cultural Revolution, of gulags and psychiatric wards in Russia, of the torture and murder of teachers, doctors, and other intellectuals in Cambodia, and on and on. -- source

How is it that the author cannot see that this is not communism in any way, shape, or form? It is unencumbered sociopathy.

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Pause for a moment to read those sentences with "Naziism" and "Hitler" in place of "socialism" and "Lenin." Yes, Hitler murdered millions of Jews, but... -- source

And there's the mind control -- the false belief that "Hitler murdered millions of Jews". War murdered millions of people, and Hitler made dozens of attempts stop the war, all rejected by the Jewish puppets (Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt) who had orders from the true ruling sociopaths to pursue the destruction of Germany at all costs. There was never to be even the consideration of a peace agreement until the threat of Germany opposing the Jewish/sociopath agenda was thoroughly annihilated.

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Forums like this one could lend credence and support to those who have not turned over to the dark-side. If only more people would voice their support and encouragement, those with a semblance of decency and belief in the good natured beings would be more willing than ever to take that necessary step. In large enough numbers we will prevail and the psychopaths know it. It is their biggest fear. A day of reckoning awaits them sooner or later no matter what they believe. -- Comment from JSBach1 (source)

The ruling sociopaths are outnumbered 10,000 to 1, maybe even more. They don't have the numbers to maintain power and control over the masses, but they have something even more important -- mind control. They control the media; the free press is a myth. They control the education system; an open mind is a myth. They control the government; a free election or valid representation is a myth. They control the medical system; health care is a myth. They control the money; a free market economy is a myth. They control the justice system; a fair trial is a myth. With that kind of mind control, it doesn't matter to sociopaths how badly they are outnumbered. Sociopaths will still rule.

But, if you can succeed to free your mind from their control, and learn to think on your own, you can be free.

And that is their biggest fear.

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Jon Rappoport wrote:
Meanwhile, the ultra-wealthy elites who use socialism as a weapon, while propagandizing it as our humanitarian future, know full well THEY will run it, and they have no qualms about placing severe limits on the freedom of populations. They want to impose those limits. -- source

You can replace the word "socialism" with communism or democracy, and the quote would still be just as valid. That's because there are sociopaths as the driving force behind the ideals. The ideals are always corrupted as a result, and always corrupted in the same direction -- towards slavery.

The ruling sociopaths want power and control over the masses. They want, in no uncertain terms, to enslave the masses. But in describing their agenda to the masses, they deliberately use uncertain terms, like socialism, communism, or democracy. The masses think they know what these words mean, but they don't realize how the sociopaths are misusing those words. That's how the deception and manipulation is accomplished.

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Surprise! "President" Trump is a sociopath. Didn't you know?

But Trump is just a puppet, made to dance by other more powerful sociopaths. That's why Trump is not really a president. We don't have real presidents. We haven't had any since at least JFK.

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“It is clear that Trump is in the pocket of the Israeli government and their agents in America who are currently in the Trump administration and over-represented in the Federal Reserve system which controls and regulates the US economy,” he continued.

“While there is a new president every four or eight years, American foreign policy remains the same. This is because all modern US presidents are figurehead tools of the corporate and financial system that is transnational in scope and based in London and Tel Aviv,” Peretto said.

“Washington, DC, is where the most powerful military in the world is based, and whose role is to enforce the dictates of the leaders of the international banking cartels,” the analyst noted.

“In rhetoric, Trump has played his part as a divisive character trying to promote and reinforce suspicions and outright hatreds between different factions of the common populace. This is simply the continuation of the old divide-and-conquer tactics used by psychopathic elites for centuries to keep their subjugated populations from uniting and overthrowing their rule,” he stated. -- source

Check out that last sentence again. It's all there. It's been going on for centuries. And we, the gullible sheeple, fall for it generation after generation. Why? Because we don't know what sociopaths are. We never learned how they are different, how they think, how they hide, how they deceive, how they manipulate, how they view life, and what they really want. We assume they are just like us, but they aren't just like us. They have no empathy. They don't really care about us.

Michael Jackson knew. He slipped us the truth, so they killed him. Hey, that's how sociopaths think. They are the root of all human evil.




Michael Jackson - They Don’t Care About Us (Brazil Version) (Official Video)

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Psychopaths prefer rap.

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In a study of 200 people who listened to 260 songs, those with the highest psychopath scores were among the greatest fans of the Blackstreet number one hit No Diggity, with Eminem’s Lose Yourself rated highly too.

The researchers have a serious goal in mind: if psychopaths have distinct and robust preferences for songs, their playlists could be used to identify them. -- source

Instead of identifying psychopaths in our most important leadership positions and removing them from power, we are learning about their musical preferences. Is the world insane, or what!

We have fMRI tests that already identify psychopaths with high accuracy. But no, we're going to identify them by their musical playlists!
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Wanna bet psychopaths are behind this to make sure we never identify them?

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You can replace the word "socialism" with communism or democracy, and the quote would still be just as valid. That's because there are sociopaths as the driving force behind the ideals. The ideals are always corrupted as a result, and always corrupted in the same direction -- towards slavery.

I'm not just whistling "Dixie"...

In America government is not in the hands of its people. Government is in the hands of a ruling oligarchy. Oligarchic rule prevails regardless of electoral outcomes. The American people are entering a world of slavery more severe than anything that previously existed. Without jobs, dependent on their masters for trickle-down benefits that are always subject to being cut, and without voice or representation, Americans, except for the One Percent, are becoming the most enslaved people in history.

Got slavery? You will soon enough. Remember the frog in the pot, who never worries about the slowing rising water temperature? Before he realizes it, he is too relaxed to hop out of the pot, and being cooked is inevitable.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

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Markets now use their economic and ideological resources to weaponize and militarize all aspects of everyday life, increasingly held in place by a culture of fear, a pedagogy of repression, a banal celebrity culture, game show aesthetics, and a politics of precarity, control, and mass surveillance. A world of shadows, secrecy, and lawlessness now characterizes a deep state that is ruthless in its pursuit of wealth and power and indifferent to its plundering of both humanity and the planet. -- source

This is sociopathic rule in action.

It looks like an attempt is made in the article to describe this version of the world as a "liberal thought mindset", but that just confuses the issue. It's a sociopath's mindset. Sociopathy is not a "liberal thought mindset". It's just plain sociopathy.

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