“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
― Maya Angelou
“Characteristics of a #Sociopath”
BY STANLEY C LOEWEN
In the BBC series Sherlock Holmes, Holmes pronounces to Watson that he is a ‘I’m not a psychopath, I’m a high functioning sociopath, do your research’, and this fascinating self assessment is one that gets many viewers questioning what precisely a sociopath is.
Sherlock’s proclaiming himself a sociopath makes the term seem almost romantic and interesting rather than immediately disturbing when usually we would think of the traits of a sociopath as belonging to a villain, not a protagonist. Here we will look at what the term sociopath entails, whether it is indeed distinct from psychopathy, and whether Holmes was right to diagnose himself as one.
Qualities of a Sociopath
Someone who is described as a sociopath will have several traits that set them apart from those with no personality disorders. These traits include the following…
• Lack of empathy – Inability to feel sympathy for…
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Freedom Quote of the Day #25-January 5, 2017
“By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United States. Thus the Founders ensured that in no official sense would America be a Christian Republic. Ten years after the Constitutional Convention ended its work, the country assured the world that the United States was a secular state, and that its negotiations would adhere to the rule of law, not the dictates of the Christian faith. The assurances were contained in the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797 and were intended to allay the fears of the Muslim state by insisting that religion would not govern how the treaty was interpreted and enforced. John Adams and the Senate made clear that the pact was between two sovereign states, not between two religious powers.”
― Franklin T. Lambert, The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America
Freedom Quote of the Day #25-January 5, 2017
Freedom Quote of the Day #24
“True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.”
― J.S.B. Morse, Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller
Freedom Quote of the Day #24-January 4, 2017
Ethics
Rachel Maddow Show
It sounds like a bureaucratic change, but what it means is there’s no more independent ethics oversight of Congress. This means that lawmakers themselves would get to police themselves for ethics. And it means that no ethics investigation information would have to be released to the public.
Watch the full video: http://on.msnbc.com/2i4iqxD
Standing up for what is right.
Don’t be a sheep! Speak up for your convictions.
Freedom Quote of the Day #23
“The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of the American Revolution. Its major tenets included belief in human reason as a reliable means of solving social and political problems and belief in a supreme deity who created the universe to operate solely by natural laws. The supreme God of the Deists removed himself entirely from the universe after creating it. They believed that he assumed no control over it, exerted no influence on natural phenomena, and gave no supernatural revelation to man. A necessary consequence of these beliefs was a rejection of many doctrines central to the Christian religion. Deists did not believe in the virgin birth, divinity, or resurrection of Jesus, the efficacy of prayer, the miracles of the Bible, or even the divine inspiration of the Bible.
These beliefs were forcefully articulated by Thomas Paine in Age of Reason, a book that so outraged his contemporaries that he died rejected and despised by the nation that had once revered him as ‘the father of the American Revolution.’… Other important founding fathers who espoused Deism were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Ethan Allen, James Madison, and James Monroe.
[The Christian Nation Myth, 1999]”
― Farrell Till
Freedom Quote of the Day #23-January 3, 2017
Freedom Quote of the Day #22
“…Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.”
― John Adams
Freedom Quote of the Day #22-January 2, 2017
Freedom Quote of the Day #21
“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”
― Thomas Paine
Freedom Quote of the Day #21- January 1, 2017
Reblog-2016 Will Be Remembered as The Year “Media Polling” Corruption Was Exposed…
What this year revealed. Worth the read.
The Platinum Dragon 