If a family member or friend who had psychopathic tendencies took out an insurance policy on your life, would you be concerned? What if a group of strangers engaged in a betting pool concerning your mortality? What if your corporate employer secretly or deceptively (or even openly) planned to profit from your insured death, or […]
In the 1970s, Robert D. Hare developed a Psychopathy Checklist-Revised [1985 / 2003] (PCL-R),1 setting out the following character traits and behaviors: glib and superficial charm denial grandiosity parasitic lifestyle need for stimulation sexual promiscuity pathological lying early behavior problems cunning and manipulating lack of realistic long-term goals lack of remorse failure to accept responsibility
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(OR, Alas! Alas! Wo is US!) In remembrance of the 120th year of the death of Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1 February 1838 Vienna – 19 February 1894 New York) … an Austrian-born American cartoonist and caricaturist, who greatly influenced the growth of satirical cartooning in the United States;[*] and the 125th year of the publication
AWAKE !!to the price-tag ofdelusion. Once upon a time, Adam Smith said: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. (The Wealth of Nations, p. 148—I.X.I) Once upon a (more recent) time, foreigners
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A [mathematical] ceiling is a [philosophic] term used to describe “the unseen, [unacknowledged, peer-enforced] barrier that keeps [many modern scientists] from rising to the upper rungs of [knowledge and truth], regardless of their qualifications or achievements.” (Adapted by this blogger from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling ) IF Plato (/ Socrates) is right: ▪ that “The Divided Line”1 as
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Back in October 2009, I wrote the following:* “Despite the “neon” warning that: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God[1] most of us, in our fondest dreams, wish we were smitten with riches and that we
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(OR Déjà Vu of “The Terrible Twos”?) This post is in commemoration of the 107th Anniversary year of the founding (1907) of Ayn Rand’s (1905-1982) philosophy of “Objectivism.”1 Before you swear in outrage at this ridiculous accusation, let me swear: “This commemoration arises out of Ayn’s very own words.” Check it out yourself: “I was