A Cambridge professor, Simon Baron-Cohen, has written Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty. In this review, the author explains the professor’s ideas.
Read Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil, on Independent.co.uk.
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Hope to heal
oh my goodness… karaoke memories!! LOL
hens
h2h – are you gonna stay up and watch Prince Willy get married? or are you in his time zone?
Hope to heal
Hens ~ I’m a night owl…but I’m not going to be sitting here when hubby gets up for work. That’s about 15 minutes prior to when coverage of the festivities starts here. I’m in the good ‘ol USA, Wisconsin, to be more specific. where you at?
hens
oklahoma – I am a nite owl also , I will watch it sometime tomorrow I am sure they will play it over and over for days…they do seem to be a happy couple – I hope nothing crazy happens with all the media blitz etc….
Hope to heal
OMG, you’re right in tornado alley too, aren’t you??
I’ll watch sometime tomorrow too. And yeah, I’m sure that we’ll be able to see it as many times as we’d care to.
They certainly make a better suited couple than Charles and Dianna ever did. I thought Dianna was a great lady and I really don’t care for Prince Charles at all, he’s much better suited for Camilla.
I hope that the two of them have a lovely wedding day without incident despite the media craziness.
hens
pumpkin time – gnite
Hope to heal
g’nite punkin 😉
skylar
Just found this.
It’s an interesting quote by Thomas Jefferson.
A man’s moral sense must be unusually strong, if slavery does not make him a thief. He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force. These slaves chose to steal from their neighbors rather than work. They became public nuisances, and in most instance were reduced to slavery again….
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/quotations-slavery-and-emancipation
It’s interesting because narcissism is about slavery. It’s about the spaths wanting to control us and own our very lives. We do not exist except to be their servants.
My own parents did not allow me to keep my doll, I had to give it up to my spath little sister. And then I had to continue in servitude to her, doing her homework and making sure she got what she wanted. My spath brother also liked to manipulate me, and I actually did his homework too when he took some community college classes!! I know, I know, I’m an idiot pushover, but it seemed logical at the time: it’s easier to do the homework for them than it is to hear them whine about it.
But instead of me (the slave) becoming a spath, they did.
So I guess the slave is not necessarily the spath, sometimes the spath is the one who warped them into becoming a slave by manipulating their perceptions of power and authority.
Maybe this is where genes and memes get mixed up. It’s very confusing.
super chic
skylar, it is confusing. Why did you have to give your sister you doll?
Why couldn’t they just go get her one of her own?
That is so mean.
Thomas Jefferson was such an intelligent man.
I’ll have to visit that website.
~over and out~
kim frederick
Oh my God. You would not believe the post I just lost into cyber-space. My entire life story. All about my recovery, relpse, trauma, dissasociation, molestation by my mother, 2 date rapes, hub’s affair, crack addiction, recovery from shame, new realizations and discovery’s. Did you know that comples post traumatic stree disorder is synonous with BPD?
I will conquor my shame that surrounds this disorder!!!
Anyway, that post was an excercise in self acceptance and a venture into trusting you guys (not always easy) and I’m pissed I lost it. Now, I’m exhausted.
I never intended to go there. I started out light hearted…commenting on how Oxy shouldn’t kick her cat, and fairy dust, and ducklings, and that Star was crazy enough to be in the club….don’t know what happened.
I wish God would wave a magic wand and make me well.
Guys, I want to share this, but don’t be surprised if I go back and delete it. I know I will regret it.