By Joyce Alexander, RNP (Retired)
Psychopaths sometimes don’t know enough about how the rest of the world thinks to tell a “good” lie. I saw the following article about North Korea’s soccer team and how they had been apparently caught in a doping scandal, but were claiming that it was really an herbal medication that made them test positive for steroids.
The excuse given was that the team members had been struck by lightening and they had decided, heroically, to compete anyway. The steroids were accidentally taken with traditional Chinese medicines.
I have recently found other articles about the “stories” of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-II, that made me laugh out loud. In one article, he supposedly played his first round of golf and scored a 38, including five holes-in-one.
One of the things I have noticed about many psychopaths, and others who frequently lie, is that their lies are so “off the wall” that no one over three years old would believe a word of them. They will “lie when the truth will fit better” is a saying I’ve heard all my life. This seems to be especially true with pathological liars and psychopaths.
Dr. Robert Hare, well-known psychopathy researcher, says that psychopaths have difficulty realizing that their lies are unbelievable, even when the evidence that they are untrue is literally in front of them. In some way, the two sides of their brains can’t connect the evidence in front of their eyes.
An example of this are the lies told by Casey Anthony when she led the police to the place she supposedly worked, even going to a cubical, when she knew that she didn’t work for that company. She also lied about leaving her daughter with “Zanny the Nanny,” when such a person didn’t exist. Anthony even led the police to the door of the empty apartment with the police in tow.
Not all liars are psychopaths, but all psychopaths are liars. Liars signal that they are not to be trusted. But if you hear a lie that is so outrageous that it makes you laugh out loud, or have the feeling that the person telling it must be “crazy—”look out! You very well may be dealing with a psychopath.
Back_from_the_edge
Thanks for the back up H2H…
freemama: no worries…Louise…no worries…come on, now, let’s sing “Cumbaya” and group hug; otay???
We have a spath war to get on with over here…
Loves ~
Dupey Dupey Dooo
freemama
Oxy – you should have heard us Seattlites complain about our “summer” we didn’t break 80 till mid July! But I come from Texas, and never EVER complain about such things. Sending you watermelon wishes covered with salt. Hydrate!! That’s some killer heat y’all got!
skylar
Freemama
I’m just north of you a few miles.
It’s been so cold up here that I’ve had the heater on at night.
freemama
That’s awesome! I know! My son’s wanted to turn on the heat all summer, but I’d just bundle him up and teach him about denial. 🙂
skylar
LOL!
from experience right?
KatyDid
Oxy!!
Rendering! HAHAHAHAHA. I’m gonna steal your line b/c I only WISH it fit me. If I could melt off this coat of fat, maybe the sweltering heat wouldn’t get to me so much.
Rendering! TOO FUNNY by far!
Ox Drover
KatyD, you are welcome to the line, I DO COME UP WITH A GOOD’NUN every now and then don’t I? LOL
About 11 last night just as I snuggled into my bed, the lights went out….I tried to stay up so I wouldn’t “smother” in my sleep without my apnea machine, but no dice, so I drifted off to sleep and woke up about 2:45 when the lights came on….a TINY localized thunderstorm is over us this morning and we’ve had thunder boomers all around us and it is 80 degrees outside. It had already gotten to 89 this morning before the storm got started after daylight but is back down to 80 now, but 98% humidity! We set state wide records for HIGH HEAT, and for the highest “low” temps the state has EVER had….repeating that day after day.
I can tell you I am looking for a summer home somewhere besides HERE…..when I lived in the Imperial Valley on the California/Mexican border it wasn’t this hot and on top of it all the humidity was VERY LOW and here is is very high…It is like living in Iraq with the humidity of the tropics as well…CRAZEEEEE!
It’s nice to know though that my P son’s cell in Texas, which has heat as bad as here, is NOT AIR CONDITIONED. My egg donor has provided him a fan though.
Hope to heal
Oxy ~ I’m picturing convection oven… your P-son’s cell with a fan. LOL
Ox Drover
H2H, Yea, that’s about what it is, CONVECTION OVEN, bake break in that sucker!
Hope to heal
Oxy ~ is it still raining where you are? I sure hope so!
Although, I hope you don’t get the deluge that hit my hometown. They have severe flooding up there several roads have huge sections washed away. I don’t know what is going on with this strange weather everywhere. It seems like the whole middle of the country is either dry and baking or wet and living in a sauna! UGH!