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Ns reactions to world events?
cj:
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He's a true Archie Bunker. Don't like nobody! And of course, everyone is out to make a quick buck, everyone is plotting and planning. No one has any good motives, and I'm such a niave "woman" to believe there's good in the world, God bless my little soul.
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I've heard that sort of thing in my family a lot. About their being few 'good' people, or it all being 'a racket' with everyone out to get what they can from you. Thing is it no doubt comes from the persons experiences themselves and how THEY have reacted to other people in their life, to develop that way of seeing, and how they feel about themselves.
jacmac, as guest:
A thieft always thinks someone is stealing.
cj:
you mean they project it onto others?
--- Quote from: jacmac, as guest ---A thieft always thinks someone is stealing.
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cj:
Hmmm, examples I can think of.
Mentally ill people......'not quite right in the head/weird'
I recal watching as a child a programme about O.C.D. Being a kid (not knowing any better), I was laughing at this woman ritually checking her light switch, in how it was turned on off i.e had to be turned off properly. I'm sure my mother, while saying 'its not funny' was trying to suppress laughter, or did laugh. Ok, ignorance is there in people regarding mental illness, but um...*destress* should be easily recognised, whatever the context, no?
I've heard a few comments like this from her actually. One time my neighbour (an agrophobic, with something else going on I'm sure) was hitting her dog on the nose when it was being 'bad', and she trotted out something while reiterating it to me then later me and someone else, along the lines of 'oh, its a shame really, she doesn't really know what shes doing!'. I just got the feeling she was reiterating the story, not becasue she was sympathetic but because it made her sound so.
Ethiopians starving in africa during the Uk's Live aid concert.... 'They have their own goverment to take care of them!'
Gingerpeach:
The day after the World Trade Center destruction, my exNH sat down and wrote a "Letter to the Editor" of our local paper.
The letter began...."I was walking across the beautifully wooded campus of the seminary where I am an enrolled Masters of Divinity candidate....."
You see? It was all about HIM !!!! And he wanted to make sure that EVERYONE in our small town that didn't know that he was in grad school would now know it (and know how holy he thought he was.)
He gave me the letter for proofreading/editing. When he saw all of my deletions, (and believe me, there wasn't much content left) he asked me why? And with my new found (at the time) knowledge of Narcissism, I said, "Well, it's really not about the tragedy, is it?"
He turned on his heel and left the room. I got the silent treatment for at least a week (a relief, actually) and he never asked me to proofread anything again.
Empathy? I don't think so....... With Ns, it's all about opportunity. They leave no stone unturned. There is no tragedy they will not attempt to exploit. I don't know if ever sent the letter. I only know that it wasn't printed in the paper.
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