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48%, spot on if I do say so myself, crazy, but not enough to be crazy crazy
48%, spot on if I do say so myself, crazy, but not enough to be crazy crazy
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88%, huh. Watch out folks.White and Red 'till I'm cold and dead.
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Re: Are you a psychopath?
Doc and I got around the same. Mine was 82%.
I retook it and got a 73%.
I'm not going to even bother with a third attempt to try and prove I'm nice.
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." - Ayn Rand
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain
"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." - Johnny Depp
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Glad to know I've got a fellow psycho hanging aroundOriginally posted by ChainLightning View Post
Honestly though, it seems to be a bit more about "How stubborn/ambitious/take-no-shit" are you, rather than how psychopathic you are. At least from the descriptions at the end.
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Unless I have the definition of psychopath wrong.White and Red 'till I'm cold and dead.
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Wolfe the dauntless hero came
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I got 64% not bad exactly how I amKnowledge is the key to eternity. Not bowing before a deity not grovling at the feet of a messiah. Knowledge is power beyond mesure - satanic witchComment
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That was my thinking, too.Originally posted by Doc_Holliday View PostGlad to know I've got a fellow psycho hanging around
Honestly though, it seems to be a bit more about "How stubborn/ambitious/take-no-shit" are you, rather than how psychopathic you are.
That and the infamous statistics-based black hole. Like, out of however many psychopaths were surveyed, at some point, x of them answered like this. Not as any prediction or indication but as a statistical anomaly. "The rise of the industrial revolution is inversely proportional to the fall of 18th and/or 19th century pirating/privateering." Ooh! A connection!
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." - Ayn Rand
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain
"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." - Johnny Depp
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The difference between a psychopath and a highly ambitious person has to do with empathy - the psychopath does have any.
A person can be highly cut throat in business and fire 10,000 employees to save money on the bottom line, but if he/she doesn't feel anything when his/her pet cat is hit by a car, he/she is probably a psychopath (or sociopath).Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
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Only 12%. Funny, most humans who don't value non-human life would most likely call be a psychopath."As long as humans continue to be the ruthless destroyer of other beings, we will never know health or peace. For as long as people massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, those who sow the seed of murder and pain will never reap joy or love." - Pythagoras
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I keep reminding myself that it's all just for fun. Just like this common recurrence where I profess to be, "definitively, a sociopath". The use of semantics, ambiguity of language, and anecdotal composition/division techniques, make even the most remote definitions appear to fit.
Master Corbin's reference to my "Fluffy" getting killed by a passing car, on the highway, would have me in tears, for days. Possibly weeks. The young man whose life slipped away, in my hands, waiting for paramedics or police to show up, after he was hit on a highway by some hit-and-run driver, still hits me hard, when I think of it, more than 25 years later.
It's the value that I attribute to people, and especially animals, by my interaction with them. Eating a hamburger, seeing a dead deer, breaking a rabbit's neck, or looking at corpses left after Katrina, I have no emotional stake, whatsoever, in the lives that have no personal value, to me. What is defined as "shock" can also be defined as a morbid curiosity, since I rather enjoy being shocked, and find it an exceedingly rare occurrence.
Add to that, the philosophy, or even reality, of the Circle of Life. Everything that has ever lived is dead. Everything that is now alive will die. It's a normal progression, regardless of the means of death. Or the timing of it. People I know as friends and family have meaning, in my life, and I consider my pets to be family. Pragmatic, in a sense, but also cynical, clinical and distant, that disassociation toward all others *could* mean psychopathic behavior. I enjoy that ambiguity. I thrive on it.
Which make games like this quiz rather interesting. Inaccurate as all get out but still an interesting waste of time.
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." - Ayn Rand
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain
"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." - Johnny Depp
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When I was taking psychology courses the class took a "Mach test," (the actual test given to psychiatric patients).
The purpose of the test is to find out how "Machiavellian" one is - which, theoretically, translates to how ruthless one is. I was surprised to find that I scored in the very HIGHEST percentile - which should mean that you don't want to be in my way if there is something I want because I will try to totally destroy you.
Sound like me?
It's not me at all. The problem with the test is that it asked if I agree with certain statements, like "do people prefer being flattered to being told the truth?" or "if a person wants to keep their power over others, is it better to completely destroy their enemies, or to try to work around them?"
I answer "yes" to the first, and "destroy" to the second. Experience has shown me that most people avoid the truth, and logic tells me that if you destroy an enemy, they can't bother you later. That's Machiavellian thinking.
However, what it should have asked but didn't, and, if asked and the response properly weighted, would have brought my score way, way down, is: "is that what you would do?"
I'd have answered "no."
Flawed test...Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
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Yeah I just took an online version and got 82/100 for Machiavellianism. I see why you are saying there are flaws in it, no real choice.Originally posted by B. de Corbin View PostWhite and Red 'till I'm cold and dead.
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From Britain's shore
Wolfe the dauntless hero came
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Our boast, our pride
And joined in love together,
The thistle, shamrock, rose entwined,
The Maple Leaf Forever.Comment
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Heh, while destroy is the Machiavelli answer (provided that I remember The Prince accurately), I just dislike the question. Destroying an enemy can create new ones in some scenarios just as failure to destroy one can lead to huge issues when they come at you later in other scenarios. The question is assuming a general answer to an issue that should be judged situationally. Well, that and it doesn't properly include converting your enemy which can (situationally) trump the others.
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"But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."
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