Palestine or Israel, who should actors support?

The Jimmy Dore Show: Things accerlerating

Jimmy Dore, Mike MacRae (as Jake Tapper), AOC, Craig "Pasta" Jardula, Kurt Metzger (The Jimmy Dore Show); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

War, war, more war, ENDLESS war

Narcissistic tendencies or full-blown NPD?

(Psych2Go, 11/2/20) Here are 10 Things a Narcissist Would Say from the never ending collection of videos throwing the term around for those hurt by relationships with selfish people. It goes like this; Are you dealing with a narcissist right now? Narcissists are masters of sabotage, deceit, and emotional manipulation. While Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is very rare, a lot more people actually have narcissistic tendencies. That can make them just as dangerous to be around as someone with NPD. This is why so many of us, unfortunately, find ourselves falling for them and letting them into our lives without really knowing just how much trouble we’re getting into. Oftentimes, we don’t realize how horrible they really are until it’s too late.

So P2G has made this video to help learn how to spot a narcissist and save ourselve the emotional trauma. If this video sounds like someone you know but you're not sure if they are a narcissist, we've got you covered as well: Here's our previous video on the signs someone is a narcissist: youtu.be.com. 

• Writer: Chloe Avenasa
• Script Editor: Isadora Ho
• Script Manager: Kelly Soong
• VO: Amanda Silvera
• Animator: Deanca Rensyta Mihardja
• YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong

References

• American Psychological Association (2013). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – 5th Edition. Washington, DC: APA Publishing. Perez, M. (2019).
• “The Language Narcissists Use to Manipulate and Traumatize Their Victims.” Journal of Traumatic Stress, 14 (2), 369-389. Carlson, E. N., Naumann, L. P., & Vazire, S. (2011).
• Getting to know a narcissist inside and out. The handbook of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder: Theoretical approaches, empirical findings, and treatments, 285-299. 
• Holtzman, N. S., Vazire, S., & Mehl, M. R. (2010). Sounds like a narcissist: Behavioral manifestations of narcissism in everyday life. Journal of Research in Personality, 44(4), 478-484.
• Edwards, J. R. (2010). “Sneaky Tools of Narcissistic Manipulation and How to Recognize Them.” Psychology Today, 29 (4); 311-320. Aslinger, E. N., Manuck, S. B., Pilkonis, P. A., Simms, L. J., & Wright, A. G. (2018).
• Narcissist or narcissistic? Evaluation of the latent structure of narcissistic personality disorder. Journal of abnormal psychology, 127(5), 496. Arabi, S. (2014).
• “Common Diversion Tactics of Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Psychopaths.” The British Journal of Psychiatry, 180 (4), 363-368.
• VIDEO: Why do results for narcissist's karma take so long?

6 Ways to Break the Trauma Bond After a Toxic Relationship

(Common Ego, July 23, 2020) Trauma bonding describes loyalty to a destructive and/or abusive person. And there are real neurochemical reasons why this happens. But there are also ways to help expedite the breaking of these bonds. In this video, we explore six ways to break the trauma bond.

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Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining

Charlotte Allen (LA Times, May 17, 2009)
Superstar atheists are motivated by anger -- and boohoo victimhood.

I can't stand atheists -- but it's not because they don't believe in God. It's because they're crashing bores.

Other people, most recently the British cultural critic Terry Eagleton in his new book, Faith, Reason, and Revolution, take to task such superstar nonbelievers as Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and political journalist Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great) for indulging in a philosophically primitive opposition of faith and reason that assumes that if science can't prove something, it doesn't exist.

My problem with atheists is their tiresome -- and way old -- insistence that they are being oppressed and their fixation with the fine points of Christianity. What -- did their Sunday school teachers flog their behinds with a Bible when they were kids?

Read Dawkins, or Hitchens, or the works of fellow atheists Sam Harris (The End of Faith) and Daniel Dennett (Breaking the Spell), or visit an atheist website or blog (there are zillions of them, bearing such titles as "God Is for Suckers," "God Is Imaginary," and "God Is Pretend"), and your eyes will glaze over as you peruse -- again and again -- the obsessively tiny range of topics around which atheists circle like water in a drain.

First off, there's atheist victimology: Boohoo, everybody hates us 'cuz we don't believe in God. Although a recent Pew Forum survey on religion found that 16% of Americans describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated, only 1.6% call themselves atheists, with another 2.4% weighing in as agnostics (a group despised as wishy-washy by atheists).

You or I might attribute the low numbers to atheists' failure to win converts to their unbelief, but atheists say the problem is persecution so relentless that it drives tens of millions of God-deniers into a closet of feigned faith, like gays before Stonewall.

In his online "Atheist Manifesto," Harris writes that "no person, whatever his or her qualifications, can seek public office in the United States without pretending to be certain that ... God exists." The evidence? Antique clauses in the constitutions of six -- count 'em -- states barring atheists from office. More>>