Interview with a Female Sociopath.. VERY interesting read

Seriously.. you need to read this. It's very interesting to me that the calm and cool, completely unphased approach she has to everything in her life (which is apparently a hallmark of sociopaths), is an exact replica of how studying meditation and becoming present to life gives us that calm, completely "free of fear" approach to life situations. I am not like her, I am super emphathetic. A super feeler. I feel everything, I notice everything, I care about people. It took meditation and harsh life circumstances to give me the seasoning and control I have now. 

Yeah. 

I have a very close friend whose a sociopath but a great guy. 

*who's

Yeah that's weird I've also had close friends that I could clearly see were sociopathic and amoral. 

Hm makes me think. I wonder if it's the lack of emotions.. it makes them more comfortable to be around. LOL 

Kinda like how Edward was drawn to Belle 

Yeah, exactly. 

He's saved my ass on numerous occassions though.

He's gone out of his way to do things for me that only a very close friend would do and he's done things that, unless he's FAR more intelligent and than me and thinking on a much more complex level than I am (which probably isn't likely, considering I've analyzed social situations pretty much every day for the past year and have a very high IQ for conceptual/theoretical analysis) that are purely selfless....

And yes, I've considered that the motive could simple be to keep me around for some selfish purpose - he recognizes my value and needs to use me as a value or social connector (2 different things as far as I can tell and not sure which he would see me as at this point- but when we first met in college, I was definitley both for him) or some weird thing like that but you know what? He's a fuckin cool guy and adds value to my life- so I allow it. 

I think that, they have a need for us too. Now I'm going to the pet store to look at puppies. Back soon 

What's funny is that I've had talks with him- like very very deep talks where basically I flat out asked him, "Have you killed anyone"? 

And when I asked that the only thing he said about it was, "No, that'd be stupid"

I really enjoyed how she mentioned how she felt as if she had "god power". This is a fucking huge topic in one of the books I'm reading. "God power"  being the power to manifest your own reality. The funny thing is the author mentions how those with " god power" will not fit in socially, they will either be praised or hated. Wouldn't sociopath be an umbrella term for someone who doesn't fit in and follow societal norms? She defintely doesn't use her power correctly, but at least she has harnessed it.

No. She's actually a fucked up sociopath. Even though, according to puahate, I am the #1 sociopath in the pu community today!

Nah

The difference is that she legit doesn't feel ANY emotion and as a result, doesn't fully "understand" the difference between right and wrong... it just doesn't register

Even though she writes something like this, trust me, she doesn't understand what she's writing- she only "gets it" enough to write about it because she's very intelligent and has learned it "second hand"

Any selflessness//emotional astuteness//understanding  that sociopaths show is entirely a leanred science for them.

There are "smart" and "stupid" sociopaths.... it's why some sociopaths are successful like her and why others are behind bars..

But in any event, any sociopath will fuck with you if your shit isn't on lock enough to handle yourself. They aren't people that you really want to "mess" with, mainly because they are very calculated and have no "Moral Compass" so, generally speaking, they will take you down if it comes to that. 

But at the same time, they feed off of fear- so if you show them NO FEAR and like legitimately no fear, they will, on some level, respect you. They try to take advantage of people for opening up.... but if you can open up with no fear of being "revealed".... like if you "opening up" is simply an expression of who you are, with no fear of "revelation".... they will respect it on some weird level that I don't actually quite get yet. 

projection and envy!  its whats for dinner

Buddha you seriously sound like you want to suck some sociopathic dicks right now

You're going cuckoo for sociopuffs

It's not that they don't feel, they definitely do, its just that they can't feel for others. They have no empathy/sympathy. From an evolutionary standpoint it's pretty obvious how they evolved. They're just another survival strategy.

its whats for breakfast dude

But nah they tend to not feel emotions which is why they don't have empathy- they dont understand why you would be "hurt" by something.

Dude its things like sociopaths that make me believe in God. There is something going on beyond the five senses. I believe there is something going on beyong the five senses in all people, more so in women but there is a different dynamic in sociopaths.

When I got out of the military it dawned on me that I was a possible sociopath. But then I realized I wasnt actually born that way. My job in the military had affected my emotional numbing.

@buddhagames.

Actually MW's absolutely right, not having the ability to empathise is not the same as being unable to feel emotions in yourself. Sociopaths and psychopaths do feel emotions but they don't give them the same importance other people do. (they don't respond to the cues from their emotions) which is why MW linked this article on this forum I guess.: It brings up the question of how much our own emotional 'control' is linked to empathy. 

ie if you master your own emotions will you become less sympathetic to people who haven't? (possibly) and will this make you less empathetic to people who are being overwhelmed by their emotions (probably)

Just look at men and women. women naturally have a much greater capacity for empathy than men and look at the films, books and TV shows that are popular amongst them (emotionally driven stories about people) as oppose to those popular amongst men (plot, fact or action heavy).

Most entertainment aimed at women leaves men bewildered. In the same way a sociopath would be bewildered when witnessing an average person's reaction to their own emotions.

@batehs

interestingly humans actually have at least 10 senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch but also sense of temperature, pain, time, balance and kinesthetic sense, among others. i know it's not quite what you were getting at but interesting nonetheless

That is interesting. Wouldnt temperature and pain fall under sense of touch?

Bateh how come we never discussed that concern of yours? Derp 

Wth is derp? Its not a concern.

Whatever, you sociopath. 

You should have a chat bar on your site. Like tells you who is online and you can chat with each other.

Yeah I tried to get that going a couple months back but the programmer I was working with was retarded. Funny enough I'm still working with the guy. 

7/10. would bang.

has anyone got a pic of this broad. i wanna know who i'm mentally masturbating to

@batehs

good question.

Although they sometimes overlap, think of how you can experience pain in a joint or an internal organ when nothing is touching it.

Also pain lights up a very different area of the brain to touch. This sense will actually help you NOT touch stuff that will cause you pain.

Similarly with temperature, we have receptors on our skin that recognize cold or heat specifically and to very subtle levels which again light up a different area of the brain. This sense is called 'thermoception'

Very cool

2/10 would bang

She probably only gets turned on to the sound of people screaming and dying. Time to make a new music playlist.

fuck hired gun game. the new challenge is female sociopaths gentlemen

She must be like a female Patrick Bateman

That was actually a very interesting read! 

I believe 10% of the population is estimated to be a psychopath and that we need psychopaths to drive society. Psychopaths make great CEO's, entrepreneurs and surgeons. Back to what MW talked about, maybe if people just start meditating and being present the world will advance at an obseen rate. 

I remember being extremely empathetic, shy and intrapersonal as a kid. As I pushed myself out of my shell and became more confident, social and talkative, I invariably became less empathetic. I beleive in personal accountability and that many times people bring shit upon themselves and that they need to learn how to pull themselves out of a situation. I have little empathy for people that constantly talk about their problems and the negative shit going on in their life without any intention on doing anything about it. 

I understant how much power everybody has over their own life. And thus, I rarely ever stop to feel sorry for someone. There are definitely some situations that I can empathize with but many times people bitch and complain over the stupidest shit and waste time feeling sorry for themselves instead of moving on. I have no patience for that, it's like deal with or accept it. 

naw patrick bateman, it's not about win/lose, it's about win/win.

'sociopaths' should not be given free reign to be the top 1 percent of the world because they have ill intentions, and are self interested. this is zero sum game theory at work - we are all seen as competitors, and the other team/individual must be destroyed. this is not healthy, because it only serves to help the individual but not his forebears or peers. the best way to live life IMO is through interdependence - we give value to one another, and the cycle repeats itself. this is not optimistic or weak because it's too empathetic or whatever, it makes perfect sense to support someone else if you know you're both getting a good deal out of something, but to screw him over, i.e what a sociopath would do, only hinders you in the future...trust me, i've been there.

I believe sociopaths have varying levels of "feelings". In fact some of them feel very deeply.. it's just that they have no compunction, or even realization, of the ways in which they harm others. Because to them, life is just about experiencing experiences. Whether good or bad. This sounds a lot like how women who "love drama" live their lives, but I've met men who were the same way. I would label them sociopathic. In fact I believe the term sociopath refers more to the disconnect between themselves and other people, not necessarily their lack of emotions. Ok hold on hitting up wiki..

Ok yeah.. a bit convoluted, but that's pretty much what they say.