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...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... ...ussion, despite being a field of extreme importance, a field about which a massive amount of literature already exists. Suffice it to say that no reli... ... both the political and social scene in the East. Buddhism appealed to the masses as well as to the intelligentsia because it was a new, fresh system.... ...ictions and accept the possibility that each of us is a highly coordinated mass of billions of differentiated cells functioning without any administra... ... the source of energy. I am Skan.’” Skan, Sky, is superior to all (Walker, 1983, pp. 207-8). The four superior powers of Rock, Earth, Waters, and Sky ... ...nt myth about the founding of the Iroquois League in which a key figure, a murderer and cannibal, while one day looking into a pot of water in which h... ... tribes, and in Tasmania of a whole race, was not accomplished directly by murder and mistreatment, or indirectly through introduced diseases, it foll...

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...The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

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...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...Mourning the Narcissist The Inverted Narcissist Torture, Abuse, and Trauma – In Fiction and Poetry Nothing is Happening at Home Night Terror A Dream C... ...ing is Happening at Home Night Terror A Dream Come True Cutting to Existence In the concentration camp called Home Sally Ann The Miracle of the Kisses... ...Mitchell, Stephen A. Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1983 9. Grunberger, Bela. Narcissism: Ps... ...ctim develops an almost fatal resolve that, inevitably, one day she will be murdered. Victims, unable to live a normal life, describe feeling stripp... ...re known as PTSD. Even learning about such mishaps may be enough to trigger massive anxiety responses. The first phase of PTSD involves incapacitati... ...annoyed - "I don't understand: if the patient believes that he had already murdered his wife, why is he a danger either to himself or to her, let a... ...mself or to her, let alone to society at large? Surely, he is not going to murder her a second time "? The court erupted in laughter and the judge... ...sions. Managed the Internet and International News Department of an Israeli mass media group, "Ha- Tikshoret and Namer". Assistant in the Law Faculty...

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... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ... Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html... ...cies or realities, or with the emergence of new information - and a lot to do with mass psychology. How else can we account for the crash of Octobe... ...ormation (i.e., uncertainty). Excessive volatility is irrational. The confluence of mass greed, mass fears, and mass disagreement as to the preferre... ... or the "value" of one's savings account. More than one fifth of the population of 1983 Israel were involved in a banking scandal of Albanian propo... ... 7 years. The prices of some shares increased by 1-2 percent daily. On October 6, 1983, the entire banking sector of Israel crumbled. Faced with o... ...r loans, crowded into stocks of exciting "new technologies", such as the radio and mass electrification. The bull market - especially in issues of ... ...UPI) Written September 2002 Updated April 2005 The five ghastly "Jack the Ripper" murders took place in an area less than a quarter square mile in...

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Psychopathology as the outcome of problems in early childhood development.

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... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... Disorders The Genetic Roots of Personality Disorders Defense Mechanisms B. Topics in Developmental Psychology The Narcissistic Parent The Narcis... ..." By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Phineas Gage was a 25 years old construction foreman who lived in Vermont in the 1860s. While working on a railroad bed, he pac... ...r, the self). Attachment interactions with SO follow and in the wake of a critical mass of of interactions with AO, the self is formed. This proce... ...t he is the only good object in the universe, he is bound to be exposed to his own murderous envy. If there are others out there who are better tha... .... The choice of weapons, the identity and range of the victims, the methodology of murder, the disposal of the bodies, the geography, the sexual pe... ...heir rag dolls. Killing the victim - often capturing him or her on film before the murder - is a form of exerting unmitigated, absolute, and irreve... ... random culling to improve their stock. As mathematical models show, such repeated mass removal of DNA from the common brew seems to optimize the s... ...ous occasions. Managed the Internet and International News Department of an Israeli mass media group, "Ha-Tikshoret and Namer". Assistant in the La...

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...When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances - we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His inner world is, so to speak, vacated. His True Self is dilapidat...

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...k! Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The Author is NOT a Mental Health Professional. The Author is certified in Counselling Techniques. Editing and Desi... ... Rangelovska All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidi... ...he Human Character" "… This book has an important purpose. I am sure it will be appreciated in a library, classroom or among the mental health ... ... # 86: Narcissists, Love and Healing FAQ # 87: Vindictive Narcissists FAQ # 88: Narcissists as Mass and Serial Killers FAQ # 89: Narcissists, Narc... ...se doctrines and writings insane, her actions are not. We are forced to the conclusion that the murderous mother is perfectly sane. Her frame of re... ...Greenberg, Jay R. and Mitchell, Stephen A. Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1983 10. Grunberg... ...ephen A. Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1983 10. Grunberger, Bela. Narcissism: Psychoanalyt... ..., coerce him, surround and besiege him, change his mind, part with his values, victimize or even murder him, and so on. Some narcissists withdraw c... ... defences"). This often leads to anti-social behaviour, cover-ups, and criminal activities on a mass scale. • The group as a whole, or members of t...

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...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...y Genghis Khan, was born in 1162 and grew up in a violent tribal world of murder, kidnapping, and enslavement. Still in his twenties, Temüjin act... ...reports of the devastating Mongol invasions that leveled whole cities and massacred millions, most in the West viewed the Mongol armies as ―savage ho... ...Printing as a magical Black Art In the early days of printing—a time of mass illiteracy—people tended to think anyone skilled in working with meta... ...elped push open the door to industrial capitalism:  First example of ―mass production.‖  First use of metallurgy for production purposes other... ...ter, 2001. Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers. New York: Random House, 1983. Broder, David. Behind the Front Page: A Candid Look at How the New...

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...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ... men of the same age. In recent years, Western people have been shocked by murders and manslaughters committed by juveniles; blind destruction, as if ... ... energy - scientific-technological skill and knowledge - uniform education Mass industry production line technology - national division of production ... ...y National cultural industry - occupational culture - media culture (TV) - mass events (festivals) - cultural services Meritocracy - organizational in... ...atest economic growth or where the world's greatest achievers, leaders and mass idols reside, but how morally sustainable an ordinary human being perc... ...lso like to say that they bring a lot of bad influences. Models of crimes, murders, fights and robberies are seen on television, and then the young ac... ...t people believe it. For example, if someone has died accidentally or been murdered, the soul of such a person sometimes settles in a person or it may...

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...s reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write... ... or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vakni... ... my United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ISBN: 9... ...hould be periodic, regular, and predictable. I recommend to oblige the mass media by law to dedicate at least an hour weekly (could be broken to ... ...f education. This surprising result has emerged from many studies. The massive retraining and re-qualification programs needed to combat unemploy... ...reneurship, management, and quality control techniques – both through the mass media or directly, through educational schemes and institutions, both... ... responded and demonstrations flared up in only a couple of places. The murder of a - second - government advisor on labor legislation in March ha... ...der. Still, the median figure for job stability hasn't changed much since 1983 in both the USA and the UK. Moreover, some jobs - and employment in s... ...e employed through temporary help agencies. This is 6 times the figure in 1983. Public prejudices aside, even engineers and system analysts work as ...

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...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...of politics celebrates the power of an informed citizenry. Admit- tedly, the massive conflicts between Jefferson’s announced principles and his actions... ...entical in its effects to the newspaper stamp taxes. 52 This was a time when mass literacy and mass education were the hotly debated corollaries to th... ...ral surplus produced by enclosure helped to save a society devastated by the mass deaths of the sixteenth century. Those who weep over the terrible ef... ...el detailing a clever way to kill someone and you use it to carry out a real murder, the First Amendment does not allow the state to punish me. If I w... ...ly patients trapped in hospitals—but of a collapse of civilization: looting, murder and rape, stores being broken into with impunity, rescue helicopte... ...ld have assumed that “I Got a Woman” would enter the public domain in either 1983 or, if renewed, 2011. Unfortunately for us, and for a latter-day Ray...

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Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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... The Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...ing study of the psychopath and his victims. At the centre of this masterpiece, set in the exquisitely decadent scapes of Italy, is a titanic encoun... ...s his clothes, cashes his checks and makes phone calls from his rooms. But he also murders - or tries to murder - those who suspect the truth. Thes... ...ter Weir, the movie's director, takes this issue one step further by perpetrating a massive act of immorality on screen. Truman is lied to, cheated,... ...y commit suicide, go bankrupt, endure major depressive episodes, do drugs. But this massive landscape of resulting devastation does not deter him. H... ...ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack. This thriller offers additional... ... face this question: Dan has no recollection of being Dan. Dan does not remember murdering Jack. It seems as though Dan's very identity has been ... ...pathways) we are born with. But it is equally clear that we do "acquire" both brain mass and the contents of our brains (its wiring or irreversible ...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Freedom Fighters "'Unbounded' morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of d... ...nd tyrannical regime as their opponent. If not prone to suppression and convulsive massacres by nature - acts of terror will deliberately provoke e... ...evoid of human empathy or emotions, suppressive, ostentatious, trenchant and often murderous. 6. It is often the freedom fighters who compromise ... ...sed each other goodbye and blew their brains out. The usual raping and blood thick massacres ensued. According to Turkish records, these ill- planne... ...mented. In Northwestern Macedonia, an adolescent girl was raped by 50 soldiers and murdered afterwards. In another village, they cut a girl's arm t... ...ation in its colonies, a stifling influence of traumatic proportions, the cause of mass mental sickness amongst its subjects. As is usually the c... ...e of a man whom he regarded as an enemy. ... The prefect...endeavored to arrest the murderer, but [his Albanian] village took up his cause, and the ...

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...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from...

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...EWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache e-mail:... ...andasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Deman... ...m ISBN: 1931233-00-4 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 PERIYAR, THE P... ... acts E 1 E 3 E 2 FIGURE: 1.1.1 E 5 E 4 11 like theft (leading to murder) for want of more money and so on. Thus one cannot actually get... ...is struggle had far-reaching impact in the Tamil society. Always a leader of mass organizations, he served as the State President of the Congress p... ... the Dravidar Kazhagam, he was undoubtedly a populist leader and a man of the masses. He fought against the caste system by organizing demonstration... ...ce of caste fanaticism against Dalit political assertion was witnessed in the murder of Melavalavu Murugesan and seven others on 30 June 1997, becau... ...Dalits due to caste. A 1 - State sponsored atrocities A 2 - Political murder A 3 - Political discrimination A 4 - Role of ruling party A... ...t should not contest elections, thereby transforming a political party into a mass socio-cultural organization. The Dravidar Kazhagam flag was ad...

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Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...nally threatens to take one's life. IG. The Right to Terminate One's Life See "The Murder of Oneself". IH. The Right to Have One's Life Terminated... ...hly thought out arguments. The questions: "Is abortion immoral" and "Is abortion a murder" are often confused. The pregnancy (and the resulting fet... ...Still, not every immoral act involving the termination of life can be classified as murder. Phenomenology is deceiving: the acts look the same (cess... ...dehumanization I call "exclusionary conscience". The most recent examples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in N... ...eich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Radical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Isra... ...n of economic resources. The vast majority of people are rent-seekers. Witness the mass demonstrations that erupt whenever governments try to slash...

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...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...ssism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic Leaders Narcissists in Positi... ...g Celebrities – An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Acquired Situational Narcissism Narcissists and God – Th... ...Mitchell, Stephen A. Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1983 9. Grunberger, Bela. Narcissism: Ps... ...stic leaders are post- modernist and moral relativists. They project to the masses an androgynous figure and enhance it by engendering the adoration... ...smoke and mirrors, devoid of substance, consisting of mere appearances and mass delusions. In the aftermath of his regime - the narcissistic leader... ...or the range of phenomena associated with the Nazi regime - from industrial murder to racial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation ... ...ible annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britain or the United States. What set it apart is ... ...ptimal conditions, with all hindrances (read: undesirables) removed (read: murdered). All four ideologies subvert modernity (in other words, Progre...

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...instructional purposes. Beginning with volume seven, we started accepting student essays from all twelve Commonwealth College campuses, from students in English 004, 015, and 030. The essays in the current edition are all from students in English 004 and 015 classes....

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... Writing Volume 9 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publication Editor in Chief J J J J Jim M im M im M im M im Manis anis anis anis anis Editors ... ...l the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth College of The Pennsyl... ...itten permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing may be reproduced in any fashion without the express written permission of the authors. Best ... ... CCD class. Directly after CCD, we would meet my parents in the church for mass. As much as my broth- ers and I fought, we knew how to behave in churc... ...care in the world. In other words, if the world were to burst into a fiery mass of molten flames and death for the entire human race was unavoidable; ... ...e Return of the Jedi, the final chapter in the trilogy. It was released in 1983 and grossed over 265 million dollars. Just before its completion, howe... ...first learning about the witches’ predic- tions, she immediately devises a murder plot and takes charge of the situation. This is made evident as she ... ...stating: Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical. Shakes so my single state of man That functi... ... is made evident through his lack of concern for Banquo when arranging his murder: Ere the bat hath flown His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate’s...