Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Charisma on Command" channel.

  1. "socially awkward people" - people who appear to have no useful skill when you first meet them. "siciopaths" - people who seem to be perfection when you first meet them.
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  2. A narcissist is unlikely to kill you with no warning. What'd be the sense in that? They'd want you to know who did it! Not every psycho is a narcissist.
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  3. Sociopathy and psychopathy are not on/off switches They're gradations or scales of behaviour.
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  4. I'd leave a job right away if my boss had severe anti-social personality disorders. Better not to destroy your live simply to live from day to day.
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  5. Good point. JBP is so used to this. He's been in their bear pit before.
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  6. How do you know he tells his therapist the truth? A good psychopath can fake remorse as they have an whole lifetime of fakery to draw on. Effective psychopaths a infamous for their lying.
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  7. A common accusation against JBP made recently is he won't answer his critics' questions! JBP can hear them but they're accusations not questions.
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  8. Sociopaths don't only keep eye contact for an unnervingly long time. They don't blink much either. Because they can't get embarassed, as they don't emphasize with us & don't ken morality. "Sociopath stare isn't always done by sociopaths" <- And some who stare aren't always sociopaths. Alone, none of sociopath finger-prints mean much. It's when you see them all together in one person you need to run a mile.
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  9. These 7 tells are each logical fallacies. There are surely more logical fallacies someone in thrall to cognitive dissonance can show which reveal their tutelage to it? There are well over a hundred known logical fallacies. The question I want answered is: which logical fallacies one can fall into that are not a nefarious way to hide our cognitive dissonance?
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  10. No one debates on the internet to win the other person over, to change minds. All internet debate exists only for the bystanders. To win neutrals over to one's side. Internet debates don't win people over just like that - in one go - most people will need a clear line or argument, evidentially supported to accept that your point is valid. So when you cite evidence in support of points made, remember to actually cite it (with a link, author, date, etc.) so the by-stander can see you're legit. Also - when opps use fake evidence, ask for a citation from them. I've seen NO public debates where one debater changed the mind of another who'd already formed a substantial opinion. Which isn't to say I never changed my mind. The best refutations I accepted where revelations that my existing opinion was over elaborate, or ideological. A good example of this was the application of Occam's razor. "Mark - I don't follow your line of reasoning because it's too complex. This ... is a simpler way of looking at things" When people form an opinion on the basis of some moral framework, or guidelines - it's is almost impossible to change their mind.
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  11.  @cathlaurs9754  Maybe the script writers wrote an impossible character? They do just make it up - as you well know. I have no problem with made up stories. I have an issue when people draw on characters from fiction to comment on reality. As if fiction was more real than reality.
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  12.  @felipealem6590  If anyone lied to me as much as that I'd be as wary of them as I would a known psycho.
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  13. cold blooded killer = psychopath. If remorse doesn't come from empathy with other people where does it come from?, duty to God?, feeling you sinned? If Tony's remorse comes from empathy then why's he unable to feel for other people? (those he kills in cold blood) Seems like fake remorse to me. Maybe Tony lying to himself as well? Dear Chad - you injected Tony Soprano - a made up character from TV into a real conversation about actual psychopaths. Why? Only to tell us he wasn't a psycho. Why'd you do that? I'm not interested in TV - I'm interested in the way real people's brains work (or don't). I think you're just confusing the issue by talking about mish-mash characters script writers make up to sell us entertainment. That annoys me (reasons I gave above). I honestly don't care what Tony S is as he's fiction.
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  14. He bullies by playing the victim. The 2 go hand-in-hand
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