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ENTERING INTO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
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RECOGNIZING PREVIOUSLY-HIDDEN PERSONALITY DISORDERS WHICH ACCOMPANY THE ASSUMPTION OF PERSONALITY IDENTIFICATIONS
Earlier:
The case if that persons may often respond to warning signs in the physical realm but can ignore warning signs in the mental, psychological realm.
Personality disorders which come with the assignment and assumption of personality identifications are at the root of neuroses and psychoses and insanity which are all part and parcel of the Ultimate Sickness, and the widespread ignorance about those disorders is at the root of humankind’s misery and suffering because their warning signs are usually not even seen, must less ignored.
To that end, the upcoming posts will offer additional information about the disorders discussed so that the interested might react to mental and emotional issues as readily as they do to warning signs of physical problems and say of their previously-hidden personality disorders, “Oh my gosh! Look at those symptoms. I have many of those! I need to seek treatment for that condition that I see now I’d had for many, many years.”
Today, we’ll look in more detail at the Masochistic Personality Disorder, the Sadistic Personality Disorder, and the Sado-Masochistic Personality Disorder
The sages have discussed the negative impact of personality on the relative existence for ages. Is it any wonder why after reading the discussions in these chapters which are revealing the results of the use of ego-defense mechanisms as well as the personality defects and disorders that always accompany the assignment or assumption of personality? Consider next:
THE MASOCHISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
Masochists are taught early on to hate themselves and to feel useless and unworthy of love. As a result, they become self-destructive and self-defeating. Moreover, if assistance is offered, they will reject it and become angry at anyone suggesting they need help.
Masochists avoid the pleasures available during the relative existence as well as relationships and circumstances that are likely to result in success or gratification; thus, they avoid intimacy and companionship and are only attracted to people and circumstances that will lead to disappointment and mistreatment and failure.
Ironically, they typically disdain and reject people who would treat them well, further guaranteeing misery in relationships and assuring they will not have to become intimate or grow close to anyone. Masochists actually find caring and loving persons to be unappealing and sexually unattractive, preferring a hard and mean person over a kind and considerate person who might try to engage them (and that no-choice "choice" usually happens on a totally-subconscious level).
When masochists fail to self-sabotage, they can react with rage, depression, and / or guilt. They often "compensate" [see the "ego-defense mechanisms" discussed earlier] for their undesired accomplishments and unwanted happiness by engaging in behaviors that produce abandonment, frustration, hurt, illness, or physical pain.
Because another mechanism is at play with them - namely, "the projective identification defense mechanism" - then masochists deliberately provoke anger and rejection in order to feel the false "comfort" of "familiar territory," and their most familiar territory has humiliation, defeat, anger or suppressed anger, depression, and hurt as some of that territory's major landmarks.
THE SADISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
It has been observed here, after dealing with thousands of persons (who have sometimes disclosed facts hidden for decades or who have revealed their personality drivers by taking the test offered here or by revealing, via their words and deeds, the personas that are driving them) that the Sadistic Personality Disorder often manifests alongside the Sociopathic / Psychopathic Personality Disorder.
Like psychopaths, however, the sadistic and sociopaths will use physical force and violence as an additional means to achieve their ends, whereas, with psychopaths, physical force and violence can be their preferred first choice.
The sadists' aggressiveness is embedded in an "interpersonal" context and is expressed in social settings, such as the family or the workplace. In those settings, persons with the Sadistic Personality Disorder exhibit a pattern of cruel, demeaning, and aggressive behavior (which can manifest at a very early age or, sometimes, later as an adult).
They engage in physical cruelty or violence for the purpose of establishing dominance in a relationship and will leverage their explosive violence to ensure their unchallenged dominance within a relationship. Because sadists have a narcissistic need for an audience, they have no qualms about humiliating people in front of witnesses (an act which makes them feel omnipotent).
"Power plays" are important to them and they are likely to treat people under their control or entrusted to their care quite harshly. That can include a subordinate, a child, a student, a prisoner, a patient, or a spouse, and all are likely to suffer the consequences of the sadists whose "disciplinary" measures are evidence of their being "control freaks" to the max.
As they treat or discipline anyone under their control in an unusually harsh manner, they can be observed to find amusement and pleasure in the psychological or physical suffering of people and / or animals as they exhibit their patterns of gratuitous cruelty, aggression, and demeaning behaviors.
Additionally, they will lie for the purpose of harming or inflicting pain on others, and they will use intimidation or even terror to instill fear in others in order to force people to do what they want. If one studies history, it can be seen that entire cultures and nations, both past and present, have (and still do) suffer this disorder as well as the Sociopathic Personality Disorder.
Sociopaths (a.k.a., "Malignant Narcissists") and psychopaths and some more "passive" sadists can also use indirect means to achieve their vicious or violent ends which seems to give them “an out” for their part in the act.
For example:
***Some visitors know that a Christian spouse who worked as an employee in several Christian churches told me that she had “prayed to God every day for a year that he would kill me.” Rather than do her own killing, she tried to hire her God as a hitman and thereby remove herself from playing a "direct" role.
Thus is as if some sociopaths and even psychopaths and sadistic types feel that they are less culpable if they have someone else do their killing for them:
***Spouses who do not want to pull the trigger and possibly be sent to
prison for their own murderous actions might ask someone else (or
“Someone else,” some God or some "Higher Power") to do the killing for
them and most of them will feel no regret because they are “one degree
removed” from the slaying.
***A “Commander-in-Chief” can order his generals to have their troops bomb and kill people in villages or hospitals or wherever those whom the Commander sees as enemies might be.
or
***A Mafia godfather might send one or more of his minions to kill someone for him rather than do the killing himself. John J. Gotti wanted his boss Paul Castellano dead so Gotti could take control of the Gambino crime family.
When Gotti learned that Castellano would be going to Sparks Steakhouse in New York for dinner at 5 P.M., he dispatched four of his hired assassins to kill the boss while Gotti sat in his car and waited for the murder to unfold as he watched from nearby. When Castellano’s car pulled up alongside Gotti and his right-hand man at a red light, Gotti gave the order over a walkie-talkie for the hit to proceed.
***Over an eleven-year period, the former Sicilian mafia boss Benedetto Santapaola ordered his favorite hitman Maurizio Avola to kill eighty people. Comparing himself to the people referenced above who kill “legitimately” because their orders come from a “Commander-in-Chief” of some nation’s military forces, Avola said: “I was a soldier. My general sent me to kill people. I had to do it. Refusal was out of the question. Mafioso execute orders given from above, just like soldiers at war.”
Of course, the actions of sociopaths and sadists can vary in degree. Rather than “put an end to the body” of those whom they see as “the other,” some sociopaths are willing to “kill the inner essence” or “sense of worth” of those whom they see as “the other.”
As an illustration of that, a site visitor sent this news piece to me this morning:
An employee of Boone’s Camp Event Hall in Booneville, Mississippi, U.S.A., canceled a wedding which had been booked in the venue when the operators learned that the couple was interracial – a black man and a white woman.
The employee who informed them that the venue had canceled their booking cited in a video filmed on a phone camera “Our Christian race and “Our Christian belief” as the reason for the cancellation. She went on to explain, “We don’t do gay weddings or mixed race, because of our Christian race – I mean . . . our Christian faith.”
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Recall that for all of the contributions which personality identifications make to the manifestation and spread of the Ultimate Sickness, Maharaj singled out three other symptoms of the Sickness as key, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
Those may well be the most prevalent driving forces in the Boone’s Camp Event Hall happening.
THE SADO-MASOCHISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
Those with the Sado-Masochistic Personality Disorder display amazingly high levels of instability and perversity, moving back and forth between the agendas of the sadist and the agendas of the masochist.
THE KEY POINTS
1. Note that many discussions of sadism, masochism, and sado-masochism focus on the way that those mental / personality illnesses manifest in the realm of sexual conduct, but the explanations above show that far more frequently, the disorders are exhibited in both non-sexual "personal relationships" and "work relationships,"
and
2. again, the sages have discussed the negative impact of personality on the relative existence for ages. Is it any wonder why after having seen the results of the use of ego-defense mechanisms as well as the personality defects and disorders that always accompany the assignment or assumption of personality?
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.
"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
but are states of mind, nothing more than
concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.
And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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