Sociopathic Bullies and Violent Psychopaths: “Born?” Or “Bred?”

 

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INDIVIDUAL BULLIES AND NATIONS THAT ARE BULLIES:

ALL THE SAME

Here nowadays, dealing with hundreds and hundreds of persons each year, it has been seen that more and more people – female and male alike – are refusing to tolerant abuse from a partner. They are “feeding into a refusal.” Others are taking even more overt action. 

Research or not, some at the lower ends of the various hierarchies that exist all around the globe are rebelling against their oppressors who are at the top of the hierarchies.

The research was not available in 1953 by the time I reached the sixth grade at Atkins Elementary School and had already tolerated three years of abuse from Donnie Leone, Donnie being the fierceness and most notorious bully in the entire school. 

Each morning, teacher Bruce Middlebrooks stood on morning duty. His assignment was to watch over the students on the playground where students gathered, waiting to hear a bell ring which was the signal that the doors of the school had been unlocked so we could begin moving to our classrooms. 

Almost every morning, Bruce Middlebrooks would watch as Donnie approached me and put me in a choke hold, demanding that I say, “I give up!” before he would release me and strut away.

(Often in films I have seen alpha males swaggering away from their most recent victim and I flash on Donnie and conclude, “Ah, so that’s what happened to him. He moved to Africa and nowadays he’s molesting the helpless and downtrodden on the savannah.) 

To understand why humans sometimes contribute to their own stress levels by inaction, it might help to ask, “Why did I stand there and wait for him?”

One reason was because everyone knew that to run from Donnie was to be caught eventually and then to be abused even more, so most just stood there and took his abuse, as happens with many baboons on the African veldt that are at the lower end of their troop’s hierarchy. 

Stubbornly and pridefully, I would resist the urge to surrender on the first demand, and the choke hold would have to reach a point where physical unconsciousness was seconds away before I succumbed to his demand and said in a guttural, animalistic manner, “Uhhh . . . gheee . . . uppppp.” 

Then as Donnie walked away to seek out his next victim on the low end of the schoolyard hierarchy, I would look at Bruce Middlebrooks and wonder,

“You sorry SOB . . . why don’t you ever come over here and help me?!” At that point, I had not yet developed the understanding that it is usually useless to wait for help from “the authorities” and that sometimes I would just have to help myself. 

So one day, bent over at the waist trying to catch my breath with the palm of one hand resting on a knee and the other hand rubbing my sore neck, I saw the feet of Bruce Middlebrooks come into view. I looked up and he asked, “Why do you like being abused?” I said, “Are you nuts?”

He said, “I’m the one who is nuts? Hardly. I’m not the one being choked every morning without fighting back.” I said, “Yeah, and if I fight back I get sent to the principal and get licks” (“licks” being swats administered with a wooden paddle / board, applied across my rear end as I bent over the principal’s desk). 

And Middlebrooks said, “So you prefer being choked to being hit on the butt with a board?” I said, “I prefer neither.” He said, “In that case, what if you might get choked one more time only and get a few licks one more time only and then be done with this nonsense?” (Wow. Some of those words could as easily have come from Maharaj.) 

“F.: What?” 

B.M.: “Stand up for yourself. Go on the offense to defend yourself. When you are approached, cold-cock Donnie Leone. Hit him in the nose as hard as you can when he approaches and knock him on his ass.” 

F.: “Yeah, and then you grab me by the ear and tug me to the principal and he beats me with his board.” 

B.M.: “Not if I don’t see you fighting.” 

F.: “How would you not see the fight?” 

B.M.: “You never know what distractions might come up on a schoolyard full of students.” And with that, he walked away. As I watched him disappear, I said, “Hummm.” 

That afternoon and all night, my stomach was upset, knowing what might be coming the next day. Then I concluded, “But my stomach has been upset every morning for years upon seeing Donnie Leone approaching. What the heck.” 

The next morning, with scores of classmates all about and with Bruce Middlebrooks watching me as Donnie approached, I turned back to watch as Donnie as he drew closer.

Then I turned again to check on Bruce Middlebrooks’s reaction, only to find that he was not standing where he had been a few seconds before. He was walking away, pointing at two others students and shouting their names, though they did not appear to be doing anything wrong at all. 

I looked back and Donnie was ten feet away, six feet away, three feet away, then two feet away when I formed a fist behind my leg with my dominant left hand, then drew back and then - catching Donnie totally unaware - I brought forth what some today would call “a sucker punch.”

I struck Donnie before he ever suspected the blow was coming; in fact, he walked right into the blow, increasing the force of my punch to the center of his face even more.

He fell backwards onto the ground, clutching his nose and then looking down into the palm of his hand which was filling rapidly with a huge volume of blood that was flowing quite steadily from both nostrils. His eyes were huge, but his mouth remained closed.

With new-found courage, I told him, “Leave me alone and leave everyone else alone or you’re going to get more of the same every morning!” As I turned and began walking away, my eyes met those of Bruce Middlebrooks. I saw a wide, tooth-revealing grin cross his face before he turned and walked away.

Many classmates began applauding as I walked toward the front doors of the school. (Hearing their applause, I might have begun swaggering a bit, or maybe even strutting. That is not a posture that should have been reinforced, so their is no endorsement of the method used. It matters not that it was shared because Maharaj noted: what the realized will do under any given circumstances will be done spontaneously.) 

From Louise Sterling in Cape Town, S.A.:”Perhaps this research will feed into a refusal amongst the oppressed to put up with exploitation, abuse, narcissistic capitalism, the One Percent, the lies, and the BS. Because it is LITERALLY killing them.” 

Yet at the heart of this series in not a focusing upon individual bullies alone. At the heart is the expanded view which includes businesses which abuse consumers; local and state governments which abuse citizens into order to advance the personal agendas of “leaders”;

nations’ governments which abuse the people whom they hold influence and control over; and the governments of others nations who rush to defend their “abusive allies” and help their nation friends maintain power and control. 

TWO OF THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT

Again, fewer want peace; more want war. Such is the case when persons are driven by their personality types fears and desires.

1. Conquering nations - driven by the personality styles and the personality disorders of their leaders and citizens - can trigger conflict, 

or 

2. the consciousness-inspired reactions of persons who have been conquered can inspire continuing conflict because of the natural desire of the manifested consciousness to be free. 

Is it any wonder that the sages have long recommended being free of personality / personalities and their hidden, desire-and-fear-based agendas? 

When dealing with cold-hearted bosses or power-hungry CEO’s or egotism-driven politicians or abusive spouses or conquering nations (all of whom can display the traits of the Sociopathic Personality Disorder), people often feel trapped;

then, being driven by the natural desire of the consciousness to be free, conflicts will often manifest when dealing with pathological types. 

Sociopaths - whose numbers are increasing worldwide - are obsessed with control, and their either-or thinking leads them to believe that “either I am in control or you are, and if you are in control, I will be harmed; therefore, better that I take control and harm first.” 

That desire to control can lead persons to try to force their religious beliefs on others or it can inspire leaders among the most warlike nations to believe that they have the right to take control of the Irish Isle which is 40 miles away or to take control of The Falkland Islands which are 8000 miles away; 

can inspire leaders to believe they have the right to invade Central American nations that are 1000 miles away or have the right to invade Iraq which is 7000 miles away or have the right to invade Vietnam which is over 8600 miles away. 

And all of those actions are preceded by adoption of the “either-or” belief that “either you are for us or against us, and if we conclude that you are against us, our military forces are coming your way.” The non-realized never consider a third, “neit-neti” option.

During the U.K. / Falkland Islands conflict, the fact that the U.K. had no right to conquer lands and people around the globe during the height of their colonialism and no right to cling to them as they still do today.

That did not deter then-U.S. President / actor Ronald Reagan from sending the Brits critical fuel, intelligence, and ammunition for their Falklands campaign.

The same is happening now as the U.S. is seeking to provide Israel with a $2 billion military aid package and has deployed a carrier group to the shores of Israel with a second likely on the way as well.

When little guns are used, nations that have assumed the “parent persona” role bring out the big guns. More on that later.

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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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.

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