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You’ll often hear about others who will be sometimes erroneously labeled, Emotional Vampires. You’ll also be out on a limb when asking for detailed information on what that actually means. More often than not, you’ll hear that they are visionaries who search long and hard for “the Truth.” Moreover, they claim to see things that others can’t. The real question is whether those “seen” things are realistic. They will:

Look for absolute certainty about themselves and their beliefs with an incredible distrust toward any and all proven facts.

They’ll draw you into their emotional state with their personal virtue, creativity, perceptiveness, protectiveness, and potential deliverance.

They’ll drain your emotional energy level with their jealousies, unshakable prejudices, and constant cross-examination of every difference of opinion. And, while absolute belief is neither good nor bad, it is a door through which either good or bad may freely enter.

You’ll run into jealous spouses, conspiracy theorists, and people who post weird things on the Internet. They are the emotional vampires I’m writing about here. You’ll run into them most any day, moreover, you’ll probably work with one sometime or another or live next to one during your lifetime. It’s something that one can easily get overwhelmed with although knowledge is good. Being able to identify plus understand the covert dynamics behind what motivates them is an important key.

One defense strategy is to know how to recognize a crazy idea when you hear one. For one, they don’t answer questions even when asked a second time. Co-dependents are notoriously identified as emotional vampires as are Narcissistic Personalities equally identified as Psychic Energy Vampires. Kaleah LaRoche, addressed Narcissistic Personalities as Psychic Emotional Vampires in a post today. Be sure to read it.

Overall, Emotional Vampires, Narcissistic Personalities and, Co-dependent Personalities are one and the same animal. The differences are ever so minute yet enough for specific documentation written on each one of them in the ICD-10 where it is yet listed as “Emotionally unstable personality disorder.”

Originally posted 2008-04-24 10:52:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

Thanks, Pip!

Update: I still wonder if anything has changed since the time it was initially posted over 3 yrs ago? [Nahhh, 'nuff said.]

Originally posted 2006-06-14 23:28:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Ovid (43 BC-17 AD) The greatest poet of his age, he was the first major writer to grow up under the Roman empire. Metamorphoses (8 AD) – Ovid’s greatest work is a narrative poem that deals with mythological legends of miraculous transformations from creation to the time of Julius Caesar.

“The gallies now by Pythecusa pass;
The name is from the natives of the place,
The father of the Gods detesting lies,
Oft, with abhorrence, heard their perjuries.
Th’ abandon’d race, transform’d to beasts, began
To mimick the impertinence of Man.
Flat-nos’d, and furrow’d; with grimace they grin;
And look, to what they were, too near akin:
Merry in make, and busy to no end;
This moment they divert, the next offend:
So much this species of their past retains;
Tho’ lost the language, yet the noise remains.”
Metamorphosis XIV

Originally posted 2008-05-08 19:33:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

According to Freud and his followers, our psyche is a battlefield between instinctual urges and drives (the id), the constraints imposed by reality on the gratification of these impulses (the ego), and the norms of society (the superego). This constant infighting generates what Freud called “neurotic anxiety” (fear of losing control) and “moral anxiety” (guilt and shame). But these are not the only types of anxiety.

“Reality anxiety” is the fear of genuine threats and it combines with the other two to yield a morbid and surrealistic inner landscape. These multiple, recurrent, “mini-panics” are potentially intolerable, overwhelming, and destructive, whereby, the need to defend against them is a natural and normal response. There are dozens of defense mechanisms. The most common defense mechanisms:

1. Acting Out
When an inner conflict (most often, frustration) translates into aggression. It involves acting with little or no insight or reflection and in order to attract attention and disrupt other people’s cozy lives.
2. Denial
Perhaps the most primitive and best known defense mechanism. People simply ignore unpleasant facts, they filter out data and content that contravene their self-image, prejudices, and preconceived notions of others and of the world.
3. Devaluation
Attributing negative or inferior traits or qualifiers to self or others. This is done in order to punish the person devalued and to mitigate his or her impact on and importance to the devaluer. When the self is devalued, it is a self-defeating and self-destructive act.
4. Displacement
When we cannot confront the real sources of our frustration, pain, and envy, we tend to pick a fight with someone weaker or irrelevant and, thus, less menacing. Children often do it because they perceive conflicts with parents and caregivers as life-threatening. Instead, they go out and torment the cat or bully someone at school or lash out at their siblings.
5. Dissociation
Our mental existence is continuous. We maintain a seamless flow of memories, consciousness, perception, and representation of both inner and external worlds. When we face horrors and unbearable truths, we sometimes “disengage”. We lose track of space, time, and the continuum of our identity. We become “someone else” with minimal awareness of our surroundings, of incoming information, and of circumstances. In extreme cases, some people develop a permanently rent personality and this is known as “Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

Originally posted 2006-06-12 05:04:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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These brave men and women have given their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams.
Those Who Say That We’re In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don’t Know Where To Look.

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. If you would like to participate in honoring the brave men and women who serve this great country, you can find out how by clicking here.

Blogs Partcipating In Wednesday Hero

Originally posted 2006-12-13 00:20:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Nick Reynolds, 75, dies; a founding member of the Kingston Trio group, a largely folk-based material captured international attention during the late fifties and early sixties. Mr Reynolds had paved the way for artists such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Reynolds was 75 and had been experiencing respiratory problems prior to giving up the ghost on October 1st.

Originally posted 2008-10-03 16:57:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Originally posted 2006-09-06 21:12:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Pip Wilson’s beloved mother passed away very recently after being ill for a short time. He has been my longtime cobber mate and pal. Please stop in and offer him your heartfelt condolences. He’s a bit distressed, he said.

Feel free to join in with me here and extend a hand to one of Maryannaville’s faithful and loyal bestest of friends. His mother and son bond is one that he will be grieving for long time yet to come.

Originally posted 2007-07-26 15:49:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I’ve been tagged by Kim from Laketrees to post 8 things about myself. She tagged me because she believes that I’m ‘a Child of the Universe.’ I’ve been referred as being many things and most of them true, too, but never have I ever been thought of as ‘a Child of the Universe.’
I stole the jpg from her post as memorabilia, or at least I believe I did. I just had to have it. It’s very handsome, see? Knowing Kim like I do, she’s laughing at me for believing that I stole it.

I’ve tagged 4 instead of 8. I know more folks but I also know that they’ll not play along. They’ll either blow me off as if I didn’t exist or else rip me a new arse for romancing the idea that they’d even consider the thought of participating in a meme. I have to respect their personal choice at not playing along, and I do . ~:o)

Rebecca aka KSHippyChic because she’s one of my most favorite Mum’s on the whole planet.
Reasonable Robin because he’s a fun fella especially when he’s questioning his personal gullibility.
Sue Blimely because she’s an incredibly made creature who makes me smile big when I see her smiling face.
and to Colin because he’s is always Colin. Kim also named Colin but he’ll have to pick it up from me, too. It’s just one of those things when it comes to Colin.

Related:
The importance and significance of the number 10 with George Carlin.

Originally posted 2007-12-11 07:39:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Introduced on May 8, 2007 the bill is sponsored by Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]

Adding to the growing call for an official language, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe introduced legislation on May 8th, 2007 and if it passes, the bill will make English the official language of the United States. The bill will amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.

It just takes a few minutes to either call or send a free fax message to your Senator. Click here to send a free message or, you can be call your Senators directly by calling the capitol’s main switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

H.R. 997 and H.R. 769 are official English bills in the House. Either one of these can serve as House versions of S. 1335. Tell your representative to support official English.

Click here to support H.R. 997.

Originally posted 2007-11-04 14:23:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“Under the new legislation, criminals could be charged with a felony if they install spyware or keystroke-monitoring software on 10 or more computers, no matter how much damage is caused. It also allows identity victims to seek restitution for the time they spend trying to restore their credit.”
Read on, Pals

Originally posted 2008-08-01 15:28:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

My gal pal, KSHippyChick dropped in this morning to announce that I had been tagged by her. The history is that Mackeydoodles called Rebecca on the carpet. So let’s share the love, right?

I have to fess up first, though. I worked on other piddly things today so as to temporarily ignore Rebecca’s meme announcement. Now it’s time to ‘git ‘er done.’ Therefore, let’s get on with the show but first I need to say there is a caveat. Be sure to hang onto your shorts first and foremost and just for entertainment purposes as well as for your convenience, we accept all major credit cards including PayPal, E-Gold, MasterCard, Visa, and American Express. Now on with the show.

1. If your doctor told you TODAY that you were pregnant, what would you say?
I’d be speechless while gasping for air in an attempt at finding in my best Fred Sanford imitation: “This is the big one, Elizabeth.”

2. Do you trust all of your friends?
Trust is earned. I don’t trust anyone at the same capacity I do others simply because I make others earn my trust. Blow it once then what trust has been earned up to that point in time is wiped away clean. From there, it’s back to the drawing board.

3. Would you move to another state or country to be with the one you love?
I have been known to do crazier things.

4. Do you believe that everything happens for a reason?
Sure do. As they say, “Karma’s a bitch.” Yet when I say that I often wonder just how many truly understand the law of reciprocity, the law of retribution, and the law of cause and effect. The me add that the law of leverage performs amazing feats and wonders. In all three of the previously mentioned laws.

5. Can you make a dollar in change right now?
That plus a few more, humbly speaking. Do aluminum cans count?

6. Which one of your friends do you think would make the best doctor?
Depends on which type of practice we’re speaking about here. Other than that, I haven’t played doctor in decades. We ‘git ‘er done, if you catch my drift.

7.What naughty word do you use too often?
I’m not sure that there is such a word as naughty when it comes to communication. Insert “naughty attitudes” and we’ll be on the same page.

8. Is there someone who pops into your mind at random times?
Yes and I leave that someone in the ethereals for safe keeping.

9. What’s your most favorite scar?
By scars, would that be mental, physical or emotional?

10. When was the last time you flew in a plane?
December 4th, 1995

11. What features do you find most attractive in the preferred sex?
Sex? Someone said sex?

12. Fill in the blank. I love ________.
[t]he Red Pill

13. What is a goal you would like to accomplish in the near future?
I’ll be teaming up with Mother Nature when I learn to hang glide. I’ll be ‘blowing in the wind’ instead of just blowing wind.

14. If you were to wake up from being in a coma for an extended time who would you call?
Ghostbusters, who else?

15. Where was your favorite picture taken?
What limited amount of tangible photos I have in the physical sense holds fond memories and I’m glad that they’re in my past. My most favorite photos are in my gray matter. I’m selfish like that.

16. What’s your middle name?
Ann

17. Honestly, what’s on your mind right now?
If I only had a brain…

18. If you could go back in time and change something, what would it be?
I wouldn’t change a single thing.

19. Who was or will be the maid of honor/ best man in your wedding?
I have to get married? Who says?

20. What are you wearing right now?
Leggings and a sweat shirt and a grin.

21. Ever had a bar fight?
Yep. Those same bars really know how to produce a major headache.

22. Who knows you the best?
Me, myself, and I. That alone is a tall order to fill.

23. Did you buy something today?
Yep

24. Did you get in a fight with someone today?
Nope. I kicked the cat, though.

25. When is the last time you had a massage?
Today

26. Last person to see you cry?
I haven’t cried in years although my eyes will leak sometimes.

27. Who made you cry?
Onions aren’t a who. Onions are a what.

28. What was the last TV show you watched?
Hill Street Blues, I think. I haven’t watched TV since I gave mine away years ago.

29. Who was the last person you hung out with?
David

30. Have you ever taken a peek at someone else’s diary?
Nope, I’ve never been interested in sneaking around behind someone’s back, either.
See question #2.

Now I’m supposed to appoint a few bloggers to participate in this meme according to what I understand but instead, I’m going to toss this out to whomever wishes to hop on board. It’s your choice – either play it or slay it. It’s on you.

Originally posted 2008-02-12 17:09:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter