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Anol

@soulsoup

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Posted: 19 years ago

#1141

Originally posted by: uknaik99

Awwwwwwwww Shady.. This was my next Question for Anol..😕😕

and by the way where is Anol?? He is making guest apperence in his own POST...😃😃

I'll be back late morning my time -some urgent work to do 😕

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Kavita Gupta

@uknaik99

Rocker

+ 2

Posted: 19 years ago

#1142

Originally posted by: Awww
Mind you when I first got this question in e-mail, I had not idea what the answer was, but than I went to the link provided in the e-mail......abh kiya hai ke humara dimak itna bhayanak nahi hai 😉

Saahi Kaha Zahida when I first read the answer I went like this 😕😕😕

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rocker1

@rocker1

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Posted: 19 years ago

#1143

Originally posted by: Awww
Mind you when I first got this question in e-mail, I had not idea what the answer was, but than I went to the link provided in the e-mail......abh kiya hai ke humara dimak itna bhayanak nahi hai 😉

Zee.. I'm relieved you didn't know the answer.. No normal person would.. as the message at the end says...

If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by a famous American psychologist used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in this test and answered it correctly. If you didn't answer correctly - good for you. If your friends hit the jackpot, may I suggest that you keep your distance.

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Anol

@soulsoup

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Posted: 19 years ago

#1144

Originally posted by: shadyhtown

Zee.. I'm relieved you didn't know the answer.. No normal person would.. as the message at the end says...

If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by a famous American psychologist used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in this test and answered it correctly. If you didn't answer correctly - good for you. If your friends hit the jackpot, may I suggest that you keep your distance.

😆

NOT AT ALL Shady! This is just an urban legend!! Psychology is not so easy cup of tea! Here goes the explanation: (Bye again!! 😭😕)

Origins: This silly canard began its Internet life in May 2002. No, this question was not authored by a "famous American psychologist," nor does it come from "a genuine psychological test." Believe not everything that turns up in e-mail, especially items sorely vague about their bona fides.

Let's talk about why this isn't real. As the Tire Nut legend so eloquently illustrates, just because someone is crazy doesn't mean he's also stupid. Psychopaths (also known as sociopaths) possess the same problem-solving skills that the rest of us do, and some of them have been found to be remarkably brilliant (e.g., Ted Bundy). The assumption that all sociopaths approach problems with a "Whom can I kill to solve this?" mentality (and that sociopaths believe everyone else thinks this way as well) is an erroneous assumption based upon a false stereotype. Most sociopaths would find this question as illogical as the rest of us and ponder a whole range of other possibilities (e.g., why didn't the girl strike up a conversation with the man at the funeral, examine the condolence book afterwards, or ask her sister about him?); rather than just blurting out the purported "typical" response, many of them would provide answers just as mainstream as those offered by us "normal" folks (e.g., one sister thought the other was involved with the mystery man and killed her sibling over an imagined romantic rivalry).

In other words, this isn't a question where all the psychopaths would go one way and everybody else would go another. As a quick 'n' easy way to separate the sheep from the murderous goats, it wouldn't work. Besides, no one hypothetical is ever going to reveal the state of any person's mental condition; whole batteries of multi-item tests are needed for that. Entirely healthy folks can answer one isolated question in such a way as to indicate the possible presence of mental illness, just as severely ill folks can answer the same question in a healthy manner.

The appeal of this one-question pop psych quiz lies in its implicit promise that by using it on your friends, you can locate the psychopaths lurking in your circle of acquaintance and thereby protect yourself from them, or perhaps in the process of your answering it you'll uncover some deep, dark secret you've been keeping from yourself. We like our world simplified whenever possible, and therefore anything that appears to be an easy-to-use tool will be quickly seized upon, even if it's flawed.

Would that it were that simple. Psychopaths are intermingled with the general population and are not that easily identified. They are best characterized as persons devoid of remorse and empathy. What sets them apart is not that these two characteristics are depressed or reduced in them, but that they are entirely missing. Psychopaths are held in check only by their fear of being caught and punished; the potential impact of their actions upon others is without relevance to them, and guilt is just a word in the dictionary to them, not something they themselves experience.

Not all psychopaths are rampaging killers, constantly on the hunt for their next victims. Many live law-abiding lives and outwardly appear quite normal. They lack a sense of right versus wrong, and they do not care about the people in their lives, not even their spouses or children; the risk to their own well-being is what keeps them, for the most part, on the straight and narrow. These are not healthy individuals to become involved with, but on the other hand, they are not necessarily mere heartbeats away from taking up the nearest hatchet and laying waste to the steno pool just because it's Tuesday.

A psychopath might think to murder her sister after their mother's death, but the motivation would more likely be one of inheritance. "Why settle for half an estate when only one person stands between me and all of it?" would be a more prevalent line of thought.

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advil

@advil

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Posted: 19 years ago

#1145

That answer was the thought that came to my mind when i analyzed the question. Does that mean I am a psychopath???😕

Edited by adi_0112 - 19 years ago

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Anol

@soulsoup

Inactive

Posted: 19 years ago

#1146

Originally posted by: adi_0112
That answer was the thought that came to my mind when i analyzed the question. Does that mean I am a psychopath???😕

Aree naah Adi - see the explanation above! Do you really think Psycho-Analysis is such an easy thing? 😕

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Kavita Gupta

@uknaik99

Rocker

+ 2

Posted: 19 years ago

#1147

Originally posted by: soulsoup

NOT AT ALL Shady! This is just an urban legend!! Psychology is not so easy cup of tea! Here goes the explanation: (Bye again!! 😭😕)

Origins: This silly canard began its Internet life in May 2002. No, this question was not authored by a "famous American psychologist," nor does it come from "a genuine psychological test." Believe not everything that turns up in e-mail, especially items sorely vague about their bona fides.

Let's talk about why this isn't real. As the Tire Nut legend so eloquently illustrates, just because someone is crazy doesn't mean he's also stupid. Psychopaths (also known as sociopaths) possess the same problem-solving skills that the rest of us do, and some of them have been found to be remarkably brilliant (e.g., Ted Bundy). The assumption that all sociopaths approach problems with a "Whom can I kill to solve this?" mentality (and that sociopaths believe everyone else thinks this way as well) is an erroneous assumption based upon a false stereotype. Most sociopaths would find this question as illogical as the rest of us and ponder a whole range of other possibilities (e.g., why didn't the girl strike up a conversation with the man at the funeral, examine the condolence book afterwards, or ask her sister about him?); rather than just blurting out the purported "typical" response, many of them would provide answers just as mainstream as those offered by us "normal" folks (e.g., one sister thought the other was involved with the mystery man and killed her sibling over an imagined romantic rivalry).

In other words, this isn't a question where all the psychopaths would go one way and everybody else would go another. As a quick 'n' easy way to separate the sheep from the murderous goats, it wouldn't work. Besides, no one hypothetical is ever going to reveal the state of any person's mental condition; whole batteries of multi-item tests are needed for that. Entirely healthy folks can answer one isolated question in such a way as to indicate the possible presence of mental illness, just as severely ill folks can answer the same question in a healthy manner.

The appeal of this one-question pop psych quiz lies in its implicit promise that by using it on your friends, you can locate the psychopaths lurking in your circle of acquaintance and thereby protect yourself from them, or perhaps in the process of your answering it you'll uncover some deep, dark secret you've been keeping from yourself. We like our world simplified whenever possible, and therefore anything that appears to be an easy-to-use tool will be quickly seized upon, even if it's flawed.

Would that it were that simple. Psychopaths are intermingled with the general population and are not that easily identified. They are best characterized as persons devoid of remorse and empathy. What sets them apart is not that these two characteristics are depressed or reduced in them, but that they are entirely missing. Psychopaths are held in check only by their fear of being caught and punished; the potential impact of their actions upon others is without relevance to them, and guilt is just a word in the dictionary to them, not something they themselves experience.

Not all psychopaths are rampaging killers, constantly on the hunt for their next victims. Many live law-abiding lives and outwardly appear quite normal. They lack a sense of right versus wrong, and they do not care about the people in their lives, not even their spouses or children; the risk to their own well-being is what keeps them, for the most part, on the straight and narrow. These are not healthy individuals to become involved with, but on the other hand, they are not necessarily mere heartbeats away from taking up the nearest hatchet and laying waste to the steno pool just because it's Tuesday.

A psychopath might think to murder her sister after their mother's death, but the motivation would more likely be one of inheritance. "Why settle for half an estate when only one person stands between me and all of it?" would be a more prevalent line of thought.

Good point Anol, even that BTK Kiiler lead normal life.. no one suspected him

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Abhijit Kulkarni

@kabhi_21

Inactive

Posted: 19 years ago

#1148

Anol where is the answer to my fourth question

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Anol

@soulsoup

Inactive

Posted: 19 years ago

#1149

Originally posted by: kabhi_21
Anol where is the answer to my fourth question

My POV on frequent Foreign Visits by Ministers

Most of the cases these foreign visits end up with "never going to be fulfilled" type MOU or Memorandum of Understanding, big amount of bill coming out of the government treasury, which is eventually coming out of the tax money, and lotsa 'phoren – goodies' for the friends and family of the Minister!! That's the people problem, not a system problem – hence destined to remain unsolved till the people change or we force them to change

(written in between a marathon conference call I am having right now! 😆😆)

Edited by soulsoup - 19 years ago