Yes, studying with the jws IS better, better for watchtower finances, better for their published, inflated numbers . . .
gypsywildone
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Any postive feedbacks from congregational people.
by spiritmama2004 ini am studying with the witnesess for over a yr now & finally today finished the knowledge book.
i came from a baptist church & since studying with this congregation have grown to appreciate them.
though i donot feel the need ot have the wt at the meetings i understand why the congregation uses them.
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Histrionic Personality Disorder-ever met one?
by gypsywildone inthe dimensional perspective
dimensionshere is a hypothetical profile, in terms of the five-factor model of personality, for histrionic personality disorder (speculatively constructed from mccrae, 1994, pg.
high neuroticism chronic negative affects, including anxiety, fearfulness, tension, irritability, anger, dejection, hopelessness, guilt, shame; difficulty in inhibiting impulses: for example, to eat, drink, or spend money; irrational beliefs: for example, unrealistic expectations, perfectionistic demands on self, unwarranted pessimism; unfounded somatic concerns; helplessness and dependence on others for emotional support and decision making.. .
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gypsywildone
LOL@Pettygrudger! I never have seen you even put sensational topics up here or do weird stuff to get attention & "help". I just think of these as emotional vampires, they suck the life right outta you.
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Histrionic Personality Disorder-ever met one?
by gypsywildone inthe dimensional perspective
dimensionshere is a hypothetical profile, in terms of the five-factor model of personality, for histrionic personality disorder (speculatively constructed from mccrae, 1994, pg.
high neuroticism chronic negative affects, including anxiety, fearfulness, tension, irritability, anger, dejection, hopelessness, guilt, shame; difficulty in inhibiting impulses: for example, to eat, drink, or spend money; irrational beliefs: for example, unrealistic expectations, perfectionistic demands on self, unwarranted pessimism; unfounded somatic concerns; helplessness and dependence on others for emotional support and decision making.. .
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gypsywildone
LOL, I couldn't say I know him well enough to say. Haven't you ever met one in person? Someone posted on Marilyn Manson & I thought of him as doing anything for attention, so I put "attention seeking personality" in the search, & that is what came up.
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Histrionic Personality Disorder-ever met one?
by gypsywildone inthe dimensional perspective
dimensionshere is a hypothetical profile, in terms of the five-factor model of personality, for histrionic personality disorder (speculatively constructed from mccrae, 1994, pg.
high neuroticism chronic negative affects, including anxiety, fearfulness, tension, irritability, anger, dejection, hopelessness, guilt, shame; difficulty in inhibiting impulses: for example, to eat, drink, or spend money; irrational beliefs: for example, unrealistic expectations, perfectionistic demands on self, unwarranted pessimism; unfounded somatic concerns; helplessness and dependence on others for emotional support and decision making.. .
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gypsywildone
The Dimensional Perspective
DimensionsHere is a hypothetical profile, in terms of the five-factor model of personality, for Histrionic Personality Disorder (speculatively constructed from McCrae, 1994, pg. 306):High Neuroticism
- Chronic negative affects, including anxiety, fearfulness, tension, irritability, anger, dejection, hopelessness, guilt, shame; difficulty in inhibiting impulses: for example, to eat, drink, or spend money; irrational beliefs: for example, unrealistic expectations, perfectionistic demands on self, unwarranted pessimism; unfounded somatic concerns; helplessness and dependence on others for emotional support and decision making.
- Low Extraversion
- Social isolation, interpersonal detachment, and lack of support networks; flattened affect; lack of joy and zest for life; reluctance to assert self or assume leadership roles, even when qualified; social inhibition and shyness.
- High Openness
- Preoccupation with fantasy and daydreaming; lack of practicality; eccentric thinking (e.g., belief in ghosts, reincarnation, UFOs); diffuse identity and changing goals: for example, joining religious cult; susceptibility to nightmares and states of altered consciousness; social rebelliousness and nonconformity that can interfere with social or vocational advancement.
- High Agreeableness
- Gullibility: indiscriminate trust of others; excessive candor and generosity, to detriment of self-interest; inability to stand up to others and fight back; easily taken advantage of.
- Low Conscientiousness
- Underachievement: not fulfilling intellectual or artistic potential; poor academic performance relative to ability; disregard of rules and responsibilities can lead to trouble with the law; unable to discipline self (e.g., stick to diet, exercise plan) even when required for medical reasons; personal and occupational aimlessness.
Specific Affects
Exaggerated, shallow emotions; enthusiasm, anger, boredom (Millon, pg. 158).
Hysteria; sadness, jealousy, disappointment, fear, boredom (Stone [Briquet], pg. 318).
The Behavior Perspective
Motivations
Desire to coerce, manipulate, and deceive others into giving help and to establish and maintain dependency.
"The inordinate and demanding dependency displayed by many of these patients plays so important a role in hysterical psychopathology as to constitute a kind of organizing principle for many of the other features, which can be seen as distorted efforts to gratify dependency or as defensive reactions to its presence" (Chodoff, pg. 2727).
Behaviors
Overly dramatic, reactive, and intensely expressed behavior; strident and superficial emotionality, emotional storms, constant attention-seeking, sexually seductive behavior, histrionics, submissiveness, eagerness to please, ruthless willfulness (Chodoff, pp. 2727-2728).
Affectation, overreaction, stimulus-seeking, intolerance of inactivity, impulsiveness, theatricality, flirtatiousness, demandingness, attention-seeking, exhibitionism (Millon, pp. 138, 140).
Emotional manipulation, seductiveness; demands for constant attention; cravings for novelty, stimulation, and excitement; suicide gestures and threats (American Psychiatric Association, pg. 656).
Bombast.
Associated Disorders
Somatization Disorder, Conversion Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder (American Psychiatric Association, pg. 656). Depression, Hysteroid Dysphoria (Chodoff, pp. 2735-2736).
The Life Story PerspectiveChildhood
Inconsistent parenting style: alternation between insensitive non-involvement and rewards for exhibitionist behavior.
Universal Personality Disorder Basic Passions Sadistic Erroneous Value-judgments
Histrionic personality disorder is a typological representation of bad character, of a vicious disposition formed by habitual passion. Passions are, or are the results of, erroneous value-judgments. The objects of passion listed below (derived mostly from Beck, Freeman, and associates, 1990, pp. 50-51) are external, indifferent things that the Histrionic personality incorrectly judges to be good or bad. (Evolutionary Psychology and Behavior Genetics provide adequate scientific explanations of the origins of these impulses.) The cure of Histrionic personality disorder will require correcting these habitual, erroneous value-judgments by making proper use of impressions.
Habitual Passions Desires/ Pleasures Fears/ Distresses - attention
- expressiveness
- emotionalism
- romanticism
- impressing others
- captivating others
- glamor
- amusement
- affection
- alliances
- an audience
- appreciation
- being entertaining
- admiration
- feelings
- dramatics
- demonstrativeness
- being ignored
- being unattractive
- being unlovable
- being uninteresting
- being abandoned
- being helpless
- frustration
- not getting their own way
- not getting compliance from others
- being treated unfairly
Cognitive Effects
Basic Belief: I need to impress. Strategy: Dramatics (Beck, Freeman & associates, pg. 26). In Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders , Aaron T. Beck, Arthur Freeman, and associates (1990) list typical beliefs associated with each specific personality disorder. Here are the typical beliefs that they have listed (pg. 362) for Histrionic Personality Disorder:
- I am an interesting, exciting person.
- In order to be happy I need other people to pay attention to me.
- Unless I entertain or impress people, I am nothing.
- If I don't keep others engaged with me, they won't like me.
- The way to get what I want is to dazzle or amuse people.
- If people don't respond very positively to me, they are rotten.
- It is awful for people to ignore me.
- I should be the center of attention.
- I don't have to bother to think things through?I can go by my "gut" feeling.
- If I entertain people, they will not notice my weaknesses.
- I cannot tolerate boredom.
- If I feel like doing something, I should go ahead and do it.
- People will pay attention only if I act in extreme ways.
- Feelings and intuition are much more important that rational thinking and planning (362).
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Date someone who already is dating someone?
by logansrun indo you think it is wrong to ask someone out who you happen to know already has a girl/boyfriend?
even if you are unsure if it is a "serious" significant other (and have never met them)?
and if the person you are interested in seems interested in you?.
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gypsywildone
Sounds like way too much work, could get complicated.
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Marilyn Manson?
by Brummie indoes anyone actually think he's good?
he was just being interviewed in england and they are treating him like some sort of god, they even said he's as popular as jesus!
darn, what am i missin, cant stand him.
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gypsywildone
Right on Shamus! Alice Cooper/Ozzy RIPOFF!
Another attention seeking personality.
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They just announced the 2nd USA hostage has been executed
by Brummie inthey are taking the reports off aljezzera but say they need more evidence.. it appears the uk hostage has no chance and will be the 3rd, his family have just been on the tv condemning the prime minister for the iraq war and asking for his resignation.
but what can a prime minister do?
surrender to the sicko's commands?
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gypsywildone
No Brummie, but on this board it just seems to turn into insults, pushing & seems counter productive.
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THE SKY IS FALLING!
by candidlynuts inexcerpt from a story from ny press... see entirety at http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=11137
during a taxi ride one day in february, a driver in baltimore asked how i was doing.
i told him my plans for the near future.
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gypsywildone
LOl, I'm glad I don't seem to live on the same planet as these gloom & doom addicts. Same old shit, different decade.
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They just announced the 2nd USA hostage has been executed
by Brummie inthey are taking the reports off aljezzera but say they need more evidence.. it appears the uk hostage has no chance and will be the 3rd, his family have just been on the tv condemning the prime minister for the iraq war and asking for his resignation.
but what can a prime minister do?
surrender to the sicko's commands?
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gypsywildone
For the record, I'm silent, not because I have stopped thinking, writing, or supporting this, it's just that I'm tired of the same old defeatist rhetoric being slung around like panacaea when it's just more hippie hemp-based hoopla. I think that the positions have hardened enough, we all know where we stand, and that's the end of it. I'm just posting my sympathies to the families, and that's it.
CZAR
Amen and Ditto. Rev
Double Amen and ditto to your ditto. And five thumbs up for this idea. Some people never learn, never forgo an opening to spew, & sound more like jws than they'll ever want to admit to. Same Mantra, different dogma. Push, push, push.
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Saturday Is THE BIG DAY!!
by minimus inour daughter's getting married!
and her (pioneer) grandmother, her best jw friend, my brother and his jw family, and one longtime elder friend and his wife will be there.
tonight is the rehearsal dinner.
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gypsywildone
Congratulations Minimus, & have a great day! You'll make the most handsome red father of the bride M&M ever!