Comments on: “Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?”

By: Post Alley Crackpot

Post Alley Crackpot — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 02:53:15 +0000

“British, Irish and US intelligence agencies allegedly had information which could have prevented the [Omagh bombing], most of which came from double agents inside the Real IRA, but this information was not given to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). In 2008, the BBC reported that British intelligence agency GCHQ was monitoring conversations between the bombers as the bomb was being driven into Omagh.”

Hazard a guess as to why.

There are more bad actors involved than those who apply truncheons to those who appear to have been minding their own business.

By: Sasha Hrongmitts

Sasha Hrongmitts — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 14:13:09 +0000

From what I understand, anti-social behavior is where a man knows he is hurting someone’s feelings (has empathy), but he doesn’t care. A psychopath doesn’t have empathy because their brains are incapable of it. They are literally broken in some way. That’s what makes them dangerous.

By: Didact

Didact — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:33:05 +0000

In reply to Veritas.

Anyway, long story short, I would be extremely wary and sceptical of anything a “reformed” psychopath says or does.

I agree. Technically, Dr. Wood was diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder, and that is usually conflated with psychopathy. Whether they are, or are not, the same, is a question that I leave to psychologists - with my usual cynical disdain for their "profession" and their inability to give straight answers about anything. However, if you watch Dr. Wood's testimony about how he bent the knee, you'll hear from him how he actually gained a sense of morality and humanity pretty much solely from finally acknowledging Jesus Christ as King and Lord. He is now a father to five sons, two of whom have a severe muscular wasting disease. He converted his formerly agnostic wife to Christianity. He converted his roommate, the late Nabeel Qureshi, from Islam to Christianity after presenting Nabeel with argument after argument showing the truth of the Bible and the falsehoods of the Koran. A psychopathic leopard probably doesn't change its spots - you can see Dr. Wood's old character in his extremely confident and cutting statements about Islam and its so-called "prophet" and its "holy book", and you can see how devastatingly effective his rhetoric is against Muslims. That kind of rhetorical manipulation probably does come from his old ASPD. But he's also clearly a changed man, capable and willing and even eager to play nice with others, happy to collaborate with people, and skilled at defending believers from attacks. Such is the power of the Lord.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:20:47 +0000

There can never be an ex or reformed psychopath. They are biologically wired that way and no amount of whatever engineering can correct or change it.
They do however modify their behaviour to be more socialbly acceptable, which is part of their repertoire of deceptions they are capable of. I speak from bitter experience of being targeted by one. There are numerous experts on the subject, Dr Robert Hare, Martha Stroud and Hervey Cleckley. They have written some excellent books on the subject. Anyway, long story short, I would be extremely wary and sceptical of anything a “reformed” psychopath says or does.