Posted on 02/08/2005 2:38:42 AM PST by LibWhacker
And immediately thought of this -
As part of an extensive, in-depth interview, a trained examiner rates the offender on a 20-item personality test. The items include glibness and superficial charm, grandiose self-worth, pathological lying, proneness to boredom and emotional vacuity.
What do you people think? Maybe? Could be?
"But not everyone has committed evil acts. Far from it."
Exactly. Everyone has sinned, and sin is always wrong, but sin does not equate to evil. Evil is the deliberate choice to sin against another person or persons repeatedly, with full knowledge and awareness, for the pleasure of it. My spiritual partner and I also differentiate in our discussions between what we call small "e", or everyday evil, and capital "E" evil. This article is talking about big "E"-- an example of small "e" would be the petty office tyrant who takes pleasure in verbally abusing the people in his power. I find it a useful distinction.
Sin is the first step on the path that leads to evil, though, which is why we are meant to fight against it. We won't ever win the fight completely in this life, but resisting it keeps us from moving down the path.
Manson didn't kill anyone.
True, some become the POTUS.
To me that statement in the article is like comparing apples and oranges. And like you, I quit reading after it. What BS to compare beheadings to panties on ones head!!
Cheers
Dean Koontz books are very well written, so much so that I find I can no longer read them!! They stay with me for days....shudder. His books truly scare me. :)
He was the mastermind behind them.
BUMP
Lol, she fits the profile to a tee!... Pure evil.
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