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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...oms. But he also murders - or tries to murder - those who suspect the truth. These acts of lethal self-preservation prove conclusively that he know... ...ion prove conclusively that he knows who he is and that he fully realizes that his acts are parlously illegal. Young Greenleaf is young, captivat... ... fully formed. Ripley is at once homoerotic, autoerotic and heteroerotic. He has a succession of homosexual lovers (though apparently only platonic... ...ow, Barbara Stanwyck, James Cagney all were forced to spill their guts in cathartic acts of on camera repentance and not so symbolic humiliation. "T... ... mental phenomenon (always there, not always conscious, not always remembered). The acts of will which bring it to the surface are what we call "mem... ...uracy and that they elect to accept these outcomes prior to the commission of their acts or to their omission. All this does not answer the question...

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I and Thou

By: Martin Bube

...utterfly-except that situations do not always follow one another in clear succession, but often c 17 there is a. happening profoundly twofold, con... ...re stock of objects, and whose life is built up within a narrow circle of acts highly charged with presentness. The nuclei of this speech, words in... ...me lovingly and unforgettably aware of a complete body. Neither of these acts is experience of an object, but is the correspondence of the child-to... ...For the present let the paramount contribution made by the perception and acts of the world of Thou be left out of account.) Hence, in general, the ... ... response to the Thou: but about this response he preserves silence. His succession among the peoples, however, that e< great vehicle", has contrad... ...w I cause my attitude of soul to the world to grow to life, to life tha.t acts upon the 'World, to real life-and in real life the ways of very diffe... ...ecomes '8.n object of faith.' ,At first faith, set in time, completes the acts of relation; but gradually it replaces them. Resting in belief in an...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...erusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” Acts i. 7,8. Having studied this passage; in connexion with t... ...mony for righteousness before one nation or all nations, it was necessary to raise up a succession of chosen and endowed men, who holding the truth a... ...hose utter rejection and extermination, he might bring down the judgment upon men. This succession of witnesses in the midst of the days is THE CHUR... ... God are without repentance.” The casting away of this nation when they had refused the succession of spiritual witnesses, and crucified THE FAITHFF... ...oncerning the character of the fourth kingdom, as being so appropriate to the spirit and acts of the Gothic kingdoms, I heartily concur; observing me... ...immediately precede the day of the Lord’s coming, and be all evolved with a rapidity of succession which will not fill many years; and that no part o... ...rt and sustain the church during the whole period of his absence, being to her what the succession of prophets was to the former church. As at every... ...ord.’ And the word is not only the signal, but the cause of the event, as we see in the acts of creation; so that the proverb might have this more r... ...(following Mr. Frere's scheme) as successive revelations of prophecy, and correspondent acts of Providence, all bearing upon and announcing near and...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... should arrive at the extreme of leaving them neither free-will nor hope. In the Acts of the Apostles, is to be seen, what the Lord, by means of his ... ...rlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. For so hath the Lord commanded us,’ Acts xiii. 46,47. Notwithstanding this obstinacy of the whole nation... ... of the truth, all the evil possible; yea, exaggerating her ancient crimes, her acts of infidelity, her adulteries: and bringing under review the wic... ...lon as they were before; obeyed his laws, and those of the Greeks and Romans in succession; had no princes of their family to govern them as before ... ...rt and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.” Acts vii. 51. This may be said with great truth, of the more than fi... ...even trumpets,” at whose sound, and at whose successive voices, come to pass in succession, those seven horrible plagues which are mentioned in the e... ...eclaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.” Acts xv. 12. In the last place spake St. James, not to oppose in any... ...seed prolonged for many days, or which appeareth to be the same, this continued succession of the children of God begotten by Messiah through means ...

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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

... that were at the side of the road, and instantly had a face full of air bag. A succession of drivers behind him slammed on their brakes and found ... ..., ‘cheers’ and ‘sorry’ every two minutes as the waiting staff brought an endless succession of glasses, bottles, black pepper, parmesan and their me... ... changed again, back to stern. “It is clear that you are one of those women who acts in a certain way to get what she wants. We have a name for wom... ...floor, still twitching. Stannard, Loach and Patel looked at one another in rapid succession, checking to make sure each was ok. No one moved for a f...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...ious for her son and there are rumours that she would not hesitate to implicate the French in the succession; something, you can imagine, the compan... ..., Ali, to succeed him on his death, but after his death, the Sunni sect of Muslims insisted on a succession outside the family. Ali was murdered and... ...nsummation should be conceived in his father’s, the Emperor’s Palace, to protect his right to the succession. The Heir Apparent Audrey Blankenhagen... ...urtyard - could not feel anything but hatred for the perpetrators. ‘I am not proud of the savage acts of awful revenge committed against the Pandie...

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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...ver expanding and resonant electric blue ... vigilant. Shots fire in quick succession. One-two-three. She hears the explosions through a fog. Sees her... ...teasing his senses with a taste of just rewards that await him for so many acts of mercy. Yes, he thinks. I will be rewarded, sweetly satiated when I ...

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Werelove Dusk Conspiracy

By: Lakisha Spletzer

...prepared for treachery. It would be his luck to have bad things happen in succession. Stefan shrugged. “How should I know? Maybe because they know H... ...sorted to such an overtly aggressive response to one of Laylah’s perceived acts of disobedience. It was new, puzzling, and a cause for concern. Jacq...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...plainable, in art some part of the unexplainable. Formally the paradox acts in opposition to semantics ( “the paradox takes its birth in the nonr... ..., then, as illustrating a new age of the avant-garde and collocate it in a succession, if we refer to a history of the artistic rebellion. It does no... ... absurd. But before being a modeler on the outside, the revolution in art acts first of all on the inside. The limit is attained with the failure of ... ...ation which, if does not excel in theatricality, is skillfully leaded as successions of inferred reasons. It can be seen how much he was marked by ... ...untry of animals, proposes other performance: to be “a silent play in the acts of despair”, from which it has to result “a show of noises and picture... ...ence of poetic words”. The paradox of logic: its ground is empirical, but acts in the heart of Being. The unforeseeable and the unknown can found a ... ...ing the introducing emblem of “ultra-modernism” as coming in the artistic succession of the long debated postmodernism. Unsuited to the traditional ... ...uages in the crepuscular period of humanity; the disclose of the plays in acts, as some “despair acts”; the silent pantomime as political lampoon in...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...insufficiently mature or narcissistic and encourages the attentions of the child in acts of covert (emotional) and overt (physical) incest, it could... ...e repository of everything it dislikes about her. This means that whenever mother acts nicely, the baby relates to the idealized "Good Mother" and... ... He lies (narcissists are pathological liars – their very self is a false one). He acts the pitiful, or, its opposite, the resilient and reliable. ... ...pleasant, verbally and psychologically abusive and so on). Slowly – to justify his acts to himself – he gets immersed in conspiracy theories with c... ...k against which he measures everyone, a benchmark of excellence to be emulated. He acts the guru, the sage, the "psychotherapist", the "expert", th... ...aterial wealth. Worldly goods are passed on from one generation to the next through succession, inheritance and residence. Genetic material is hande... ...and the coital aftermath. Seduction becomes addictive because it leads to a quick succession of Supply Sources. Naturally, boredom (a form of tran...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...oks. His primary books are Some Science Adventures with Real Magic; Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of A New Physics; Science and Human Tr... ...picture and discover a rich, three-dimen- sional image. The wisdom of Kabbalah acts on us in much the same way, helping us “capture” that picture. In... ...s mother. In this way, even when the child receives food from its mother, it acts as a giver to its mother. When the creature is in this state of b... ... need to perform on our will to receive. In so doing, we learn how to perform acts of reception and bestowal of the Light that the Creator wants to ... ... we do not know the general reality, how it behaves, its structure, or how it acts upon us. We do not know with what we must equalize. It seems that... ...we humans must climb back to our roots. Consequently, Kabbalah deals with two successions: “from Above downward,” T H E S T RU C T U R E O F R E A ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... right - prescribes to others certain obligatory behaviours and proscribes certain acts or omissions. This Janus-like nature of rights and duties a... ...e termination of life can be classified as murder. Phenomenology is deceiving: the acts look the same (cessation of life functions, the prevention ... ...ing is linked to irreversible change, without it, it is not to be found. Sisyphean acts are meaningless and Sisyphus has no achievements to talk ab... ...straints, checks, and balances, is proved to work and mitigate their unconscionable acts and the pernicious effects these have on our welfare and lo... ...are with them unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided... ...aterial wealth. Worldly goods are passed on from one generation to the next through succession, inheritance and residence. Genetic material is hande... ... invariably behaved as if it were holier-than-thou. In an unmitigated and fantastic succession of blunders, miscalculations, vain promises, unkept t... ... be premised on one's lineage, up bringing, wealth, and social responsibilities. A succession of societies and cultures discriminated against the i... ...henever possible. Hence phenomena like the permanent temp - employees who prefer a succession of temporary assignments to holding a proper job. The...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... right - prescribes to others certain obligatory behaviours and proscribes certain acts or omissions. This Janus-like nature of rights and duties a... ...e termination of life can be classified as murder. Phenomenology is deceiving: the acts look the same (cessation of life functions, the prevention ... ...ing is linked to irreversible change, without it, it is not to be found. Sisyphean acts are meaningless and Sisyphus has no achievements to talk ab... ...straints, checks, and balances, is proved to work and mitigate their unconscionable acts and the pernicious effects these have on our welfare and lo... ...are with them unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided... ...aterial wealth. Worldly goods are passed on from one generation to the next through succession, inheritance and residence. Genetic material is hande... ... invariably behaved as if it were holier-than-thou. In an unmitigated and fantastic succession of blunders, miscalculations, vain promises, unkept t... ... be premised on one's lineage, up bringing, wealth, and social responsibilities. A succession of societies and cultures discriminated against the i... ...henever possible. Hence phenomena like the permanent temp - employees who prefer a succession of temporary assignments to holding a proper job. The...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...approaches and then avoids significant others or important tasks in a rapid succession of apparently inconsistent and disconnected behaviours. Retur... ...re terrorized by it. To avoid it, their self-destructive and self-defeating acts are intended to dismantle the very foundation of a successful rela... ... lacks. Life forces most narcissists into the hard slog of a steady job (or succession of jobs). Such "unfortunate" narcissists, coerced into a fram... ...ely to act out and erupt in a series of self-destructive and self-defeating acts (see above). But there are other narcissists, the "luckier" ones, t... ...fully dependent on him emotionally, sexually, financially, and socially. He acts in a patronising and condescending manner and criticises often. He ... ...– any kind of law. This grandiose and haughty conviction leads to criminal acts, incestuous or polygamous relationships, and recurrent friction wit... ...tend, to deliberate, to contemplate one's choices and then to choose one's acts. The narcissist does none of these. Thus, punishment breeds in him s... ...e from this interminable nether-state: I shut and opened my eyes in rapid succession; I pinched my forearm blue; I splashed water from the crumbli...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...s their opponent. If not prone to suppression and convulsive massacres by nature - acts of terror will deliberately provoke even the most benign ru... ... basic shakiness that led the King to look for sustenance from neighbours. In rapid succession, he made his state a friend of Bulgaria, Czechoslovak... ...tribution of subversive (and fairly bromide) "literature" was rarely accompanied by acts of terror, either in Kosovo or in Europe. Nationalism is ... ...teach in Albanian. But secondary schools and universities remained closed. These acts of persecution did not meet with universal disapproval. Gre... ..., he accepted the terms of the agreement with a sombre Rugova in tow. These public acts of statesmanship: negotiating, bargaining and, finally, acc... ...ed by newspaper headlines, ever increasing bounties, admiring imitators, successful acts of blackmail, the strength and size of their opponents, and... ...Hungary rejoiced. Thus were the seeds of World War I sown. The Yugoslav war of succession (or civil war) was a continuation of this mayhem by o... ... invariably behaved as if it were holier-than-thou. In an unmitigated and fantastic succession of blunders, miscalculations, vain promises, unkept t...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

... behold. And if the worst happen, the distribution and varietie of all the acts of my comedie, is performed in one yeare. If you have observed the co... ...d nephewes inherit; and in some places, the nephewes onely, except in the succession of the Prince. Where to order the communitie of goods, which amo... ...t follow but contemplate with admiration, and meditate with astonishment. Acts of her personage, and not of ours. Cotta protesteth very opportunely;... ... taught theirs vertue. Plato said the eldest borne sonne, in their royall succession, was thus taught. "As soone as he was borne, he was delivered, ... ...ompt of Grammer, or of Rythmes and who only ammuse themselves to know the succession of Kings, the establishing and declination of estates, and such... ...perioritie; no use of service, of riches or of povertie; no contracts, no successions, no partitions, no occupation but idle; no respect of kindred, ... ...2005 3:50:06 AM Montaigne's Essays living by such trash, do worse? If the acts of Xenophon, or Cæsar, had not by much exceeded their eloquence, I ca... ...ollow, and within a moneth, without edicts, ordinances, proclamations, and acts of Parliament, it will be observed as a law. The statutes should spea... ...aier was, that his children might betweene themselves decide in armes the succession of his estate; he was so miserable as to be taken at his word. A...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...h its own individual members or with its staff. It is often said to have perpetual succession, meaning that it lives on, even though the individual... ... be premised on one's lineage, up bringing, wealth, and social responsibilities. A succession of societies and cultures discriminated against the i... ... conscious and intelligent – or Dennettic. A Dennettic Agent (DA) is an agent that acts so as to influence the future allocation of resources, but ... ...oes not need to be either conscious or deliberative to do so. A Game is the set of acts committed by 1 to n rational DA and one a- rational (not irr... ... a random mechanism). At least 1 DA in a Game must control the result of the set of acts and the DAs must be (at least potentially) at conflict, who... ...y have different priorities and preferences. They rank the likely outcomes of their acts differently. They engage Strategies to obtain their highest... ...s to obtain their highest ranked outcome. A Strategy is a vector, which details the acts, with which the DA will react in response to all the (possi...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...approaches and then avoids significant others or important tasks in a rapid succession of apparently inconsistent and disconnected behaviours. Retur... ...fully dependent on him emotionally, sexually, financially, and socially. He acts in a patronising and condescending manner and criticises often. He ... ...– any kind of law. This grandiose and haughty conviction leads to criminal acts, incestuous or polygamous relationships, and recurrent friction wit... ...tend, to deliberate, to contemplate one's choices and then to choose one's acts. The narcissist does none of these. Thus, punishment breeds in him s... ...ply immersed in their delusions of grandeur, they firmly believe that their acts have – or will have – a great influence not only on their firm, but... ...by the results of his own decisions, opinions, beliefs, deeds and misdeeds, acts, inaction, or membership of certain groups, that he is above reproa...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...ion to Deficient Narcissistic Supply FAQ # 16: The Delusional Way Out FAQ # 17: The Compulsive Acts of the Narcissist FAQ # 18: Narcissistic Routi... ...f our history, all the time and effort we had put into it. It is an encapsulated version of our acts, intentions, emotions and reactions. It is a m... ...rament is our nature. Our character is largely the outcome of the process of socialization, the acts and imprints of our environment and nurture on... ...r plain useless behaviour despite grave repercussions to himself and to others, we say that his acts are compulsive. The narcissist is compulsive i... ...s and internal and external conflicts, either in the form of fantasies or in the form of deviant acts. 3. A disturbance formed in the Oedipal or ev... ...m. Consequently, he approaches and then avoids significant others or important tasks in a rapid succession of apparently inconsistent and disconnect...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...f its debts, obligations, and expenditures denominated in local currency. Inflation acts as a tax and is fiscally corrective - but without the reces... ...be premised on one's lineage, up bringing, wealth, and social responsibilities. A succession of societies and cultures discriminated against the i... ... (1987 to the present), Jordan for Iraq (1991 to the present), and now, Montenegro acts the part for both Serbia and Kosovo. These economies consis... ... conscious and intelligent – or Dennettic. A Dennettic Agent (DA) is an agent that acts so as to influence the future allocation of resources, but ... ...oes not need to be either conscious or deliberative to do so. A Game is the set of acts committed by 1 to n rational DA and one a- rational (not irr... ... a random mechanism). At least 1 DA in a Game must control the result of the set of acts and the DAs must be (at least potentially) at conflict, who... ...henever possible. Hence phenomena like the permanent temp - employees who prefer a succession of temporary assignments to holding a proper job. The...

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