Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Narcissistic Personality Disorder Or...
Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Some telling excerpts: "Lack of empathy is one of the most striking features of people with narcissistic personality disorder." "Narcissists do not consider the pain they inflict on others; nor do they give any credence to others' perceptions." "This lack of empathy is so foreign to us--even some animals show evidence of empathy--". ---Sad, to say the least! Even some animals have more insight into the feelings of others, than these people do. Source
Another reading of this image (positive) -- self examination, looking into ourself, finding internal pathways to change ourselves...
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Waves Gurgled and Giggled at Us
(From Anita Nair's book of Poems, Malabar Mind; Poem: A Brief Respite)
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Dolphin Altruism
"Several years ago, in the Gulf of Akaba, a British tourist was rescued by three dolphins from sharks. Near the Sinai Peninsula, a ship captain had stopped his boat so several passengers could watch dolphins playing. Three of the passengers decided to swim with them, and one stayed a little longer than the others. To his horror, he was bitten by a shark – and more were coming. Suddenly, three dolphins placed themselves between the tourist and the sharks, smacking the water with tails and flippers, and drove the sharks off so the man could be rescued.In 2004, a group of swimmers were confronted by a ten-foot great white shark off the northern coast of new Zealand. A pod of dolphins “herded” them together, circling them until the great white fled. There are several other examples from the area of Australia of similar incidences.
In another case in the Red Sea, twelve divers who were lost for thirteen and a half hours were surrounded by dolphins for the entire time, repelling the many sharks that live in the area. When a rescue boat showed up, it appeared that the dolphin pod were showing them where the divers were; they leaped up in the air in front of the rescuers, jumping toward the lost people as if to lead the boat onward – as, according to old stories, they often did with endangered ships in treacherous water.
Because we can’t talk to dolphins, we can’t really fathom what their motives are in these situations. It is, however, very possible that they are indeed trying to help and protect fellow mammals in the ocean to safety. If this is true, it means that they are the only animals, besides humans, which show true altruism."
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(Adapted from Karl Marx, EPM 1844)
