your search capabilities over the internet seem a bit week...as i am sorry to continue to advise egomablah is not a viable disorder or even a criteria of NPD and there is no current reference to it on the APA's site.
As I stated - I never clamed egomania was a disorder. You just can't stop being lying about what others say, can you? Your pride won't let you acknowledge you've stepped in it. Well, lets show how wrong you are on a number of counts... I stated you should search on the term Narcissistic Personality Disorder. If you do, guess what shows up....
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As you can see - a search at APA (psycnet.apa.org - which I provided earlier) shows that NPD is a "viable disorder". Oh - and as for egomania - try looking at Stedmans....
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Its the highlighted term...
if as you say "Praying for something is no guarantee that what we pray for will occur." prayer doesn't work...uh, why engage in the practice...except the practice makes the prayee feel better?
Solus - why do people apply for jobs when they know their is no guarantee that they will be successful? Surely you have applied for a job you didn't have a guarantee you would get, no? Did you - or do the rest of us - do so merely because it makes you or us feel better? Of course not. Prayer is no different - it is the ASKING for something while not being able to control the outcome. Having been turned down for a job at some point, your view would indicate that every person who has ever been told "no" after an application should then just stop trying to get a job. To say that is a silly course of action to encourage is an understatement. When we pray FOR things (as compared to when we pray to give thanks and offer worship) Christians are doing little more than "asking" for something that we do not have the power to directly make happen ourselves.
finally, i am afraid my intellectual integrity is quite firmly in place as i can read
so the use of the term 'scholar' was an attempt to bolster your status or standing on your 14 years of religious education...
Apparently you can NOT read as I made it clear the use was a mockery. Oh wait - you can read -
you just can't keep from lying about was stated.
[/quote]Regarding me being a "scholar" - please note that the quotations are indicative of me mocking the title itself [/quote] See
http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/s...self-defense&p=2175970&viewfull=1#post2175970
Yep - that's intellectual integrity alright....
[/quote] hummm now that perception is a criteria for NPD quote: B1a. Grandiosity: Feelings of entitlement, either overt or covert; self-centeredness; firmly holding to the belief that one is better than others; condescending toward others. [/quote]
Yes - it is - condescending is exactly what you are when you try to belittle Christianity and those that believe in it. Feelings of entitlement and the belief that one is better than others - as in when you felt you were ENTITLED to state what I believed without knowing (see the end of my post #152 on this thread) and where YOU FELT YOU WERE SO MUCH BETTER THAN OTHERS that you were ENTITLED to define what "appropriate knowledge" on the subject of Christian faith. Given that you show the criteria for NPD throughout this thread, you might want to rethink this claim....
[/quote]dear friend, to alleviate any further anguish & anxiety, trust me when i state, much to your chagrin, my mental health is in excellent shape/quote]
Now on to:
one must believe their soul exists, two requires saving; with those premises agreed upon, three, wishes to abrogate that saving activity to someone else.
But that premise is not agreed upon. Again you feel that you are entitled to expect everyone to agree with you, and such is not the case.
much to your consternation my soul is not in need of salvation. as stated many times out here...upon my passing, whomever or whatever i meet someplace in the cosmos, i will know i have lived my life free of the burden of some wrathful deity and offer a game of backgammon to decide my fate.
Oh you are quite funny, dear solus. You have spent post after post claiming you haven't said where you stood on salvation and thus I couldn't "know" your view on it. Now, after being called out on your earlier statements, you finally own them. The mere idea that you would offer a game of backgammon to decide your fate, however, does show how badly your soul is in need of salvation.
now that you have done your due diligence of proselytizing your perception of a wayward soul
If you do not wish to be seen as wayward soul, perhaps you should reconsider interjecting your vitriol against the Christian faith into a discussion on what that faith says and calling the main tenant of the faith a "myth". One could hardly expect a different outcome when you decide to turn a discussion on one matter of faith into a series of verbal traps designed to bash the faithful. Perhaps if you came into a discussion without an agenda against Christians the results would be different.
empirical data wins every time.
Which is why I have used your own statements as factual data to demonstrate what I have stated about you. Symptoms of NPD, hostile to Christianity and Christians, using strawmen arguments, diversion and choosing to be intellectually dishonest in an failed attempt to "win". Sadly, you continue to show those same symptoms by trying to make everything a contest which you feel you must "win" - even when you simply show the depth to which you will sink in a pathetic, dishonorable display toward that goal. Truly, it makes me pity you all the more.
Still, that only makes me more resolved to pray for you, friend solus. Regardless of whether you think you need it or not.
