Are Mormon Apologist Narcissistic?

[_Jersey Girl]

Additional thought/impression: I haven't seen an apologist on the boards whose style, approach, be it strident or round-a-bout, isn't matched at least one for one by critics.

[_solomarineris]

Oh yes, karl61. I think you've launched a winner here. This is a subject absolutely ideally fitted for this board.
The Scratches will all want to weigh in, and, if you're really lucky, Some Schmo and poor Antishock8 and Joey and solomarineris and TAK and Mercury and some of the other major lights of the board will drop in and deposit something here.
And your hero, you say, is truth.

somebody oughtta was your mouth with soap DCP.
I really had nothing to add; Karl was perfect...
Except perhaps....
#10+ He is full of himself, thinks he has all the answers

Edited to ask a Q.
DCP, can you name some female apologists, if any?

[_Daniel Peterson]

DCP, can you name some female apologists, if any?

Yes, I can.

[_maklelan]

Edited to ask a Q.
DCP, can you name some female apologists, if any?

You can look for female names among those who have published with the Maxwell Institute (since the MI invariably = apologetics):

http://mi.BYU.edu/authors/?viewall

Off the top of my head I can name Shirley Ricks, Diane Wirth, and Alison Coutts.

[_moksha]

Just because Dr. Peterson was recently crowned King of Apologetics,
there is no basis to accuse him of any of those nine charges. He does
not feel he is entitled to any special privileges, in that his new chair
at the Maxwell Institute is only a few inches taller than before.

So take that anti-apologists!

[_The Nehor]

1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance

Nope.

2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love (megalomania)

I see this as heaven but if that makes me deranged so is the entire western religious world.

3. Believes they are "special" and can only be understood by, or should associate with, people (or institutions) who are also "special" or of high status

Nope.

4. Requires excessive admiration

Then why would they come here?

5. Has a sense of entitlement

Yes, give me stuff.....NOW!

6. Is interpersonally exploitative

My friends would disagree.

7. Lacks empathy

Nope.

8. Is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her

Nope.

9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Nope.

[_wenglund]

At allpsych.com, it describe "projection" as: "the defense mechanism whereby we transfer or project our feelings about one person onto another."

Thanks, -Wade Englund-

[_Eric]

At allpsych.com, it describe "projection" as: "the defense mechanism whereby we transfer or project our feelings about one person onto another."

Thanks, -Wade Englund-

Says the guy behind the "Center for Same-Sex Attraction Disorders."


(Sorry. I couldn't resist.)

[_Nightlion]

They show many of these factors:

1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love (megalomania)
3. Believes they are "special" and can only be understood by, or should associate with, people (or institutions) who are also "special" or of high status
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement
6. Is interpersonally exploitative
7. Lacks empathy
8. Is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Psychology is the new gypsy reinvented to cash in on the fact that we can admit every human tendancy. Every fortune is true and every misfortune is true. When people freak out we see their humanity exposed and blame it. Just so long as the gypsies get paid.

[_karl61]

They show many of these factors:

1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love (megalomania)
3. Believes they are "special" and can only be understood by, or should associate with, people (or institutions) who are also "special" or of high status
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement
6. Is interpersonally exploitative
7. Lacks empathy
8. Is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Psychology is the new gypsy reinvented to cash in on the fact that we can admit every human tendancy. Every fortune is true and every misfortune is true. When people freak out we see their humanity exposed and blame it. Just so long as the gypsies get paid.

well here's your chance to pitch your cause and need for donations.