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SoDesuKa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 11:26 PM
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Bush Psychological Profile Similar to Shoplifters
The real reason Bush invaded Iraq is the same as the reason shoplifters steal - they see an opportunity to take something without paying for it. In Bush's formative years, his efforts to please a domineering mother contributed to the psychological profile he shares with compulsive shoplifters.

"For almost all non-professional shoplifters, stealing from stores is basically a reflection of a person's ability (or inability) to cope with a multitude of situations in his or her life. It's their response to their own personal life situations. While these unhappy life situations may not easily be changed (or may repeat themselves from time to time) shoplifters must learn how to cope with these situations in a way that's not so harmful to themselves or others. This may not be easy to achieve, because approximately 57 percent of shoplifters caught for the first time have already developed a shoplifting habit or even an addiction. Many admit that it will be hard for them to stop shoplifting... even after getting caught.

"A person's addiction to shoplifting can develop quickly when the excitement generated from 'getting away with it' produces a chemical reaction (i.e. adrenaline, etc.) resulting in what shoplifters describe as an incredible 'rush' or 'high' feeling, which many shoplifters will tell you is the 'true reward,' rather than the merchandise itself. In addition to feeling good, shoplifters quickly observe this 'high' temporarily eliminates their feelings of anger, frustration, depression or other unhappiness in their life. Realizing how easy it is to get that 'high' feeling, they are pulled toward doing it again...'just one more time'...and their addiction begins to develop. Even though most non-professional shoplifters feel guilty, ashamed or remorseful about what they did, and are fearful of getting caught, the pull is too strong for many to resist ... "


http://character-education.info/Articles/shoplifting.htm

The attraction of invading Iraq and getting away with it was too strong for Bush to resist. A former cocaine abuser, he appears to have switched addictions. It is possible that Bush feels remorse for his destructive impulses, but it's also possible he believes his own lies. Future historians will wonder how he got away with it as long as he did.

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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 11:34 PM
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1. It's fun to speculate...
...but this is no more credible than judging Terry Schiavo's capabilities from viewing a videotape.
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Lori Price CLG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 11:47 PM
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2. LOL and good post! n/t
Edited on Mon Jul-25-05 12:03 AM by Lori Price CLG
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NAO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 12:00 AM
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3. The Madness of George Bush - A Depth Psychology Analysis
THE MADNESS OF GEORGE W. BUSH:
A REFLECTION OF OUR COLLECTIVE PSYCHOSIS
by Paul Levy
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/georgew.html

excerpt:

George W. Bush is ill. He has a psycho-spiritual dis-ease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in. It’s an illness that has been with us since time immemorial. Because it’s an illness that's in the soul of all of humanity, it pervades the field and is in all of us in potential at any moment, which makes it especially hard to diagnose. Bush's malady is quite different from schizophrenia, for example, in which all the different parts of the personality are fragmented and not connected to each other, resulting in a state of internal chaos. As compared to the dis-order of the schizophrenic, Bush can sound quite coherent and can appear like such a "regular," normal guy, which makes the syndrome he is suffering from very hard to recognize. This is because the healthy parts of his personality have been co-opted by the pathological aspect, which drafts them into its service. Because of the way the personality self-organizes an outer display of coherence around a pathogenic core, I would like to name Bush's illness ‘malignant egophrenic (as compared to schizophrenic) disease,’ or ‘ME disorder,’ for short. If ME disorder goes unrecognized and is not contained, it can be very destructive, particularly if the person is in a position of power.

In much the same way that a child's psychology cannot be understood without looking at the family system he or she is a part of, George Bush does not exist in isolation. We can view Bush and his entire Administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, etc), as well as the corporate, military industrial complex that they are co-dependently enmeshed with, the media that they control, the voters that support them, and ourselves as well, as interconnected parts of a whole system, or a "field." Instead of relating to any part of this field as an isolated entity, it’s important to contemplate the entire interdependent field as the ‘medium’ though which malignant egophrenia manifests and propagates itself. ME disease is a field phenomenon, and needs to be contemplated as such. Bush's sickness is our own...

Bush, like all of us, is both a manifestation of this deeper field and simultaneously an agent effecting this field. He’s become so fully taken over by the disease, all the while not suspecting a thing, that he’s become a "carrier" for this deadly disease, thus infecting the field around him. He’s become a portal through which the field around him "warps" in such a way as to feed and support his pathogenic process. A non-local, reciprocally co-arising and interdependent field of unconscious denial and cover-up gets constellated around Bush to enable and protect his pathology. People who support Bush are actually complicit with and enabling Bush’s madness in a co-dependent, self-reinforcing feedback loop that is ‘closed,’ which is to say it is insular and not open to any feedback from the ‘real’ world. Bush supporters are not merely disinterested in seeing that they are in denial of reality; on the contrary, they actively don’t want to look at this, which is to say they resist self-reflection at all costs. Bush and his supporters perversely interpret any feedback from the real world which reflects back their unconsciousness as itself evidence that proves the rightness of their viewpoint. All of Bush’s supporters mutually reinforce each other’s unconscious resistance to such a degree that a collective, interdependent field of impenetrability gets collectively conjured up by them that literally resists consciousness.

People who don't recognize Bush's illness and support him are unconsciously colluding with and enabling in the co-creation of the pathological field that is incarnating itself into the human family. People who support Bush become unwitting agents through which this non-local disease feeds and replicates itself. By supporting Bush they are collaborating with and becoming parts of the greater, interconnected and self-organizing field of the disease. The situation is very analogous to when seemingly good, normal, loving Germans supported Hitler, believing he was a good leader trying to help them. The German people didn't realize that the virulent pathogen malignant egophrenia had taken possession of Hitler and was incarnating itself through him. By not seeing this and supporting Hitler, they became agents used by this non-local, deadly disease to propagate itself. This was a collective psychosis, and this is what is taking place in our country right now.

full article at above link
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 01:39 AM
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4. No... the correlation is more that of megalomania...
Edited on Mon Jul-25-05 01:41 AM by Dr_eldritch
Not shoplifting.

(Although I have no doubt he 'got off' on the invasion)

His true demon may very well be that he's never known his own worth. He has been tested in very few things that would truly make or break anyone else because he's never even had to worry about consequences.

Therefore, he's never had any significant challenges in life.

Without significant challenges, a person has very little with which to guage his own intrinsic self-worth.

This is a fairly well hidden issue... even from one's self.

He is at long last attaching a value to himself... unfortunately, that value is megalomania.

He has likely clasped with both hands the mantle of leader, protector, and warrior despite his lack of prerequisites.

The US military is analogous to the 'biggest gun ever made'... the most powerful single 'weapon' in the history of the Human Race.
And he gets to pull the trigger.

He has finally found his sense of self-worth... in the exercise of brute power for a cause.


{oe}-spelling bad tunite
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 01:42 AM
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5. You don't have to be a psychologist
Edited on Mon Jul-25-05 01:42 AM by FreedomAngel82
to know he's messed up in the head. You can see it in his eyes and by just observing how he is. Just watch all the way from the RNC convention, to Clinton's library opening and the Roberts nomination ordeal with the little boy.
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rumpel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 01:46 AM
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6. But recently it has gotten worse, he has the crazed empty daze..
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 01:46 AM
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7. Carl Jung and Sigmund would both have a field day with this administration
Roflmao.
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