Xeno would do a lot better to examine his own buttons. No. Barry and I have no private conversations. I have no knowledge of his private e-mail address or addresses, or of his current residence, though I have seen a depiction the general area he lives in, in the Netherlands, on a map and on Google Earth, since he described it in a post some time ago. I am sure he has no need to correspond with me. Button pushing does interest me. One of the tasks of spirituality is to reduce the number and sensitivity of the psychological buttons we have. Now, how many on this forum got their buttons pushed by my previous post?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: Hmm, Xeno seems to be studying to become a troll/button-pusher. Barry must be tutoring him behind the scenes. Thank you for this autobiographical post: A new psychology paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324 studied the personalities of those who engage in trolling (known in some quarters as "pushing buttons") on the Internet: "The research, conducted by Erin Buckels of the University of Manitoba and two colleagues, sought to directly investigate whether people who engage in trolling are characterized by personality traits that fall in the so-called Dark Tetrad: Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), and sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others)." Read more: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html
