Re: Exposing Online Predators & Cyberpaths
Having a hypothesis of what, exactly, we are looking at when considering the activities of this Barbara Camwell AKA "Fighter" AKA EOPC, etc, can be helpful in predicting future behavior. I've had a number of interactions with her and can say that there have always been red flags popping up now and again but I tend to give a person time to prove themselves one way or another. Having the details of all these behind-the-scenes activities exposed, particularly the vicious attacks on Sandra, really helps because, otherwise, it is so easy for the pathological individual to "pass as normal" via cyber communication.
So, what do we see here just in these latest posts on this thread?
First of all, we notice the projection which is typical of the pathological mindset. We have experienced this one first hand via Vincent Bridges and gang. With almost clockwork regularity, they would accuse us of doing something that they were either already guilty of doing, or were planning to do! In this we have something of a clue about what may be wrong with this individual: just look at what she accuses Guardian of doing/being. I'm willing to bet that this is her own history.
Next we notice the "pathological persistence." This is very much a characteristic of the schizoidal psychopath. So, it may be useful to review what Lobaczewski had to say about this deviation which I have extracted and emphasized below:
Schizoidia: Schizoidia, or schizoidal psychopathy
Literature provides us with descriptions of several varieties of this anomaly, whose existence can be attributed either to changes in the genetic factor or to differences in other individual characteristics of a non-pathological nature.
Let us thus sketch these sub-species’ common features.
Carriers of this anomaly are hypersensitive and distrustful, but they pay little attention to the feelings of others
They tend to assume extreme positions, and are eager to retaliate for minor offenses.
Sometimes they are eccentric and odd.
Their poor sense of psychological situation and reality leads them to superimpose erroneous, pejorative interpretations upon other people’s intentions.
They become involved in activities which are ostensibly moral, but which actually inflict damage upon themselves and others.
Their impoverished psychological worldview makes them typically pessimistic regarding human nature. We frequently find expressions of their characteristic attitudes in their statements and writings: “Human nature is so bad that order in human society can only be maintained by a strong power created by highly qualified individuals in the name of some higher idea.” Let us call this typical expression the “schizoid declaration”.
Schizoids embitter other people’s lives which then causes those other people to act negatively toward the schizoid thus "proving" their theory that human nature is really "bad".
When they become wrapped up in situations of serious stress, the schizoid’s failings cause them to collapse easily. The capacity for thought is thereupon characteristically stifled, and frequently the schizoids fall into reactive psychotic states so similar in appearance to schizophrenia that they lead to misdiagnoses.
The common factor in the varieties of this anomaly is a dulled pallor of emotions and a warped feeling for the psychological realities of emotion. That is, they can neither feel as others do, nor accurately read what others are feeling, and thus constantly mis-interpret. Lobaczewski wrote that this might be due to some inborn weakness of the instinctive substratum, which he noted appeared to be "working as though on sand." In this respect, Polyvagal Theory may provide the explanation for what is wrong with these individuals.
Low emotional pressure enables them to develop proper speculative reasoning, which is useful in non-humanistic spheres of activity.
Because of their one-sidedness, they tend to consider themselves intellectually superior to “ordinary” people.
"The quantitative frequency of this anomaly varies among races and nations: low among Blacks, the highest among Jews. Estimates of this frequency range from negligible up to 3 %. In Poland it may be estimated as 0.7 % of population. My observations suggest this anomaly is autosomally hereditary." (Lobaczewski)
A schizoid’s ponerological activity should be evaluated in two aspects. On the small scale, such people cause their families trouble, easily turn into tools of intrigue in the hands of clever individuals, and generally do a poor job of raising the younger generation. Their tendency to see human reality in the doctrinaire and simplistic manner they consider “proper”, transforms their frequently good intentions into bad results. However, their ponerogenic role can take on macro-social proportions if their attitude toward human reality and their tendency to invent great doctrines are put to paper and duplicated in large editions.
{Examples of schizoidal writings are the works of Karl Marx and certainly, the Bible, Freud, post-modern philosophy, sociology, etc.}
In spite of their typical deficits, or even an openly schizoidal declaration, their readers do not realize what the authors’ characters are like; they interpret such works in a manner corresponding to their own nature. The minds of normal people tend toward corrective interpretation thanks to the participation of their own richer, psychological world view. However, many readers critically reject such works with moral disgust but without being aware of the specific cause.[...]
During stable times which are ostensibly happy, albeit marked by injury to individuals and nations, doctrinaire people believe they have found a simple solution to fix such a world. Such a historical period is always characterized by an impoverished psychological world view, a schizoidally impoverished psychological world view thus does not stand out during such times and is accepted as legal tender. These doctrinaire individuals characteristically manifest a certain contempt with regard to moralists then preaching the need to rediscover lost human values and to develop a richer, more appropriate psychological world view.
Now here is where we come to something interesting in reviewing the activities of Barbara Camwell et al.
"Schizoid characters aim to impose their own conceptual world upon other people or social groups, using relatively controlled pathological egotism and the exceptional tenacity derived from their persistent nature. They are thus eventually able to overpower another individual’s personality, which causes the latter’s behavior to turn desperately illogical. They may also exert a similar influence upon the group of people they have joined. They are psychological loners who feel better in some human organization, wherein they become zealots for some ideology, religious bigots, materialists, or adherents of an ideology with satanic features."
If their activities consist of direct contact on a small social scale, their acquaintances easily perceive them to be eccentric, which limits their ponerogenic role. However, if they manage to hide their own personality behind the written word, their influence may poison the minds of society in a wide scale and for a long time.
(This last is referring to writings such as Marx and the Bible and Freud, etc. I don't think Camwell has many readers, but the principle is the same.)
In spite of the fact that the writings of schizoidal authors contain the above described deficiency, or even an openly formulated schizoidal declaration which constitutes sufficient warning to specialists, the average reader accepts them not as a view of reality warped by this anomaly, but rather as an idea to which he should assume an attitude based on his convictions and his reason. That is the first mistake.
The oversimplified pattern, devoid of psychological color and based on easily available data, exerts an intense influence upon individuals who are insufficiently critical, frequently frustrated as result of downward social adjustment, culturally neglected, or characterized by some psychological deficiencies.
(This last explains to us why so many wounded people have been taken in by EOPC. It is also an excellent description of how people are taken in by the Bible, Marx and Freud! We see the pattern right here in the posts on this thread by Camwell.)
Others are provoked to criticism based on their healthy common sense, also they fail to grasp this essential cause of the error.
Societal interpretation of such activities is broken down into the main trifurcations, engendering divisiveness and conflict. The first branch is the path of aversion, based on rejection of the contents of the work due to personal motivations, differing convictions, or moral revulsion. This already contains the component of a moralizing interpretation of pathological phenomena.
We can distinguish two distinctly different apperception types among those persons who accept the contents of such works: the critically-corrective and the pathological.
People whose feel for psychological reality is normal tend to incorporate chiefly the more valuable elements of the work. They trivialize the obvious errors and complement the schizoid deficiencies by means of their own richer world view. This gives rise to a more sensible, measured, and thus creative interpretation, but is not free from the influence of the error frequently adduced above.
Pathological acceptance is manifested by individuals with diversiform deviations, whether inherited or acquired, as well as by many people bearing personality malformations or who have been injured by social injustice. That explains why this scope is wider than the circle drawn by direct action of pathological factors.