"Puzzling People" by Thomas Sheridan - a puzzling person

[Bernhard]

I suggest that if you haven't blocked him or he hasn't blocked you to go to his Facebook page and repost the Sott.net article on one of his status updates to let his Facebook friends know about him. This will also keep him busy constantly monitoring his Facebook page and blocking people.

I really don't think anybody is interested in stirring a cesspool. As you say, all his sycophants are bottom-of-the-barrel type individuals, so I don't think anyone cares what any of them think, do or say, most of all Sheridan. SOTT did its duty warning the public, it's up to the individual to take the warning to heart or not.

Aside from simply creating an archive of his pathology in this thread, which will be updated from time to time, we've moved on. Been there, done that, studied enough pathological types to know the drill. Sheridan isn't even a very interesting specimen.

I agree. We all did our best to spread the issue with Sheridan and it's up to others now. I've had enough discussions about him on Facebook. Some people simply don't want to "see" or "hear" the truth and defend him in the most irrational ways, which only shows their ponerized state of mind. On the positive side, some mutual friends who were first defending him became more reasonable after reflecting more on his behavior, also thanks to SOTT's article about Sheridan.

It still would be great to see how much Sheridan stole from other people's work and sold it as his own, if that's possible with the program mentioned before by Laura. Also what Guardian keeps uncovering may reveal that it is indeed a deeper can of worms than what we've seen so far.

As for Sheridan himself, it's like a dog with rabies who feels cornered. He'll bark and bite, foaming out of his mouth until he destroys himself completely. He has not enough conscience, humility or enough awareness to truly do some self-reflecting on his behavior and any "mirror" given to him will just aggravate him even more. On top of it he surrounds himself with people who feed him on that. Anyone else is being deleted and blocked. His wall posts and those who support him is just big feeding frenzy. Truly entropic.

 

[Guardian]

His Facebook page is all about him and if you give credit to anybody else he deletes the comments you've made. Any slight disagreement with him or argument with another Facebook friend and he immediately unfriends and blocks you. He has attracted a lot of trolls, sychophants and psychopaths to his Facebook page and enjoys making controversial status updates and sitting back and watching any arguments that follow. His psychopath free forum is a joke.

Welcome Chirpy, glad you could join us. I can't speak for anyone else, but what I'm looking for at this point are any actual victims of Sheridan's who'd like to talk about what happened, ex girlfriends, wives, moderators, etc.. They may have been concerned about coming forward while he was "popular" and believed to be an expert on pathology, but as you can see, that is rapidly changing.

Experience has taught me that any man who treats people as he does in cyberspace, has abused people (usually women and/or children) in "real life" as well. Not to say that our actions on-line are not part of real life, but I think you know what I mean? Wherever there is a verbally abusive, alcohol swilling, S & M porn aficionado, there will be victims (usually female) and I'd like to talk to them...if they feel doing so would be conducive to their healing process.

 

[Chirpy]

Guardian, I don't know how he has treated women in the past. Maybe he's sexually frustrated and couldn't get women so turns to porn and fantasy or maybe he has treated women like that and anybody who was compliant with his perversions he now blames and labels them as psychopaths. Someone else suggested that he was just a lonely old man who turns to his fb hoes for company. Apparently his status update at one time said he was 'married' and he did mention a 'wife' when I met him. Time will tell when things come out of the woodwork and people who knew him back in the 80's and 90's tell us the truth. At the end of the day he's been messing with people's minds on the internet and disguising his sick comments as jokes.

 

[Chirpy]

I agree. We all did our best to spread the issue with Sheridan and it's up to others now. I've had enough discussions about him on Facebook. Some people simply don't want to "see" or "hear" the truth and defend him in the most irrational ways, which only shows their ponerized state of mind. On the positive side, some mutual friends who were first defending him became more reasonable after reflecting more on his behavior, also thanks to SOTT's article about Sheridan.

It still would be great to see how much Sheridan stole from other people's work and sold it as his own, if that's possible with the program mentioned before by Laura. Also what Guardian keeps uncovering may reveal that it is indeed a deeper can of worms than what we've seen so far.

As for Sheridan himself, it's like a dog with rabies who feels cornered. He'll bark and bite, foaming out of his mouth until he destroys himself completely. He has not enough conscience, humility or enough awareness to truly do some self-reflecting on his behavior and any "mirror" given to him will just aggravate him even more. On top of it he surrounds himself with people who feed him on that. Anyone else is being deleted and blocked. His wall posts and those who support him is just big feeding frenzy. Truly entropic.

Though I wasn't defending him at first I could see both sides of the story and began to realise that he was up to no good. Much of his behaviour was egged on by some of his Facebook friends and he did make some dubious ones to back him up. He enjoys making controversial statements to start arguments and watch people fall out over them. Some even suggest that it was Laura plagiarising from him

It's not so much who's plagiarising from whom but the fact he's developed a massive ego from unexpected success. There was no need to have done this. Also he hasn't coped with any 'attacks' on him with good grace unlike others in the same field. When somebody develops a massive ego their subsequent work becomes dismal at best and ugly and mind bending at worst.

 

[Laura]

Some even suggest that it was Laura plagiarising from him

That question is easily answered by dates of publication in print and on the internet. So it's a no-brainer. He was here, on this forum, gleaning stuff long before he "wrote" his book.

 

[Joe]

Some even suggest that it was Laura plagiarising from him

That question is easily answered by dates of publication in print and on the internet. So it's a no-brainer. He was here, on this forum, gleaning stuff long before he "wrote" his book.

Eh, yeah, we've been publishing articles on psychopathy since 2002, loooong before Sheridan was even on the scene.

 

[Chirpy]

That's what I thought but when I mentioned it on Facebook it caused a furore. But it's is massive ego that bothers me more.

 

[oneperson]

I'm new here too...ended up here from Sheridan's forum when I saw the now-deleted post about attacks on him from a UFO cult.

[I've been reading other material here as well (in addition to Sheridan scene). I may at some point post in the newbies section. I'm quite a skeptic of what I'm reading, but still intrigued. (What led me to read more about Laura's (& Ark's) work is French's mini-bio about her. Of course I looked up French too. :) ) ]

Re Sheridan...with only knowing what I've read and seen here, and what I've read and seen of Sheridan....I sigh and think "not again." What I've observed parallels closely to other 2D and 3D psychopathic-type (or at least anti-social and manipulative) tactics that I've had over the years.

I chose to not read Sheridan's books because of the paranoia and polerization and a bit or arrogance I picked up in some of his other material; but I still wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, and I still liked some of his online articles. Now, from how I've seen this recent scenario handled and from the bit of information that has come forth...well....it reminds me too much of what happened to me in the past couple years with a possible psychopath when his mask came off. And the cover-up and erasure hush (thus far) screams too loudly.

I'll be interested to see the plagiarism review.

On another note, from what I've read on your discussion forum and in the archives so far, ya'll seem like a great bunch of folks. I like the openness.

 

[Laura]

I'm still parsing the returns from the plagiarism software after having glitches with the first couple of products. So far, what I'm seeing is a whole list of websites where he has gotten his ideas (and some of those ideas are very specific and detailed), but when he writes them, he MOSTLY puts them in his own words. There are a few strings of up to four words, but that's not plagiarism. I'm only a quarter of the way through the whole document and it will take some time. Nearly every segment gives a return.

 

[Laura]

I'm going to take a break from this for a bit because I'm going blind, but here's what I'm thinking: some of the ideas that Sheridan has strung together come from our work here on the forum, on the cass site, from Lobaczewski's book, but a LOT appears to come from posts on a forum called "aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org"

Another is: masksofsanity.blogspot.com

www.divorcesource.com

bethelministries.com (http://bethelministries.com/psychopaths.htm)

www.bullyonline.org

www.lovefraud.com

http://sparkster.hubpages.com/hub/The-Covert-Narcissist

http://abusesanctuary.blogspot.fr/


And more.

Gotta have lunch.

 

[Laura]

Okay, continuing on parsing the returns (it's a javascript thing on a web program):

The problem with some of the following matches is that they are LATER than Sheridan's book so could be quoting him. But the ones that are earlier are interesting since the cass pages keep coming up again and again.

http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/cleckley-mos.htm

http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath_2.htm

http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath_macrosocial_evil.htm

http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/smith.html

http://www.thehiddenevil.com/psychopathy.asp

http://ngureco.hubpages.com/hub/Falling-In-Love-with-A-Sociopathic-Lady-and-How-To-Get-Out-Of-Sociopathic-Love

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopath-means

http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/blog/2012/07/24/how-will-the-99-deal-with-70-million-psychopaths/

 

[nicklebleu]

And is he quoting any of his sourced at all? I could imagine that he is a sloppy researcher and doesn't footnote his references - but at the least some general acknowledgement from where he has his information, as would be customary?

Not trying to defend him, but it is a pity that someone who apparently grasped the concept of psychopathy and has written a book that apparently is read by a significant number of people has been vectored/ taken over by same. Or - as someone has suggested, he is a psychopath himself playing the "double reverse game".

To me this is a good example of what the C's mean by "networking" - I know that my own ego would be very vulnerable to such negative influences if I suddenly were thrust into this situation - and the only way to stay on the straight and narrow would be mirroring from a network of reliable and experienced people.

PS: Haven't read/ bought his book and obviously won't do now - don't want to drive his sales up.

BTW, is Political Ponerology going to be available for Kindle any time soon?

 

[Approaching Infinity]

BTW, is Political Ponerology going to be available for Kindle any time soon?

It's in the works as RPP's next kindle release.

 

[ixion]

I find political ponerology a very tough read. i have read some, i just noticed is has a foreword by Laura knight-jadzyck too. I'm not surprised they tried to block it's publication considering the information it contains.

 

[Lauranimal]

Recent post on Psychopathfree sight. Sorry, I don't know how to take a screen shot, so it's just cut and paste in quotes:

08-22-2012, 02:35 AM #1
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If anyone would like to have a one on one skype chat with me I would be delighted to help you out with any questions you may have or advice.

My address on skype is thomaspsheridan and feel free to add me and say hello.

We are also in the process of creating a new guidebook for the site and it will be based on what advice any of you on here can offer to others.

You can also instead email me.

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08-22-2012, 03:38 AM #2
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Also, I am a poor, little known artist and writer in the scheme of things - so if anyone wants to pay for an MRI scan of my frontal cortex - then my cranium is waiting as soon as the machine is fired up.

all it'll show is it be lit up with empathy, emotions, kindness, love, laughs, creativity and dreams, many many vivid dreams. Then we can make prints of the scan for people to hang it on their walls.

I am never going to issue an apology for being a well rounded (I will watch my eating soon) human being - smutty stand-up comedy routines in my past, dsylexia, warts an all. Sorry, never going to happen.

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9tn2EhGK5ok

/this short video is a comedy schtik on how stupid it is to be offended

Anyone I have may have hurt, offended or disrespected personally - I will give an apology personally - if they are willing to accept an apology. Just bring it to my attention. Thanks for all the support and you guys getting to know that I am really am just a regular working class Irish fella from the streets - trying to make sense of a difficult world - through art, writing, comedy and being myself. I am perfectly fine with not being a perfect person.

I am very serious about the MRI scan - would be a great subject for a documentary. It is something I am very interesting in getting done anyways on myself just for my own research into the subject. I would be VERY keen.

Last edited by ThomasSheridan; 08-22-2012 at 07:23 AM.

"new sig pending - please stand by."

Ummm... this part here.... "Anyone I have may have hurt, offended or disrespected personally - I will give an apology personally - if they are willing to accept an apology. Just bring it to my attention." Really? after the short video he posted right above it?