"Puzzling People" by Thomas Sheridan - a puzzling person

[Laura]

0==={:::::::::::::::::> Thomas, my name is Betsy Ashby, and I'm your huckleberry. <:::::::::::::::::}===0​

Guardian, have you been watching "Tombstone" lately?

 

[Don Genaro]

0==={:::::::::::::::::> Thomas, my name is Betsy Ashby, and I'm your huckleberry. <:::::::::::::::::}===0​

Guardian, have you been watching "Tombstone" lately?

Guardian can't come to the PC now- she's "down by the creek, walkin' on water..." ;)

 

[Laura]

0==={:::::::::::::::::> Thomas, my name is Betsy Ashby, and I'm your huckleberry. <:::::::::::::::::}===0​

Guardian, have you been watching "Tombstone" lately?

Guardian can't come to the PC now- she's "down by the creek, walkin' on water..." ;)

 

[Guardian]

0==={:::::::::::::::::> Thomas, my name is Betsy Ashby, and I'm your huckleberry. <:::::::::::::::::}===0​

Guardian, have you been watching "Tombstone" lately?

He called down the Thunder, well now, he's got it

 

[ixion]

0==={:::::::::::::::::> Thomas, my name is Betsy Ashby, and I'm your huckleberry. <:::::::::::::::::}===0​

Guardian, have you been watching "Tombstone" lately?

He called down the Thunder, well now, he's got it

too true, he's been well and truly rumbled has sheridan. it's nice to see his (former)own forum members have figured him out, i thought he may have had a cult thing going on over there. they seem to be a pretty pleasant bunch on that forum from what i can see. i bet he really wishes he'd not opened his big mouth now :)

 

[Voyageur]

It's funny because I was actually about to do a promo for him and his book…

DOing Mr. Sheridan a service.

…so I did a routine check like I do with every author I choose to promote…

Due diligence

…started finding the seriously pathological posts

The crux of matters.

Laura did NOT "sic" me on him as he claims…

Guardian’s freewill would not allow this. Laura would never ask this in the first place.

So this was going on awhile, people were justifiable criticizing some of his work, and then he decided to make Laura the focal point of his anger and blame her for everything. That REALLY ticked me off!

Truth.

I DO NOT like to see anyone else, including Laura, get blamed for my work.

Accountability.

Laura Knight Jadczyk did NOT attack Thomas Sheridan, she just defended herself after he went postal.

He has failed the test and has shown his true colours – he mentions his creativity – “my main purpose/Dharma in this life.” Well, seems “Dharma” in this case is “you shall know them by their fruits”.

Dharma - “that which upholds, supports or maintains the regulatory order of the universe…ideas such as duty, vocation, religion and everything that is considered correct, proper or decent behaviour.”

Being a good spellbinder http://cassiopedia.org/glossary/Spellbinder, osit, he seems to have rallied a few recruits amongst his apologists. Some objective observers from his world online seem to have seen through his façade, and everything he is doing now is strictly damage control. He can’t even come out and admit to his “other side”; he pretends it is comedy.

PS. Keep walking on water Guardian; your doing great. :D

 

[Guardian]

PS. Keep walking on water Guardian; your doing great. :D

It only looks like I'm walking on water 'cause I'm wading through a muddy puddle ;D

 

[shellycheval]

Thank you Voyageur for such a succinct and helpful illustration of doing The Work in one's "ordinary" daily life, in your analysis of Guardian's expose of Sheridan.

And thank you again Guardian for doing such Work. The contributions of all forum members doing similar is what keeps this a safe and sane network support system.
shellycheval

 

[Guardian]

Back to the topic at hand, June Sheridan just removed/concealed all the comments on her "CelticMoon Craft" website.

This is getting so sad. She had posted numerous comments regarding how much SHE enjoys making the items SHE sells (I do have screen shots) and people were commenting on how much they liked HER artwork ....some of it the same artwork Thomas has been taking credit for, for years.

Gawd what a mess. I don't want to hurt this woman!

June, you don't need to sanitize your site, that's kinda like closing the barn door after the cow gets out. I've already got screenshots of everything, including your old geocities site "June's Celtic Art"

 

[Gimpy]

Back to the topic at hand, June Sheridan just removed/concealed all the comments on her "CelticMoon Craft" website.

This is getting so sad. She had posted numerous comments regarding how much SHE enjoys making the items SHE sells (I do have screen shots) and people were commenting on how much they liked HER artwork ....some of it the same artwork Thomas has been taking credit for, for years.

Gawd what a mess. I don't want to hurt this woman!

June, you don't need to sanitize your site, that's kinda like closing the barn door after the cow gets out. I've already got screenshots of everything, including your old geocities site "June's Celtic Art"

How does exposing Thomas for what he is translate into hurting June?

Don't beat yourself up over things you can't control.

 

[Laura]

How does exposing Thomas for what he is translate into hurting June?

Don't beat yourself up over things you can't control.

True. You'd think that she would be embarrassed to be married to such a nutjob. However, Sandra L. Brown's book, "Women Who Love Psychopaths" pretty much explain why this isn't the case. Also, Robert Hare describes the whole process of people who defend psychopaths even in the face of the hard evidence that they are pathological.

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

Psychopaths make their way by conning people into doing things for them; obtaining money for them, prestige, power, or even standing up for them when others try to expose them. But that is their claim to fame. That's what they do. And they do it very well. What's more, the job is very easy because most people are gullible with an unshakable belief in the inherent goodness of man.

Manipulation is the key to the psychopath's conquests. Initially, the psychopath will feign false emotions to create empathy, and many of them study the tricks that can be employed by the empathy technique. Psychopaths are often able to incite pity from people because they seem like "lost souls" as Guggenbuhl-Craig writes. So the pity factor is one reason why victims often fall for these "poor" people.

Psychologist Robert Hare cites a famous case where a psychopath was "Man of the Year" and president of the Chamber of Commerce in his small town. (Remember that John Wayne Gacy was running for Jaycee President at the very time of his first murder conviction!) The man in question had claimed to have a Ph.D. from Berkeley. He ran for a position on the school board which he then planned to parlay into a position on the county commission which paid more.

At some point, a local reporter suddenly had the idea to check up on the guy - to see if his credentials were real. What the reporter found out was that the only thing that was true about this up and coming politician's "faked bio" was the place and date of birth. Everything else was fictitious. Not only was the man a complete impostor, he had a long history of antisocial behavior, fraud, impersonation, and imprisonment. His only contact with a university was a series of extension courses by mail that he took while in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. What is even more amazing is the fact that before he was a con-man, he was a "con-boy." For two decades he had dodged his way across America one step ahead of those he had hoodwinked. Along the way he had married three women and had four children, and he didn't even know what had happened to them. And now, he was on a roll! But darn that pesky reporter!

When he was exposed, he was completely unconcerned. "These trusting people will stand behind me. A good liar is a good judge of people," he said. Amazingly, he was right. Far from being outraged at the fact that they had all been completely deceived and lied to from top to bottom, the local community he had conned so completely to accrue benefits and honors to himself that he had not earned, rushed to his support!

I kid you not! And it wasn't just "token support." The local Republican party chairman wrote about him: "I assess his genuineness, integrity, and devotion to duty to rank right alongside of President Abraham Lincoln." As Hare dryly notes, this dimwit was easily swayed by words, and was blind to deeds.

We've witnessed this phenomenon first-hand a number of times. It really is amazing. There are psychopaths and they are on the prowl for their groupies who generally turn out to be wounded authoritarian follower types looking for a new guru.

Modern cognitive psychology has provided much new data that help us to understand that, just as Georges Gurdjieff said repeatedly: man is a machine. Once you rely on an authority, which you never question, in one area of your life, you will tend to be an authoritarian in other areas as well. Once you abandon rationalism in one domain, it is all too easy to be irrational in another one. The default setting of the human brain is to seek causes for effects; this was evolutionarily adaptive because the creature that can read the signs of the environment correctly, and anticipate future events that might be fatal, survives. If you add that evolutionary tendency to self-awareness, interesting things happen. Human beings are able to remember past mistakes and, with this ability to recognize patterns, anticipate how things could go wrong in the future; they can also conceive of their own death in the future. Being wired to figure out a solution, a defensive response, and also to conserve energy, religious belief becomes the path of least resistance. (Disbelief, on the other hand, requires effort.) Studies have shown that trauma – generally associated with fight, flight, or freeze responses – can activate this circuit in a powerful way and that is where things get sticky. You see, religion can be easily inculcated in an individual or group by an individual (or more than one) who desire to establish and maintain control. The less control an individual feels that they have over their lives, the more likely they are to follow a leader who promises certainty of resolution and safety. This is the Authoritarian Personality.

authoritarian personalities n. Authoritarian has two main meanings. First, it means believing in submitting to authority. Second, it means being dictatorial or tyrannical. So people who strongly believe in submitting to authority could be called authoritarians. And so could tyrants who insist that everyone obey them – which is the sort of thing you usually get from tyrants. […]

This personality trait consists of authoritarian submission, a high degree of submission to the established authorities in one’s society; authoritarian aggression, aggression directed against various persons in the name of those authorities; and conventionalism, a strong adherence to the social conventions endorsed by those authorities. Why do psychologists call authoritarian followers “right-wing” authoritarians? Are they all members of a conservative political party? No. Right-wing is used here in a psychological sense, meaning wanting to please established authority. One of the original meanings of the adjective right (riht in Old English) was “lawful, proper, correct,” which in those long ago days meant doing what your local lord and the king wanted.[…]

In North America, where this research has mainly been done, persons who get high RWA scale scores quite readily submit to the established authorities in their lives and trust them far more than most people do. […]

High RWAs also are relatively willing to let authorities run roughshod over civil liberties and constitutional guarantees of personal freedom. They seem to think that authorities are above the law. They also hold authorities relatively blameless when the latter unjustly attack someone.[…]

right-wing authoritarians show a chilling inclination, compared to most people, to help the government persecute any group it targets. Also, if asked to play the role of judge, they will sentence convicted defendants to longer prison terms than most people will – unless the defendant is an authority or has attacked someone the authoritarian follower would like to see attacked. High RWAs favor capital punishment. As well, they deliver stronger electric shocks in “punishment” learning experiments. In general they believe that a good thrashing “works.” But they also admit they get personal pleasure from punishing others and seeing wrongdoers get “what’s coming to them.” Finally, right-wing authoritarians tend to be highly prejudiced against most racial groups, feminists, homosexuals, people with different language backgrounds, and those with different religious views. Speaking of religion, the authoritarian follower’s family religion produces a lot of his/her conventionalism. High RWAs tend to be fundamentalists in whatever religion they belong to, and fundamentalist churches are not shy about insisting everyone follow their beliefs about what is right, wrong, and normal. Those who walk other paths are often considered immoral and repugnant. Right-wing authoritarians also absorb the beliefs and teachings of the nonreligious authorities in their lives. […]

Authoritarian followers thus appear to be, indeed, submissive, aggressive, and conventional. Further research with the RWA scale has uncovered a lot more about them, such as that they have weak reasoning skills and are gullible when people tell them what they want to hear; they fall back on dogmatism and social support when challenged, since they have little else to back up their beliefs; they are profoundly ethnocentric, identifying with their narrow in-groups, to which they give strong loyalty and in which they expect great cohesiveness; they are zealous in their causes and given to proselytizing; and they tend to be political and economic conservatives. “Deeper down,” they use a lot of double standards in their judgments and often behave hypocritically; they are fearful and self-righteous, defensive, and unaware of themselves. Deep, deep down inside they seem to harbor secret doubts about the things they say they believe in most. So the picture of authoritarian followers after all these years of research is far from flattering – unless you are a potential dictator. If you are, these narrow-minded, closed-minded, easily fooled, zealous bigots looking for a man on horseback are exactly the kind of people you’re looking for.

Who are the potential dictators? Most of all, they seem to be power-hungry individuals who live their lives according to the law of the jungle. They believe either you dominate others or you will be dominated instead. Thus they score high on the Social Dominance Orientation scale, which is the main way of identifying them. High dominators purposely make others afraid of them, believe in vengeance and using power however they must to get their way, and will try to crush whoever opposes them. They also tend to be believe that right and wrong do not matter at all, that people are objects to be manipulated, and that deceit and treachery are justified if they get you to the top… . They too are highly prejudiced and favor conservative political parties and economic philosophies. But most social dominators are not really religious, and their amorality would turn off most high RWAs. However, a nonreligious but skilled social dominator has little difficulty persuading authoritarian followers that he/she shares their beliefs, and some social dominators are in fact religious and seem to have an especially good chance of heading an authoritarian movement. Experiments have found that when social dominators become leaders of groups of right-wing authoritarians, this “lethal union” produces aggression and exploitation in laboratory settings – just as it does in the real world. (Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology (2009) Edited by: David Matsumoto, San Francisco State University, ISBN:9780521671002)

Authoritarian leaders and followers appear to constitute about half of humanity – divided roughly into 5% and 95% respectively - and more and more researchers are coming to the conclusion that such tendencies are genetic. This is discussed in books such as “THE AUTHORITARIANS” by Bob Altemeyer , “WITHOUT CONSCIENCE” by Robert Hare and “POLITICAL PONEROLOGY” by Andrew Lobaczewski.

 

[Guardian]

How does exposing Thomas for what he is translate into hurting June?

Don't beat yourself up over things you can't control.

This is one of those situations where my emotions don't match the logic of a situation. I really hate it when that happens.

 

[Guardian]

Am I missing something or those two versions don't match? And if they actually don't, who's lying?

No I don't think you're missing anything, there's a whole lot of lying still going on. The Admin at psychopathfree.com are playing games. Supposedly everyone is "free to voice their opinions" but I was banned for what I wrote Thomas in private, and later posted here. I never posted a single negative word to their forum, but when I first questioned Sheridan PRIVATELY regarding what I was finding, he refused to respond and I was "banned for life" from psychopathfree.com.

I just checked and I'm still banned, and they are still claiming this was a "smear campaign" I'm not allowed to explain how and why I found out the TRUTH about Thomas Sheridan, at least not on their forum. Of course this is their choice, and I have plenty of other places to post what I've found, but their censorship proves they're still covering up for him at the very least. They don't want the truth, nor the person who found it, on their forum.

In my opinion, "psychopathfree" isn't, nor is it a safe place for the victims of psychopaths. In fact, considering the way the current Admin's are suppressing and/or changing the actual truth of what has occurred, I strongly suspect Thomas is still there using another one of his many identities.

 

[Guardian]

This was just posted on the PsychopathFree forum

_http://psychopathfree.com/showthread.php?1416-Thomas-is-leaving/page16

The situation here has nothing to do with the smear campaign launched by LKJ and her cult members, whom we also researched extensively. And we agree that she displays the 5 Absolute Traits and has a history and reputation for these kinds of attacks on other people. As Iris, another Administrator said so well, "the real issues with TS are not just mere speculative hype from smear campaigns or internet musings, the crux of the issue with him stem from real experiences with him.

I think I'm going to start looking into these other Admins. They seem to have a vested interest in libeling Laura and this group, and they're just flat out lying at this point. I want to know why. It's really ticking me off, and they're only doing it because they THINK they can stay anonymous. Not a one of them has the nerve to use their real names while they're posting lies about Laura and I.

Boy are they in for a surprise when they find out the net is not as anonymous as they think it is.

 

[Niall]

Go for it Guardian. TS wasn't working alone so I'm interested in seeing which other sharks he was swimming with.