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The Best Thing About Science Is That Hard, Empirical Answers Are Always There If You Look Hard Enough. The Best Thing About Religion Is That The Very Absence Of That Certainty Is What Requires - And Gives Rise To - Deep Feelings Of Faith.

Narcissism, Like The Other Personality Disorders, Is A Condition That's Known As Ego-syntonic. In Other Words, The Paranoid Person Really Does Believe That People Are After Him, And The Narcissist Really Does Believe That He Or She Is Better Than Or More Entitled Than Other People, And Truly Doesn't See Why That's Not The Case.

There Are A Lot Of Ways To Make People Not Like You, But One Of The Most Powerful - If Least Fair - Is To Be Really, Really Successful. Nobody Resents The Guy Who Just Lost His Job. But The Guy Whose Internet Start-up Made Him A Billionaire At 25? That's A Whole Different Kettle Of Envy.

The Death Of Anti-gay Hate Speech Is No Doubt Being Hastened By The Head-spinning Speed With Which Gays As A Group - To Say Nothing Of Gay Marriage - Are Becoming An Unremarkable And Even Quite Traditional Parts Of American Life.

Narcissism Is Actually A Clever Guise Adopted To Mask Its Exact Opposite, Which Is A Deep Well Of Self-loathing, A Well Of Low Self-esteem, Rather Than High Self-esteem. This Helps Explain Why Narcissists Are So Sensitive To Criticism, Why Narcissists Tend To Break Into Outrage If They're Criticized, Because Their Self-esteem Is Actually Much More Brittle Than It Seems, And Once They're Challenged, That Mask Falls Apart.