Was he a closet atheist?
Was he a closet atheist?
what's wrong with the other sopranos threads?
He is a secondary psychopath conditioned into it by his Borderline personality/ true psychopath mother. Her BPD both made him emotionally distant to shield himself from her abuse and he has no internal frame of reference for what should feel bad due to cluster b mothering. Offending her random whims have been as bad as murder since he was a toddler. Thats why he gets random panic attacks despite anti social behavior whic would normally preclude anxiety.
But in general he is a psychopath and doesn’t think long term enough to truly care or fear if there is a god and will have Whst ever belief is convenient
Yes. He was deeply cynical and nihilistic. Didn't even care about shit like gay people because it didn't effect him. Livia instilled this level of nihilism in him.
Both Tony's mother and father were total psychopaths so maybe he inherited it. Maybe he was just born this way
He is a secondary psychopath
Too close to home
Psychopaths literally don’t have the ability to have panic attacks their brains don’t have the structure for it. He is a normal guy conditioned into seeing evil as a job by psychopath parents much like military men can be.
It’s why he is compelling and can manage the actual impulsive psychopath nut jobs in his employ
He claims to be religious but dismisses anything supernatural, so probably yes, or at least he is agnostic
Offending her random whims have been as bad as murder since he was a toddler.
big if true
everyone is secretly an atheist. deep down no lone believes that nonsense, and we all know religion is just crowd control
Charles Melfi over here
And anons realize why they are bad people
thanks mom!
Isn't shown that the supernatural is real in the Sopranos universe?
tfw you are in stunlock for 2k+ years
people still confuse sociopathy with psychopathy
They aren't though, most people aren't that cynical. You are wired different if you see beliefs and values as simple artifacts of behavioral control People truly believe the dumb shit the post on facebook
>people still confuse sociopathy with psychopathy
There is only a distinction in pop culture and the unscientific criminal justice fields. Both are placed under the general umbrella of ASPD in the DSMV5 by actual medical science. They are just variants of the same cluster B personality disorder.
There he goes, Mr. type A personality!
Watch it, Chrissy.
Being catholic was only really part of his identity in the same way he was Italian, just something he used to define the in- and outgroup to help justify being evil.
yeah there are ghosts and the Mother Mary shows up in a way that seems to imply it's not just in someone's head
I told you I had the flu.
Source?
Your sisters ass
Oohhh!
dismisses anything supernatural
You didn't even watch the show.
But he wasn't a homosexual.
Well he tends to do that from my memory, like how he dismisses Paulie's experience with the virgin Mary
You're thinking of spiritual things which he occasionally recognized
Livia was a literal textbook (vunerable presenting) NPD case, and Milfi was wrong in her diagnosis
If anything that's the opposite, everyone is superstitious to some degree and even most atheists are just SCIENCEheads believers who hold menial jobs and don't work in any scientific fields themselves.
He's a devout catholic
It’s obvious she misdiagnosed him. Therapy has no effect on true ASPD or any cluster b and they don’t have anxiety or fear.
Tony is having a PTSD response from being raised by nut jobs and inducted into the mob. He is psychologically more like a combat vet/childhood abuse victim that makes others live his trauma to feel powerful and in control. The most you can say is he has narcissistic tendencies
How tf did a therapist like Melfi not know this? Just bad writing?
Hollywood writers exemplify the concept of midwits. They are just bright enough to engage with material they don’t understand and make a fool of it.
Having met a good amount of people of a lot of different backgrounds, probably not. Normies live awfully contradictory lives and don't bat an eye. I know a bitch who claims to be bisexual and is all into faggotry and abortion "but I'd never do it", yet is involved in her church and prays and has a Mexican peasant tier faith. At first I thought she was just a LARPing hag, but she truly believes and is too normie brained to understand that her actions and statements don't coincide with what she claims is her foundational worldview.
how did italians reconcile their strict catholic heritage with their sinful mob activities?
Their mob activities originated from the Latin clans and was passed down in families as a vestige of the Roman patronage system. It predate Christianity
A lot of whores will go to heaven before the righteous
Yes. David Chase is one of the biggest hacks in television
psychopath
Is that a thing still?
I've heard here and there over the years that it's not a scientific term by current standards. And that it served as a stub for an actual diagnosis.
But then again psychiatry isn't scientific so who the fuck knows at this point.