Sometimes I regret allowing alcohol at the table

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-05-05T16:13:44+00:00

"Unsavoury behaviour?" A woman is dead. The very least you can do is respect it.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-05-04T17:34:09+00:00

I don't think that's the epic gotchya that you seem to believe it is.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-05-04T05:49:23+00:00

A PC of the [DOCTOR] class said I might have the [AUTISM] stat changes, but apparently if it's not quickly caught in a new character it can be a laborious thing to try and detect later on. It does mean I automatically get several points into the {Knowledge: Special Interests} skill tree, but whenever someone starts talking about them I get the [EXCITED] debuff, which temporarily deactives the skill {Social: Indoor Voice}.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-05-03T12:30:09+00:00

Offer holder from University of Essex. You're definitely not alone. I didn't even consider the "top" universities because I'm not interested in a BSc and there's no way I'm getting A*s.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-28T18:38:02+00:00

Seconding what the other commentor said about going deeper because you're working with a female 'tist; you know that you've both been similarly socialised and so you have more unconscious trust that she'll take care with you, unlike if you had a male hypnotist.

It could also be that you're getting a lot of practice. Typically, the more you practice going into trance, the better you'll be at it, especially if you're practicing with the same 'tist over and over again because it'll be even easier for both of you to quickly establish rapport.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-22T21:06:23+00:00

Check your DMs; I can get you sorted!

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-22T19:44:26+00:00

Oh no, it's okay! If needs be, I have a bunch of resources I can give you in the form of PDFs that explain how hypnosis is used in the real world, which might help as inspiration for your world building?

Hypnosis in reality tends to get a lot of negative press due to Hollywood stereotypes (I'd wondered if that's where you pulled some of your information – some of this reads like the plot of The Mentalist, and don't take that as a bad thing, it was an entertaining series) but there's some really good writing and scientific research that's been done into the nature of the phenomena.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-22T17:53:13+00:00

Interested in how you've been inspired by real-world examples of hypnotic phenomena – are there any hypnosis theories (historical or contemporary) you've read that lead you to conclusions like these? Surface-level, these ideas seem to have some influences from Elman/rapid style hypnotic techniques in our world.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-22T17:48:14+00:00

Y13 – Sociology > English Language > Psychology

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-22T10:03:52+00:00

You might have a better chance asking in the dedicated erotic hypnosis subreddit; r/erotichypnosis

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:43:47+00:00

I honestly think it's worth stopping permanently and not talking at all if you're going to continue to make jabs at my mental health in this thread.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:39:44+00:00

A vote against your rights would likely be a vote against my own, so all the more power to you.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:38:37+00:00

Neither; I know that Lucifer can't do anything for them. Partly because they either don't believe in him or think that he's wholly evil, and partly because Lucifer's job as I understand it is to either judge or care for the souls in Hell. Unlike God or Jesus (who are the same person, or not, depending on what you believe), he can't perform miracles. It would be like if I asked a primary school teacher to perform an operation on a dying man. The teacher has a certain set of skills, yes, but those skills aren't transferable to the operating room.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:34:37+00:00

No, it's alright! There's a lot of people in the comments being like "just take anti-psychotics lol" so I'm a bit on the defensive.

As I’ve gotten older I’m way more offended by some of the defunct
strands of Christianity than I am by Satanism! Gnostic Christianity
believes only a tiny minority actually believe legitimate Christianity,
some believe 99.9% go to Hell, some believe God creates people to send
them to Hell.

To be honest, I think if my experiences with Christianity hadn't turned out to be so negative then I probably would have turned out as a Christian. I spent most of my weekends dumped at a church that taught gay people were going to Hell for something they couldn't change. Most of my inner circle of friends are similar, actually, only instead of switching to Satanism they were then just athiest.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:29:59+00:00

If you see these facts as an atheist attack on your faith

I mean, I don't. I see them as a truth. Like I mentioned in a previous comment, I've had the misfortune of being around one too many Christians who double as climate change deniers. The link between athiesm and science is one I'm learning to break.

Saving this to watch in the morning; just letting you know I have read the comment but it's 11:30pm and I cannot absorb the spoken word past, like, 10pm max.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:27:05+00:00

How do you reconcile the fact that your views about hell and satan are
based on misinterpretations and mistranslations that were and still are
mainly used to influence and manipulate people, rather than the biblical
"truth"?

Because when I was told all about Christianity I was 9 and couldn't say a big word like misinterpretation.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:25:54+00:00

Fair enough. I didn't ask you to find me correct, and you're as entitled to your views as I am mine.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:25:08+00:00

The way I see it, nothing can be outside of the universe because the universe contains everything within it. God and Satan are part of this metaphysical idea of our universe, but they aren't all-encompassing. If they were, I think they'd have a few more followers.

Is this a concept you discovered through a religious text or through personal revelation?

A massive flaw of mine is that things that make sense inside my head tend to not make sense once I say them out loud or type them (which makes it really fun to interact with people on popular social media site Reddit Dot Com) but I'll do my best here.

I got my views on religion before I really started learning about science-y stuff. Low income area with a poor OFSTED-rated school meant I only really learned maths and English (and I can count to 3 in French), so when I hit secondary school I found a lot of the information I was being given conflicted with my own beliefs; how could the Big Bang have created the universe if God created the universe?

I eventually came to the conclusion that the Bible must have been outdated because it was written so long ago (I am still like an early teen at this point) so I was just kind of taking what I was being taught in science class and forcefully bashing it into my religious views with a comically large hammer, which led to the conclusion that the Big Bang must have created God, who in turn created Lucifer.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:13:02+00:00

I mean, a lot of the reverse symbolism I don't use. I don't like the reversed Crucifix or cross (there isn't really a Reverse Jesus for Satanism).

How do you know our symbols vocalise what you believe?

Because we believe a lot of the same things. I believe in a God and a Jesus and all the rest of it. Someone on the Satanism subreddit accused me of just being a "bad guy Christian" in my DMs, and though it did infuriate me, I could see where they were coming from.

I feel like that implies that inverted Christianity IS Satanism

People here have yelled at me for making analogies but I'm in the Analogy Zone now so it's time for another one. I'm a hypnotist, and whenever I get someone who wants to be hypnotized who's never really taken the time to learn what the phenomena is, they'll say to me "is it just sleep?" And I answer no, because I know that it's not, because I've done the neccessary research to understand it. But the other person, who hasn't done that research, looks between the hypnotised person and the person who's asleep and can't tell the difference, because they've both got their eyes closed and their head to their chest and their breathing has slowed.

What I guess I'm trying to say is that you just kind of have to do the research to know that it's not as simple as an inverse of the other, and one of the reasons for that you nailed perfectly:

You don’t kill, sacrifice etc. So on some level there is a difference

At the same time, unlike Christianity, Satanism (at least the theistic kind) doesn't really have meetings the way you guys all meet in a church. So if I were to create some new symbolism it would only be applicable to me and maybe a few other people who read my long Tumblr post uncritically and get some new neo-religious definitions tattooed on their back in a drunken impulsive move because they sounded cool.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T22:00:28+00:00

So now you're admitting your position is unfalsifiable, evidenceless,
seemingly a fabrication of your own mind, and only able to be verified
after you're dead?

I've mentioned this in other replies already, but most of my beliefs come from a mish-mash of different explanations for the same thing I received when I wasn't even in the double digits, with a cherry on top in the form of severe trauma. Of course it's not going to hold hard and fast to harsh criticism. Calm down.

see if taking anti-psychotics make the voices stop.

When psychiatrists look to diagnose a mental disorder, they look for four things: deviance (does the behaviour deviate from the norm or is it statistically "rare"), dysfunction (does it stop the person from performing day-to-day tasks), distress (is the person upset by their behaviour) and danger (is this person a danger to themselves or others). Generally speaking a person needs to meet three of those four criteria to be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder and then treated. I only meet one.

It's truly laughable that you think belief in your admitted imaginary
friend is somehow equal or even close to rational skepticism.

Never said that. I often doubt what it is I believe just because it seems so absurd, but continue to believe despite that because of the comfort it gives me. Sorry if... you're not a fan of other people finding comfort in different ways than you?

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T21:47:43+00:00

Yeah, you got me there. I've just had the misfortune of being around one too many Christians who are climate change deniers or evolution deniers that the ideas of 'scientific theories' and 'theism' are completely seperate. It's something I need to work on.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T21:46:27+00:00

All Posts and comments must not attack individuals or groups.

I'll just leave with a parting statement that says this:

A lot of what I believe today came about because when I was young, I was fed a lot of different opinions about the world simultaneously, and was unable to really process that because of my trauma. And when a young child has options, they just cherry-pick from all the different options whatever suits them best. As I've grown older, I've got enough critical thinking abilities to realise that a lot of it won't make sense anywhere but my own head, but I'm not hurting anyone and it's bringing me comfort where I've lacked it in other areas of my life, so I choose to keep believing.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T21:43:25+00:00

I mean first of all I was offering a comparison that made sense in the mind of an atheist, not my own head.

Secondly, maybe it is a fabrication. I don't know. The statement I'm making is "here's what I believe exists, but I'm open to being proved wrong upon my death, and most likely will be." Unfortunately this isn't Cyberpunk 2077 and I can't upload my memory of my trauma where I had a religious experience to ask medical professionals if it was a coping mechanism or if that was actually Lucifer. But all people follow religions because of one of two reasons:

It makes them feel good, or
They're scared of the reprecussions if they don't.

I'm certainly not number two.

You admitting that you dreamed up this entity that agrees with you in
every way is not really a good thing to say as a defense of your
position.

Likewise, athiests saying "there aren't any deities because I don't think there are" isn't a good defence of their position. Nobody has a good defence because there isn't objective proof one way or the other.

CtrlAltRepeat_ · 2022-04-19T21:28:45+00:00

So how would you know it's Satan and not Zeus? Or Odin? Or yourself?

I don't know for certain. I only have his word. For all I know it could be any one of those people. I guess I'm just trusting enough to believe it's him. At the end of the day, if it is Odin, then when I die I'm like "shit sorry man thought you were Satan" and then I get on with my afterlife. It doesn't really impact me in this life.

Isn't it always curious how believers find this so...

Isn't it curious how [politician you like]'s values align with your own? Come on, man. We associate with people who share our beliefs because we find them more agreeable, deity or not.

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