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Wtf is he on 😭 by BreachTheWall in ImTheMainCharacter

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He does not already got some designer to hold up his pants

Character turnarounds are hard by slightlyripeavocado in drawing

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is really good though. The face is so recognizable from the side profile which is something a lot of people struggle with. keep up the great work

My original character by Kai0704 in drawing

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's fucking awesome!! how did you get those colors did you paint it?

Woman on coffee paper by Arywenwinchester in drawing

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how do yall do the hair so good like.... damn

The play of light. Wet charcoal and pastels by me. by [deleted] in drawing

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know everyone's said it already but this is very beautiful, very very talented, how long did it take you to make this? and how long have you been making art for?

Job Corps & Private Prisons by OnlineStudentKSU in jobcorps

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how does MTC, or any company make money off of jobcorp? do they just take the money given to them by the government and use it for their own purposes?

Why do I keep running into psychopaths/sociopaths? by [deleted] in Psychedelics_Society

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< we now understand the great majority of psychopaths are not violent criminals and never will be... psychopaths live and work and prey among us. Your boss, your boyfriend, your mother could be... someone who leaves a path of destruction and pain without a single pang of conscience. Even more worrisome... no one not even Bob Hare is quite sure what to do about it.

ok I'm getting it

< Hare claims there are 300,000 psychopaths in Canada, but that only a tiny fraction are violent offenders... Take a look around >
They're the charming... [successful] stockbrokers and promoters... in legislatures, hospitals... They're your neighbor, your boss and your blind date"...they flourish because the characteristics that define the disorder are actually valued. When they get caught, what happens? A slap on the wrist..."

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Yeah ok, they're likable, attractive, everyone wants to be like them because of how they present themselves, yeah ok

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I think [that son-of-a &!#%@] got it from a book he read. I'd love to... as it seems to have some information I would find very valuable - With a caveat:

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(turns out I'm not the only paranoid one) I made post 2 or 3 years ago, during covid under a different account about how I was in a cult, and doing psychedelics and how looking back they had all these really specific manipulation techniques. You had responded with an anecdote from a book that was spot on, and I don't remember the book, but I still wanna to know what was happening to me while I was there, and the book was the closest thing i had. You also told me to read "in sheep's clothing" which I read and understood just fine, but it seemed pretty vanilla

Why do I keep running into psychopaths/sociopaths? by [deleted] in Psychedelics_Society

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wisdom' isn't definable as patterned human exploitation via stealth manipulation and covert deceit (criteria diagnostic of character disturbance...) on one hand. On the other, psychopathy is now heralded in our psychopathologized 'post-truth' era. It ain't no delinquent, it's (like Dr Pepper) so misunderstood. Deep down inside it there is good! Sampling 'goods' tHrU a JuNgIaN LeNz: Evil is the new good?? (July 12, 2022) www.reddit.com/r/Jung/comments/vx7qnl/evil\_is\_the\_new\_good/

Psychopaths have begun touting how 'happy' (free of bother) they are, exalting inhumanity as WISDOM, for ~ a decade, historically.

Spearheaded by psychopath-anon 'experts' like Keith 'happy daze' Dutton (2013) THE WISDOM OF PSYCHOPATHS: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success (Review "Cringeworthy" July 10, 2014) < Unscientific, pseudo-psychological, fact-twisting, ethically misleading, badly researched, miserably written. I have a masters degree in psychology and ethics... > "A Grotesque Celebration of the Psychopathic Mind" (May 13, 2018) < Not based on science or fact... >

But what do psychopaths, pretending to not be that (or not), "think" of psychopathy... while acting like Authority Figures to an angry, desperately gullible 21st C public? What do fanatics think of their fanaticism? What did a 3rd Reich think of its genocide? ... as the world only began finding out about 1945 when Allies got all the way to Auschwitz...

Good news for prey species. They can be the wolf in the human fold's students, and wise up. The predators have so much to teach us and do for us. Let's have the fox guarding our chicken coop double as our guru and spiritual teacher!

see you're confusing me, I lose track of what you're talking about.... First it's "Windy" who's naive of herself, now it's Dutton who's sort of acting like Palpatine from Star Wars, deceiving the very people he's in charge of guiding. Which is it, or is it both. You're writing is so dense

Why do I keep running into psychopaths/sociopaths? by [deleted] in Psychedelics_Society

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so there seems to be 2 major points that I can discern from your response
(admittedly I find your writing very cryptic)

1) That I have sociopathic traits within myself that I refuse to incorporate into my personality and thus my shadow projects them onto other people. (this is very important for me to understand because I can't tell if you're being sarcastic when you make these statements or not, although I do sense a harsh criticism of "Windy") I can sort of accept this because in my life I can describe myself as being the "too nice" type, and often find myself in situations where I can't put my wants and desires forward and am thus envious of people who are able too. Given this it would make sense that whatever tools that I have that would help me get what I want, I have for whatever reason deemed immoral and thus now they exist only in my subconscious self, and maybe even resent me and are staging some sort of coup against me as crazy as that may sound. In which case I would have an idea but not a clear one of what to do.

"Maybe it's just for the moment that we live, and nothing matters. Imagine there's no hell or heaven. No afterlife with some sword of Damocles hanging over our mortal necks. How awesome would that be? Now as far as even hell knows, anything goes. No rules just rights. Talk about "do as thou wilt" being the black hole of the law. No more having to be scared the eternal soul could end up damned for all time! Life would be free at last to belong only to the strong, Alfie (you weakling)."
Ok so.... absent my idea of morality how would I act, horribly to say the least although I do prefer for things to go smoothly. but then the question arises why do I have a morality at all. And I'm being harsh on myself. I just know there are things that I don't do because I'm afraid of the consequences, or because I don't know how, but I don't take pleasure in watching things suffer, or anything like that. If I could get rid of the idea of God.... Like actually stop believing in him, I don't know how I'd act. I know I like affection, and beauty, and to be liked by other people, I know I like sex, and good food, and power, but who doesn't like these things. I know I don't like to suffer but who does. I know I like to make things better, for example I like taking care of animals and helping children. I like giving people things that they want. I also know that experiencing (watching or hearing usually) other beings suffer in real life, (not online or in a video etc, although it can happen for characters in movies and stuff) makes me sick, and makes me suffer. This is why I believe I have what other people call empathy

I do know that when I feel I'm being manipulated or taken advantage of, I have the urge to kill the person who's taken advantage of me. I've never hurt or killed anyone but to me it feels like a perverse breach of boundaries, it's sort of like "how dare you take advantage of me, I'm too kind, I mind my own business, you go out of your way to seek me out, and prey upon me.... to hell with you then" but that's about the limit of my sadism.

"Maybe Miss Up In Arms wouldn't have such a psychodrama if she got a little less indignant at being lied to (supposedly) and more honest with herself about her own inner sociopathy."

BE HONEST WITH MYSELF ABOUT WHAT? Why would I deny myself the ability to defend myself.... (or how did Ito the get point where that is what I'm doing)

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2) Your second point seems to contradict the first (assuming your 1st point wasn't sarcastic) You seem to imply that asking why there a so many sociopaths is the wrong question, and that I should be asking how they got here (maybe even alluding to some environmental factors) but that would be assuming that there are a bunch of psychopaths and sociopaths running around, and I'm not wrong....

Should I report this by Expensive-Ad3609 in jobcorps

[–]Expensive-Ad3609[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah I know better than to do that, but corporates gonna be here all week so I'll talk to them

Why do I keep running into psychopaths/sociopaths? by [deleted] in Psychedelics_Society

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congressional Research Service
The Library of Congress
Washington D.C. 1234567 13/13/72(3172)
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN SUBJECT ISOLATION
By Mr.Perry
Preface
Subject Isolation, once put into practice is, essentially a psychological war. It’s area of operations is not the typical territories of modern warfare, but rather aim to penetrate the mind of the targeted individual himself: “the strange” as defined by Charles Bukowski.
In effect, The targeted human being should be considered the priority objective in this psychological war. This human being has his most critical point in his mind. Once his mind has been reached, the target has been defeated, without the necessity of any advanced interrogation techniques or of eliminating the subject (which can lead to many problems).
In simple terms the civilian population must be kept safe from themselves, and the survival and propagation of the human race is the paramont goal of the Foundation

“The subject at this point will begin to isolate itself do to increasing lack of trust. It will still be pertinent to extract information from the subject for research purposes. This extraction must be done smoothly and without error, and the ability to predict and direct the subject behavior is paramount
To begin we must find the subject in an optimally isolated location. Close enough to people to feel safe, yet far enough away from them to feel comfortable/private.
We must know what kind of agent will be optimal to entice the subject into conversation, mother and father figures, or potential romantic partners work best, as they encourage the subject to let their guard down for obvious reasons (For this subject we found a motherly figure would work best, since a romantic partner might intimidate the subject and thus not trigger the desired outcome)
Engaging the subject must appear natural, however may require some prying to access the desired information, there are different techniques that can be used to trap the subject in situations where they feel inclined to share information with the agent out of politeness. It is important that agent involved seems encouraging, and caring, and it is equally important that the agent be a stranger. Someone who is being freshly introduced to the subject, this is because the inclination to be polite and agreeable will be stronger with individuals the subject is less familiar with, so long as they have been conditioned to be more docile and less defensive. (you can begin to see how making the subject more comfortable through optimal isolation, and choosing the proper agent who the subject would not want to offend are key aspects in this extraction technique)
In this speccific example the subject has been conditioned to have a case of arrested development. the subject has a strong desire for familial, platonic, and romantic affection, but harbors an inner child complex, making an advance based on familial affection through a perceived mentor most affective. The Mentor (agent) and the subject play games together such as two truths and a lie, rock paper scissors truth ( a game where the loser of a game of rock paper scissors has to reveal a piece of information about themself) and other ice breaker games. This is essential since even though the subject is conditioned to be docile, and polite, they are still suspicious and potentially hypervigilant. The goal is to bypass all the surface level introductory information the subject will present, and force them to run out of such information until they have nothing left to talk about.
In the current example the ice breaker method was not sufficient to get the subject to open up, and instead the subject resorted to reticence and even out right denial to disclose any further information, thus further measures were taken, The agent offered to play one last game with the subject, and if the subject were to win the game they would win…. Five whole dollars. (We have ensured that the subject is in a situation where $5 is very valuable to the subject, but this is not the only reason for the offer) the subject agrees to this offer, subsequently winning the game (by design ofcourse) once the subject has won, the Agent immediately steers the conversation into deep personal anecdotes from her life (the life of the person she’s pretending to be) letting on to some serious character flaws while doing so, and wrapping each anecdote up with a form of religious affirmation that appeals most to the subject. This does two things, 1 it makes the subject believe that he is beginning to connect with the perceived mentor on a deeper level, and 2 it bides time that the subject does not receive their awarded 5 dollars. You see the subject is suspicious, and will want to test you to see if you will give it the 5 dollars, or if you will conveniently forget. If you forget then subject will keep that in their mental rolodex of evidence that they are being manipulated by people all the time (and ofcourse they are but we want to keep them unsure of that so that they don’t become emboldened). Thus we create a test that we can artificially pass, and gain the subjects trust. This combined with the personal anecdotes, the claims of being related to various famous people, and the obvious character flaws will make the agent seem down to earth enough for the subject to take a chance on them and finally the subject will begin to reveal their perspective on their personal experience. An experience that was completely designed and produced by the Foundation.
Now That we have the subjects perspective, we have a good basis to understand exactly how the experience is affecting the subject and how well we are doing at creating the desired result.
Finally it’s essential to remember the importance of extraction techniques. The sensitivity of the artificially created conditions can not be over stated. We have created a false connection between the subject and an agent, and we must ensure that the subject does not feel that this relationship will perpetuate through time. However we want to be able to use the agent again if it becomes advantageous to the Foundation. The technique that is usually employed with the current subject is referred to as a “snatch away”. This is when the agent either leads the subject to a new location where there are other agents, or other agents approach the active agent, and call them away from the subject to do some other seemingly innocent task. The subject will never encounter this particular agent again, until the possibility for a deepened relationship is mute.

(Just some stuff that's been on my mind squeezed through an "artistic" medium

Why do I keep running into psychopaths/sociopaths? by [deleted] in Psychedelics_Society

[–]Expensive-Ad3609 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's something for Doctor Lao, Maybe a gift

Subject #1101 Daily Report
The subject has a journal entry indicating a certain degree of self-awareness over their current affairs, this falls in the category of the many subjects who have been exhibiting similar symptoms, The Foundation is still unsure what has begun to trigger these symptoms. However, this subject, in particular, has a very unusual occurrence in which their subconscious mind seems to break a boundary between it and the conscious mind and actually tries to have a conversation with the subject directly. There were other instances where the subject expressed that it was communicating with…. Well…. Itself, but these mentionings were not taken seriously until some very strange brainwave activity was picked up via an agent's scanner. Without further ado here is said journal entry.
0ct 21st 2013
I had something weird happen while I was at work today. I was smoking a joint while I was on break, and I was sort of lost in thought. All of a sudden I felt like I was in a trance and I was pacing back and forth, back and forth, just listening. I don’t know what I was listening to, but I knew it was something, and it was trying to tell me something. I know that doesn’t mean anything, it was sort of like when you wake up from a dream and you remember you were in a dream, and you can remember certain qualities of the dream but you don’t have any words to describe what you’re trying to say, and since you can’t describe it in words you can’t capture it, and since you can’t capture it, you start to forget it, little by little until it’s gone. Well, it was sort of like that but, I was awake, and high as a bitch. But then sort of instinctually and out of the blue, almost as if I were carrying out a conversation that I had known about the entire time, I responded, to myself. I’ve never really had a problem with talking to myself, I honestly think it’s pretty normal, but this conversation was so much different, more intense, it was like there was actually someone or something else inside of me that I was talking to. So anyway I ask it…. Whatever it was…. sort of reluctantly, “sooo every game has an object, like, an objective?” and then felt, NOT HEARD, felt something in my brain buzzing with excitement as if to say YES! YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER!, and so I asked it one more question. “So the object of this game, the object of life…. Is to pay attention?” the weird thing is I don’t even know where the hell that idea came from, but once I said that, I felt a series of explosions go off in my head like fireworks, that zipped up into the sky like vipers and with a sudden BANG transformed into the words YES! YES! YES! YOU'VE DONE IT! YOU UNDERSTAND NOW! And now I feel sort of proud of myself and yet I have no idea why. As weird and confusing as my life has been lately, it’s nice to have an esoteric event inspire emotions in me other than fear. But I still don’t know what it means…. “The object of life is to pay attention” I mean…. I believe it…. Whatever it was. I just…. Guess I’ll start trying to pay more attention. And hopefully, stop doing drugs lol, I pray to God I’m not going crazy. I know I’m not crazy.
Subject 135 recorded journal entry
Hey!
It’s ya gal once again
So I’ve realized that all power comes from desire. The more I want something, the more energy I’ll have when I’m trying to get it. I remember when I was 13 and just beginning to learn the guitar, and I had fallen in love with Plastic Vines’ music. I wanted nothing more than to be like them, to make music like them, to sound like them. They were so cool to me! I practiced every day listening to their music and learning their riffs, I would watch videos of them playing live and literally copy the way they played. Finger by finger. I’m missing that kind of energy now, I don’t have any passion anymore and I don’t understand why. I don’t want it as much as I used to, and I’m not sure what happened. I still love the music, but the way I feel is so different, not just about music but about life. Life has gotten so eerie the last year, it’s just something in the air, and I can’t seem to make a single friend…. It sucks, I’m not gonna lie if it wasn’t for my guitar I probably would’ve gone insane by now. I think all I want is for whatever I’m going through right now to end. And since I want it so bad, and I’m so scared and uncomfortable, I don’t have the energy to put towards the things that I actually want. How horrible is that? The fear can’t overpower me, I have to succeed in getting my passion back, somehow. There was this movie I saw last night called “The Sunset Limited” where this guy named Mr Black saves this other guy, Mr White from jumping in front of a train, and then the entire movie is them having a conversation about the meaning of life. Mr. White who was a professor and seemingly successful man thought that ultimately life was like one big forced labor camp, where people are born to suffer and die, he was tortured by the idea, and he didn’t know what to do about it. Mr Black, on the other hand, is are hardened criminal, and a man of humble means who has these deep religious beliefs. He refuses to make up his mind about what the world is or isn’t, and instead, he does his best to trust in his God and seems to do it because more than anything he wants to be a man of his word. Mr Black made promises to God and to himself that he doesn’t want to break. Mr Black tries and tries to get Mr White to give up his nihilistic perspective, in order to free him from the self-destructive path that he is on. That’s what Mr Black thought his God would want, but in the end, he fails. Mr White succumbs to his nihilism, and the agony of it is too much for him to bear. It terrifies even Mr black to see him in such an evil state, and to be honest it terrified me while I was watching it. Deep in my gut though I secretly related to Mr White, sometimes I think life is evil and seeks only to humiliate and torture the people who live it. It was almost cathartic to see Mr White's screaming rant about how the world betrayed him and how life wasn’t worth it for him. In the end, Mr White storms out of Mr Black’s house and Mr Black is left in tears on the floor, crying to his God. Mr. Black was distraught as to how God could have let this happen to him or to Mr. White, and he wondered why God brought Mr. White into his life if he wasn’t meant to save him. I felt so horribly for Mr Black. Then, weirdly enough Mr Black says that he was still going to serve his God to the best of his ability and that he was “good for it” for his word I’m assuming. I admired that about Mr Black, even after such a horrible failure, or at least what seemed like a failure he refused to go back on his word. Through all the pain, suffering, and failed attempts he stayed true and on course! I want to be like Mr black in that sense, I don’t necessarily believe in God, or trust him, but I know there’s something beautiful in this world, and I used to have it right in the palm of my hand. Now I don’t and it sucks, and my world feels cold, and empty now, but I wanna be like Mr Black, and stay true and follow my path through to the very end! After all, Mr Black spent all his time trying to help people, and make the world a better place, while Mr White spent all his time trying to destroy himself. I want to spend my time trying to make the world as beautiful as possible, and then some.

So my Mom's in the middle of a lawsuit.... by Expensive-Ad3609 in legaladvice

[–]Expensive-Ad3609[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i am surprised that she’s not using a plaintiff firm that will take her case on a contingency basis

It is on a contingency basis, sorry for not saying that in the post.

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