You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yeah, well I scrape the outermost layer of skin off myself with a knife every half hour to avoid unwanted micro-organisms
Which reminds me, it's time to buy another case of Band-Aids
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yeah, well I killed myself and became a ghost so I wouldn't have to have a physical body to keep clean. v_v
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Oh, yeah? Well I transformed into a pig so I can get so dirty that the dirt-o-meter rolls over to 0 and I become clean again!
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Oh yeah? Well I put a bathtub next to my shower so I can bathe right after I shower, then get back in the shower and repeat
First off let me say you look so tired Rest your head and shut your eyes Empty ambition blankets the sky I'm thinking 'bout another world
Tonight, you're right, you're right, you're right
So drop the gown the game's over Just push your face into the fight And it breaks my heart
Like dancing up all night
Ride so high, we both start thinking 'Bout another world tonight And it feels so wrong
Like nothing we've ever felt before
You're right, you're right, you're right
The stranger's candy takes you where you ought to be In broken alleys, in the back of every street
Close your eyes tonight
Baby you can have it Baby you can have it Ooh baby, gnaw me down to the bone Soon you'll find I'm never gonna take you back home Well, there's so much you never told me And there's not much I wanna know 'Cause your pretty face will do just fine
You'll be the star of
my every last show
Let's go for a long ride I'll show you places you won't ever wanna leave
The stranger's candy takes you where you ought to be In broken alleys, in the back of every street Stranger's candy, broken alleys, yeah tonight
We could bring it all down
We could bring it all down They think this body's a dead note Dancing to the beat but they'll never see this corpsecoming 'til it kills them
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I am the cleanest!
Now to celebrate by eating all these melty chocolate bars with my bare hands!
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
we need more chocolate
i say we use our superpowers to stage a raid on Hershey, Pennsylvania
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Peanut butter is the best thing since divided highways
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Centie and the Peanut Butter Factory
Win a Golden Ticket and meet eccentric peanut butter maker Stanley Skippy!
During the Korean War, an officer of the United States Marine Corps, Colonel Frank H. Schwable, was taken prisoner by the Chinese Communists. After months of intense psychological pressure and physical degradation, he signed a well documented "confession" that the United States was carrying on bacteriological warfare against the enemy. The confession named names, cited missions, described meetings and strategy conferences. This was a tremendously valuable propaganda tool for the totalitarians. They cabled the news all over the world: "The United States of America is fighting the peace loving people of China by dropping bombs loaded with disease spreading bacteria, in violation of international law."
After his repatriation, Colonel Schwable issued a sworn statement repudiating his confession, and describing his long months of imprisonment. Later, he was brought before a military court of inquiry. He testified in his own defense before that court: "I was never convinced in my own mind that we in the First Marine Air Wing had used bug warfare. I knew we hadn't, but the rest of it was real to me the conferences, the planes, and how they would go about their missions."
"The words were mine," the Colonel continued, "but the thoughts were theirs. That is the hardest thing I have to explain: how a man can sit down and write something he knows is false, and yet, to sense it, to feel it, to make it seem real."
This is the way Dr. Charles W. Mayo, a leading American physician and government representative, explained brainwashig in an official statement before the United Nations: "...the tortures used...although they include many brutal physical injuries, are not like the medieval torture of the rack and the thumb screw. They are subtler, more prolonged, and intended to be more terrible in their effect. They are calculated to disintegrate the mind of an intelligent victim, to distort his sense of values, to a point where he will not simply cry out 'I did it!' but will become a seemingly willing accomplice to the complete disintegration of his integrity and the production of an elaborate fiction."
The Schwable case is but one example of a defenseless prisoner being compelled to tell a big lie. If we are to survive as free men, we must face up to this problem of politically inspired mental coercion, with all its ramifications.
It is more than twenty years [in 1956] since psychologists first began to suspect that the human mind can easily fall prey to dictatorial powers. In 1933, the German Reichstag building was burned to the ground. The Nazis arrested a Dutchman, Marinus Van der Lubbe, and accused him of the crime. Van der Lubbe was known by Dutch psychiatrists to be mentally unstable. He had been a patient in a mental institution in Holland. And his weakness and lack of mental balance became apparent to the world when he appeared before the court. Wherever news of the trial reached, men wondered: "Can that foolish little fellow be a heroic revolutionary, a man who is willing to sacrifice his life to an ideal?"
During the court sessions Van der Lubbe was evasive, dull, and apathetic. Yet the reports of the Dutch psychiatrists described him as a gay, alert, unstable character, a man whose moods changed rapidly, who liked to vagabond around, and who had all kinds of fantasies about changing the world.
On the forty second day of the trial, Van der Lubbe's behavior changed dramatically. His apathy disappeared. It became apparent that he had been quite aware of everything that had gone on during the previous sessions. He criticized the slow course of the procedure. He demanded punishment either by imprisonment or death. He spoke about his "inner voices." He insisted that he had his moods in check. Then he fell back into apathy. We now recognize these symptoms as a combination of behavior forms which we can call a confession syndrome. In 1933 this type of behavior was unknown to psychiatrists. Unfortunately, it is very familiar today and is frequently met in cases of extreme mental coercion.
Van der Lubbe was subsequently convicted and executed. When the trial was over, the world began to realize that he had merely been a scapegoat. The Nazis themselves had burned down the Reichstag building and had staged the crime and the trial so that they could take over Germany. Still later we realized that Van der Lubbe was the victim of a diabolically clever misuse of medical knowledge and psychologic technique, through which he had been transformed into a useful, passive, meek automaton, who replied merely yes or no to his interrogators during most of the court sessions. In a few moments he threatened to jump out of his enforced role. Even at that time there were rumors that the man had been drugged into submission, though we never became sure of that.
[NOTE: The psychiatric report about the case of Van der Lubbe is published by Bonhoeffer and Zutt. Though they were unfamiliar with the "menticide syndrome," and not briefed by their political fuehrers, they give a good description about the pathologic, apathetic behavior, and his tremendous change of moods. They deny the use of drugs.]
Between 1936 and 1938 the world became more conscious of the very real danger of systematized mental coercion in the field of politics. This was the period of the well remembered Moscow purge trials. It was almost impossible to believe that dedicated old Bolsheviks, who had given their lives to a revolutionary movement, had suddenly turned into dastardly traitors. When, one after another, everyone of the accused confessed and beat his breast, the general reaction was that this was a great show of deception, intended only as a propaganda move for the non Communist world. Then it became apparent that a much worse tragedy was being enacted. The men on trial had once been human beings. Now they were being systematically changed into puppets. Their puppeteers called the tune, manipulated their actions. When, from time to time, news came through showing how hard, rigid revolutionaries could be changed into meek, self accusing sheep, all over the world the last remnants of the belief in the free community presumably being built in Soviet Russia began to crumble.
In recent years, the spectacle of confession to uncommitted crimes has become more and more common. The list ranges from Communist through non Communist to anti Communist, and includes men of such different types as the Czech Bolshevik Rudolf Slansky and the Hungarian cardinal, Joseph Mindszenty.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Comments
CA: Well, did you just use soap or bleach?
CA: Yeah, well I have my house sterilized everyday and clean it so no dirtiness taints me.
Damn, I've been topped.
Rest your head and shut your eyes
Empty ambition blankets the sky
I'm thinking 'bout another world
Tonight,
you're right,
you're right,
you're right
So drop the gown the game's over
Just push your face into the fight
And it breaks my heart
Like dancing up all night
Ride so high, we both start thinking
'Bout another world tonight
And it feels so wrong
Like nothing we've ever felt before
You're right, you're right, you're right
The stranger's candy takes you where you ought to be
In broken alleys, in the back of every street
Close your eyes tonight
Baby you can have it
Baby you can have it
Ooh baby, gnaw me down to the bone
Soon you'll find I'm never gonna take you back home
Well, there's so much you never told me
And there's not much I wanna know
'Cause your pretty face will do just fine
Let's go for a long ride
I'll show you places you won't ever wanna leave
The stranger's candy takes you where you ought to be
In broken alleys, in the back of every street
Stranger's candy, broken alleys, yeah tonight
We could bring it all down
We could bring it all down
They think this body's a dead note
Dancing to the beat but they'll never see this corpse coming 'til it kills them
Now to celebrate by eating all these melty chocolate bars with my bare hands!
#napkinsareforlosers
*passes JZ a melty chocolate bar out of sympathy*
i say we use our superpowers to stage a raid on Hershey, Pennsylvania
FM: Peanut butter is good too
During the Korean War, an officer of the United States Marine Corps,
Colonel Frank H. Schwable, was taken prisoner by the Chinese Communists.
After months of intense psychological pressure and physical
degradation, he signed a well documented "confession" that the United
States was carrying on bacteriological warfare against the enemy. The
confession named names, cited missions, described meetings and strategy
conferences. This was a tremendously valuable propaganda tool for the
totalitarians. They cabled the news all over the world: "The United
States of America is fighting the peace loving people of China by
dropping bombs loaded with disease spreading bacteria, in violation of
international law."
After his repatriation, Colonel Schwable issued a sworn statement
repudiating his confession, and describing his long months of
imprisonment. Later, he was brought before a military court of inquiry.
He testified in his own defense before that court: "I was never
convinced in my own mind that we in the First Marine Air Wing had used
bug warfare. I knew we hadn't, but the rest of it was real to me the
conferences, the planes, and how they would go about their missions."
"The words were mine," the Colonel continued, "but the thoughts
were theirs. That is the hardest thing I have to explain: how a man can
sit down and write something he knows is false, and yet, to sense it, to
feel it, to make it seem real."
This is the way Dr. Charles W. Mayo, a leading American physician
and government representative, explained brainwashig in an official
statement before the United Nations: "...the tortures used...although
they include many brutal physical injuries, are not like the medieval
torture of the rack and the thumb screw. They are subtler, more
prolonged, and intended to be more terrible in their effect. They are
calculated to disintegrate the mind of an intelligent victim, to distort
his sense of values, to a point where he will not simply cry out 'I did
it!' but will become a seemingly willing accomplice to the complete
disintegration of his integrity and the production of an elaborate
fiction."
The Schwable case is but one example of a defenseless prisoner
being compelled to tell a big lie. If we are to survive as free men, we
must face up to this problem of politically inspired mental coercion,
with all its ramifications.
It is more than twenty years [in 1956] since psychologists first
began to suspect that the human mind can easily fall prey to dictatorial
powers. In 1933, the German Reichstag building was burned to the
ground. The Nazis arrested a Dutchman, Marinus Van der Lubbe, and
accused him of the crime. Van der Lubbe was known by Dutch psychiatrists
to be mentally unstable. He had been a patient in a mental institution
in Holland. And his weakness and lack of mental balance became apparent
to the world when he appeared before the court. Wherever news of the
trial reached, men wondered: "Can that foolish little fellow be a heroic
revolutionary, a man who is willing to sacrifice his life to an ideal?"
During the court sessions Van der Lubbe was evasive, dull, and
apathetic. Yet the reports of the Dutch psychiatrists described him as a
gay, alert, unstable character, a man whose moods changed rapidly, who
liked to vagabond around, and who had all kinds of fantasies about
changing the world.
On the forty second day of the trial, Van der Lubbe's behavior
changed dramatically. His apathy disappeared. It became apparent that he
had been quite aware of everything that had gone on during the previous
sessions. He criticized the slow course of the procedure. He demanded
punishment either by imprisonment or death. He spoke about his "inner
voices." He insisted that he had his moods in check. Then he fell back
into apathy. We now recognize these symptoms as a combination of
behavior forms which we can call a confession syndrome. In 1933 this
type of behavior was unknown to psychiatrists. Unfortunately, it is very
familiar today and is frequently met in cases of extreme mental
coercion.
Van der Lubbe was subsequently convicted and executed. When the
trial was over, the world began to realize that he had merely been a
scapegoat. The Nazis themselves had burned down the Reichstag building
and had staged the crime and the trial so that they could take over
Germany. Still later we realized that Van der Lubbe was the victim of a
diabolically clever misuse of medical knowledge and psychologic
technique, through which he had been transformed into a useful, passive,
meek automaton, who replied merely yes or no to his interrogators
during most of the court sessions. In a few moments he threatened to
jump out of his enforced role. Even at that time there were rumors that
the man had been drugged into submission, though we never became sure of
that.
[NOTE: The psychiatric report
about the case of Van der Lubbe is published by Bonhoeffer and Zutt.
Though they were unfamiliar with the "menticide syndrome," and not
briefed by their political fuehrers, they give a good description about
the pathologic, apathetic behavior, and his tremendous change of moods.
They deny the use of drugs.]
Between 1936 and 1938 the world became more conscious of the very
real danger of systematized mental coercion in the field of politics.
This was the period of the well remembered Moscow purge trials. It was
almost impossible to believe that dedicated old Bolsheviks, who had
given their lives to a revolutionary movement, had suddenly turned into
dastardly traitors. When, one after another, everyone of the accused
confessed and beat his breast, the general reaction was that this was a
great show of deception, intended only as a propaganda move for the non
Communist world. Then it became apparent that a much worse tragedy was
being enacted. The men on trial had once been human beings. Now they
were being systematically changed into puppets. Their puppeteers called
the tune, manipulated their actions. When, from time to time, news came
through showing how hard, rigid revolutionaries could be changed into
meek, self accusing sheep, all over the world the last remnants of the
belief in the free community presumably being built in Soviet Russia
began to crumble.
In recent years, the spectacle of confession to uncommitted
crimes has become more and more common. The list ranges from Communist
through non Communist to anti Communist, and includes men of such
different types as the Czech Bolshevik Rudolf Slansky and the Hungarian
cardinal, Joseph Mindszenty.
bottoms
Someone get pastSpacey back in here