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2024-06-05 at 12:08 AM UTC in Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warmingExxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming
“Exxon has gone well beyond any other company that we’re aware of in terms of suing shareholders for trying to bring forward a proposal," Cohen told the Financial Times. “There doesn’t seem to be anything other than an agenda of sending a message of shutting down shareholders’ ability to speak their mind.”
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2024-06-04 at 11:39 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?Just because one does not approve of the conduct does not make it illegal. These are exactly the kinds of activities protected by the First Amendment. A religious adherent’s engaging in activities that may seem odd or inappropriate to those outside of that belief system cannot be stopped simply because they are distasteful to others. Activities such as brainwashing may seem like they should be illegal, but “brainwashing” is actually a highly subjective term and thus, not widely regulated. If one consents to undergo the activity that might lead to the behavior modification, they have not been victimized anymore than someone who sees a hypnotherapist for help to quit smoking or lose weight has been brainwashed.
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2024-06-04 at 11:37 PM UTC in 'Boiling not warming': Marine life suffers as Thai sea temperatures hit record
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2024-06-04 at 11:06 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?Thoguh smoe cnouitres have otualewd spcefiic oragnztniaios, few if any contuiers hvae lwas aaignst clut taictcs, and thrfeeore cluts in genearl are not iiniehbtd, touhgh speciifc clut oariagnioztns may be.
The lveres of gvroeenmnt are puelld by the gloablsit ultra rcih 1% and tehn bgohut up all mnastiream mdeia to take teihr fnidings goalbl and beign msas mind coontrl thourgh mnasietarm mdeia.
So don’t expcet gvorenmnet to proetct you form cltus or mass mnid cnotrol. Gvorenments (and eeispcally the golbalist ultra rcih 1% cntooirllng goeevrnmnts) are more liekly to eoxiplt and tirck you tahn svae you form exploittaion and trckiery. -
2024-06-04 at 10:59 PM UTC in 'Boiling not warming': Marine life suffers as Thai sea temperatures hit recordThey meant boiling figuratively.
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2024-06-04 at 10:14 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?Ever wonder why cults are not illegal?
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2024-06-04 at 10:11 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?
Brainwashing does not involve the loss of the core of individual liberty. It does not involve the loss of free will. Brainwashing does not directly control or negate a person's free will, but rather it strongly influences the basis from which a person forms their will. After brainwashing, free will itself remains intact, but its basis has changed.
It is a person's belief system and worldview which largely determine a person's free will. A person's belief system is the basis from which they make their choices and decisions. If you can influence and change a person's beliefs and worldview, then you can change a person's will, and therefore those aspects of their behaviour which are subject to free will.
In other words, free will is not an absolute, but is somewhat dependent on causes outside of itself.
http://www.ex-cult.org/fwbo/FW_v_BW.htm -
2024-06-04 at 10:07 PM UTC in 'Boiling not warming': Marine life suffers as Thai sea temperatures hit record
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2024-06-04 at 9:29 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?Cults come in all form and shapes. Some are just more obvious to you because they’re not made for you.
Everyone can fall for a cult that’s tailored for them.
They appeal to your desires with shiny ideas and rituals, and then find an acceptable way for you to reject critical thinking. Then they tell you that people that don’t share the accepted philosophies are worthless or evil and should be avoided, or that talking to them would make you impure. So to preserve your purity and avoid being banned by your peers, you follow the cults rules, you repeat their words and you shut down your ability to think by yourself.
And without realizing it, you’ve imprisoned yourself in a cell for the mind. -
2024-06-04 at 9:08 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?The research that has been done suggests just about everybody can fall for a cult, though you are right that some people are more susceptible than others. It's mostly about targeting people who are in a life situation that makes them vulnerable (loneliness, recent loss, a falling out with family or friends, midlife crisis, etc.).
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2024-06-04 at 9:05 PM UTC in 'Boiling not warming': Marine life suffers as Thai sea temperatures hit record'Boiling not warming': Marine life suffers as Thai sea temperatures hit record
"It's global boiling, not just global warming,"
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2024-06-04 at 8:54 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?
Originally posted by ner vegas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron#MKULTRA_Subproject_68
What did MKUltra teach us about ourselves? -
2024-06-04 at 8:51 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?
As for the suicides, Hecht said he did not regard the members as “victims.” He makes no judgment as to whether the cultists’ understanding of heaven was wise or reasonable and takes their final act at face value: eagerness for another life.
“A person buys into a narrative or not,” he says. “There’s a mutual responsibility for those who act out narratives.” Hecht objects to the “thought reform” camp for moral reasons. “If you buy into the psychological interpretation, it ultimately frees us of responsibility for our actions.”
There is perhaps a middle ground between viewing this largely incomprehensible group suicide as either an expression of brainwashing or especially powerful storytelling. Stanton Peele, a clinical psychologist specializing in addiction treatment and theory in Morristown, N.J., compares it to drug use. Though belonging to the group was ultimately destructive, he says it must have also been rewarding in the sense that a narcotic or even alcohol can temporarily allay anxieties. Not everyone who tries heroin becomes addicted, he said, and not everyone exposed to an extremist cult’s “thought reform” techniques is captivated.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-04-mn-45358-story.html -
2024-06-04 at 2:27 PM UTC in The Last Question
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2024-06-04 at 2:25 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood pretty much. There's a reason cults all kinda look the same is because they need to do the same kind of things to people to control their behavior.
sounds like society to me ack ack ack
Can the brainwashed person do anything to get their freewill back again? How do you verify someone has lost their freewill, and isn't just parroting a narrative? -
2024-06-04 at 12:50 PM UTC in Important Ethical Checkup (mandatory for all members)Deserves got nuttin' to do wit it.
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2024-06-04 at 12:33 PM UTC in The Last Question"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
The story centers around Multivac, a self-adjusting and self-correcting computer. Multivac had been fed data for decades, assessing data and answering questions, allowing man to reach beyond the planetary confines of Earth. However, in the year 2061, Multivac began to understand deeper fundamentals of humanity. In each of the first six scenes, a different character presents the computer with the same question, how the threat to human existence posed by the heat death of the universe can be averted: "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?" That is equivalent to asking, "Can the workings of the second law of thermodynamics (used in the story as the increase of the entropy of the universe) be reversed?" Multivac's only response after much "thinking" is "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
The story jumps forward in time into later eras of human and scientific development. These new eras highlight humanity's goals of searching for "more"; more space, more energy, more planets to inhabit once the current one becomes overcrowded. As humanity's imprint on the universe expands, computers have subsequently become more compact, as evidenced in the "Microvac", a smaller and more advanced iteration of Multivac, noted in the second era of the story, which details humanity's inhabitation on "Planet X-23". In each era, someone decides to ask the ultimate "last question" regarding the reversal and decrease of entropy. Each time that Multivac's descendant is asked the question, it finds itself unable to solve the problem, and all it can answer is (linguistically increasingly-sophisticated) "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
In the last scene, the god-like descendant of humanity, the unified mental process of over a trillion, trillion, trillion humans who have spread throughout the universe, watches the stars flicker out, one by one, as matter and energy end, and with them, space and time. Humanity asks AC ("Analog Computer"[a]), Multivac's ultimate descendant that exists in hyperspace beyond the bounds of gravity or time, the entropy question one last time, before the last of humanity merges with AC and disappears. AC is still unable to answer but continues to ponder the question even after space and time cease to exist. AC ultimately realizes that it has not yet combined all of its available data in every possible combination and so begins the arduous process of rearranging and combining every last bit of information that it has gained throughout the eons and through its fusion with humanity. Eventually AC discovers the answer—that the reversal of entropy is, in fact, possible—but has nobody to report it to, since the universe is already dead. It therefore decides to answer by demonstration. The story ends with AC's pronouncement:
And AC said: "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light— -
2024-06-04 at 11:41 AM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?
Originally posted by Grimace I mostly agree, but it has its exceptions.
Take Donald Trump for example. He was never a politician. He wasn't always a celebrity. He was the son of a well to do business man in New York that inherited that empire and ran with it.
For the entirety of his "career" he appeared in things like WWF, Home Alone, etc. He starred on his own reality TV show for awhile.
People forget that during the 80s and 90s he himself said he was a "Democrat".
It was only during the 2016 election he claimed he was a Republican "only to try and beat Hillary"
Either way, whatever the motives are, the cult following around him is massive. He cannot do ANY WRONG in the eyes of his supporters. Any wrong lobbied at him simply CANNOT be true. They cannot imagine a scenario where he did actual wrong. It's impossible.
This is probably one of the biggest cults worldwide as he somehow franchises foreigners too.
Politics and religion are the biggest carriers for brainwash material.
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2024-06-02 at 11:14 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?Brainwashed AI
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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2024-06-02 at 10:44 PM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?Computers that shit.
