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The Third Wave OK, I am finally taking that Third Wave link out of my profile, but first I wanted to start a thread on it. First, you should read Third Wave
That story is really scary, and is true besides. So, the floor is open. Think about someone you know of "average" intelligence. Then think that half the world is dumber than that.
Ok, here is a full-size versoin of my avatar, a piece of 3d art called Metamorphosis, by Kazuhiko Nakamura Metamorphosis
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Quite believable.
True story. An excellent teacher, now retired. By coincidence (maybe), a fencing coach. Got students to take a test on a centuries old European country, which had never existed. Whoopee! My avatar is back.
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Interesting...but it's really just an exercise in human nature. Sad to say, it is the way we are wired. Whatever doesn't kill you, is gonna leave a scar...
Looking for a certain Striptease......
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wow. I cant believe how accurate that is.
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quite creepy.
even worse, it got me reading sylvia plath....
http://www.sylviaplath.de/plath/daddy.html
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i hate to point this out but, as being a person who knows more than average about history, the smarter students were always at an advantage, they had reservations about it and feared losing their idividuality, and by excluding them from the group he simply made an example of how when you are so interested in someting, if someone goes missing you either dont notice or dont care.
just goes as far to show that no matter how much we want to say we love freedom, we will always put ourselves under someone elses rule.
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Has anyone else seen that study that was done by some pychology department about prison behavior in the 1970's? It was actually even more frightening, because the students in roles of "quards" did actually end up showing violence towards the "prisoners". Th guy running the experiment got so drawn into his role that he only called the thing off when one of his female collegues pointed out he was torturing those kids. A lot of the students who volunteered for the study were emotionally affected for years, perhaps life....
Human nature is truly bizarre. Mais que diable allait-il faire,
Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?. . .
I am not yet so short that I cannot reach thine eyes!
"Just for the taste of sabre"
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This is powerful ****. Someone could make an amazingly powerful fencing club with these principles. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
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It's interesting reading as a political polemic, but without attribution I am skeptical that it ever happened.
It's easy to tell a story and say, "It really happened." That's what Urban Legends are made of.
What I find more interesting than the Third Wave is how everyone so far seems to accept without question that 1) it really happened and 2) it actually and accurately demonstrates "typical" human nature.
I think that says more about you than it does about human nature in general. Nothing is more frightening than ignorance in action.
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