Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare

[58andfixed]

"Simone" introduced the topic on Jeff Rense Show January 19th, and neither were familiar with a URL for this item.

http://www.rense.com/

I dug this URL up on the Internet, and it is a must read for seekers, and particularly those of any Organized Religion persuasion.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/2008/RM365.pdf

Maybe even download the PDF file before it disappears.

1,607 KBytes, 47 page PDF file, scanned images of photocopies -- apparently.

Since this is currently coming off of the RAND .org web-site, can anyone allow much room for doubt as to the validity of the contents ?

This document succinctly & poignantly makes my point on the validity of weak thinking [aka "List of Cognitive Biases"] and how our 'mere belief' systems can be used to manipulate us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Just in case some dare think I am alone with this perspective, I think Bernhard Guenther did a marvelous version of it on YT, and called it ""Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition."

Different words, different reference points, similar point - aka "We Are The Problem."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAgb1-UKQ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAgb1-UKQ8

1h 17m 27,416 views

Posted October 27, 2011

- 58

[panopticon]

G'day 58andfixed,

Thank you for the excellent thread!
I'm a few pages into the pdf and am finding it extremely interesting.
The appendix on "chain mail" is almost bizarre... Seems the Germans in WWII had the same problems as we do!
The more things change the more they stay the same.

Will have a look at the doco when time permits.

Kind Regards, :yo:
Panopticon

[Curt]

"Simone" introduced the topic on Jeff Rense Show January 19th, and neither were familiar with a URL for this item.

http://www.rense.com/

I dug this URL up on the Internet, and it is a must read for seekers, and particularly those of any Organized Religion persuasion.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/2008/RM365.pdf

Maybe even download the PDF file before it disappears.

1,607 KBytes, 47 page PDF file, scanned images of photocopies -- apparently.

Since this is currently coming off of the RAND .org web-site, can anyone allow much room for doubt as to the validity of the contents ?

This document succinctly & poignantly makes my point on the validity of weak thinking [aka "List of Cognitive Biases"] and how our 'mere belief' systems can be used to manipulate us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Just in case some dare think I am alone with this perspective, I think Bernhard Guenther did a marvelous version of it on YT, and called it ""Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition."

Different words, different reference points, similar point - aka "We Are The Problem."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAgb1-UKQ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAgb1-UKQ8

1h 17m 27,416 views

Posted October 27, 2011

- 58

This video is a reminder that many of us suffer from Red-Pill-Itis.

Here's the scientific definition: Red-Pill-Itis: a condition that occurs up to a year or two after taking the red pill and realising just how upside down one's worldview had been.

Two of the lasting symptoms are: an inability to trust one's own critical faculties; and an unconscious desire to cheat the process of fully awakening by finding another source of phony bliss.

In severe cases, the condition can lead to the following impairments: significant loss of critical ability over time; and a well-intentioned, though near exclusive reliance on 'what resonates' or 'feels right' unchecked by critical thought.

Secondary complications are: being hoodwinked, bamboozled, tricked and in some cases treated to fantastical theories, some of which may very well be true.

But it looks like someone's working on an antidote...

:boink:

[modwiz]

This video is a reminder that many of us suffer from Red-Pill-Itis.

Here's the scientific definition: Red-Pill-Itis: a condition that occurs up to a year or two after taking the red pill and realising just how upside down one's worldview had been.

Hey!! I resemble that remark and I didn't take any pills. Maybe a black cat walked by me while I was sleeping on Friday the 13th under a ladder.