This made me remember a kid I met once, at Japanese camp. He went by Yoda, shortened version of his Japanese name adopted at camp, Rioda.
Anyway, this boy had no conscience or real sense of morality. Its hard to describe. He was terribly funny and disturbingly charismatic. He fascinated me. He somehow very easily gained a posse, a clique of people who like him.
Yet he was, in many ways, repulsive. Rude, didn't care for most other people's wellbeing. Always talking some sort of crap, being insulting. But he was smart, witty, and charismatic.
And, he admitted his ability to manipulate people freely.
How do you explain that? I know I haven't accurately described him.. but I hope you get the idea?
You are the only person I know that would try to work SOLAR and psychology literature into the same avenue. I am glad your research has turned up so well, but I have a question. Would you consider constant bombardment of various propaganda machines through the system of mass media to have an effect on your research or does the experiment itself lie solely within the parameters that you have created, and you associate the responses with current psychological trends?
Curious Bob wants to know. And yes, our class together on Astronomy was one I most enjoyed a GA State.
The way we set up our experiments uses both an "experimental" and a "control" condition in order to control for any outside effects, making the only change in the two groups the actual manipulation we want to investigate
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I thank you for your response, and in fact, I think that the issue of awareness is a great matter that folks choose to manipulate in today's society. Whether its SOLAR or Paintball or any MMO guild or Young Republicans gathering, any social event causes ripples in the internal social pond. Now, thats not to say that the frogs on the lilypads don't feel them, but whether they are truly aware of that in themselves or rather what they behold is even more daunting. Its the awareness of an experiment or propaganda that I am concerned in.
*reunites the many generations of the Company of the Sword*
Mmmm. I need to think on this. I will continue this conversation in the morning. Cheers, bro.
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Anyway, this boy had no conscience or real sense of morality. Its hard to describe. He was terribly funny and disturbingly charismatic. He fascinated me. He somehow very easily gained a posse, a clique of people who like him.
Yet he was, in many ways, repulsive. Rude, didn't care for most other people's wellbeing. Always talking some sort of crap, being insulting. But he was smart, witty, and charismatic.
And, he admitted his ability to manipulate people freely.
How do you explain that? I know I haven't accurately described him.. but I hope you get the idea?
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Glad to hear things are going well, and the research sounds cool. :)
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Scary. We're getting old.
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Curious Bob wants to know. And yes, our class together on Astronomy was one I most enjoyed a GA State.
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*reunites the many generations of the Company of the Sword*
Mmmm. I need to think on this. I will continue this conversation in the morning. Cheers, bro.
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