#indoctrination?

[whathappensintherapy-official]

Indoctrination or Psychopathy?

How do you know if your problematic beliefs are cult indoctrination or just you being a naturally horrible person?

How do I know if I’m not just a psychopath?

What happens if a junior psychopath is raised in an RA/OA cult? Do they become me?

Dead rat under the cut don’t eat

I was a sadistic kid. I hated babies and thought it was funny when they cried. I daydreamed about being a deinonychus and eating the kids who made fun of me. I wasn’t a bully, I wasn’t mean to other kids for the hell of it, but I had a prey drive. I remember thinking babies were gross and stinky and stupid and ugly! I laughed my ass off at jokes about kicking babies off cliffs or shooting them out of a cannon and watching them go WAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaah ✨ into the stratosphere. I still think baby bbq and stabbing fetuses is hilarious as a concept. Maybe that’s why I’m not reacting as expected to the reading material…?

Then there’s the defensive disgust towards rape victims who allowed their rapists to leave the crime scene alive. My immediate response is how dare you disgrace women and degrade the human race by not removing rapists from the gene pool, how dare you refuse to die honorably by suicide if you are raped, how dare you fail to fight to the death. Which isn’t fair, but on some level I can’t *not* believe that. The only way I can make any other belief make sense is if I believe that women truly are weaker than men and helpless to male aggression, which is repugnant and I’m not going down the misogynist rabbit hole ever again. It feeds the perp introject and invalidates my own physical (nonsexual) abuse experiences.

I’ve tried to change my views and every time, alternate viewpoints just. Do. Not. Compute. and it confuses me.

—Ayesha

[ramshackledtrickster]

Finding something cool and thematically rich and wanting to see what other people think abt it and all I find is shipping

[ash-and-starlight]

The world needs more Yue and Zuko friendship, I squeal just thinking abt the parallels. They deserve a life changing field trip together and if u have abt ideas I’m all ears 👀

Hiii anon this ask fermented in my inbox and in my brain for so long,, so take this??? Post canon yue lives/no war au arts?? Anyway aside from the Parallels and their political position & their duty before hoes grindset I think they could learn a lot from each other. With zuko learning the gift of patience & diplomacy from yue & Yue learning that allowing yourself to feel anger and speaking up can actually be Good.

anyway hypothetical life changing trip outcome: zuko takes an intro gender studies class and yue says fuck

(oh and also must not forget the crush on sokka)

[moonlightmagical]

buddy dawn cannot raise himself from the grave.

buddy dawn is not a chosen one.

buddy dawn is a child.

buddy dawn was manipulated by organized religion through no fault of his own, most likely since he was born.

buddy dawn had his throat slit by people he probably considered good friends.

buddy dawn is kristen applebees in a different—worse—life.

buddy dawn is dead, and there’s a good fucking chance helio won’t answer his questions.

[plusanimablog]

Chapter 43: Stairway Capture

So Edo lost the kids, who left their collars behind.

Then a servant gets a letter for Crystal which she reacts to in shock...but eh, let's see Keane react to the return of his (misgendered him last chapter; he's a prince and that makes him a bit hypocritcal for bullying Husky for looking like that) brother Husky, or as he calls him, "Myrrha". He's overjoyed that he's alive but he rebuffs him, saying that he hated his guts when he was around. Keane reveals that he thought he killed himself because he was so mean to him which Husky reacts to in shock, saying he would never do that. Nana is shocked that the princes would fight each other which Husky replies to by explaining the princes are born rivals, fighting each other over their statuses. If the king likes a Queen, the prince gets an automatic higher status. If he favors a prince, the Queen is better off automatically. He then says as bad as it can get among princes, it gets way worse among the Queens (Nana has to stop him from saying "it's because they're girls" but you know he was thinking it). Th queens not only have their kids to think about but their homelands so it brings the worst out in them...so there it is. That's why Husky hates girls. They fight over frivolous things, do insidious actions such as hiding needles in cupcakes and badmouth other children...why do we even still have women?!

(Fight the real enemy.)

Keane then asks if the rest of the group are Husky's servants. He answers that they're his friends and Nana explains he came back to see his mother. When Keane asks Husky for confirmation, Husky responds in the affirmative and says that he's just here for that. When he leaves, they can go back to saying he's dead. Suddenly, Keane is on his side, saying he'll make sure he'll see his mother and tell her that he's alive.

The next day, some guy is looking for Keane because he needs to talk to him about something but Keane is leading the group through the garden, taking advantage of the fact that the morning is when everyone is in their rooms, getting tutored. He tells them to stay in the courtyard, he'll go get Lady Marein. Then they hearing a jingling noise. Husky says that's the noise that's made when a Queen is coming. It's Lady Dylana, Keane's mother. He rushes off to greet her as the group hides. When she asks if he's supposed to be studying, he shouts loud enough for the gods to hear that Prince Myrrha is alive. Then he points out the group.

While definitely a little shit, hold back on the stones, folks. Myrrha just wanted to ease his mother's consciousness that has been apparently stressed out since Myrrha's "death". Lady Dylana, however, doesn't believe that that kid is Myrrha and orders the guards to seize him, much to Keane's shock. Cooro tells Husky that they're going and flies off with him into the palace, the guards giving chase.

Nana's pissed too, wondering where the hell Kazana is because he was supposed to be the damn decoy. Cooro does some sick flight manuevers through the palace walls and Husky yells out to stop Senri from fighting the guards...only for the fighting to stop when none other than Lady Marein steps down to survey the noise. Looking at them, seeing her son, she says...seize them.

Outside, Crystal arrives on horseback outside the castle, ending the audience by requesting an audience with the king.

[heritageposts]

In November, Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, uploaded on its official X page a video of Israeli children singing a song celebrating their country’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The broadcaster deleted the video clip after a huge online backlash. Even after the video was silently erased from social media, however, the song remained a subject of discussion and controversy. Many across the world were shocked to see children sing happily about “eliminating” an entire people “within one year”. Yet a closer look at Israeli literature and curricula shows this open celebration of genocide was the only natural outcome of Israel’s persistent indoctrination – or brainwashing to be more blunt – of its children to ensure that they do not view Palestinians as human and fully embrace apartheid and occupation. There is myriad evidence of Israel’s brainwashing of its citizens to erase the humanity of Palestinians spanning many decades. Israeli scholar Adir Cohen, for example, analysed for his book titled “An Ugly Face in the Mirror – National Stereotypes in Hebrew Children’s Literature” some 1700 Hebrew-language children’s books published in Israel between 1967 and 1985, and found that a whopping 520 of them contained humiliating, negative descriptions of the Palestinians. He revealed that 66 percent of these 520 books refer to Arabs as violent; 52 percent as evil; 37 percent as liars; 31 percent as greedy; 28 percent as two-faced and 27 percent as traitors.

. . . continues at Al Jazeera (13 Des 2023)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 2: Indocktrination

(Part 1, Part 3)

[nemfrog]

As the great armies of the US and the USSR converge on Germanay, page 1 of a pamphlet educating American soldiers about their new comrades, soldiers of the Red Army.

Our Red Army Ally. April 23, 1945.

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[a2zillustration]

Would anyone ELSE like to admit they've been personally victimized by the god or goddess they follow?

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[just-null-cult]

im so mad at u omg

how dare u make my noritoshi obsession 10 times worse

Noritoshi spews his true feelings when you're upset with him. Similar to a very eager puppy trying to regain your favor by any means...... but realizes what he says and blames you for turning him into a fool. Another downside for him is that he won't take his words back in fear of you getting the wrong idea.

you're just a bully that he hopes will forget about the embarrassing words he blurted out.

hes simultaneously reeling and embarrassed. is this what happens when you make your love upset? does that imply he's your love?!

[lyss-butterscotch]

Hiiiii @ressioo if you keep using my system failure AU to hurt my babies then I'll use your AU to hurt your babies ^-^

[oldmrfroag]

I can’t believe kakashi is currently going through two simultaneous divorces with literal Shrek, and a zombie with full custody over their two kids- A Disney enthusiast who specializes in really bad arson attempts and Oscar the Grouch

[brighteuphony]

I love Chiyo- and I kind of headcanon her as a Witch of the Woods (Sands???) archetype- a bitter old woman who has sacrificed too much, experienced and committed more atrocities than anyone can imagine, and who knows the truth about what lies in the hearts of men to live among the villages anymore.

In my AU she's got a pretty dark backstory. Back in time when Villages were just getting established, women weren't allowed to be shinobi in the same capacity as men. There was too much warring and death among the clans to risk women, so they were only ever allowed to serve as spies or medics. (Chiyo started off as a medic).

And like any military/fascist dictatorship, serving the state was more important than anything else- so women who were kunoichi were given missions to steal and return with powerful bloodlines. Even before villages, this was a common fear among clans (which is why so many of them have protective measures and inbreed/arrange matches very carefully).

Chiyo was one such woman, who took a X-rated mission in her youth because she was told it would 'serve her nation'. There was a powerful bloodline whose Kekkei Genkai could harden sand to something akin to Steel- something Suna very desperately wanted.

Chiyo succeeded in her mission, but despite the veneer of 'serving your nation', when she returned, she was considered, in her words, "Just another whore."

Then when her son didn't manifest the bloodline- it was worse, but Chiyo was happy because that meant her son was HERS. (This is when she met Enji, and he saved her son's life at great cost- so Chiyo owes him a blood/life debt.)

Then the war came, and they needed women to fight so now serving the nation meant something different, and Chiyo became a full fledged 'shinobi' and turned her healing towards poison and death- especially when she had to fight the Salamander.

Then she sealed Gaara and that was the atrocity straw that broke the camel's back and she dipped out Suna and retired to an oasis. She's still a healer, but adamantly refuses to serve shinobi.

Once again, thank you so much for these asks and all the support for this AU?

@youngpeacearbiter

[liberalsarecool]

Crime is dropping. Post-Covid crime rates are dropping. Conservative paranoia is up.

Republicans/Trump/MAGA are running scared.

The people who feel unsafe are the ones who existentially fear change.

Republicans are cowards who cling to anti-immigration dog whistles and fear as they are told. FOX can convince them up is down.

[pipthehuman]

I love Star Trek. It has everything I love--gays, autistics, and primary colors.

[theonewhowails]

nari goes on field trips :]