Thought Patterns

This is a pragmatic hypothesis I came up with, I have no idea if it's valid or not. Just like in programming, we create algorithms in our minds and sort them in different classes and subclasses. Here's an example:

* Class "Self-Awareness"

o "I am fundamentally wrong"

+ "I should fix myself to be good"

# "I should do good things to prove my worthiness"
# "I should pray to God to forgive my flaws"
# "I need others' approval to feel worthy"

+ "I should be ashamed of myself"

# "I should hide my feelings"
# "I shouldn't make mistakes"

* Class "People"

o "People are evil"

+ "People should be kept under control"

# "God should be the superior moral judge"
# "Slavery is good"

+ "People are no better than animals"

# "Animals should have the same rights as humans"

Each subclass inherits the beliefs of the former class. So if you want to individually change or amend a subclass, like "Slavery is good", the new values still have to comply with the beliefs "People should be kept under control" and "People are evil". You cannot overwrite parent values with their subclasses. So if we want the belief changed to "Slavery is bad", we'd have to work at a deeper level and change "People are evil". But drastically changing low-level classes in your belief system would probably mean that most of their subclasses will be destroyed. Humans have an automatic drive to consistency, and the unconscious mind won't allow the beliefs to be changed, unless they are outdated and overruled by repetition. I think that's what positive affirmations are about. You repeat them so many times that your unconscious mind is now ready to make a new pattern and replace the old one with it. If the old pattern, however, is still in use, then the new pattern won't be allowed to overwrite it because of internal contradiction. It would be like trying to join the same poles of two magnets together. That's why the old pattern should not be referred to. This way, the evidence for the new pattern will prevail and the class can be redefined. Overall, if you want to change someone's belief system, you have to isolate them from their current surroundings. That's what cults do and it works perfectly well. It's kinda like brainwashing - in order to change the core beliefs of a person, you need to have them isolated from their prior environment, because it would keep reminding them of their old way of thinking.

To the Truth Doctors

It's fascinating to me how you guys keep talking about the Symptoms of the Disease, trying to figure out specifically how they occurred. You keep whining about the injustice of the illness, and spotting out its negative effects, like IT MATTERS. Let me put this in other words: let's say you have a deadly Rash that keeps spreading around on your skin. You find out that what caused and keeps maintaining the Rash is an allergy: you're allergic to Apples. So what you Truth Doctors do is, you keep eating apples, and after that, you keep staring at the mirror, counting all the new Zits that have appeared on your body. You look at the Pimples under a microscope, wondering WHEN and HOW they developed. Yet, the only thing you have to do is STOP EATING APPLES. But it's as if you're an addict! You keep notes of new Apple mutations and their latest effects on your skin, and yet you keep eating them, and it never crosses your mind that focusing on the symptoms will never help you solve the problem. Stop trying to cover your Zits with make up. Stop applying stupid lotion on your Rashes. Stop taking drugs. Fix the core issue. STOP EATING APPLES.

All I'm saying is, it doesn't matter what happened on 9/11. It doesn't matter what the FED is doing. It doesn't matter which law the Cops broke. Those are all Symptoms of the same Disease. It's the Elephant in the room. It's the FNORD in your papers. It's the Government, it's Religion, it's Superstition. It's Bad Parenting.

How many more examples of the same thing does one need to understand the simple fact that Government equals coercion? People are psychologically handicapped to see the FNORD. This is a bad strategy that is obviously failing. I'm not against educating the masses, but this is the wrong way to do it. If you go on doing what you're doing now you are very likely to go on getting the same results as you are getting now. You want real change, educate children, not corrupt grown ups. Grown ups need therapy before understanding such a fundamental truth, contradictory to their deepest values.

Drugs, Bro!

I've been very fierce in my criticism against mind-altering substances, and I've been wondering why I take it so personally when somebody openly discusses their experience with drugs in front of me. I get offended and I start raging. It's basically the same feeling that I get when some football fan is talking to me about THE GAME and how THEY won. I guess I just find it irrelevant and definitely not worth discussing. It's hard for me to justify my preferences, because my social life depends on that. And I don't wanna lose friends only on the basis of their unhealthy habits, because we all have those. But it's just so alienating to be the only non-smoker in the group... I don't feel that I belong there anyway. They all share their cool stories, bro, and I'm just sitting there trying to make smalltalk, being on the lookout for things I could actually relate to. Of course, I naturally get ignored and secretly resented. So why bother coping with that shit? Stupid potheads talk about weed 50% of the time. I don't care if they smoke, that's personal. Doing drugs is against my values, but I can't impose this belief on others - it's a subjective issue. Keep it to yourself.

I'm raging. I've been a witness to the endless media hype and propaganda (movies, TV shows, music) encouraging marijuana. It's making me so sick. Potheads are brainwashed and it pisses me off because they claim to be freethinkers. Weed conveys a certain lifestyle and social status and they fall for that. They're all fucking smug about smoking it, because everybody wants to be cool guy the world. You're just as bad as the snobs who wear ugly expensive brands. Your brand is the smell of shit, the inadequacy of a retard, and the bullshit of New Age trends. Way to go, fagets. Wake up, you're not cool. You're a subculture of clowns. Being in an altered state of consciousness can only give you subjective creativity, which is worthless in the free market, unless you get lucky. Otherwise, you die in a trashcan. If you wanna come up with some genius shit, better study science. It's amazing! It'll give you much more inspiration than your own fucking internal irrational projections that the substance inspires you to perceive. You're all clowns and you take your philosophy from stand-up comedians and novelists. That's pathetic and it only shows how limited your imagination is, despite the expanded conscious awareness you so claim to acquire.

Wake up, you're not cool. You're the victim of peer pressure. One can no longer actively socialize without getting into drugs. How pathetic is that, American culture? You're all about drugs and football, just like British culture is about alcohol and soccer. It's sad that such interaction doesn't lead to any productive outcome, besides primitive secondary gains. That's my main beef with the subcultures: the self is lost along the lines. It's a high level of smalltalk and nothing more. It's hypocritical to claim to be open-minded and then surround yourself with your aesthetic clones.

Butt hurt? Yes, I am.

Derren Brown Explained

Raise Your Hand Skit

Malls are designed to confuse people, and confusion puts you in a state of trance, making you much more suggestible than the usual. In this case Derren Brown is using EMBEDDED COMMANDS and ANALOG MARKING to suggest what shoppers should do. He raises his voice to mark the embedded commands. While he's doing that, he's also bypassing people's critical thinking: he's talking about very special offers and exciting opportunities that won't last long - that's the Scarcity Principle. Here is a transcript of the whole speech:

"We hope that your shopping experience is an UPLIFTING ARM, and I'd like to bring to your PAY ATTENTION some very special offers today. Details of our special offers can be found HANDILY by the ELEVATORS, so why not come RIGHT ARM UP and CEASE for yourselves. Our special offers will only be available for a short period of time, so all these customers wishing to REACH UP and GRAB this exciting opportunity should do so NOW."

You can see the embedded commands in CAPS. In the last sentence he's not only telling the shoppers what to do, but he's also telling them how to do it. This is essential for the suggestion to work.

Freezing Somebody Skit

In this video, Derren Brown is using ANCHORING and EMBEDDED COMMANDS. Firstly, he puts the woman in a trance state by doing a handshake induction. Then he brings her upstairs and places her in the spot where the stopping should occur later. Now this is the part where he deepens her trance state while suggesting the hidden STOP commands into her head. Before he does that, though, he frames the experience by saying "I know this is a little bit odd." which bypasses her critical factor. Here's a transcript of what he's saying next:

"It's just interesting, as you just LOOK AT ME NOW, and just thinking about, LOOKING OUT of that window, you see NOW IT STOPS the end of November, there's only 29 STOPPING days left for Christmas, and just LOOKING OUT and just SEEING all those people, and just when you DO THIS, and you're doing the Christmas STOPPING, and you're trying to get all the gifts together, and gifts for kids, and gifts for the stocking fillers, and the STOPPING... what is it... the Christmas tree, and things to put on a tree, all of that... just this sort of trance state that just starts to put you in, and you just start to walk around, and just trying to get all that done, and just how, in the back of your mind, how you just... WANT TO PUT THE BREAKS ON, and that's really interesting thing, how that trance state can just start to set in now, it's a very interesting thing and that's what we gonna look at today."

The Embedded Commands are in CAPS, and the way Derren marks them is by pressing the woman's index finger every time he says a suggestion word. What he's doing here is associating the spot in front of the window with the act of her stopping. The last couple of things he says are setting the framework, again, letting her know that it's going to be her state of trance that is needed. Another thing to remember is the position of his palm, which anchors the whole trance state for later usage. After he finishes the speech, he walks her to the corner, counting the steps in mind. Then it's just a matter of listening and counting her steps to know when she's gonna reach her stopping spot again. Next, he tells the woman: "just TRY walk all the way across the room, so don't STOP THIS TIME JUST RIGHT AWAY ACROSS, you're REALLY GONNA FEEL of the, the space of the room." The word "TRY" presupposes failure. That's a suggestion there that she wouldn't be able to finish the task. Then he's using negation to suggest that she should stop right away across. Remember, the brain doesn't process DONT's before actually examining the DO's consciously. If your critical thinking is bypassed, there's no way to examine that. Finally, he suggests that she's gonna FEEL when to stop, which implies that there's more to her task. What follows is, of course, she starts walking and she stops at the same place where she did before. Now, Derren can't be sure for how long she's going to be still, so he keeps stacking more suggestions while asking her why she stopped: Now I said don't... STOP THIS TIME, so what's happened there? Then he walks in front of the woman with his palm facing towards her. This is the anchor that triggered her trance state, again, to make her even more stuck.

Russian Scam Skit

Derren asks the guy a visual question to bypass his logical thinking. Next he's mirroring his body language and posture to gain rapport. Derren then takes a step away from the subject to test if he could already lead him. The guy follows Derren, which proves that Rapport has been achieved. Derren is now ready to put the Consistency Principle in action by saying "You don't mind me asking you, do you? You're happy to give that to me". Next, Derren does a handshake induction by simply interrupting and altering the handshake. He anchors the state with the word "Cheers". The guy's attention is now fully focused on his hand and he is completely confused and suggestible in this brief period of time. Next, Derren hands him the bottle. This is a perfect application of the Reciprocity Principle: you give me something, I have to give you something back. Handing the bottle is also gonna work as an anchor later. The subject is now completely comfortable giving away his valuable stuff. What happens later when he asks for his stuff back is that Derren gives him the bottle once again and says Cheers. This, of course, works like magic, because now the guy is back to his confused suggestible state. Cheers!

Paper Rock Scissors Skit

Now, in the first part of the video, Derren uses a delay technique and I'm not sure whether he actually tries to influence the subject yet. Here are a few speculative thoughts: when Derren explains how the game works, he goes "One, two, three" and makes the scissors sign with his hand. That perhaps influences the guy to make this choice in the first round. Before the second round, Derren says "my STONE blunts the scissors", perhaps suggesting that the subject picks that next by accentuating on the word "stone". Only later in the video, when Derren turns his back, it becomes apparent that he's leading the guy, by keeping his eyes focused somewhere else, while blatantly letting his peripheral vision see what he has to choose next - watch his hand and you'll see what I mean.

Color Blind Skit

Of course, this could all be scripted and the woman may be a stooge. What's important is that Derren is using essential techniques that are useful to know. The first part of what Derren does is already explained in the video. What happens after he anchors the certain and uncertain state is that he frames what the woman is going to experience next, by giving her the short speech about change and how little things can affect people. Surely we'll find out what these changes are, he says. That suggests that she's going to co-operate, more or less, to make this thing work. Let's not forget that while she's being told all this, she's in a confused suggestible state.

Guessing A Word Skit

When Derren starts talking to Joe, the first thing he does is setting the context by explaining he's gonna try a mind reading experiment. Next Derren's using Analogies and Metaphors as hints as to what the word is gonna be. He also limits Joe's choices by setting the scene in the past when he was 6 year old. Most kids have ridden a tricycle at one point of their childhood. Joe's brain is expected to connect the dots and associate the hints (three, cogs, cycling, round and round, over and over again) with his past.

Red Bike Skit

This is most probably scripted, as you can tell from the different camera angles, and the sole fact that the subject is a professional actor, and also a friend of Derren. Nevertheless, the techniques he uses are legit. The atmosphere in the room is obviously set to red colors and round cycling objects. That's a huge influence on itself. The first thing Derren does (not seen in this clip) is to induce a state of strong desire in his subject. He does that by questioning Simon about the feeling he gets when this desire is triggered in him. People can't describe feelings unless they experience them. Derren then asks Simon to amplify this feeling and once he's done that, Derren anchors the state by tapping Simon's shoulder.

What follows is a handshake induction. Next, Derren uses Analog Marking to further create an image of a bike - the key words are pointed out in the video. Every time Derren talks about feelings of excitement, and every time he hints to a red bike, he fires the anchor again by tapping Simon's shoulder. That way both things are associated to each other. The good thing about Derren's anecdote here is that what he's saying is also a great analogy of what he wants Simon to do. When people hear anecdotes about things happening, they can't help themselves but experience the same things in order to relate to the story. So when Derren is talking about a feeling so strong that it can replace the actual memory, Simon is subconsciously responding to that. Note that he's in trance and he has no idea what Derren wants to do with him so he's not suspicious and can't really understand that he's being had. In the end of the bit (not seen in this clip) it turns out that what Simon originally wanted was a leather jacket. He had written his wish on a note a week before this was shot. Simon couldn't believe he ever wrote that, as he was fully convinced that what he had always wanted was a red BMX.

Trains... of Thought Skit

Derren is using EMBEDDED Commands to suggest that they stop thinking about their stop. It's a witty wordplay: What STOP. THINKING ABOUT IT NOW. While he's saying that, he waves his hand over subject's face to anchor their state. As soon as he notices a change of state, he fires off the anchor which leaves them confused again. Here's a way to make your friends forget their phone number. Just ask them what it is and say you will dial it to verify. Then enter a fake number and say: "your phone doesn't ring, you forget your own number" and anchor it with a finger snap. And say again: "you forget your own number", anchoring again. Then ask for their phone number again, firing the anchor again. You will have guaranteed laugh.

Dog Track Skit

This has a lot to do with PERSONAL POWER, confusion, and EMBEDDED COMMANDS. Derren chose a guy who's confident. He's calm and steady, and he's not afraid to maintain eye contact for more than a few seconds. So when the man tells the cashier he's holding the winning ticket, she is automatically confused. Cashiers are usually passive types, so when a more powerful individual confronts them confidently, they are going to question their own credibility. The woman is now in a trance - she's not sure who's right for a second. Just as she made up her mind and decided to confront the man, Derren interrupted her thinking pattern by slapping the window. That's called a PATTERN INTERRUPT. Now she's even more confused and her critical factor is temporarily bypassed. Derren then says "This is the dog YOU'RE LOOKING 4" and confirms her "mistake" by saying "You may have misread it". Since dog number 4 was the real winner, the first sentence implies that the ticket has a bet on it. Similar techniques are applied to the second case. In the end Derren assures the woman with a commanding tone of voice that the ticket is in fact the winning one: That's why we came to this WINdow. When confused, a person would be so willing to get out of that state, that she would take anything for an answer.

I Hate Star Wars

From George Lucas's personally illustrated autobiography:

Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, my dick exploded while I was having fantasies about raping the movie industry in the anus. I came so hard, Steven Spielberg almost choked on my ejaculate. We then switched turns and he fucked me so bad I had a vision. So vivid, so phallic, was the picture, that I could almost feel all the ideas coming out of my ass. Turned out I shat myself on his cock. Coincidence? I don't think so, as his cock smeared in shit inspired me to come up with my greatest idea of all - the central antagonist of my soon-to-be-made movie, Darth Vader: The Shit Lord. Of course! I should base the whole saga on dicks and fecal matter. Genius! Hmm, I need a protagonist now. "How about Jesus", Steven suggested while wiping his dick in my pubic hair, "People love Jesus! You can't go wrong with that". And the old Jew had a darn good point. So I started thinking about it, as Steven began urinating on me - Jesus walked on water, I thought. "Fuck that", Spielberg said, "Your hero should walk on air". Indeed I named him Skywalker, the Chosen One, born with no father, and his mother - a slave. "Just like your mom, Steven", I joked. I'm not sure if his mother was a whore, but it sounded very funny. That brought up the question about humor. There should be some comic relief in my serious action drama movie! I didn't want to keep the audience tensed for more than a minute. Just as this thought hit me, Steven slapped my ass with a bamboo stick. "Eurika", I exclaimed. Slapstick comedy is what I needed, because most people find it hilarious! There I was, hours later, saying goodbye to Steven Spielberg. I was so sad he had to leave, but he left me a present - a blow up doll. Every day I relieved myself on the doll's face, as I was imagining it talk to me dirty, just like Steven. I wondered if a robot could be made, just like him, to please me, for the times he's missing. An important part of my movie was also missing: the physical comedy. Maybe a robot could replace that there? How about a hilarious android who looks like a blow up doll? Great!



As time went by, I got more frustrated with my movie project. I knew the crap would sell, but nobody was there to encourage me and assure me that it can and should go further. I just wanted to throw the damn thing in the Recycle Bin. I kept creating new ridiculous characters, and they all ended up in the trash. One day I just gave up, smoked a few joints, and decided to revive the scrapped characters. I really had fun with this shit, and it really grew on me, to the point where I thought to myself: "What would happen if I bring into life the Recycle Bin itself". That's how R2-D2 was born.

It was time that I think about the plot. What would Jesus do in another Galaxy? He would fight the forces of evil, of course. How would he fight them... with a sword! He should be a ninja! Or even better, a samurai! Yes, because he's ready to sacrifice himself in the name of good! And his sword should glow in the dark because he is Jesus and he fights the darkness! Yeah! He and his gang of holy samurai will fuck shit up using the power of prayer! Nah, that sounds too lame... Let's call it the force. Ah, sounds much better. And the bad guys, the Shits, they will possess the power of the dark side, which of course, will be quicker, easier, and more seductive, because it comes from no other than the Devil. Holy war. Good versus evil.



George Lucas is retarded. His movie is a success only because it has nice visual effects, character designs, and an infantile fairy tale as the plot. People love the movie only because they saw it in the past, back when their intelligence level was even lower than the writer's. The Star Wars fans are strongly biased and sentimental about the movie, because it reminds them of their childhood. If your first time seeing the film was as an adult, and you instantly became a fan, I am here to inform you that you probably have developmental disabilities and I feel sorry for you. You might also be a homosexual with scatological sexual fantasies. Not that there's ANYTHING WRONG with that.

I'm putting this out to let people like me know there is hope. I google'd the phrase "I Hate Star Wars" and I didn't find the results satisfying - the first result was "[n] Reasons to Hate Star Wars" - it's too detailed and I think the author is essentially a Star Wars fan who wrote the articles as satire. The second result was the "I Hate Star Wars Club" which seems to be run, ironically, by Star Trek fans. I love Star Trek, but that's not why I hate Star Wars. I hate Star Wars because it's an overrated b-movie that many people take seriously and quote as if it were a credible source of wisdom. I hate it because the plot sucks, the characters are flawed and inconsistent, the mythology is weak and unbelievable, beyond the usual suspension of disbelief.

This shit right pokes you in the eye with how bad it is.

Some fans of this horrible movie are victims of their own projections who have been exploited into finding faith and comfort in the Star Wars religion. Hopeless dreamers with Utopian ideals. Deluded concepts of good and evil, influenced by parents who shame their children for being angry or scared. Star Wars condemns fear, anger, and hatred as evil emotions, while labeling submissiveness, patience, and superstition as virtue. Be passive. Take it in the ass! It seems like the Holy Samurai valued intuition more than rational thinking. Making choices without thinking about the consequences is the essence of the force, and that's why fear is not encouraged. It leads them to anger because they can't put their irrational plans into action. Anger leads them to hate because they envy the ones who make rational choices. Hate leads them to suffering because they fall into a self-pity hole where they can't do anything constructive or destructive against their enemies. If they weren't so stupid, fear would lead them to change, anger would lead them to relief, and hatred would lead them to peace (staying away from your enemy).



So in Star Wars they have all kinds of high-speed technology and yet, the weapons are slow and inaccurate. Now I understand why light sabers are better weapons than laser guns; the latter are apparently equivalent to slingshots. And what's with the 4-legged Walkers?! That has to be the worst battle vehicle in the Universe. I mean, it's so slow, clumsy and weak. Walkers. All they need is a hit and they explode. What about the robots? They are more humane and emotional than people. It's weird that Recycle Bin spoke in bleeps to his friends, instead of using human voice, which is seen to be possible in a couple of scenes where it gets in trouble: "WOOAAAAHHHHHHH". And then here comes the Yeti. Everybody loves a furry sasquatch pet. But a story is not good enough without Casper, the friendly ghost! Here comes Ben! It must've been an every day thing in this galaxy to talk to ghosts.

LONG TIME AGO. FUCK YOU!

The characters were not true to their own standards. Chewbacca had already embraced the power of the dark side: he was fearful and angry: remember the scene where he choked the black guy? Shit, the Princess was even worse: there was so much passive aggression in her. She was constantly angry and scared to admit her love for that other guy. What about Darth Vader? He appeared to be very calm, brave, and nihilistic. None of the Shits were angry, and most of them were certainly not cowards. Another thing that looked pretty silly to me was how easily the Underwater King was convinced to send his people on a war for no profit whatsoever. This sends the wrong impression about wars, as if they were virtuous. But even so, sending citizens on a deadly mission simply because someone asked you to, is still a monstrous thing to do. Signing the peace contract would've been the better choice, but the queen wouldn't want to lose her power now, would she. And how did the "good" guy get voted for as a chancellor, even though it was known that most members of the senate were corrupt and didn't care for the people? So naive, this whole movie is. A bad influence on children, it can be.