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Ajax · 07-04-2005, 03:55 PM

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Absolutely not, thats why I said what I said at the beginning of my post... I don't have much time to spare between now and 12:00.

Well...
At least you were honest about it.

The content in this thread is focused on conventional mind control techniques. Not anything from the fanasy genre.

Coldwriter · 07-04-2005, 04:14 PM

The people being brainwashed are criminals, having done some wrong that C.O.L.D. deems wrong ( a group dedicated to eradicating the world of crime) so one option after capturing the criminals is to brainwash them and send them into society as a new man. The other option is joining their group...which, could be a choice but as a safeguard they might be brainwashed too. That's the context. For more story info...check under fiction (political thriller ,..something)

chaos · 07-04-2005, 11:41 PM

ooo verago, I think I'm going to stalk you and take extensive notes on your knowledge of psychology.

I don't know much about this sort of thing, but it just always amazes me when people who are kidnapped and later found with their abductee in public don't make a break for it. Maybe its some kind of Stockholm syndrome. They only way I can see it is that the abductor must be so brutal to them for a period of time that when they stop doing that, the absence of pain triggers an emotional response on the part of the abductee to love them, because they made the pain stop, even though they started it in the first place. But without extreme physical coercion or drugs, I just don't see how you can control anyone's mind to any extent..like, street hypnotists, that just seems impossible to me.

EDIT: well, impossible for a regular person, I guess. Having, supposedly, 'schizophrenia', I've had some pretty intense experiences with being taken over by a..something, but it was more like a parasite, it was already a part of me before it could take control, already under my skin so to speak. But people, they can only use words and pain and other crude methods of control. I'd have to say that for your story drugs are the most convincing form of establishing initial control because they allow you to 'go inside' the brain to alter its fundamentally rational state and disorient the victim so it is at a disadvantage. In a captive situation all a person has is their wits and if you take those away they are much easier to control.

Verago · 07-05-2005, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by chaos

ooo verago, I think I'm going to stalk you and take extensive notes on your knowledge of psychology.

Having, supposedly, 'schizophrenia', I've had some pretty intense experiences with being taken over by a..something, but it was more like a parasite, it was already a part of me before it could take control, already under my skin so to speak. But people, they can only use words and pain and other crude methods of control. I'd have to say that for your story drugs are the most convincing form of establishing initial control because they allow you to 'go inside' the brain to alter its fundamentally rational state and disorient the victim so it is at a disadvantage. In a captive situation all a person has is their wits and if you take those away they are much easier to control.

I'm self-diagnosed with minor schizophrenia, so you'll have to wait in line to stalk me with the rest of the other people.

Funny how schizophrenia tends to give you ideas for storys...?