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The recently deceased Stanford Emeritus Professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo wrote the book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Dr. Zimbardo is famous for his 1971 “Stanford Prison Experiment” that he was compelled to abruptly terminate as it quickly got out of hand and turned into a dangerously oppressive and health-threatening situation for the experiments’ participants after only a week. In the experiment, the prison guards became overwhelmingly sadistically abusive and cruel, and the prisoners became shockingly powerless and submissive to the point of losing their objectivity and grip on reality and actually believing they were real prisoners and not just participants in an “experiment.” The findings of this experiment were deeply disturbing and shocking on many levels. Zimbardo wrote, “One of the dominant conclusions of the Stanford Prison Experiment is that the pervasive yet subtle power of a host of situational variables can dominate an individual’s will to resist.” He continued, “We see how a range of research participants … have come to conform, comply, obey, and be readily seduced into doing things they could not imagine doing when outside those situational force fields.” Can Creator tell us how this MOCK prison with randomly chosen guards and prisoners almost immediately took on the atmosphere and oppressiveness of some of the world’s worst prisons and concentration camps? Zimbardo wrote, “We were surprised that situational pressures could overcome most of these healthy young men so quickly and so extremely.” Is this widespread and disturbing proclivity, to quickly slip into either extreme perpetrator or extreme victim roles, an inherent flaw in the human makeup? What can Creator tell us?
ClosedNicola asked 2 weeks ago • 
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Prior to the recent agreement to withdraw after the Disclosure Event and take a break from their endless manipulations of our planet and everything on it, has it been a kind of free-for-all, where many individuals can come and take a turn, perhaps competing amongst their brethren to see who can be most clever, most destructive, most innovative, and so on? Or is there an agreed on main agenda where all must follow an approved set of guidelines and goals? There have been at least a couple major motion pictures having a futuristic theme where people can use an advanced technology to journey to an artificial world and adopt a persona to have lifelike experiences for fun and relaxation, or challenge and excitement. One was Westworld, depicting people going back to the old West to take on gunslingers, and more recently, the movie Total Recall, where people could pay to have a vacation in their mind that was totally lifelike. Both movies showed a dark side in having an unexpected blending with reality. This was also a theme used many times in the Star Trek franchise, in having spaceships with a Holodeck that future explorers could visit during long voyages as a lifelike experiencing of other worlds and plotlines for fun and learning opportunities. Are these a kind of inversion of what the extraterrestrials do in visiting our world, coming to participate as observers who can manipulate us, in reality, to act out their fantasies and darkest thoughts for amusement and gratification, but without taking any risk themselves?
ClosedNicola asked 7 months ago • 
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