DWQA Questions › Tag: power hierarchyFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesZimbardo characterized the Milgram Studies as “Creating Evil Traps for Good People.” Zimbardo extracted ten methods for this: 1. Create a contractual obligation. 2. Give a positive role or title like “teacher.” 3. Present basic rules that “must” be followed – even if vague. 4. Spin the agenda as “positive” – bad-tasting mouthwash “kills germs.” 5. Insist the authority is fully responsible for everything that happens. 6. Start with small acts of evil and work up from there. 7. Keep the amplification of evil so gradual as to hardly be noticeable. 8. Gradually change the nature of the authority from “just” to “unjust” and demanding and even irrational. 9. Make the exit costs high while allowing verbal dissent. And 10. Offer a “big lie” to justify everything. This is clearly a diabolically effective “stacked deck” that Milgram demonstrated works 90% of the time. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 4 months ago • Problems in Society194 views0 answers0 votesZimbardo wrote, “This potential for authority figures to exercise power over subordinates can have disastrous consequences in many domains of life. … Such authority can lead to flight errors when the crew feels forced to accept the “authority’s definition of the situation, even when the authority is wrong.” An investigation of thirty-seven serious plane accidents where there was sufficient data from voice recorders revealed that in 81 percent of these cases, the first officer did not properly monitor or challenge the captain when he made errors. … We may conclude that excessive obedience may cause as many as 25% of all airplane accidents.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 4 months ago • Problems in Society112 views0 answers0 votesZimbardo wrote about “the strip search scam.” A con man calls an assistant manager at a fast-food restaurant and claims he is a police officer calling about a theft by an attractive new employee. The caller gives the option of the accused coming to the station or being “strip searched” by a fellow employee. Gradually, more and more degenerate instructions are given until overt sexual acts between employees take place. These sexual activities continue for several hours while they wait for the police to arrive which, of course, never happens. This scam has been carried out successfully in 68 similar fast-food settings in 32 states. This bizarre authority influence in absentia seduces many people. In the end, store personnel are fired, some are charged with crimes, the store is sued, and the victims are seriously distressed. The perpetrator, a former corrections officer, was finally caught and convicted. Zimbardo wrote, “So let us not underestimate the power of ‘authority’ to generate obedience to an extent and of a kind that is hard to fathom.” An assistant manager interviewed by Zimbardo said, “You look back on it, and you say, ‘I wouldn’t a done it.’ But unless you’re put in that situation, at that time, how do you know what you would do? You don’t.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 4 months ago • Problems in Society100 views0 answers0 votesZimbardo wrote about an Iowa elementary school teacher who wanted to teach her third-grade class about “brotherhood” and “tolerance.” She began her “lesson” by informing her students that people with blue eyes were superior to those with brown eyes. The previously “friendly blue-eyed kids” refused to play with the “bad brown-eyed kids,” and the blue-eyed kids suggested that school officials should be notified that the brown-eyed kids might steal things. Soon fist-fights erupted during recess. The next day she switched and told the class she was wrong, it was really the brown-eyed kids who were superior. Old friendship patterns between children dissolved and were replaced by hostility until the experimental project was ended. The teacher was amazed at the swift and total transformation of so many of her students whom she thought she knew so well. The teacher said, “What had been marvelously cooperative, thoughtful children became nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders … it was ghastly!” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 4 months ago • Problems in Society190 views0 answers0 votesZimbardo wrote, “The psychologist Ervin Staub (who as a child survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary) concurs that most people under particular circumstances have a capacity for extreme violence and destruction of human life. Staub has come to believe that, “Evil arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people and is the norm, not the exception … Great evil arises out of ordinary psychological processes that evolve, usually with a progression along a continuum of destruction.” He highlights the significance of ordinary people being caught up in situations where they can (gradually) learn to practice evil acts that are demanded by higher-level authorities: “Being part of a system shapes views, rewards adherence to dominant views, and makes deviation psychologically demanding and difficult.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 4 months ago • Problems in Society172 views0 answers0 votesZimbardo wrote, “From her in-depth analysis of soldiers trained by the Greek military junta to be state-sanctioned torturers, my colleague Greek psychologist Mika Haritos-Fatouros concluded that torturers are not born but made by their training. “Anybody’s son will do” is her answer to the question, “Who will make an effective torturer?” In a matter of a few months, ordinary young men from rural villages became “weaponized” by their training in cruelty to act like brute beasts capable of inflicting the most horrendous acts of humiliation, pain, and suffering on anyone labeled “the enemy,” who, of course, were all citizens of their own country. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 4 months ago • Problems in Society175 views0 answers0 votesZimbardo wrote, “Reject simple solutions as quick fixes for complex personal and social problems. Traditional analyses by most people, including those in the legal, religious, and medical institutions, focus on the actor as the sole causal agent. Consequently, they minimize or disregard the impact of situational variables and systemic determinants that shape behavioral outcomes and transform actors.” Yet Zimbardo was not fatalistic: “In those studies and many others, while the majority obeyed, conformed, complied, were persuaded, and were seduced, there was ALWAYS A MINORITY WHO RESISTED, DISSENTED, AND DISOBEYED.” Again, we come face to face with a divine-level problem. How can Empowered Prayer, the Lightworker Healing Protocol, Deep Subconscious Mind Reset, and Divine Life Support turn the minority into the majority?ClosedNicola asked 4 months ago • Problems in Society167 views0 answers0 votesUnderstanding the “greater than normal need for stimulation” helps us make sense of the numerous stone images of the Anunnaki throughout the Middle East. Not only are they giants, averaging 12 to 15 feet tall, but all of them appeared exceptionally “athletic” and muscular. And possessing advanced medical capabilities that can replace even lost limbs and organs, this would give them license to engage in “extreme sports” including combat sports with each other. Is it safe to say the Anunnaki are “high-strung,” impatient with everything, and bore easily? This sounds like the LAST kind of being you would want “lording over you?” How much of their average day is spent working out? Are they all “obsessed bodybuilder gym rats?” What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 5 months ago • Problems in Society131 views0 answers0 votesDr. Stout wrote, about sociopaths, “The intellectual difference between right and wrong does not bring on the emotional sirens and flashing blue lights, or the fear of God, that it does for the rest of us. Without the slightest blip of guilt or remorse, one in twenty-five people can do anything at all.” She further wrote, “The presence or absence of conscience is a deep human division, arguably more significant than intelligence, race, or even gender.” “But as to what is possibly the single most meaningful characteristic that divides human species (and humans from extraterrestrials) – the presence or absence of conscience – we (humans) remain effectively oblivious.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 5 months ago • Problems in Society104 views0 answers0 votesDr. Stout wrote, “A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone’s heart strings … Your best defense is to understand the nature of these human predators.” Does that naturally and rationally extend to the extraterrestrial predators as well, and that the number one way they “play on our heart strings” is through channeling directly to humans who share those words with the world? Is our best defense against Anunnaki psychics, our attempts to understand the nature of these extraterrestrial predators? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 5 months ago • Problems in Society107 views0 answers0 votesDr. Stout wrote, “It is crucial to note that all of the psychiatric diagnoses (including narcissism) involve some amount of personal distress or misery for the individuals who suffer from them.” “Sociopathy stands alone as a ‘disease’ that causes no dis-ease for the person who has it, no subjective discomfort. Sociopaths are often quite satisfied with themselves and with their lives, and perhaps for this very reason there is no effective treatment.” She also wrote, “We (humans) feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us the ultimate injustice that a person could be evil, by our assessment, and still feel fine about himself.” And even though beings like the Anunnaki don’t feel guilt, do they still try to make each other aware of their awfulness? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 5 months ago • Problems in Society109 views0 answers0 votesDr. Stout wrote, “Sociopaths are infamous for their refusal to acknowledge responsibility for the decisions they make, or for the outcomes of their decisions. In fact, a refusal to see the results of one’s bad behavior as having anything to do with oneself – ‘consistent irresponsibility’ in the language of the American Psychiatric Association – is a cornerstone of the antisocial personality diagnosis. People without conscience provide endless examples of such stunning ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’ statements. Instead, when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, ‘I never did that,’ and will to all appearances believe their own direct lie. This feature of sociopathy makes self-awareness impossible, and in the end, just as the sociopath has no genuine relationships with other people, he has only a very tenuous one with himself.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 5 months ago • Problems in Society110 views0 answers0 votesNothing says “Divine Level Problem” like “Sociopath.” The good news is, contrary to what most psychological professionals sincerely believe, that this is a noncorrectable problem, Creator has emphatically said the opposite—that it absolutely is correctible and it is up to humans to correct it. The missing ingredient, however, is “divine partnership.” Without it, the professionals are indeed correct in assuming the problem is not at all fixable. Can Creator share with us how Empowered Prayer, the Lightworker Healing Protocol, Deep Subconscious Mind Reset, and Divine Life Support can be the means by which, eventually but not quickly, we humans, in partnership with the divine, can indeed correct the problem of sociopathy and the evil it causes throughout the universe, and for all of time?ClosedNicola asked 5 months ago • Problems in Society121 views0 answers0 votesPrior 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 10 months ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers335 views0 answers0 votesCritics of the notion of having a genuine destiny would simply point out the apparent randomness of life events. But to say this argument is weak is a massive understatement. What is the interloper position on destiny? Do they reject it entirely and think humans are immensely silly for entertaining the very notion? Don’t the interlopers in saner moments ever recognize that randomness is actually an exceptionally poor explanation for something like the Lions’ abrupt turnaround, even as they continue the targeting against the Lions? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 10 months ago • Karma281 views0 answers0 votes