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Holy shit, the ruling class haven't progressed from Nazi pseudoscience at all. These are some of the most powerful people on Earth and they're barely smarter than cave people that think their own shadows are ghosts.

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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This isn't at all a unique take. I'm old enough to remember in the 90s/2000s hippie parents of low support autistic children came up with the name "indigo child" to paint their needs snd struggles as being particularly sentitive/attuned to the supernatural.

It was awfully convenient for them, made them feel special while they ignored their child's needs.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

And then there was that weird game Indigo Prophecy by Quantic Dream that was based on that woo woo nonsense.

I actually played through the whole thing and it was interesting enough to keep me engaged enough to finish it but man that shit is wild. Pretty sure the dev is some kind of crypto fascist or at least incidentally adjacent.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's wild though because they've had 30+ years of research they could easily just look up to find out how incorrect their weird pseudoscience is. These guys have all the time and money in the world and yet they're so ingnorant of the very world they have so much sway over.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

It's more fun in that cursed, desperate, way. They have no need to actually ever be correct as their money doesn't care about their opinions, and they're insulated from corrective consequences so they can just enjoy incoherency without even having to be original about their fantasies.

Engaging with reality will just tell them they suck, and that they're not above the world.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 46 points 3 days ago (3 children)

One time when I was a kid I sat in the courtyard of this old church staring unblinking trying to focus my mind hard enough to move a leaf for nearly an hour. It didn't work but I did kinda figure out meditation in the process lol.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When I was 8 me and a buddy once tried to make fireballs in our hands lmao

It didn't work doggirl-growl I feel ripped off

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw

When I looked at when this was posted I nearly crumbled into dust.

I think this video needs a CW: will make you contemplate your mortality.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

TUH- TWENTY POOF

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

Once when I was a teenager I looked at a painting for a long period of time and convinced every fibre of my being, every brain cell, that I would teleport into the place depicted in the painting. I wanted nothing more than to leave that world and join the new one in the painting. I focused and felt a pull from the painting and genuinely, completely, without a doubt in my mind believed that I would feel a lurch in my stomach like I was being pulled forward by a hook or something. Anyway, didn't work. Sad!

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, you actually gave yourself autism by doing this.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ever since I took this profile picture whenever you reply to me I for a split second am like "Wait did I say that?"

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago

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[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago

What if you took an email that feasibly happened in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam but wrote it in worse English than that "Captain Quattro, he is a CHAR" letter from the show?

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days ago

This is true, all autistic people are psychics so there's no use lying to us ever. be totally honest with us all because we CAN read your thoughts

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Damn, you find out something new about yourself every day very-smart

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

For some weird reason I want to Venmo you money right now thonk

[–] Strayce 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mother fucker didn't close his parentheses.

[–] caesarsushi404@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Why do they all type like their brain composition is 30% lead

Is it the lead

[–] miz@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago

there used to be a DPRK_Chopra account here but the user deleted. great username

Thinking I need to make a career change and become some sort of new age Rasputin and get billionaires to microdose lead and arsenic.

Just tell them they've got a psyonic tape worm that can't be removed or it'll release toxins that cause the woke mind virus. Throw in something about lithium killing the worm, and lead has opposite aura if lithium or some shit... So suck on this fishing lure weight I guess. And arsenic will neutralize the woke toxins... Pretty sure I can just wing it if they ask about any holes in my story, just do some basic psych 101 parlor tricks and they'll do whatever I say. One milly a month, direct deposit plz. And I'll bang and do mushrooms with their partners while they're off doing a corporate retreat with yogurt enemas.

[–] Богданова@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 days ago

Bourgeoise produce the antithesis of culture. A culture incapable of self-awareness.

This is what makes them believe in psychic powers. imo. They are incapable of seeing their own rigidness, but because neurodivergent children must become self-aware, if they are to ever fit within the neurotypical world, it "naturally" makes us more likely to be self-aware and can be mistaken for future sight, when this "future sight" is simply pattern matching and probability estimates.

This is likely where the whole "gifted child" idea even comes from. The children aren't gifted, the world is ruled by ignoble foolish pigs.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

Not surprising. They're all high on their own supply of propaganda that they feed us proles.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wish, then I wouldn't constantly get fucked over by my inability to read between the lines of what people say

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago
[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is it really true that in the West rich people are less skeptical of psychic things than poor people?

I've heard this once before on Hexbear.

Most places it's the opposite – poor people are comfortable ideas like ghosts, telepathy, astrology, and the rich people look down their noses at that with a sort of 'Western scientific' attitude.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd say that general woo stuff is very common among the poor. Stuff like astrology and ghosts and such. But I think there's a subset of rich people who really want to believe that they're rich because they're special and insightful and know stuff we plebs don't know, and that fuels some other types of woo that are less common down here.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I call this "prosperity gospel for new-agers".

Around me, rich people have that sort of thinking but with "christian" asthetics.

[–] onwardknave@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

Anecdotally, I've seen scammy fortune teller signs in poor places, and the poorer, the greater the chance I see one. It's a tragic symbiosis -- no way to make money to live or leave turns people to prey on others' desperate hopes and ignorance, and that same need for hope draws in the ignorant. Maybe it's the same reason people play the lottery when they know the odds of winning are ridiculously low... People are paying for hope and a temporary fantasy.

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Wasn't there a "documentary" recently about how autistic children are psychic and are all connected psychically?


[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Really just tells you that Epstein and his buddies weren't the men with the plans or brains.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

It's worse- the men with plans and brains think Epstein was cool and aspirational

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

Don't they know that autistic people only become psychic after living in space?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

That doesn't appear to be what he's saying, though it is very funny how he is grouping savants with telepaths.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

The obsession with savants makes me uncomfortable

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: