Mental Manipulation

What makes a human great?, what makes us special, different, above all the other creatures on this planet so to speak, why are we at the top, the apex predator, the rulers of the world, why?, we have no claws, fangs, or venom, we run slow, its hard for us to climb, and our skin and bodies are frail, even the shape of our bodies makes it a miracle that we can even stand on our two feet, so then how is it that we are the world's dominant species. Well it is our minds, our brain, our thinking ability, the ability to use logical, language, mathematics, to read, to write, to build, to predict, to remember, to regret, to love, in short, our intelligence.
Yes, our amazing ability to uncover the world's most breathtaking secrets, our ability to communicate a thought, even 1000 years after our death. Our free minds can do so many truly amazing things, invent machines, cure diseases, build cities, but..what if someone decided to use this gift of super intelligence to attempt to overpower or derail the thoughts of the other beautiful minds that coexist in the human interspace? This is when you can clearly see just how much power the human mind has, even over other human minds.

We all actually do this, just usually not to the degree where it would be completely obvious, for example a simple magic trick is basically mind control, you shuffle the deck, atleast to the observer, but in reality you are using a false shuffle where all the cards are in the exact same place. You ask the observer to select a card by telling you to when to stop as you slide cards off the deck, creating the illusion that this person actually has the freedom to choose his or her card when really its just a clever card force, you already know what card it is, you preset the deck, the cards are in the same order because you never actually shuffled the cards, and now you are forcing the observer to "randomly" select the card at the top of the deck, then you actually shuffle the deck, and ask him the put the card inside of the deck anywhere he or she wants, you spread the cards out face up, and point to the observers card..wow, magic!

 The whole trick was simply a clever facade, you forced someone to think what you wanted them to think, and you wanted him or her to think about anything other than whats really going on, making them think  their card is random, that you are shuffling, that you really did pull that coin out of your mouth, deception, predictions, logical, math, human observation, psycology, distraciton, these are the tools we are able to use in order to actually (to some level) control someone elses mind, or predict what they are thinking or are going to think. Ofcourse there is never solid way to do this because human beings are such complex beings, but you can learn how to do so well it almost always works. The human mind is a series of rooms and doors, each door you open you enter into that room, that room is your present thought, but upon entering that room, you also close a door to another room, this is because we can't think about everything that is going on at once, its too much stimuli, when you coming out of a movie downtown you hear atleast 50 different conversations, but you only register the one you are in and maybe another very near you, but even then you aren't really paying attention, to control someones thoughts, all you have to do is make them open up a certain door, therefore by default closing another. " Where were you sweet heart?", "oh I was just out seeing a friend and we lost track of time" , "oh right I forgot Denise was in town, well I'm glad you had fun". A women waits till her friend is around, and 'goes out to see her friend', one would assume after the years you'd want to catch up, and you would probably stay out late, just the kind of late you would normally be accused of something harmful to your 20 year marriage. using things like, common assumptions, trust, love, higher intelligence, or beauty, you can manipulate the average human mind with ease if used right.

So, how is it done?, How does one put all this together and actually change how people think? Well there are many methods, but its really up to you, there is no real "how to" but rather " how it works". All it is is understanding how most people think, then you can play around with it, but to do this well, you need a clear goal in mind. Pay attention to clothes, hairstyle,speech, accent, body language, and the face. The face is probably the most important thing, especially the eyes, you use the eyes to tell you what the basic things you need to know to move forward 'what type of person is this' ' what does this person think of me' 'is this person comfortable with me?' ' does this person trust me?'  and ' how should I manipulate this persons mind'. First indentify how you are perceived by this person, are they afraid? attracted? repulsed? happy? this will allow you to get a relitivly good idea of how they think, and how you can manipulate their mind. Lets say this person seems attracted but is also afraid that you arent attracted to him or her, lets just call this person 'J' now lets say your objective is to get money from J, you just want 50 dollars because your broke and you like money. So you made eye contact, J is pretty attractive, but not beautiful, but J has on very nice clothes, and is well groomed, so far so good. You approach J, why? because your new in town and you thought J would know where all the best coffee shops are, yes coffee shop, because J doesn't look like the drinking type, conservative hairstyle, arms always close to the body, somewhat timid, and dresses to fit in with modern hipsters that went to private school, you want J to feel like your in the same world to a degree because J is beyond the rebellious age, but still seems to crave excitement and feel free. J smiles, makes eye contact, you decided to smile to make J more comfortable, and start a conversation, you make J laugh a few times, and bring up some relevant topics, J likes you now, J thinks your interesting, funny, and nice, J thinks you have study law, but you also want to travel the world, why? because J mentioned foreign countries 5 times in a 30 minute conversation, J also spoke very highly of lawyers, now J is comfortable with you, you also know what type of person J is, and what J thinks of you, more or less. The look on J's seems to say J wants to spend more time with you but probably has to leave soon, you don't know if J trusts you that much, but you know how to manipulate Js mind. 4/5

So you move in for the objective after 5 more minutes of leading up to " Wow, you are an amazing person and I really wish I could get your number but...(you look at your phone)" J says something like " whats wrong, you can have my number I really like talking to you"
you smile " This is really embarrassing but I just got a new job and I don't get paid for 10 days, so I cant pay my phone bill or my internet right now..I mean its not like I'm broke, I just don't have money right now, so I don't know how we could stay in contact.." J has about a 75% chance of saying " I mean..I can pay for it and you can just pay me back or something how much is it?" and you say " thank you so much, yeah I'll pay you back as soon as I get my check, whats your number let me get it down" you get J's number, J give you 50 dollars, you walk away with a big smile waving to J saying " I'll call you as soon as I can" and J smiles a waves back and maybe says " ok haha I'll be waiting". so it was 5/5 J trusted you. and you took advantage of all the knowledge you gained from observing J, to use it to make J feel sad cheated and lied to, while use the stolen money to take someone else out. The reason I told you how to trick people, is not because I want to teach people how to be evil, but rather, I want the good people who are often victims of mental manipulation to be more conscious of it, and hopefully less susceptible to this kind of trickery. even fun little magic tricks are based off of lies and mental manipulation. This is only examples of extremely small scale manipulation, so be aware.

The New Language of Organic Machines

What does it mean, to connect, or to fall in love, to truly share a moment, or simply to be in one, is communication alone enough to sustain a relationship, when do we need to actually be face to face, do we ever?, all of these questions boil down to one simple yet complex question most of us are either too afraid to ask, or simply unconcerned, what makes us different from a machine?
Yes, the perceivably easy to answer question of what makes us different from some manmade electronic piece of technology that is seemingly so different from us the question of how we are different from this inanimate thing seems pointless, we are human, we eat, we sleep, we laugh, we play, we love, we hate, we feel emotions, and think our own thoughts, we are not programmed, we have opinions, we are creative, we are everything they aren't, in every way possible. And while that is true, in many ways, in some it is not. For in this new age of technology, flashing lights, cars, music, and phones, machines are becoming a part of human life, and as a result of that, machines are becoming part of human cultures. For example, at the end of my last theory 'Robot Minds of Modern Society' I mentioned at the end, the concept of exchanging numbers, asking someone for there..number

The reason this is relevant is because, we have come to the point where it is the social norm to ask the question 'what is your number',  well, why would you ask that? probably because you want to further communicate on an electronic basis, simple to connect, to get to know each other better, to be able to communicate with this person anywhere at almost any time, through..a machine, communicating through a machine is not simply communication though, it’s not like actual communication, there is no stars to gaze upon, no sight, there is no aggressive arguing or melodic music to comment and joke about, no real sound, there is no scents of fresh roses to sniff, or apple pie somewhere nearby, there is no smell, there is no good food, or bad food, to experience because there isn’t taste, and there is no woman with bright beautiful eyes, and dark wavy hair rolling on the floor laughing at some corny joke you told, as much as you might believe there is, that girl your 'talking' to, isn’t there, there is no touch or tangibility, and on some level, we know this, ask yourself these questions, how can the woman be there, when she isn't, she is not your phone, or a text message on the screen of your phone, this is simply a facade, this is a representation of the said woman, yes these are her words, but, at the same time they aren’t for these reasons: There was too much time to think about what you say, to erase what you said, rephrase what you wanted to say, there is no voice, tone, pitch, volume, facial expressions, eye contact, body positioning, body language, blinking, sudden laughter, giggling, smiling or frowning, and there is no emotion in your words, but there are two things that help us implement our humanity into this robotic arena: Implied meaning and emotions, and " Interpreted meaning and emotions. these are often misinterpreted.

the person you think you are talking to over facebook or text, is actually the mental imagine of that person, how you perceive them, how you remember that persons voice, the words aren’t yours, but everything that goes with them is, you are almost talking to yourself. This is because you are trying to emulate reality in a cyber world, with a machine filtering out anything it cannot reproduce, the five senses, true emotion, voice, etc., so as a result of talking through a machine, you inherently, talk like a machine, and in order to talk like a machine, you therefore, have to think like a machine, filtering out everything you know you can’t translate correctly into the other language, just as you would do with any, you wouldn’t say "Hey whats good son" to your friend in Spanish because in the Spanish speaking world that sentence doesn’t really makes sense, its interpreted meaning would be extremely far from its intended meaning, so to close the gap between the intended and interpreted meaning, we as modern humans, have put together a language that makes sense in the mechanical world, you wouldn't say " Look at that guy, he gotta be crazy" to someone over a text message to someone on the other side of the world, it makes no sense.

After learning and constantly speaking this new language, and with this language being used more often, in more places, for longer times, it begins to have effects on you, you begin to speak this language in the organic, physical world. You check your facebook on the bus, you text your friend during a real conversation, you tweet what you just did, take a picture with someone you like, the worlds begin to merge, it is no longer the cyber internet machine world, and the organic natural physical world, there is the organic machine world, and we, the inhabitants of this new world, learned its new language, and are now, organic machines. You start to think in tweets, it changes your mind, it comes to the point where you won't even bother to chase an creative thought or comment unless its within 140 characters, you don’t feel like you really saw a swan unless you make a post about it on instagram, you aren’t really dating unless you update your relationship status on facebook.You are at that point, an Organic Machine.