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morningsun76 wrote:

Scary stuff.  I encountered an interesting fellow recently at a picnic, who did a magic trick while we were sitting at the bench talking.  The trick essentially consisted of him saying (to me)  "think of a number between one and a hundred."  Then, once I had indicated I had a number, he wrote a number down on a piece of paper and then showed it to me along with the others at the table.  Sure enough, he had it correct.   He then repeated the trick for another guy at the table and also got it right.  Someone nearby said something like "how does he do that" and another person responded casually, "he's the devil."    I wondered about that for awhile!

Yeah, I've known somebody like this, but he wasn't a stranger to me, it was an acquaintence I used to know back in California about 10 years ago.   We got along fine, he was also very psychic, and years prior to before I met him he had been a Satanist, and had practiced magic and such.  Translation = he'd honed his "skillz", to put it mildly.  One time we were hanging out and he did a little mind reading demonstration for me.  Whatever I would think he'd repeat it back to me with an amused grin.   At one point I was looking down in my lap, smiling, thinking "Stop it!"  and he said, with that grin, "I *can't* stop it."  Then I thought something else, can't remember, and he repeated that back too using all the words I used.   I know that's not much of an example to use to prove that he could read minds, but I spent enough time with this guy to know that he had abilities.

It didn't scare me, but it's because he was very honest and open about what he was doing.  It was straight out, "I can read your mind."   He didn't portray it as some "woo-woo" mystery game to try to spook me or anything, trying to veil what was really going on.   That wasn't his way.   I totally respect that.   It's the people who try to be all "David Blaine" with their schtick that annoy me, like the guy who pulled the number guessing game with you.  Trying to be all mysterious, that's such a power trip.  If I met somebody like that, I'd call them out on their power trippin' mystery gig in a second!  smile   Telepathy is real, as my buddy knew and was openly honest about.  It shouldn't be portrayed as "magic."

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morningsun76 wrote:

Incidentally, the number I thought of was 98, and the second guy's was 68, which I think is interesting.  Also, when the trick was done for the second guy, the magician said that on this second demonstration, the subject would believe he was thinking of a number himself, but in fact it would be the magician who was putting the number into his mind.

I suspect that he was probably implanting numbers into both of you, either using real telepathic abilities, or perhaps more worldly techniques. I suspect the latter.

While I'm not going to deny the reality of telepathy as I have no doubts that some people are capable of it, what he's done to you there is a simple parlour trick compared to what I've seen Derren Brown do, a man who claims to have absolutely no psychic or telepathic abilities.

I've written briefly about Derren before, a guy who's become a minor celebrity in the UK for his "Mind Control" & his more recent "Trick of the Mind" tv shows.

From his website: "Derren Brown is a unique force in the world of illusion - he can seemingly predict and control human behaviour.

He doesn't claim to be a mind-reader, instead he describes his craft as a mixture of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship.

Whatever you choose to call it, his unparalleled performances amaze and unsettle all those who watch him. This is a powerful and provocative form of entertainment, unlikely to be imitated for a long while." http://www.derrenbrown.co.uk/?flash=no

Now if Derren pulled the whole 'I'm going to act all mysterious and pretend I'm really magic' schtick like David Blaine, you would probably swear blind that Derren absolutely has to be using psychic powers, and really must be using telepathy. Yet he claims he isn't and to prove it he regularly shows viewers how the tricks are done.

Sometimes when he demonstrates a trick, in some ways it becomes even more amazing because your thought is "what? And that actually works!!?? How??"

Often it's just simple but incredibly powerful suggestion techniques that are so incredibly subtle that there's almost no way the conscious mind would pick up on them unless it was already anticipating them. Yet the subconscious mind certainly is picking up on them, and I guess it's the subconscious mind that he's really speaking to.

I guess in a way, it really is a form of magic because it's an incredible ability to have. What he can do is, for all intents and purposes, magical and it's also something that takes many many years to hone and perfect. Derren shows that you don't need real psychic powers in order to control people and have them doing or saying what you want them to. And that's pretty scary when you think about it.

Anyway if anyone here uses Bit Torrent then I found a few of his shows here:

http://www.torrentreactor.net/search.ph … rren+brown

I strongly recommend downloading the "Messiah" episode which was a one-off, that is guaranteed to blow you mind.

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Thanks for posting the info about that show Andy.  I have now watched the "Messiah" episode - and I have a fair bit to comment on.  However for the moment I only have time to write a brief post.  (Oh, the episode seemed to cut short...was he meant to explain how he did this stuff at the end?)

Well first of - we have to always consider the possibility that these shows are always made up - and that everything is staged and everyone in it is either an actor or aware of what is going on.  Personally I don't think that is the case with Derren Brown but with TV you can never discount the possibility.

Now I am in two minds as to what I think about this show.  I get the impression that it does have an agenda - even though Derren mentions a few times that it doesn't.  However how can you "trust" a guy with such manipulative abilities?  This isn't the only show that attempts to debunk the paranormal recently.  There was a show with Anthony Stuart Head that nearly always showed the paranormal to be a lack of understanding and awareness on behalf of the person experiencing it.  Or he would use science to dismiss everything - usually to the effect that "Yes there is indeed something sinister out there - but it is all in your head!".

Amanda Tapping also presented a similar show.

However Derren Brown seems quite unique.  I have taken the viewpoint that the show was indeed all genuine.  And therefore Derren has indeed got amazing abilities (which he says anyone can do - and much of the knowledge is available it books).  I did pick up quite a few times how he was achieving his "ability".  For example when getting the lady to draw pictures in the other room - he was implanting the suggestion in her head.  "Now, I want you to draw another picture, don't go overboard and try and keep it simple".  He then tells her she drew water with something traveling on it.  What she drew was a boat on the sea.

Of course he implanted the suggestion..."Don't go overboard..."

On the bits where he was converting the atheists to Christianity with a touch.  I suspect he was touching specific nerves on the side of the first woman’s face.  The camera didn't show how he touched her.  And indeed there are nerve points that will open up the floodgates - so she started crying and letting out all the bottled up emotion.

With the guy that fell backwards - again he implanted the suggestion.  Using words intermixed with normal conversation; "trust me", "catch you" etc.

Derren seems to be highly aware of body language, vocal tone and word usage in others.  He is also highly adapt at controlling these himself...if you watch him closely you can see him using his facial expressions and tone to lead conversations exactly where he wants them to go.

But I am no expert at this, and I am sure many other people saw more than I have.  I have no idea how he did what he did with the spirit talking etc.

All in all the program was very interesting, and gave a fantastic insight into how easily people can be manipulated.  In many situation because the people are so dull and asleep they miss all the obvious and some less subtle programming.  Combine that with someone who is highly aware of these things and an expert of manipulation and clearly they can convince most people of anything.

It makes me wonder - if Derren was so inclined, just what could he achieve.  What positions of power, influence could he gain with those skills.  Indeed same goes for all others like him.

However all that said - I was still left with an uneasy feeling after the program...because I believe it *did* have an agenda.  Derren implies he is giving us this knowledge for our own awareness.  I don't believe him.  The almost esoteric knowledge he uses has been kept from the public eye for a very very long time - and it has been used to achieve untold manipulation.  But there is also far deeper / higher levels of esoteric knowledge - and it is the whole idea of this - at least to me - that programs like Derren's seem to attempt to suppress.

He says at the end of his program (and I paraphrase); "So we can see how easy it is to convince people of the paranormal - even when I have no paranormal abilities.  That is why the whole thing makes me very skeptical."  And almost as an after thought he add "Of course that isn't to say it isn't real".  Personally I detect lines of suggestion aimed at the viewers just as much as they are used on the people in his show.


(Hmmm this ended up quite long anyway)...

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Marcus wrote:

I did pick up quite a few times how he was achieving his "ability".  For example when getting the lady to draw pictures in the other room - he was implanting the suggestion in her head.  "Now, I want you to draw another picture, don't go overboard and try and keep it simple".  He then tells her she drew water with something traveling on it.  What she drew was a boat on the sea.

Of course he implanted the suggestion..."Don't go overboard..."

With the guy that fell backwards - again he implanted the suggestion.  Using words intermixed with normal conversation; "trust me", "catch you" etc.

Derren seems to be highly aware of body language, vocal tone and word usage in others.  He is also highly adapt at controlling these himself...if you watch him closely you can see him using his facial expressions and tone to lead conversations exactly where he wants them to go.

I haven't been able to watch the Derren shows, (will try to later when I get home...) but it all sounds fascinating.  It sounds like he's really mastered linguistic programming and the art of body language.

Regarding this:

Marcus wrote:

In many situation because the people are so dull and asleep they miss all the obvious and some less subtle programming.

This is very true.   I'm no Derren, nor do I strive to be, but, I have good body language / voice recognition / speech pattern analysis.   Not sure necessarily where it came from, but it has enabled me to nail many people down regarding many things, to some people's amazement.   It's something related to this topic I think, because if I wanted I could try to trick people and make them believe "Oh, I'm reading minds here!"  when really I'm using the powers of observation.   It stems from having an interest in people and really watching them and really listening to the things they say.   It's all a matter of simply being alert, and paying attention, but like you say, so many people are dull and asleep.   They're not even interested in themselves, let alone anybody else, so really, how can they "read" anybody?

A good example of this, which was purely based on analyzing bodily cues:

-  Was standing in the waitress station at one restaurant I worked at in California, listening to my fellow server mumbling about this one jerk guy at one of her tables.  I looked over the small divider wall and scanned all her tables, and all the people sitting in her station.   Then I asked her, "Is it table (___whatever table # it was)  The guy leaning back with arms across the back of the booth?"  Her eyes got big and she said "Yeah...how did you know that??"   Then I said, "Does he have a New York sounding accent?  You know, something from the Northeast?"  Her eyes got REALLY big and she said "YEAH....HOW DID YOU *KNOW* THAT??" 

It was easy.  His body language gave it all away.   People from California are vastly different from Northeasters.  Californians are quiet, mellow, laid back, unobtrusive.  Their body language reflects this. Northeasters are aggressive, domineering, loud, and their body language conveys this too.   When I scanned the people sitting in her station, there was only one guy leaning back, full of bravado and confidence, with arms splayed out on the back of the booth; everybody else's limbs were kept close to their bodies, unobtrusively.  So I knew that  A) Out of everybody there it had to be him that was rubbing her the wrong way because it was a case of "One of these things is not like the other!..."  big_smile and B) he was probably not from Cali, more like the northeast, based on that body language and the fact that he was rubbing her, a native Californian, the wrong way.  And I was right!

I could have just messed with her and told her I was psychic.  Which I partly am, but I think a good deal of "intuition" comes from subtle body language and vocal clues.   Some people are more sensitive to others and pick up on this stuff better because they just have better observational skills in general. It's why I can spot a con artist a mile away, how I sense when people are insincere and fake, or true and genuine.   It's not reading their minds per se, it's reading their faces, voices, and body.   Even words, when it's via an email.  I don't have control over it, it just happens.  I just do it, with everybody I encounter.  It's very handy.

But if a person grasps the ability to read body / facial / vocal language and understands the workings of subtle linguistic cues, it opens up endless possibilities for what some would consider "black magic" abilities.  Black magic, because it involves manipulating unknowing asleep people for your own amusement or benefit.  I'm not putting judgment on it, just explaining why it would be considered this. It's an EXTREMELY powerful tool.   

On a related note there's a guy who's got these books out about how know if anybody is lying to you.  Some here may know what I'm talking about....?   His books are at any book store.   He's got reading people down to an absolute science, and I imagine it's what expertly trained detectives and such do when they're investigating and interrogating, which is all good.  But I think he's got a follow up book, if I remember correctly.............................about how to make anybody do what you want.  !!   I found the premise of that one pretty disturbing, but I'd have to take a look at it, see what he's actually proposing. 

All I can offer as a neutral sort of warning is, Be aware that there are people out there who do study this stuff, with the intention of misusing it.   So it's all the more reason to be alert and awake, and to really pay attention to yourself, and others, so you're on top of things in the event that you do cross paths with a manipulator who wants to misuse these abiltiies.

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And on a PS sidenote:

Here's a simple one that anybody here can try -  When making a post, or having a conversation, use an interesting word that doesn't normally come up too often in conversation, but which is still familiar enough to people that they would be comfortable using it themselves.  Slip it into your post, or into the verbal conversation.  Then sit back and watch as, sure enough, the word comes back to you, or you see / hear somebody else using it in their post, or while they talk.

I've seen this one happen at NR, and in person-to-person conversation.   

It seems so small and trivial, but it makes you realize how susceptible the mind is to implanted words, thoughts or ideas.  It gives us an inkling into why / how the media has such a stronghold on the population's thoughts and version of reality.  If you can alter the words that somebody else uses just by using interesting and unusual words yourself, then what else can you subtly impart on them??

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Okay, the Springmeirer books are tripping me out.

I read this last night:

Springmeier wrote:

MISS UNIVERSE CONTEST
The broadcast of the 1995 Miss Universe Contest did a very unusual freeze-framing of the show while it was on. The screen was mysteriously freeze-framed 9 times, this was a trigger for Illuminati Mothers of Darkness alters. A Mother of Darkness type throne was sat upon by the winner of the contest. An all-seeing-eye was flashed up on the screen with the code A MAY ZING written on it. This is the type of puns that the programmers enjoy. The winners of the contest came from INDIA, CANADA, and the USA. The order and names of those countries have to do with end times programming. The names were a code to certain Mothers of Darkness systems. India wore a Mother of Darkness type garment. Canada wore black and white, and USA wore Red. Miss India gave another code during the interviews, “If someone wants to put monkey’s on your back, if you stand up they get on your back.“

It doesn't explain the "A MAY ZING" code, but I saw it on TV this morning.  A promo commercial for the talkshow "Ellen" was advertising it's "A "MAY" ZING" upcoming May shows.

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The tools that make life fun.  :-)

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dreamosis wrote:

Okay, the Springmeirer books are tripping me out.

Yeah, that would be about the way to sum it up.   big_smile   They are a trip.  Not necessarily the types of books one can just sit down and read straight through like a normal book.   The way they're written is like either Fritz can't focus on writing coherent sentences, or else he was trying to cram pack the books full of information in a frenzy.  It's hard to tell which is the case.  I tend to use them more as a reference...anytime I want to see if a particular word or object or symbolism has a correlation in mind control, and if so, how, then I just run to the Fritz material.  Since there are copies available online, I can just do a "Control+F" to do a search, then type in the word I want to look up, and find all the instances where it appears in the document and go from there.   Sure beats trying to read the material straight through!  big_smile 



dreamosis wrote:

It doesn't explain the "A MAY ZING" code...

Yeah, that's the other thing.....it tells you what the endless codes supposedly are, but there aren't explanations for many of them.   Some he does explain, or it's implied or understood, but others I guess maybe it doesn't matter.


dreamosis wrote:

but I saw it on TV this morning.  A promo commercial for the talkshow "Ellen" was advertising it's "A "MAY" ZING" upcoming May shows.

Wow, that is weird.  !   I can see how it has innocent pun meanings, since it will soon be May in about a week or so, but maybe it has other double purposes behind it, you never know.   Something that's interesting to me at the moment is the idea of trigger phrases being embedded in movie posters and trailers.   Since so many people - probably most people - engage in some form of media entertainment, the easiest, fastest way that's guaranteed to reach a mass audience would be either TV or the movies.  And so if you decide you'd like to trigger some people who have particular programming, then of course do so via the adverts, posters and trailers that nearly everybody is going to see.

The first time I realized this was with regards to the tagline for the movie "Resident Evil 2."   

"My name is Alice...and I remember everything."

Just struck me as being a little...unusual.   Alice, as in Alice in Wonderland, which is one of the biggest mind control symbolisms in use, and the commanding phrase, "I remember EVERYTHING."   Just sounded to me a bit like, "Okay mind controlled kiddies, time to remember your programming."  wink

If someone is interested in looking into this, I suggest looking for those phrases that are most obvious in their overly suggestive and/or commanding tone;   phrases that don't seem to fit whatever was said before it, and seemed "tacked on" to the dialogue in some way, as well as those phrases that are the last "dun DUN DUNNNNN!!!!" thing spoken in a trailer or whatever, getting the spotlight emphasis.  It's a start, although certainly only the tip of the iceberg.   As Fritz's material illustrates, trigger codes and phrases can be far more intricate and covert.  The "A - MAY - ZING" thing for instance would have gone over my head.

Another thing that the Fritz material has been good for (and the Cathy O'brien book as well) is pointing out the heavy use of puns in programming.  Until reading these two authors, I never thought about puns.   In fact, I quickly came to realize that for some reason, my mind doesn't recognize puns!!   Only after reading the material was I slooooowly able to start recognizing that many CD titles for instance or band names or whatever utilize puns.   Some stuff I was recognizing was YEARS OLD!   Like all this time it never registered in my mind that it was a pun.  I took it literal.  Talk about weird.   I don't know how the mind works, or why that would be in my case, but I guess I'm not adept in the art of punning.   Whoosh, right over my head.

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lyra wrote:

"My name is Alice...and I remember everything."

I think that "I remember everything" may also refer to photographic memory - perhaps a skill that an "alter" or alternate personality has.

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For whatever reason (probably because I'm focused on it) I've been noticing references to mind control more and more in the last little while.
The other night on talk radio I heard a psychic who George Noory was interviewing refer to certain government personnel as "Kool-Aid drinkers."  I'd never heard the phrase before.  The psychic said that that's how contacts he has described the newest personnel in the intelligence agencies.

I looked it up on http://www.jargondatabase.com/Jargon.aspx?id=1323

jargondatebase.com wrote:

Kool-Aid drinkers
People so committed to a political cause or candidate that they senselessly ignore facts in conflict with their political viewpoint.

When I heard the term I immediately thought of Ken Kesey's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests and I thought the psychic was literally referring to LSD mind-control victims. ...Perhaps that is the subtext of the term.

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wandering1 wrote:
lyra wrote:

"My name is Alice...and I remember everything."

I think that "I remember everything" may also refer to photographic memory - perhaps a skill that an "alter" or alternate personality has.

Good point....it could definitely be that too, probably more so than the theory I had. 


dreamosis wrote:

When I heard the term I immediately thought of Ken Kesey's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests and I thought the psychic was literally referring to LSD mind-control victims. ...Perhaps that is the subtext of the term.

Huh....my first thought was Jonestown, Guyana, where the cult of Jim Jones all supposedly drank Kool Aid at his command and committed mass suicide.  (something like 900 people in the cult perished)  http://www.raptureready.com/rr-kool-aid.html    So possibly Kool Aid drinkers relates to cult members who would mindlessly follow orders to the point where they would even kill themselves by drinking laced Kool Aid.  Which is in itself mind control, so, it's all related.  smile

On a side note, the Jonestown massacre isn't what it seems to be though, and I remember that whywhywhy had a thread regarding it awhile back, something about how it was really a huge CIA mind control project gone awry, and everybody was offed in order to protect the CIA's butt.  Interesting stuff. 


dreamosis wrote:

For whatever reason (probably because I'm focused on it) I've been noticing references to mind control more and more in the last little while.

Yeah, that happened to me too after I learned about it.  Still is, actually.  I joke that I see mind control under every rock and around every corner.   big_smile   Sometimes it probably seems I get carried away with it all, but I swear, once you "learn the language" it's hard NOT to see it everywhere!

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lyra wrote:

I joke that I see mind control under every rock and around every corner.   big_smile   Sometimes it probably seems I get carried away with it all, but I swear, once you "learn the language" it's hard NOT to see it everywhere!

Don't know if you've seen the Dissociative Disorders thread
(http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3297), but in it I talk about a friend of mine who might've been mixed up in dark occult abuse/programming.  I don't think he has any alter-system, though.

I've been remembering more and more and more about my childhood relationship to him and...I don't know if I'm inventing connections, but as I go over the Springmeier material the craziest stuff keeps cropping up. 

For instance, Springmeier writes a crapload about Disney.  And then I remembered my friend, we'll call him A....his dad had a Disney villain obsession.  His office, their rec room, their knick-knack cabinets were all decorated with Walt Disney movie villains.  They had a white wood pool table that had the Disney villain faces custom-painted around the sides of the table.  And his dad had a villain-complex in general--something that my friend A. picked up.  Always wearing black, expensive gaudy jewelry, that kind of thing.  And even when videos were, like, $80 a pop, his family owned every Disney movie out on video.  They had Disney posters.  They gave my family one for Christmas. They went three times per year.  But, he didn't work for Disney or have family that did.  And he (the dad) wasn't a fun, cartoony guy--he was mean.  The Disney schtuff was all about status.  Why the villains...?

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Kool-Aid Drinkers!

Hasn't anyone heard of Jim Jones and Jonestown?

The children of the Jim Jones zombies were given Kool Aid laced with cyanide to drink.
The adults got a syringe full or were shot.  900 + people committed suicide or were
killed (probably by a Delta Force to keep a lid on the whole thing)

Unification Church anyone?

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In the nerd realms I have traveled. Kool-aid has been common slang. It's popular on tech sites like slashdot where I once was a regular. Both references lsd and cult being applicable. Considered derogatory... As far as symbolism goes, it may still be significant. But usage of the term seems common to me.

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dreamosis wrote:

Don't know if you've seen the Dissociative Disorders thread
(http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3297), but in it I talk about a friend of mine who might've been mixed up in dark occult abuse/programming.  I don't think he has any alter-system, though.

Yeah, I did see that thread.  It's such a huge, huge topic that I didn't even know what I could possibly contribute to it.  It's like, where does one even begin?   The only thing I can say about it all is to summarize that in a nutshell, it seems to me that anybody who's been badly abused as a child has probably got some mild form of DID capabilities that happened inadvertently as a result of the abuse.   That whole ability to "go someplace else" or go off into one's own little world more easily than non-abused people can.   What Fritz specifically is talking about are those kids who are purposely instilled with actual organized systems of alters with triggers and codes and the like, done by handlers who know what they're doing, probably within the more high end Illuminati satanic circles, but also within the military mind control experimentation and probably MILABS targets as well.

Those who aren't deliberately mind split by handlers, and develop DID by every day abuse when they were children will have that inadvertent fracturing off that occurs, but there's no organization to it necessarily.   It's just a big old messy psychological trauma going on.  I'm not sure if your friend has an alter-system, but from what I read he does sound mixed up, like he has residual psyche trauma from whatever was done to him as a kid.  That's horrible that you had to overhear something like that happening from the next room.  eeek.  God, I mean, there's no words.   Whatever I could say sounds stupid.  It's another reason I didn't post in that thread....just didn't know what to possibly say after reading that.   


dreamosis wrote:

For instance, Springmeier writes a crapload about Disney.  And then I remembered my friend, we'll call him A....his dad had a Disney villain obsession....... And he (the dad) wasn't a fun, cartoony guy--he was mean.  The Disney schtuff was all about status.  Why the villains...?

Hmm. Well, I don't know if it was about status so much as maybe:   A) the father himself was programmed with the Disney programming;  B) He was so dark on the inside that he was overcompensating for that by surrounding himself with imagery from what's known the world over as "the happiest place on earth."   You can't get more happy and positive and bouncy than Disney cartoon characters....right?   cough.  Or so they'd have us think.  wink   I really don't know though to be honest.

I will say this, and it struck me as being VERY interesting once I learned about the whole Disney thing in the Fritz material:

- I was not a fan of the Disney staple characters as a kid.  Mickey's cute, but the rest, forget it.  I wasn't much of a fan of Disney cartoons in general either, but I did have my Disney movie soundtrack records with all the famous songs from the cartoons and movies.  Played them into the ground!   Loved the music, if nothing else.
- Totally didn't like Peter Pan as a kid, in the absolute worst way, with no explanation for it.
- Became infatuated with the idea of Alice in Wonderland though later on as I got older.
- HATED the entire idea of Disneyland, and even though I lived in SoCal for 10 years, and worked at a hotel right next to the main gates of Disneyland for a year (!!) I refused to go, and loudly proclaimed my inexplicable detest for Disney.   It was my job to know all the important details about Disneyland for the bezillions of tourists that came to our hotel, so I could tell you the hours, the admission rates, the discount package deals, the fireworks schedule, the shuttle bus schedule, etc. and so on....but I'd never been there and hated it and never planned to step foot inside the gates if I could ever help it.

I mean, that's all a bit odd, huh?  !  It's like, Where'd THAT come from, you know??   I just hated Disney.   There were people all around me who considered themselves the alternative hipsters who were outside the mainstream, and they'd all been to Disneyland, multiple times.  It was my personal measuring gauge for how truly "outside the mainstream" somebody was.   Most people are all talk about how alternative they are, but it's just a deluded self image, it's how they'd like to see themselves. Can't be outside the mainstream when you're a fan of Disney.  Sorry.

Also hated Warner Brothers, and I hated all those stupid Disney and Warner Brothers stores in the malls in California.  Used to glare at the store fronts as I'd walk by.  haha 

When looking at the Fritz material it's not just about the symbolisms and things that stand out as being stuff we're very much into...........but also the ones that we've had inexplicable dislike for.

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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