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Oct 29, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

"functional psychopathy"

Did you coin this? It's worth dozens of words compressed into two.

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It's probably been used before, but it came fresh into my mind!

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Oct 30, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

I just googled "functional psycopathy" and the first result was: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joe.21897

They're using it differently than you. Your usage is essentially, "acting like a psycopath would while not being a psycopath," vs theirs is the behavior of psycopaths who are able to function in society.

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Oct 28, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

Imagine there's a guy in your town. You've always known of him, growing up, because all the pillars of the community insist he's a great and special guy, but cursed with bad luck. He also has a handful of ex-roommates that seem to absolutely despise him, but they're all considered lowlifes.

What you've always heard is that he likes to live with a bunch of roommates, but that he seems to get into dysfunctional houses where everyone picks on him, singles him out, they gang up on him and he has to leave.

If you ask the ex-roommates, most are afraid to talk about him at all. Those who do say that the house and its inhabitants did have some flaws, and that this guy would exploit them to sow self-doubt and pit the other housemates against each other. He seemed to somehow always end up in control of the house's finances, and became an unofficial spokesman for the group. Then, when the house started to implode, he would tell the whole town about how toxic his housemates were and how they were out to get him.

The ex-housemates are generally low-status in the community, but it begins to appear as though their reputation crashed right around the time they turned on this one guy, who came out looking like a victim and smelling like a rose. One of his most recent roommates was a psycho who even tried to kill him!

Eventually, he decides to get a place of his own. A number of high-profile figures help him move in. Immediately, all his neighbors turn on him. Cursed again! Recently, a bum from off the street broke into his house and pulled a knife on him. He called for help as he fended off the attacker, who was screaming that it was his house, that the guy had gotten him evicted and was now squatting in his home.

You tell me. If someone told you this story about a guy in their town, would you believe him to be extraordinarily unlucky? When chaos and discord follow a single person like this, everywhere he goes, how likely is it that he is simply a disaster magnet? Perhaps an alternative hypothesis is worth considering.

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Let's quote JBP in a manner in which he would disapprove: “So you’re a young man and all the women are rejecting you? Who’s got the problem? It’s not all the women. That’s a bad road to go down, if all the women are rejecting you? It’s you.”

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Oct 28, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

Lest I be accused of missing the point, I will admit this was an opportunistic comment in search of an article.

I'll temper it with this: I read that 86% of Israelis blame Netanyahu for the recent attacks by Hamas. Compare that to Bush's 90+% approval rating after 9/11. This gives me hope that positive change can come from within Israeli society.

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Reminds me that I totally forgot to include something I was planning to: that Hamas wouldn't exist today (at least not in its current form) if Israel had not supported them in the early years as a "bad cop" to the PLO's "good cop." Divide and conquer. And then Netanyahu funded them for the same reason!

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Do you present that as justification for the Hamas attack or as argument for why Israel should not respond to that attack?

In real life, difficult choices are sometimes forced between two evils. Results vary.

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"Do you present that as justification for the Hamas attack"

Nope. Explanation and context, but not justification.

"or as argument for why Israel should not respond to that attack?"

Nope.

"In real life, difficult choices are sometimes forced between two evils. Results vary."

Yep.

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Oct 28, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

All these points are very well-taken.

I subscribe to Dave Rubin's channel at Locals (a social network he helped invent) which is now part of Rumble. Dave was raised Jewish and has many Jewish friends who are considered today to be "conservative" though in past times they may have been considered more "liberal." He supports Israel and so accepts Israel's justifications for its own behaviors.

My subscription gives me the right to comment on his posts, and so I do.

But I am not a Jew but a Scientologist. And I am not ready to accept assertions that seem "obvious" to others. So every time I comment on a post that has to do with the current conflict, I remind the others that there might be more to this situation than what is obvious.

I might make a few observations in response to your post. First, it does align with my own certitude that there is more going on here that no one is noticing or talking about.

Hubbard always offered his work in the context of human conflict, and particularly the last great war, when he spent most of his time in the Pacific Theater. He asserted that at the root of our problem are mechanisms that push us into irrational behaviors (or reactions). These are mental mechanisms that we all share and must all learn to rise above. And that is not that easy to do. Yet he believed this process to be the key to lessening human conflict to more tolerable (and livable) levels.

Hubbard became involved in the management of the schools that he founded. And that led him to an interest in subjects like PR. PR involves making good works well known. This becomes a problem if the organization originating the PR has not done anything good. An ethical PR Officer does not lie to the public, as that is the worst PR imaginable. Unethical PR Officers become propagandists. And that is mostly what we see today. We should not de-legitimize the PR profession, though, simply because of all the propaganda being offered as PR. Many people in PR are working hard to stay honest and to keep their organizations honest.

While we must acknowledge a range or "spectrum" of psychopathy, Hubbard had a rule for when a being crosses that line. And that is when the being begins to compulsively stop. A full blown psychopath even works compulsively to stop himself!

Hubbard developed a process designed to rehabilitate the psychopath, but conceded that many would refuse treatment. He then came up with suggestions for handling such people, which mostly consists of social isolation. The problem, of course, is to develop socially acceptable processes for identifying psychopaths so that they can be separated out and handled. So far we have not achieved this.

One method to use when a violent conflict is active or about to heat up is called the Third Party Law. Psychopaths normally act to foment discord by secretly lying to both sides of the conflict. They then use these lies to justify violence. If you can get the fighting parties to meet, you may be able to discover who is lying to them about "the enemy." Of course, the true enemy is the psychopath, and both sides can often be convinced of this fact. I don't know that this has ever been tested at the level of geopolitics. It has been used successfully in businesses. And Tony Muhammad asserts that he has used it to reduce violence between rival gangs in Los Angeles.

Though I try to stay level-headed and rational about Hubbard's contributions, when things get as bad as they are now, it all becomes more urgent. I am well aware that this style of writing cannot "convert" anyone. But the work is there to be studied, has been there since the 1970s, and really does deserve to be studied and discussed. I realize that the fact that this work exists on Earth is in fact hard to believe. I have come to understand that we are very lucky here; that this work has become available through a series of odd events that might well have never happened here. We should take advantage of the fact that these events happened, and at least inform ourselves of this work. It could some day save our butts, It already has saved many.

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"Psychopaths normally act to foment discord by secretly lying to both sides of the conflict. They then use these lies to justify violence. If you can get the fighting parties to meet, you may be able to discover who is lying to them about "the enemy." Of course, the true enemy is the psychopath, and both sides can often be convinced of this fact."

I really like this.

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Oct 28, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

"The problem, of course, is to develop socially acceptable processes for identifying psychopaths so that they can be separated out and handled. So far we have not achieved this."

My multi-webpage study (and forthcoming book) on this subject contains several references to the work of Dr. Robert Hare and the internationally recognized "Gold Standard" test he developed to determine spectrum levels for what I call, socio-psychopathy. My "introductory" website is: www.nomoreinsanity.org.

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Did you ever look at Hubbard's work on the Suppressive Person?

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No, the only experience I ever had with Scientology was when a wealthy friend of mine asked me to help him evaluate their program(s), back in the mid 70s. We both became quite put off when they kept sending in several different groups of their members to alternately promise all kinds of improved states of mind if ... he would just keep giving them more money to achieve "higher states" of various levels of awareness. We finally told them we weren't interested, but they were quite persistent and eventually approached insulting rudeness over several days of various forms of near harassment.

Never got around to examining their concept of, "Suppressive Person" ... unless that was their live demonstration of same.

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I am afraid that's what YOU were demonstrating by going in there as investigators rather than interested parishioners. If you want to investigate Scientology, study their materials and then see if you can apply them independently and measure the results.

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Oh, I can assure you that we had studied their material before we invited them to come talk to us. It just rapidly became obvious that there was greed at work on their behalf.

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You mean "greed" like wanting to earn a living so you can feed your family?

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> But I am not a Jew but a Scientologist.

So what do you think about Hubbard's doctrine of "Fair Game"? From the outside it sounds remarkably similar to your description of psychopathy.

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If you want to find out more about this, you should ask my church, not me.

You are referring to something that can only be understood in the context of Hubbard's Ethics and Justice technology. It for sure does not include violence or torture. Every individual and group must set boundaries for itself. You can't avoid doing that and survive.

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Oct 27, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

Thanks so much for translating the book; it is filled with so many insights and has helped me put together so many things. It all makes so much sense and has taken much of the questioning out of the dark—it really is happening in real time now.

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https://journaloforgonomy.substack.com/p/the-emotional-plague-in-everyday?r=8t00m&sort=new I wanted to make you aware of a different perspective when it comes to the understandings of pathologies of evil.

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Interesting and resonant stuff as usual - thanks. Decades into something resembling adulthood now, and I’m as amazed as ever at the way partisanship blinds people to the routine dishonesty and manipulative rhetoric of pols both left and right. Seems like this is being exacerbated by the wonders of modern technology. No alternative but to reserve space for skepticism re media while prepping escape plans on the side. Having spent a lot of time in inner-city environs (as a high school teacher), the description of the dynamics of evil in socially stressed places rings true.

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It's like a switch goes off in people's minds. And no matter how resistant a person seems in other situations, there's always a circumstance that can flip that switch.

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Oct 28, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

Thank you for a very insightful article! It helps to understand the underlying dynamics of the conflict.

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This was great! Very insightful, nuanced, and clarifying overview of this crazy conflict!

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> Evil Only Comes Where It's Invited

No it doesn't. Evil is perfectly willing to break into your home, steal your stuff and rape your wife.

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The title was a play on a vampire theme, which relates to the concepts I discussed in the article. But thank you for your unrelated counter-example.

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It's not unrelated. By your logic, had you taken precautions perhaps shot the intruder, you would have been "inviting evil".

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It is unrelated. The article is about social dynamics, and the ways in which moral errors open the door to greater evils--not about individual instances of criminal behavior. You basically read the title, thought of an example that countered the surface meaning of the title without any reference to what it referred to, and then claimed that is "my logic." Read the article for my logic.

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Oct 28, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

And you in fact did. People have been arrested and tried for shooting intruders. If you really want no intruders, make your house impenetrable.

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> People have been arrested and tried for shooting intruders.

Which is itself a sign that our judicial systems are slipping towards anarcho-tyranny.

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The very fact that there are rapist intruders running around is an example of the dynamic I laid out in the article: it is a sign that something has already gone very wrong.

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Rapists running around is the normal state of affairs. Times and places where that is not the case have historically been few and far between and have involved a powerful state with strong rule of law.

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Sayonara!

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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. Harrison appears to have fallen for it.

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Funny.

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THIS STINKS OF PSYCHO GLOBALIST PARASITE FALSE FLAG OPS TO KEEP THE PROLES KILLING EACH OTHER WHILE THEY (THE RULING SCUM) PLOT TOTAL SLAVERY. AND THEIR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX GROWS RICHER AND RICHER!

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There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!

THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.

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Creative performing arts, fine arts and literary arts are the best part of being human and the thing the globalist predator technocrat megalomaniac total slavery control freaks most want to destroy.

Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.

I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL!

There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!

I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.

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Kudos to Harrison Koehli's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!

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I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.

They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!

All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.

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We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!

We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.

There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.

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RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!

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MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!

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NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!

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https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/

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ZIONISM is Satanism

What else would you expect? FLowers for the Palestine children?

NO, Satan always brings death where it goes

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