u/Tennant48

I've been wondering if Lord Hanuman would be able to defeat Balram ... Ive heard people tell me the only people who could defeat Balrama would be Shiva or Vishnu and that Balram was so powerful and strong he could have destroyed the Kauravas in a heartbeat. I naturally wondered if Lord Hanuman could be up to it cause if we look at the description of his strength , he is very very powerful plus considering how much is power increases in his five head form with one of them being narsimha himself, I found this question genuinely intriguing and id love to know your take on it .

what a book ! diving into a "romance" by brando , i expected a love story with some cute moments and largely fantasy . boy I was wrong . yes admittedly the middle part got repetitive and the romance between the characters was largely feeling like irritation but somehow in retrospect it felt authentic and valid , i can't explain how but it somehow just worked for the better . the love story felt so close and genuine and real . it made me laugh , cry , chuckle and hold my breath . but enough talk about the romance cause I feel a lot of other things about yumi and the nightmare painter get overlooked in the obviously severely underrated love story . the worlds ? one of surface that would burn you and the other filled of literal living nightmares and eternal night , just wow and the way he was written them and filled in the lore just makes it so distant and otherworldly yet familiar. it shouldn't work it sounds like a contrast a kid would write in his notebook comic yet brando makes it work so poetically . the scholars? the machine ? i was genuinely impressed when instead of portraying it has a machine gone rogue it was shown as a machine who thought it was doing its job while oblivious that it's method is wrong . and boy oh boy the sanderlanche , the scene while the painter fights the nightmares while while yumi battles the machine using her skills . pure goosebumps. and at last coming to end , i was devastated the moment yumi disappeared in front of the painter . that scene broke me . yes i know she came back but the hole in my heart that scene made , the tears couldn't be taken back . i end this with the beautiful words of their reunions :

*our world , our rules*

let's take a stroll back to the 1960s , to yale university where stanley milgram and his team conducted one of the most controversial experiments to date .

the milgram experiment was conducted with the intention of studying and exploring how much flexibility the human mind exerts on itself under the influence of an authoritative figure in which obedience clashes with their personal conscience. but before that , one must understand the train that led to it .

1940s- adolf hitler gathers a whole country under the flag and kicks off wwii . after his eventual defeat, one question lingers around - what allowed him to sweep the whole nation under hai ideology and plans ? all personnel , both military and scientific hoped the trials of nazi war criminals and masterminds conducted largely at nuremberg and later at various locations would answer this question in perspectives of war strategy and psychological radicalisation . two of the most important trials include the trial of hermann göring from 1945 to 1946 by IMT at nuremberg and adolf eichmann in 1961 at jerusalem , the latter being the cause of curiosity that striking stanley milgram and other researchers . they question posed was that if the claim that they were just following orders and are not responsible for the atrocities was credible or not .

which brings us back to the 60s where milgram devised an experiment to deduce the lingering questions . they organised an experiment with one set of volunteers ( teachers) were ordered by a trusted figure to induce electric shocks to the other set of volunteers ( learners , who were in reality a part of the team behind it ) who were strapped to electric chairs . they were ordered to increase the voltage gradually till the maximum.

the procedure involved the teacher to provide electric shocks to the learners under the order of the experimenter who would be dressed in medical coats to command trust and authority. the volunteers were all paid and were made to believe that they would be sorted into teachers and learners using a paper slip draw , but in reality all the slips said teacher and the learners in the chairs were all actors . the twist here was that none of the learners were actually strapped and were ordered to plead and scream for mercy ( other sources state the screams and pleads were pre-recorded) as the voltage was gradually increased by the teacher who was made to believe that the purpose of the test was to find out if punishment for wrong answers helps the learner recall and fit ideas into memory better .

the results were unexpectedly scary as the nearly all teachers went all the way up to the highest voltage despite all the pleading and screaming by the learners and knowing that the maximum voltage setting was most likely fatal and horrifying. they did all this because the authoritative figure , the experimenter , told them . this gave them a sense of transfer of responsibility and believe that the cause was good , allowing them to comfortably shed their conscience without even realising it .

this proved to be a dark reminder that even common people, free of all radicalisation and indoctrination will revert to inhuman behaviour if influenced by an authoritative figure to gives them a pseudo sense of claiming they were just following orders. the flexibility of the human mind to shed it's conscience with the arrival of a higher figure to blame reminds us that any human mind is capable of unimaginable atrocities if influenced by the wrong figure.

and it's not a question of personalities and ideologies as this experiment proved that most people will go to any length of cruelty if they are made to believe it's for a good cause .

in the aftermath, the experiment was justly labelled as unethical ,due to inflicting guilt and sense of being manipulated in the volunteers, yet it's interpretations cemented itself into the study of the human mind and the holocaust. conformity is a concept all are familiar with but perhaps the extent it can bend the mind is underestimated . the same was used to justify the claims of a lot of subordinates in the nazi regime who said they were following orders and didn't fully release their role in the genocide though , many believe many nazis were well aware of the machine they were running all along .

milgram experiment definitely proves to be one of the most unethical and dark experiments ever conducted, conditioning volunteers to perform cruelty under the pretense of a good purpose. yet it opened an insight into the human mind that is both fascinating and utterly scary .

let's take a stroll back to the 1960s , to yale university where stanley milgram and his team conducted one of the most controversial experiments to date . 

the milgram experiment was conducted with the intention of studying and exploring how much flexibility the human mind exerts on itself under the influence of an authoritative figure in which obedience clashes with their personal conscience. but before that , one must understand the train that led to it . 

1940s- adolf hitler gathers a whole country under the flag and kicks off wwii . after his eventual defeat, one question lingers around - what allowed him to sweep the whole nation under hai ideology and plans ? all personnel , both military and scientific hoped the trials of nazi war criminals and masterminds conducted largely at nuremberg and later at various locations would answer this question in perspectives of war strategy and psychological radicalisation . two of the most important trials include the trial of hermann göring from 1945 to 1946 by IMT at nuremberg and adolf eichmann in 1961 at jerusalem , the latter being the cause of curiosity that striking stanley milgram and other researchers . they question posed was that if the claim that they were just following orders and are not responsible for the atrocities was credible or not .

which brings us back to the 60s where milgram devised an experiment to deduce the lingering questions . they organised an experiment with one set of volunteers ( teachers) were ordered by a trusted figure to induce electric shocks to the other set of volunteers ( learners , who were in reality a part of the team behind it ) who were strapped to electric chairs . they were ordered to increase the voltage gradually till the maximum. 

the procedure involved the teacher to provide electric shocks to the learners under the order of the experimenter who would be dressed in medical coats to command trust and authority. the volunteers were all paid and were made to believe that they would be sorted into teachers and learners using a paper slip draw , but in reality all the slips said teacher and the learners in the chairs were all actors . the twist here was that none of the learners were actually strapped and were ordered to plead and scream for mercy ( other sources state the screams and pleads were pre-recorded) as the voltage was gradually increased by the teacher who was made to believe that the purpose of the test was to find out if punishment for wrong answers helps the learner recall and fit ideas into memory better . 

the results were unexpectedly scary as the nearly all teachers went all the way up to the highest voltage despite all the pleading and screaming by the learners and knowing that the maximum voltage setting was most likely fatal and horrifying. they did all this because the authoritative figure , the experimenter , told them . this gave them a sense of transfer of responsibility and believe that the cause was good , allowing them to comfortably shed their conscience without even realising it .

this proved to be a dark reminder that even common people, free of all radicalisation and indoctrination will revert to inhuman behaviour if influenced by an authoritative figure to gives them a pseudo sense of claiming they were just following orders. the flexibility of the human mind to shed it's conscience with the arrival of a higher figure to blame reminds us that any human mind is capable of unimaginable atrocities if influenced by the wrong figure. 

and it's not a question of personalities and ideologies as this experiment proved that most people will go to any length of cruelty if they are made to believe it's for a good cause .

in the aftermath, the experiment was justly labelled as unethical ,due to inflicting guilt and sense of being manipulated in the volunteers, yet it's interpretations cemented itself into the study of the human mind and the holocaust. conformity is a concept all are familiar with but perhaps the extent it can bend the mind is underestimated . the same was used to justify the claims of a lot of subordinates in the nazi regime who said they were following orders and didn't fully release their role in the genocide though , many believe many nazis were well aware of the machine they were running all along .

milgram experiment definitely proves to be one of the most unethical and dark experiments ever conducted, conditioning volunteers to perform cruelty under the pretense of a good purpose. yet it opened an insight into the human mind that is both fascinating and utterly scary .

let's take a stroll back to the 1960s , to yale university where stanley milgram and his team conducted one of the most controversial experiments to date .

the milgram experiment was conducted with the intention of studying and exploring how much flexibility the human mind exerts on itself under the influence of an authoritative figure in which obedience clashes with their personal conscience. but before that , one must understand the train that led to it .

1940s- adolf hitler gathers a whole country under the flag and kicks off wwii . after his eventual defeat, one question lingers around - what allowed him to sweep the whole nation under hai ideology and plans ? all personnel , both military and scientific hoped the trials of nazi war criminals and masterminds conducted largely at nuremberg and later at various locations would answer this question in perspectives of war strategy and psychological radicalisation . two of the most important trials include the trial of hermann göring from 1945 to 1946 by IMT at nuremberg and adolf eichmann in 1961 at jerusalem , the latter being the cause of curiosity that striking stanley milgram and other researchers . they question posed was that if the claim that they were just following orders and are not responsible for the atrocities was credible or not .

which brings us back to the 60s where milgram devised an experiment to deduce the lingering questions . they organised an experiment with one set of volunteers ( teachers) were ordered by a trusted figure to induce electric shocks to the other set of volunteers ( learners , who were in reality a part of the team behind it ) who were strapped to electric chairs . they were ordered to increase the voltage gradually till the maximum.

the procedure involved the teacher to provide electric shocks to the learners under the order of the experimenter who would be dressed in medical coats to command trust and authority. the volunteers were all paid and were made to believe that they would be sorted into teachers and learners using a paper slip draw , but in reality all the slips said teacher and the learners in the chairs were all actors . the twist here was that none of the learners were actually strapped and were ordered to plead and scream for mercy ( other sources state the screams and pleads were pre-recorded) as the voltage was gradually increased by the teacher who was made to believe that the purpose of the test was to find out if punishment for wrong answers helps the learner recall and fit ideas into memory better .

the results were unexpectedly scary as the nearly all teachers went all the way up to the highest voltage despite all the pleading and screaming by the learners and knowing that the maximum voltage setting was most likely fatal and horrifying. they did all this because the authoritative figure , the experimenter , told them . this gave them a sense of transfer of responsibility and believe that the cause was good , allowing them to comfortably shed their conscience without even realising it .

this proved to be a dark reminder that even common people, free of all radicalisation and indoctrination will revert to inhuman behaviour if influenced by an authoritative figure to gives them a pseudo sense of claiming they were just following orders. the flexibility of the human mind to shed it's conscience with the arrival of a higher figure to blame reminds us that any human mind is capable of unimaginable atrocities if influenced by the wrong figure.

and it's not a question of personalities and ideologies as this experiment proved that most people will go to any length of cruelty if they are made to believe it's for a good cause .

in the aftermath, the experiment was justly labelled as unethical ,due to inflicting guilt and sense of being manipulated in the volunteers, yet it's interpretations cemented itself into the study of the human mind and the holocaust. conformity is a concept all are familiar with but perhaps the extent it can bend the mind is underestimated . the same was used to justify the claims of a lot of subordinates in the nazi regime who said they were following orders and didn't fully release their role in the genocide though , many believe many nazis were well aware of the machine they were running all along .

milgram experiment definitely proves to be one of the most unethical and dark experiments ever conducted, conditioning volunteers to perform cruelty under the pretense of a good purpose. yet it opened an insight into the human mind that is both fascinating and utterly scary .

im curious as to how fabrials work ... when and how did the practice of trapping sprens to powerr devices start ? was this a practice before the day of the recreance or was this discovered later on? also what is the moral stature of such a practice cause I know they consider lesser sprens like windspren and firespren as being okay cause they don't have intelligence which is kinda mean but fine ... what about higher sprens cause wouldn't that be literal kidnapping and slavery ... and how exactly do they work like do they drain the spren or force it to obey commands ... also what is the difference between the ancient and modern fabrials ... is there a power difference or functional difference?

ive read about a lot of chilling mental issues that make one question the mysteries of the human mind but there is something quite different about shared psychotic disorder or *folie à deux/plusiers* ... be it the spectrum of its effects or be it just how dark or haunting it can get , it pushes the limit of how much a mind can bend ... for those who are not aware of this , ill simplify it as follows :

it occurs in a group of two and more where the leading figure in the group suffers from delusions , voices , schizophrenia amongst other things ... the other people that live or spend time with him slowly start to believe in his delusions and actions over the period of a time until the induced beliefs result in them all sharing the same thoughts and taking actions ( shared psychosis ) that are usually towards their own harm and otherwise

from what i observed, the most common outcomes listed are usually events like collective isolation from society or food , mass suicide , occult traditions amongst slightly less extreme ones like aggressive refusal of company or the world is ending panic ... tho i believe categorising them into such is unjust as a vast majority of cases are largely overlooked as they don't talk into extreme criminal or medical situations ... a lot of the following cases are known but not immediately recognised under SPD/SDD condition... there are and must be a variety of cases where SPD/SDD manifests into disorders which affect the said people but do not necessarily seem problematic to society at first , like aggressive refusal to comply to medical care or a group collectively performing seemingly harmless rituals or talking to non existent family or friends or believing they can talk to someone who is dead out of grief etc

but more so my fascination ( and goosebumps ) originate from just how much variation and spectrum there is to this seemingly hidden issue than just , whether it be the inducer or the induced , bends his/her mind to corners and nooks that are both chilling and proof of just how complex and utterly scary the human mind can be

i would love to know your thoughts and bring this discussion ahead to better understand and explore this condition , be through it a mental point of view or case/example based view or a completely fresh take

so what are your thoughts?