#indoctrination?

[whathappensintherapy-official]

Indoctrination or Psychopathy?

How do you know if your problematic beliefs are cult indoctrination or just you being a naturally horrible person?

How do I know if I’m not just a psychopath?

What happens if a junior psychopath is raised in an RA/OA cult? Do they become me?

Dead rat under the cut don’t eat

I was a sadistic kid. I hated babies and thought it was funny when they cried. I daydreamed about being a deinonychus and eating the kids who made fun of me. I wasn’t a bully, I wasn’t mean to other kids for the hell of it, but I had a prey drive. I remember thinking babies were gross and stinky and stupid and ugly! I laughed my ass off at jokes about kicking babies off cliffs or shooting them out of a cannon and watching them go WAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaah ✨ into the stratosphere. I still think baby bbq and stabbing fetuses is hilarious as a concept. Maybe that’s why I’m not reacting as expected to the reading material…?

Then there’s the defensive disgust towards rape victims who allowed their rapists to leave the crime scene alive. My immediate response is how dare you disgrace women and degrade the human race by not removing rapists from the gene pool, how dare you refuse to die honorably by suicide if you are raped, how dare you fail to fight to the death. Which isn’t fair, but on some level I can’t *not* believe that. The only way I can make any other belief make sense is if I believe that women truly are weaker than men and helpless to male aggression, which is repugnant and I’m not going down the misogynist rabbit hole ever again. It feeds the perp introject and invalidates my own physical (nonsexual) abuse experiences.

I’ve tried to change my views and every time, alternate viewpoints just. Do. Not. Compute. and it confuses me.

—Ayesha

[massescapism]

Shep: *is quietly slurping noodles at the observatory with Kasumi and Tali*

Tali, to Kasumi: Oh, look, she’s practicing.

Kasumi: What for?

Tali: Our date tonight.

Shep: *chokes*

[epicarious]

I thought the whole point of education was to learn how to think not what to think

[siseffect]

Maybe Mass Effect is just one big recruiting tool for the military.... It kind of makes me want to join.