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Psycho Test

becomingagodo said:
If it was obvious why didn't everyone stop the conversation.
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Because we were having fun with it. You didn't grasp that. That is your ignorance.

I was trying to kill this thread, it is painful reading through people saying "I can understand a killers mind".
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So don't read it. Why do you have to crap on everyone else's fun?

And by the bye, all joking aside, I can understand a killer's mind. So can many others. Do you not think this is a valuable thing to know if one wishes to counter them? I have a thirteen year old daughter and an eleven year old son. I want to know what the people who want to hurt them are looking for in a victim, where, when and how they are going to try to attack, and why they want to hurt children in the first place. Isn't this more intelligent, if less "blissful", than trying to pretend that life is sunshine and butterflies and every one loves my kids?

They say ignorance is bliss, however it was painful reading through the thread.
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Q.E.D.

I am proberly the least ignorant in this forum, and I am the least blissful.
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My aunt fanny's fanny. Unless you are finally trying to make a joke. Were you finally trying to make a joke? Or are you content to just be one?
 
becomingagodo said:
If it was obvious why didn't everyone stop the conversation. I was trying to kill this thread, it is painful reading through people saying "I can understand a killers mind". They say ignorance is bliss, however it was painful reading through the thread.

I am proberly the least ignorant in this forum, and I am the least blissful.
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No, you're completely unaware of what a psychopath is if you honestly believe this. The poster you quoted said "psychopath," not killer. If you honestly believe that psychopath=killer, then you are ignorant as to the meaning of one or both of those words.

ETA: Also, you conflate "understand" with "I am a potential killer myself" or something. I don't know why you do this.
 
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If you honestly believe that psychopath=killer, then you are ignorant as to the meaning of one or both of those words.
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I thought we were using the terms vaguely in this thread, as in the question it implies psycho equals killer, well unless you change the title of the thread. So I was just using them vaguely.

Because we were having fun with it. You didn't grasp that. That is your ignorance.
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It not funny, maybe I can't understand some humour.

Isn't this more intelligent, if less "blissful", than trying to pretend that life is sunshine and butterflies and every one loves my kids?
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That is the same reasoning I used to continue reading the thread, even though it was painfully unfunny.

Everybody thinks their a comedian.
 
Hokulele said:
Please, walk me through your train of thought. I need more psycho on a Wednesday.

(Plus, it will piss BAG off, which is a good thing.)
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The first thing I realised when I read this is that it was a trick question of some kind, and I surmised that the "killing the sister" bit is probably where the equivocation would be. Given my own history (for those that do not know, our third child was stillborn) and that the anti-abortion people use "murder" to describe the practice, I figured the most likely way for someone to twist "killing" a relative" would be thusly.

Her mother already being deceased, the only avenue to produce a sister to kill in this way would be the father. the possibility existed that the father had an affair or otherwised created a new child with another woman, but the possibility that the woman in the puzzle should know about a new sister created this way in order to do something about it within "a few days" would be very slim. The only way to "kill" the sister would be unwittingly, and the most likely way to unwittingly abort a pregnancy in that time frame is the RU 486 pill.

Given that there was absolutely no explicit information given about the father at all, there was not reason to make the leap to the woman giving the unmentioned father's unmentioned mistress the pill. However, the statement that the woman "fell in love" with an unknown man at the party, and that weddings are frequently the scene of impulsive hookups, gives motive and plausibility for the woman to take the pill herself. An incestuous relationship with her father is the only way for the woman to have aborted her own sister.

The possibility the father was estranged, and a funeral for the mother being a likely reason for an unlikely reappearance by an estranged father are both plausible. Further, there are a number of urban legends on Snopes describing just exactly incestuous liasons of this nature. These urban legends usually feature later discovery of the misdeed, and such discovery would further motivate the woman to take the pill, so I included that.


Just goes to show what kind of damage a little unstated premise can do. :)
 
Piscivore said:
Just goes to show what kind of damage a little unstated premise can do. :)
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I can't argue with your logic, and hereby submit that you win the first "tears of becomingagodo" award for exceptional psychopathy in the field of psychopathy.
 
Marquis de Carabas said:
So what does it mean if one's answer was ultimately, physics? Um, a friend wants to know.
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I was wondering the same thing, and I think the answer is that you're a danger to society and should be immediately locked up for the good of the children and goats.

Also, it means you're not a psycho, so at least there's that.
 
Monty Python's "Undertaker Sketch", it means he wants to eat his mother. Not live, but with a bit of brocolli.
 
Piscivore said:

The first thing I realised when I read this is that it was a trick question of some kind, and I surmised that the "killing the sister" bit is probably where the equivocation would be. Given my own history (for those that do not know, our third child was stillborn) and that the anti-abortion people use "murder" to describe the practice, I figured the most likely way for someone to twist "killing" a relative" would be thusly.

Her mother already being deceased, the only avenue to produce a sister to kill in this way would be the father. the possibility existed that the father had an affair or otherwised created a new child with another woman, but the possibility that the woman in the puzzle should know about a new sister created this way in order to do something about it within "a few days" would be very slim. The only way to "kill" the sister would be unwittingly, and the most likely way to unwittingly abort a pregnancy in that time frame is the RU 486 pill.

Given that there was absolutely no explicit information given about the father at all, there was not reason to make the leap to the woman giving the unmentioned father's unmentioned mistress the pill. However, the statement that the woman "fell in love" with an unknown man at the party, and that weddings are frequently the scene of impulsive hookups, gives motive and plausibility for the woman to take the pill herself. An incestuous relationship with her father is the only way for the woman to have aborted her own sister.

The possibility the father was estranged, and a funeral for the mother being a likely reason for an unlikely reappearance by an estranged father are both plausible. Further, there are a number of urban legends on Snopes describing just exactly incestuous liasons of this nature. These urban legends usually feature later discovery of the misdeed, and such discovery would further motivate the woman to take the pill, so I included that.


Just goes to show what kind of damage a little unstated premise can do. :)
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See, I'd just assumed that she'd found out her sister was banging the guy and wanted to free him up. I wonder if that makes me less psychopathic than you, or just less imaginitive.
 
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becomingagodo said:
Also, how much can you read the same I'm a psycho joke? once is okay, however five posts of I thought I was normal, but I'm a psycho is not funny.
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Oh, I don't know? How many ways can you reframe the same cantankerous post and pretend it's new?

If you have no sense of humor and cannot see that people are just joshin' and jokin', then traipse off elsewhere and save some other misguided souls, please.

It's a fake test, based on a false premise, and being promulgated by urban legend emails. What's not to poke fun at?

Sheeeesh!


ETA: Ooops! I hadn't seen that we were twenty posts further along and that several had more than adequately covered the above....
 
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becomingagodo said:
So you can understand why people would go out and murder defenseless people, or even worse kill lots of children?

If you got the anwser to the question right, it means nothing. Firstly it is a lie i.e. it was not a psychological test, it not even clear that a psycho would get the correct anwser. So without testing this on psychos we wouldn't know if they instantly gave the correct anwser. Secondly, you can't pin down a complex human behaviour to a simple question, if you got the anwser right it means nothing.
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You can add a third, which is that it's been around long enough that getting it right might just mean you've seen it before.
 
Why not kill your relatives? You skeptics are very close-minded about the random killing of loved ones.
People actually don't taste like chicken.

But they are very tasty in their own way.
 
autumn1971 said:
Why not kill your relatives? You skeptics are very close-minded about the random killing of loved ones.
People actually don't taste like chicken.

But they are very tasty in their own way.
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You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore
 
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