Skull Bearer's 'not to' list has been updated....

[skull_bearer]

...to include:

Do Not visit the Imperial War Museum while having a psychic day. You'll start picking up all the bad vibes around the renovated bombs and start to feel sick and dizzy. Also, visiting the Holocaust section is probably a bad idea too.

(seriously, I couldn't go near one of the exibits, I nearly fell over)

The whole list, which comprises of some several thousand tid-bits of information, remains one of the least heeded bits of advice in Skull Bearer's brain, thus she has nobody to blame but herself if she had to sit down on the floor halfway through her visit.

(It was a cool trip though, the museum's great and I learnt a lot. Sadly, the above lesson will not be one of those)

Incidentally, I am working on those lists.

Comments

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's discomforting to know that we all have so much evil -or rather so much uncaring- in ourselves. For example, you can turn anybody into a killer by giving them the right reasons, be it bribing or threats. I suppose, under extreme circumstances, over 90% of all people would reveal some very nasty character traits. Also the saying that power corrupts I don't think is quite right. Everybody has these dark sides from the beginning, but as long as there's something to hold us back, they don't show.
It's fascinating, but it scares the hell out of me, too.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

There was this one experiment, I think it was done in the aftermath of the Holocaust, where they took a bunch of random people into a room where there was this person rigged up to an electrical generator. A person of authority then told them to pull a lever. The person tied to the generator started to scream, as though they were being eletrocuted. Again and again the authority told the person to pull the lever, and the vast majority did. The person connected to the generator was an actor, and no one was being hurt, but the person being tested didn't know this. Some continued to give shocks even after the actor feigned death.

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

We did that in philosophy at school (that was one of the few subjects I liked!) and yes, it disturbed me, too. It shows how readily people do anything if they only can say "I had to!" or "They told me to do it!".
If I remember correctly, people accepted it best when the people who told them to push the button wore uniforms or medical attire, because that made them authority figures. People are always ready to clear their coscience by blaming others, even if it happens subconciously.