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Aeschylus: Killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle (possibly a lammergeier or Cinereous vulture, which open tortoises for eating by dropping them on hard objects) which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell.

>>2102
w-was the tortoise ok ; __ ;

I just read the comic and it was fucking surreal. I can't believe something this animalistic was allowed to continue until 2011. I don't know if schools like this still exist but I genuinely hope that they don't.

>>2078
This extreme? Probably not, but something similar might.

>>2071
I really wanted to learn why MC got sent here, when I found out it was because he planned to distribute drugs to other High Schoolers I kind of lost all empathy for him, kind of a scumbag.

>>2071
I remember reading an AMA on Reddit about this. I read the first few chapters years ago but didn't finish the comic (I don't remember the exact reason). The comic was interesting though and even a few chapters was enough to understand the severity of the situation the writer found himself in. And yes, I believe cults like this still exists.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/2xofqe/i_am_a_survivor_of_the_%C3%A9lan_school_an_abusive/

After looking through all these, I found out about Judge Rotenberg Educational Centre, Tobinworld, and all other behavioural schools. Makes me wonder how these places still continues to exist.

>>2091
Because those with money need to have a place where they can send problem children, while simultaneous are aware that juvie will hurt the childs prospects later in life. The compromise is that instead of having the child go to juvie for being a delinquent, you pay enormous sums of money to have your children go to not-juvie that isn't held under the same regulation oversights.

This could all be solved if parents would actually take time to discipline and control their children themselves, but for one reason or another, they have enough spare income to throw at the problem as opposed to deal with it themselves.

All the social media and phones are making people so dumb and weird

>>2042
Manslaughter. If these people got the book thrown at them young girls might stop trying to eat each other in anything but in person, and that's fine.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/us/michelle-carter-text-suicide-release/index.html
> Carter, now 23, began serving a 15-month sentence in February, but she earned time off her sentence for good behavior, according to Jonathan Darling, spokesman at the Bristol County Sheriff's Office.
>"Ms. Carter has been a model inmate here at the Bristol County House of Corrections. She has participated in a variety of programs, held a job inside the jail, has been polite to our staff and volunteers, has gotten along with the other inmates, and we've had no discipline issues with her whatsoever," Darling said.

>"You're dealing with an individual who wanted to take his own life. … He dragged Michelle Carter into this."

She was by all accounts a sociable, charming, entirely well-behaved person who has completely finished serving her time after being convicted of telling her boyfriend to follow his dreams. If the courts did not find her a murderer, and law enforcement does not treat her as a murderer, if the law does not label her a murderer, and the boyfriend's own mother does not speak of her as a murderer, then how could it be legitimate if I were to call her a murderer?

>>2058
Your first problem is that no one in the actual criminal proceeding was considering her a murderer, no one who knows what they word actually means was accusing her of that. They were instead accusing her of manslaughter, which, by definition, is not murder. You have built up a straw man and knocked it down, congratulations.

Second, a consensus is not reality, I don't believe anyone is arguing the legality of what she has done, if we were, you would be correct. We are arguing the morality of the situation.

Third, killing someone doesn't mean you're a bad person by default, else all soldiers would be completely reviled by society (well, more of society I guess), her being a "sociable, charming and entirely well-behaved individual" has nothing to do with the problem at hand, other than the case being unconventional. I would strongly propose that most people charged with manslaughter, not murder, are probably also well-behaved members of society. This can contribute to why they were charged with manslaughter, not murder.

Finally, now that all the bullshit you are pulling has been called out. If you at all believe that, inherently, suicide is wrong, and should not be encouraged, she is a contemptible for doing so. A contemptible person not in her right mind because she herself is mentally ill? Maybe, but contemptible nonetheless.

I saw the documentary on this case and feel like it needs more context than what is given ITT because the girl's motive was entirely selfish and attention-seeking. Like other anons have said, she was obsessed with the TV show Glee, specifically she was a stan for the main couple whose storyline came to a sudden end when the actor of the male character died of an overdose. The actress of his in-universe girlfriend was widely regarded to be a major bitch, but as she was also engaged to the guy irl, she was whitewashed of all sin and nobody dared to speak badly of her until recently. They had a commemorative episode where everyone sang songs and reminisced about how amazing he was, and everyone felt so bad for the girl, both in-universe and irl. Michelle wanted to emulate this situation, she compared them to the Glee couple all the time, texted him comparisons and quotes from the show, and really took the role of the grieving love of his life after he died. That's why I can't write it off as her just encouraging him to kill himself because she thought he was going to do it anyway and wanted to help him- she had a very specific goal and wanted to play a specific role in his death, as in getting all the sympathy and pity afterwards. She even told him to get back into the car and get it over with when he was having second thoughts. All because she wanted to larp as a grieving widow just like her fav celeb. That means she didn't just encourage him because she wanted his suffering to end, she directly wanted to profit from it socially.

>>2005
Got any more?

>>2007
not yet

Most of the time i'd have a dream where in it, i'm hanging out with my old best friend. (We never really talk anymore) I find it strange how she's always the one in my dreams that consist of us having fun doing what we usually do or what we would do if we were still close.

But when it comes to my present friends, who've sticked with me for a long time, they're usually not there or just background people. Sometimes, this one friend specifically is portrayed as a person who avoids and mildly fears me. Tbf, I did dislike him when we first met, but that was such a long time ago.

Is this a way my subconcious is telling me that I miss my friend and haven't moved on? I find these dreams in particular really odd.

>>1866
If you dream of her, usually you want her. You probably regret not talking more to her. Everyone else has satisfied you socially. Also you really must have gotten some trauma from that "one friend" that time.

>>1866
They say that if someone keeps coming into your dream its actually them missing you

>>1867
>>1868
Yeah, that makes sense. I do miss her. Our friendship ended on a bad note sadly and its mostly my fault, hence why I avoided her because we couldn't get along anymore and want to stop making her feel hurt. A year later, She greeted me with a smile and told me "Anon, we haven't talked in a long time!" And I just smiled back. Now I regretted it and wished I said something because maybe she misses me too.

About the "one friend" nah, wasn't traumatized lol. 2 years ago he just mildly annoyed me because he has a staring problem (he does it to everyone) I openly stated that I really hated him for it hence why he feared me a bit at one point. We're now super close of course, but he's like that most of the time in my dreams and I don't know why I always dream of him like that.

Lately I've been smelling and tasting stuff in my dreams.

Mariusz Lewandowski is also a similar artist and his art is featured on many album covers (really recommend this album too, Mirror Reaper by Bell Witch)
https://www.lewandowski.art/en_US/c/Gallery-of-paintings/13

>>1817
Great album

>>1826
I saw them live!

>>1825
kinda late but im pretty sure its nicola samori

>>1825
>>1884
It is Nicola Samori.

>>1888
Isnt it just a advance imaginary friend taken to the next level? Where you can see touch and smell them and actively engaged with them.

I had one special Tulpa I carried with me through high school. Problem about creating them is that they grow off what you emotionally project onto them, so if you hate yourself they have the capacity to just be a very literal 'forefront of your mind' abuser.
My imaginary husbando started out like a therapist, then got a whole 'real' life career,background, family life etc. to the point of making him a facebook page.
When shit started to hit the fan , my inner self hating mantras got into his core personality and he was just a representation of those things, just unavoidable.
Only way to fix it is by 'purifying' them, which is essentially a concerted imaginative effort of either containment or simply ignoring their existence until reabsorbed into the subconscious.
It really did feel like a self inflicted psuedo-schizophrenia, and will never recommend it

>>1891
So he became "abusive" towards you? Like did his behavior change? Did start to criticize or judge? I'm just curious how the relationship would change and how his personality would become.

>>1892
It's the same kind of pattern that a partner you put too much emotional burden on would behave. He went from sympathetic and trying to give advice (compartmentalized logical side of my brain) to then controlling (do this or that differently so you don't get hurt, don't question me) to eventually giving up when I gave up on myself. The dialogue from then on was along the lines of "why should I give a shit? You're always gonna be a miserable bitch anyway" or "can you shut the fuck up already, you're giving me a headache."

In the end it was just a bizarre dissociative personification of my own self loathing and criticism, which only ended when I went to seek professional help.

Can/should you make a tulpa whiel drunk? What would happen. Serious question

Any other witches have opinion about witchtok?

>>1906
What the hell isn that?

>>1910
Young teenagers getting into witchcraft because its popular and making videos about practicing the craft.

>>1906
Aren't they the ones that tried to hex the moon? lol

>>1925
In their infinite wisdom, they also tried hexing The Fae

>favorite things about Halloween
the atmosphere. i love the coloring and the gifts, the weird masks people wear as they run around and beg strangers for candy. idk there's just something magical about this season
>costume ideas
n/a
>party planning
n/a
>music and movies
probably going to start up welcome to nightvale & watch some ~spooky~ movies. and play a few creepy rpgmaker games ( those aren't movies, but still )
>decor inspiration
nah

>favorite things about Halloween
The weather, the Spirit Halloween store, seeing people dress up, just everything about this time!

>>114
> the 1st of November when all of the cute halloween stuff like drinks glasses with spooky ghosts on is discounted.

This too.

>costume ideas
I wanted to dress up as The Huntress aka Anna from Dead By Deadlight, but I don’t think that’ll be happening due to me being broke (lol).

>party planning
My aunt is actually having a party at her house so I’ll be going to that for Halloween. I love her because she’s really passionate about the holidays so her house is always decorated.

>music and movies
I’ve been playing Halloween music, especially the Nightmare Revisited album all month long. I’ve been watching horror movies and anime too.

>>1405
Due to an incident I've been home the whole day so no party for me. Anyway I hope everyone else is having a nice Halloween.

BUMP

I used to watch The Crow on VHS in my small blue TV but now I'm far from home and I can't. Remember to celebrate Devil's Night as well!