Revenge Addiction

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:46 pm
subgenius wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:59 pm

convenient for you now - why no "revenge" concern when you guys jumped to impeachment on Nov 4th 2016?
Oh yeah, i forgot - Democrat/libs always live by the "ok for me but not for thee" mantra.
Shut up and take your medicine like an adult.
Four years of good and decent posters taking the time to explain to you... things. And you’re still at square one sucking that fat Trump mushroom dick you seditious piece of crap. Just don’t ever take the vaccine, but I have a feeling you’ll get in line like the little bitch you are and you’ll just take it. Just like you’ve been takin’ it your whole life and just like you’ve been hopping line for a shot at your master’s balls.

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Res Ipsa wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:08 pm
Whatabouter say what?
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:00 pm
MeDotOrg wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:25 pm
Michael Chricton's second fiction book was The Terminal Man. The plot revolves around a man who had an implant that would send an electrical impulse to the pleasure center of his brain every time it detected the precursor to a specific kind of seizure. The stimulation given to the pleasure center of the brain would interrupt the seizure.

The man was defeated by his physiology. His body figured out that the way to receive pleasure was to initiate a seizure, so he started having seizures constantly so his body could get the jolt of pleasure that it craved.

It's interesting to apply that idea to 'revenge' pleasure. If you get pleasure from the thought of having revenge fantasies against people you feel have victimized you, would your brain want to manufacture situations where you are the victim?

Sometimes it feels like the limbic, primitive part of our brain is constantly at war with the brain lobes. What we feel influences what we think, many times on an unconscious level.
That was a really interesting take.

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MeDotOrg wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:25 pm
It's interesting to apply that idea to 'revenge' pleasure. If you get pleasure from the thought of having revenge fantasies against people you feel have victimized you, would your brain want to manufacture situations where you are the victim?
I think this research might go a long way toward explaining an attraction to religious victimhood. People relishing their perceived enemies' judgment day always seemed a little psychotic to me.

You're going to burn in hell forever!!

Ok, psycho.
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If you can find a way to monetize your rage, you can make good money being a pied piper of rage. Alex Jones comes to mind...Glenn Beck...Keith Olberman...the best peddlers of rage get off on selling it.
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MeDotOrg wrote:
Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:38 am
If you can find a way to monetize your rage, you can make good money being a pied piper of rage. Alex Jones comes to mind...Glenn Beck...Keith Olberman...the best peddlers of rage get off on selling it.
What about Lou Dobbs? However, he seems more like my former pet hamster frantically trying to push his way out of the glass cage. I can recognize Jeanine Pirro's rage from a number of alcoholics that I have known. Cut back on her office drinking and her rage would subside.
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MeDotOrg wrote:
Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:38 am
If you can find a way to monetize your rage, you can make good money being a pied piper of rage. Alex Jones comes to mind...Glenn Beck...Keith Olberman...the best peddlers of rage get off on selling it.
Good point. I suppose revenge addiction goes a long way toward explaining Fox News' success, too.
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Some Schmo wrote:
Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:46 pm
MeDotOrg wrote:
Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:38 am
If you can find a way to monetize your rage, you can make good money being a pied piper of rage. Alex Jones comes to mind...Glenn Beck...Keith Olberman...the best peddlers of rage get off on selling it.
Good point. I suppose revenge addiction goes a long way toward explaining Fox News' success, too.
well, it sure explains the past 48 months of your idiocy.
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subgenius wrote:
Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:58 pm
Some Schmo wrote:
Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:46 pm

Good point. I suppose revenge addiction goes a long way toward explaining Fox News' success, too.
well, it sure explains the past 48 months of your idiocy.
Lol. Says the fellow who still prattles on about the Clintons.
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canpakes wrote:
Wed Dec 16, 2020 5:02 pm
Idiot wrote:well, it sure explains the past 48 months of your idiocy.
Lol. Says the fellow who still prattles on about the Clintons.
I have to admit that I would be very concerned about my posting history if subs thought I was anything but an idiot. From him, that's an inadvertent compliment.
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