Gamer: Mind-control technology allows humans to control the actions others

[Neo]

Hollywood is cranking the mind control films one after another. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ubYTIazskQ

Reality and video games merge in this high-concept sci-fi action thriller from Crank creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. In the not too distant future, mind-control technology allows humans to control the actions and movements of other humans, allowing reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) to create the ultimate video game. It's called "Slayers," and it's a mass-scale, multiplayer online first-person shooter that's as controversial as it is popular.

In the world of gamers, Simon (Logan Lerman) is a rock star; miraculously managing to keep his character alive week after week, he racks up frags like Billy Mitchell jumps barrels. But unlike Mitchell's Mario, Simon's video-game avatar is a living, breathing human being named Kable (Gerard Butler). Defying the odds to keep Kable running and gunning though even the most explosive battles, Simon captures the imagination of a global audience. Torn from his family, thrown into prison, and forced to fight against his will, Kable realizes that his only hope of ever seeing his family again is to somehow escape the game, reclaim his identity, and expose Castle's dehumanizing technology on live television.

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More revelation of the method

On the Columbine massacre
"Survivors said they treated it like a video game."
     Time (5-3-99)

[Monkeypox]

More revelation of the method

On the Columbine massacre
"Survivors said they treated it like a video game."
     Time (5-3-99)

Who treated it like a video game?  The survivors as the quote would suggest, or the perpetrators?

 

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That would describe the perpetrators.  Other witnesses also noticed the strange attitude on the part of the gunmen--

 Stephanie Salmon(548 )
"Stephanie Salmon specifically told IO it did not appear as though the (library)suspects were 'mad', but were just 'having fun.'

Crystal Woodham(630)
"She said that they(the library shooters) sounded happy, not evil or mean."
"The gunman's voices seemed so happy."(634)      

Aaron Cohen(AP 4/21/99)
"They were laughing after they shot. ... It was like they were having the time of their life."

Joey Marcotte(9029)
 "They were laughing as they threw the bombs and shot people."

Patti Nielson, DP 6-12-99
"...the killers were just gross, there were theatrics involved and they seemed to be acting out some war game. One second they were mean, the next second they were laughing."

Austin Eubanks, DP 6-13-99
"...they were playing a game."

Josh Neilson(AP 4/21/99)
"They liked playing war games. That's all they could talk about."

Kristen Long(5027)
Said the suspects talked a lot about bombs, guns, and killing people. She stated they weren't specific about what their target would be, but that they wee "obsessd" with it. They would talk about "hurting each other" and about "playing the game."
      
Brooks Brown(Time, 5-10-99)
"What they did wasn't about anger or hate, ...It was about them living in the moment, like they were inside a video game."

[Unintelligable Name]

The sniper who was killing people on the East Coast from his Van proclaimed that he was freeing people from the Matrix, apparently.

"A particular influence on Malvo was the film The Matrix, Cornell said. Malvo watched the movie hundreds of times, including just before the shooting of Franklin."

"Over objections by Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr., Fairfax County Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush let jurors watch an especially violent clip from The Matrix yesterday, in which the characters Neo and Trinity machine-gun their way past guards. The jurors also saw excerpts from five video games that Malvo said he was trained on, including the "god mode" of Ghost Recon, in which the shooter is invincible.

But Horan contended that millions of people have seen The Matrix and played violent videos without growing up to become killers. Cornell said Malvo was especially taken with the world view of The Matrix and saw himself as Neo, the film's hero, who shoots his way out of an oppressive world. Malvo saw that as his mission."

Can you say.... Batshit crazy?

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More Matrix Killers


4-20-99
Columbine High School
Josh Nielsen, a 17-year-old junior, said the attack reminded him of a violent scene in Keanu Reeves' latest movie.  "One of the guys pulled open his trench coat and started shooting," he said. "It was a scene right out of the movie 'Matrix.' "
"...The most recent movie fixation of Harris and Klebold was focused on the 1999 Hollywood release Matrix..."

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2-17-03 
Josh Cooke, 19
Josh Cooke,  from Oakton, Virginia(just south of D.C.), owned a trenchcoat like the one worn by Neo, and kept a poster of his hero on his bedroom wall. Then he bought a gun similar to the one used by Neo to fight evil.   He shot his father and mother in the basement of their home and then called the police. His lawyers say he believed that he was living inside the Matrix.  "I just kinda looked over at my `Matrix' poster," he says, "and then I looked over at my gun."
--Josh related so strongly to Neo that, unknown to his parents, he'd bought the identicalblack, floor-length, cape-like trench coat that Reeves wore in the movie, along with the matching black boots and black wraparound sunglasses. When his parents were not around, Josh sneaked out the outfit just to wear around the house, while playing the "Matrix" soundtrack CD full blast on his headphones. Sometimes, he would put on his "Matrix" get-up and walk around by himself at Fair Oaks Mall. In Neo's coat and shades, Josh attracted a lot of attention.   In describing the murders, Joshua told his lawyers, "It was like a video game . . . like I was in a virtual reality. It was like I was watching myself."

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7-7-03
Oaklyn Public School, Camden, NJ
Matthew Lovett, 18, +two boys, ages 15 and 14; wearing black trenchcoats, arrested after they attempted to carjack vehicle; on their way to attack school with numerous weapons. 
They became known as the "Matrix Teens."
--Lovett imagined an almost supernatural aura around himself, sometimes referring to himself as the "Mystic", the "One" or "Neo", friends said. The One and Neo are names for Keanu Reeves’ character in the Matrix films.
 "They kind of had that Matrix thing going on," said Anthony Tesman, 16, of Oaklyn, of the suspects. "They would wear black glasses and slick their hair back."

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5-11-06
Hans Van Themsche, 18, wearing a black trenchcoat, shot 3 people on an Antwerp street.  "It looked just like the man had stepped out of the film 'The Matrix'."

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11-20-06
ex-student Sebastain Bosse, 18, Geschwister Scholl School, Emdetten, Germany (1 dead, 5 wounded)  Fellow students called him "Matrix-Man."

[Unintelligable Name]

I hadn't seen that before, but can honestly say I am not surprised.

It's what's known as a 'Gnostic' viewpoint, that the world is illusionary and "video-game" like, and that which you do has no real bearing on the true reality of the "spirit world."

Now don't go enterting that into Google trying to verify or disprove what I'm telling you, as you won't find it. Understand what is meant by "Gnostic Religion," and examine the viewpoints of those religions (morality tossed aside) and my view should make some sense. 90% of the time it's my own inability to communicate the point... etc.

I found this while browsing: http://www.unomaha.edu/~jrf/gnostic.htm

A book that gets into minor detail is "Be As Wise As Serpents" by Fritz Springmeier. Specifically the chapter on "How to start a Gnostic religion," or something similar to that title.