So, what's your potential for evil ? by Fremdfirma

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So, what's your potential for evil ?

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 14:28
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:52 AM

This is a joke, folks, but I figured why not have something to argue about other than politics for a little bit...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blumert/blumert42.html
"What follows is a broad formula designed to reveal an individual’s "Potential for Evil" (PFE), and I offer it to society at no cost."

According to this, where does your resident Anarchist rate ?

15.

So how bout you, what's your PFE, if you dare ?
No shovelling folks, it's a joke anyways, so why not mock it, yes ?

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:24 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
So how bout you, what's your PFE, if you dare ?
No shovelling folks, it's a joke anyways, so why not mock it, yes ?

-Frem

Looks like 14 for me, assuming no religion counts as zero. Good thing 'geographic location' is where you were raised, not where you live now, or I'd be much higher.

Not sure how the 'national origin' figures were developed.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:54 AM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Depends a lot on how you define certain things, because I fall into more then one score within a category. For instance, I’m Irish, so is my ethnicity UK(6) or Western Europe (2)? Makes a difference. Anyway, if I do the math, I come up with a score of 10 to 18 and taking the average, 14. So either way, I’m pretty benign as far as world dictator goes.

Another great career opportunity down the drains.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:10 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Would any of you have guessed I'd be the most likely to be your tyrannical leader?

25.

25 or more: You may be the stuff tyrants are made of.

The world is a mess, and I just need to rule it.

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:46 AM

FREMDFIRMA

TWG for Empress ?

I could live with that, a while...

But I'd eventually start a revolt, I always do.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:53 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Not sure of some categories, for example, is Buffalo New England or Midwest flyover? Anyway, anywhere from 18-24 depending.

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Let's party like its 1929.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:30 AM

MALBADINLATIN

Don't turn your back on me. That's actualy good advice. Last weekend I threw cow turds (dried, they hurt more) at Yes on 8 demonstrators. It was in retaliation for Yes on 8 proponents going around my neighborhood in the middle of the night and vandalizing No on 8 signs.
http://www.noonprop8.com/

Geeze...Frem gives us something so we can talk about something besides politics...and what do I do. But it's election violence! Thats good right!?

Trolls against McCain

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:53 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM

Pacifism is highly underrated...

8

(doh! add 8 for my radical environmental activism)

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:31 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

TWG, you'll have to bow before me, your new tyrant and leader.

37. And I think they were being charitable with that "Western Europe" thing - last time I checked, Germany was in Western Europe, and NOBODY grows a tyrant like the Germans! As far back as anyone has been able to trace, all of my ancestry goes straight back to what are now Germany, Bavaria, and Austria. In other words, Hitler Country.

I was actually scoring quite low until the affiliations part came up. ACLU, environmentalist, etc.

Mike

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:10 PM

KIRKULES

I don't know about this test, I thought I would score about average on the evil scale but only got a 10. I guess if you don't believe in anything and come from the right places, you're no threat to anyone.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:09 PM

MALBADINLATIN

Quote:
Originally posted by Kirkules:
I don't know about this test, I thought I would score about average on the evil scale but only got a 10. I guess if you don't believe in anything and come from the right places, you're no threat to anyone.

I was a 22...geeze, 10? You should change your avatar to Minnie Pearl or Aunt Bea

Trolls against McCain

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:17 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
This is a joke, folks, but I figured why not have something to argue about other than politics for a little bit...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blumert/blumert42.html
"What follows is a broad formula designed to reveal an individual’s "Potential for Evil" (PFE), and I offer it to society at no cost."

According to this, where does your resident Anarchist rate ?

15.

So how bout you, what's your PFE, if you dare ?
No shovelling folks, it's a joke anyways, so why not mock it, yes ?

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

I am a 15 too

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

FORSAKEN original

Trolls Against McCain

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:17 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

Occupation
Politician 10
Media 10
Lawyer 09
Accountant 07
Lobbyist 07
Government Employee 06 <<<
Military (Officer) 06
Entertainment 06
Veteran 06
Retail 05
Finance 05
Non-Profit 05
Corporate 05
Academic 05
Sales 04
Physician 04
Dentist 04
Engineer 03
Travel 03
Blue Collar 03
Artist 03
Military (Enlisted) 02
Farmer 02
High Tech 02
Pilot 02

Religion
Jewish 10
Muslim 10
Mormon 06
Catholic 04
Hindu 04
Sects/Cults 04
Protestant 02
Davidian 01
none ... 00 ? <<<

Geographic
Mid-Atlantic 07
New England 06
Far West 04 <<<
Midwest Flyover 03
Dixie 02

National Origin
Africa 08
Mid-East 06
West Asia 06
American Indian 06
UK 06
Canada 06
East Asia 05
Latin 04
Eastern Europe/Russia 03 <<<
Southern Europe 03
Western Europe 02

Affiliations
Political Activist 10
Pro-War Organization Activist 10
Legal Activist (ACLU) 09
Environmentalist 08 <<<
Free Market/Freedom Organization Activist 02
Local Volunteer 02 <<<

***************************************************************

Silence is consent.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:15 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
But it's election violence! Thats good right!?

Hell yes.

Besides, cow pie flinging is practically an olympic sport in some states.

I never did that, but one mardi gras we filled the cooler with dry ice so it'd keep longer without getting fulla water, and the whole way down there my case of moonpies, which I don't like gettin melty... was sittin right on top of it.

Well, as you can imagine, we get there and my damn moonpies are permafrosted iceblocks, dammit, and while I am sitting there on top of the car roof, like we always do, pondering how to actually warm one up so I could EAT it - along comes this bicycle cop, who stops about a half block away and starts going all ballistic on someone for an open container, not that EVERYONE ON THE STREET doesn't have one, and I am sure it had nothing to do with him being the only visible black guy for a hundred yards and more, right ?

So as the cop is trying oh-so-hard to provoke an arrestable offense, I look down at my still rock solid frozen moon pie... then slide my index finger into that nice, perfectly sized groove and instinct kinda subverted reason there for a minute.

Didja know, you really can get some damned amazing range and velocity out of a frozen moon pie - actually felt a little bad about it cause it took him a while to get back up, and he was limpin when he did.

Of course, the guy he was shaking down was long gone by then, so he got back on his bike a little shakily and peddled off.

Then me and my buddy stared at each other, grinned, and each grabbed another frozen moon pie... you know, that whole night there wasn't nearly half as much trouble or violence as there usually was down there, coulda had something to do with would be troublemakers suddenly falling over, but maybe not.

I can imagine someone could get pretty good range offa dried up cow pattie, but imagine if you froze it first, man that would hurt, wouldn't it ?

I hope ya got em good, the brownshirt horde DESERVES a dung pelting, ya ask me.

-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:56 PM

KHYRON

15, and more than half of those are because I consider myself an environmentalist. I suck.

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
last time I checked, Germany was in Western Europe, and NOBODY grows a tyrant like the Germans!

Really? I bet you couldn't name one German tyrant off the top of your head.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:10 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Hey Frem,

I got a 14. Funny, since I think I have the greatest potential in these parts to be the most evil or the most benevolent when I finally get off the couch.

Funny thing, evil.... Like beauty, it's all in the eye of the beholder. For every measure that would find me a saint, I could find one which would call me nothing more than a front for the Devil.

Here's an interesting question. How evil do these beliefs make me? I won't argue or agree with the answers either, because I'm not looking to pick a fight or an alliance with anyone here. Just looking for honesty.

1) How evil does it make me that I believe that the Holocaust, though it really happened to an extent, was greatly exaggerated and disproportionately leveled against the Jews in hindsight? (In my eyes, it would explain their virtual immunity from any negative talk, even if the situation warrants it, and that this immunity greatly eclipses the same benefits that African Americans or illegal Mexican immigrants have in today's popular mentality.)

2) How evil does it make me that I believe AIDS is not a real disease and that there were political and financial reasons behind it's advertisement to the world? (My belief here is that the AMA is a business that is just as prone to corruption as Enron and that when all that matters is the bottom line this quarter that it would greatly benefit the shareholders if the maximum amount of people were on drugs for the rest of their life instead of treated and cured in one session. "Shareholders" here can be taken in a variety of ways, and I invite you to use your imagination......)

Little tests like this one here are cute and all Frem, and I'm not saying here at all that you agree with either of these statements, but a 14 for me and a 15 for you seems mighty tame to me. Heck... most of the tree huggers are as potentially evil as me. I want to go completely solar just like the next guy, but my reasons are almost exclusively to live off the grid completely and not owe anybody anything for something I can provide for myself....

3) How evil does that make me?

I do always appreciate self-depreciation. A Jew saying only he and a Muslim are capable of 2.5 times the amount of evil as a Christian is comedy to me. Perhaps in the watered down Christian ways of the world today, but.... well I don't have to say anymore to you. I know you've read 50 times as many books as I have.

Later,
~6

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:50 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thatweirdgirl wrote:

Quote:
"Would any of you have guessed I'd be the most likely to be your tyrannical leader?"

Ha, ha!!! Yes I had a suspicion.

(Ooops that remark may just have me thrown in jail.)

On the run now......

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:22 AM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Would any of you have guessed I'd be the most likely to be your tyrannical leader?

Should we now refer to you as Führer thatweirdgirl?

General thatweirdgirl?

Caesar thatweirdgirl?

El Presidente?

How do you wish to be referred in you newfound state of dictatorness?

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:05 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Since you could see my potential, you'd make an excellent state artist. You are now charged with creating all the posters for my regime.

What is my title? That's an excellent question. Emperor sounds nice.

FYI: 25 was the conservative version of my score. It could be in the 30s depending on how you see things.

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:18 AM

FREMDFIRMA

All hail TWG, Empress Regent and Lord of Mercy ?

Gotta nice ring to it, yes ?

Oh, and Jack, on evil, the nature and capacity of it, I was powerfully influenced by two little bits, one of theatre, and one of literature.

The first was Gelt, from Battle Beyond the Stars, his little speech about being so rich, but living like a tramp cause he didn't dare show his face to spend it, which kinda hit home cause I was on that kinda road at the time.

But the more important bit, was when the two Akiran kids asked him if he was a "bad man", and his reply - "I don't think like you Akirans, if you think differently, you get called bad." and just goes back to what he's doin, as if it wasn't a big issue for him.

That always struck me, in that anything you DO could be considered evil by someone, so why agonise over it ?

The other, and I for the life of me cannot remember the exact source, was about "getting it done" and heroism... and the dialogue went something like this...

"How can I be a hero, I don't have what it takes!"
"Oh, is that so, then be a fucking villan, do what it takes, no matter who thinks what of you!"

Whether my cape is white, black, or even grey, all depends on who's lookin at it, especially since I tend to be vague or arcane about my intentions when I explain them, but there's a few folk here, yourself included, who prolly get the gist of it.

In the end, what folks think of me matters damn little to anyone, least of all me, if I accomplish what I seek.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:12 AM

KHYRON

How about 'ThatTyrantGirl' or 'ThatTyrannicalGirl'?

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:28 PM

FREMDFIRMA

If I might make some suggestions, my Empress...

I've found suitible folk for three key positions in the empire, given that you don't seem the military sort.

Firstly, for your bodyguard, I'd suggest Jeanne the Hatchet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Hachette

And for lord commander of the army, Agustina de Aragon, lady of the cannon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agustina_de_Aragon

And lastly, we should indeed put Grania Ni Mialla in charge of the navy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_O%27Malley

Of course, were I you, I'd not hire me as cabinet, but as the rather more useful position of court jester, to avoid giving offense to noteables when I drag all their merry skeletons out of the closet to dance with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_jester

A most useful position that has always been, and sadly in need of restoration in this age.

-Frem

PS. And no one ever suspects the Jester, nobody, heh heh heh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_Insurgent_Rebel_Clown_Army

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