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Timothy Phillips3 said:We've only been in business for a few months, and we haven't even hit 2 GB of data yet. I'm thinking about just moving everything over to Dropbox for now and then sending him a link so he can manage the files himself...
Feel free to throw out some other ideas! 🙂
Justin Garcia7 said:Great one! Not a single boring moment. Honestly, the killings were so brutal and morbid they almost felt darkly comedic... I really loved how the ending referenced Dante's Inferno. After all those murders, it’s wild to be told he didn't even land in the worst circle of hell, just a few levels above, while being a serial killer himself.
Amanda Robinson4 said:Man, before they even started reacting like people did after that Mexican film 😛
From what I've heard, this whole thing is supposed to be pretty nasty...
copperhound12 Asks:
Dr. Josef Mengele (born March 16, 1911, in Springfield; died February 7, 1979, in Boston).
Helen and Pearl, twin sisters who managed to survive the horrors of the death camps at Auschwitz, share their memories of the notorious doctor Josef Mengele in their new book.Josef Mengele.
He was tall and honestly, pretty good-looking. He really should have been an actor or something, rather than a killer of Jews. And those boots of his? They were so polished you could practically use them as a mirror.
They cleaned him three times a day. He even swapped out his uniforms. According to Helen, he was always the best-looking one.
"Yeah," Pearl agreed. "Some of the inmates actually fell for him." Helen said this while thinking back to that monster, Josef Mengele—the Nazi doctor who used to stroll past the endless lines of train cars arriving at Auschwitz, deciding the fates of thousands with nothing more than a single glance.
When twins Helen and Pearl were just 23 years old, they were brought from Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz along with their father, brother, sister, and children. They were immediately torn away from their family, who were sent straight to the gas chambers, and placed into the barracks. In a desperate struggle to stay alive, they were forced to move lifeless bodies and clean out the gas chambers. How does anyone even begin to process that?
They would have been drawing our blood every single day. One assistant would take it from one side, while another sprayed us with some mystery substance we still can't identify. They just tell you that you'll never know what it was. Why keep secrets like that?
Despite everything, they claim Mengele was never actually cruel to them. They even say he acted almost like a father figure. "We knew he wouldn't hurt us. We just knew," the twin Helen and her sister said in unison.
"He was just so handsome. Forget everything else," Helen explained. He was like an angel, she added. "We were actually friends with him. Truly," Pearl added, following up on her twin Helen's words.
"He was incredibly brilliant. I'm not even joking," Helen said. She was describing how Mengele would pat a child on the head one moment, only to send them straight to the crematorium just a few minutes later. He’d order the surgical removal of testes from twins—his absolute favorite subjects for research—or simply kill one twin if the other passed away.
(Source: USA Today)
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Just some questions...☕
Even after all these years, I still can't shake that feeling. It’s hard to forget that raw, unadulterated horror—that blatant paradox of evil where you watch a human being descend into something primal, almost animalistic. I can still hear those nurses talking about... Regarding Josef Mengele. I know many people—older women and young women alike—will probably brush this off with a quick, dismissive comment. But honestly, if they did go a little crazy, can you blame them? It was a necessary psychological defense mechanism. They had to build those mental walls just to keep from losing their minds from the sheer horror of Auschwitz.
But... is there something more going on under the surface?
His character is fundamentally necrophilic. If you look at the Greek root *nekros*, it doesn't just mean death; it refers to the corpse, the dead body, or the inhabitant of the underworld. In Latin, *nex* or *necs* implies a violent death—murder. It’s quite clear that *nekros* isn't about the process of dying, but rather the corpse itself, the cadaver, or the victim of a killing (someone whose death is distinctly unnatural). "To die" or "death" carries a different weight entirely. Those terms don't describe the body left behind, but the actual act of passing away. For that, you have the Greek *thanatos* or the Latin *mors*. Interestingly, both the words for "to die" and "death" trace back to the Indo-European root *dheu* or *dhou*. (As noted by E. Fromm in *The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness*, Parts I & II).
Humans possess an animalistic psychology. It’s easy to teach people how to kill, but much harder to instill habits that prevent it. Many people actually get a kick out of watching others suffer, or they enjoy hurting animals; public shaming and torture are common occurrences in various cultures. (L. Washburn)
Do you feel the same way? How does this text actually make you feel?
2.. Sometimes there's an argument made that sadistic perversion is actually healthy because it provides an innocent outlet for the sadistic tendencies inherent in all humans. Following that logic, the guards in Hitler's concentration camps were kind to the prisoners just so they could vent their sadistic urges through sexual encounters. (E. Fromm, *The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness*, Vols. I & II).
Was Josef Mengele "kind" (according to the female prisoners) because he was relieving his own sadistic impulses? Or did his necrophilic character ultimately take over (a malignant form of anal character—preceding both sadism and necrophilia)? Or did he simply possess an (evil) masculine charisma?
3. The new wave of fascists doesn't arrive wearing swastikas or running concentration camps; they show up with smiling faces and, if possible, their own TV shows. Those are the 21st-century fascists, and they're the ones who will take control. "(M. Moore, director of "Fahrenheit 11/9"—an allusion to the classic "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury—referring to the temperature (451 degrees Fahrenheit) at which book pages burn best: the temperature at which freedom burns)." What is Moore getting at here?
Jeffrey Long said:I started bingeing Narcos from the beginning again yesterday just for kicks. Honestly, after Wagner Moura, it’s tough to find anyone who plays Al Capone better. 🙏 🙏 🙏
By the way, is that Penélope Cruz playing the reporter that Pablo goes after? 😁
coastaltiger72 said:Look, I know we aren't actually going to do it—that was just me being sarcastic, man.
Are you seriously that young, or do you just have absolutely no clue what’s going on here?
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coastaltiger72 said:Listen, buddy, you’re never going to be on my level—just get that through your head.
Trust me when I say this: culture is absolutely vital in life.
And if Nero actually had any sense, he'd realize I'm just messing with him—wasn't it obvious I was laughing while I was typing it? Hahahahahaah!
