Anatomy of a Victim

Anatomy of a Victim

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!!

I want to grab you by the ears and shake your head until your eyes fall out and roll in different directions across the floor!!!

I want to beat you around the face with a rancid Haddock.

What do I have to do to stop you thinking the way you do?

It makes me burn inside; I want to pour nitro-glycerine into your ears and blow away that victim mentality" ... I thought!

I was sitting at the dinner table enjoying a substantial Sunday dinner with a friend - lamb stuffed with cloves of garlic, oregano and rosemary ... yum!!!

We were discussing the sale of their house, which wasn’t exactly going as smoothly as it should (what’s new there then!!!). The problem was that the buyer of his house was being awkward and this was considerably affecting my friend’s plans, not to mention those set by others trapped in the chain.

In England a deal on a house is not a deal until the purchaser has actually entered into a contract to buy the property and this can be weeks after the initial viewing.

When you put your house on the market you get all kinds of people looking and poking around. I've even had holiday makers looking round to see what they can get in the area when they retire in a couple of years - soon fucked them off!

Occasionally, they’ll put in an offer. They do this for umpteen different reasons, and at the bottom of the list is the fact that they actually want to buy the bloody place!!!

These idiots put in an offer, you accept, take the house off the market, turn away other slightly inferior, genuine offers and wait to exchange contracts. BUT - often the would-be-purchasers find a better deal or encounter a problem in the meantime and let you know they're pulling out of the deal through the agent.

It’s a nightmare!!! - I had one particular property that took me 18 months to sell. I had it off the market waiting for contracts to be signed for around fourteen of those months. After that experience I vowed never to get into that sort of scenario again, and worked out how.

You wouldn't walk into a car showroom and point to the latest all-singing, all dancing BMW and say to the salesman: "Love it, want it, I'll buy it. Can you put it out the back and i'll pay you in a few weeks time when I've sorted the money out!" Would you?

You'd politely but forceably be shown the door!

So it amazes me that people accept this situation when dealing with their most expensive asset.

I'm not sure how it works in all other countries but the point to all this has absolutely nothing to do with the purchase of property, it's about 'how things are done and blindly accepting the fact' ... IF YOU'RE A VICTIM!

I developed a strategy that would overcome the difficulties of house buying, and as it happens, I later found out is actually the law in certain other countries.

I thought I’d share my newfound pearl of wisdom with my friend and sort out his little
problem - Money King comes to the rescue!!!

"I have an answer", I declared. "Put together a 'Letter of Commitment' and get a deposit. Ask for 1% subject to survey, which is non-returnable if they back out.

In the letter state that you agree to sell the property for ‘said amount’ and that they commit to going ahead with the sale and associated contracts. If they don’t sort out their affairs by 'said date' they lose their deposit."

There, that’s what I call a deal - simple!

And you have it in writing. If they are not prepared to sign the document you know that:

(a), they are not serious, and
(b) you know where you stand.

Either way you are in a position to take whatever action is needed; you hold the control in the situation.

Then came the reply; a victim’s reply, a reply from someone who has led their entire life inside the system. A cog in the great machine.

My friend was a civil servant for many years and had always toiled away for The Machine. I knew he had problems with thinking outside the box; thinking laterally. The Machine had done such a proficient job of brainwashing and indoctrination I should have predicted his answer before I heard it.

Nevertheless, I was surprised at how extreme my reaction was. I got so angry, which I quietly regretted later.

"Money King, that’s a good idea. I think it’s the law in other countries and I can’t wait until they bring it in here."

"What do you mean, wait until it becomes law?" I exploded.

"What do you mean, wait until ‘they’ bring it in here??? Do it - do it now!!!" I snarled.

"You want to be a victim for the rest of your life, you want to wait until some draconian institution says: 'there you go sonny, you can go and see a lawyer now and get a letter drawn up because we say it’s OK to do so!'... Give me strength!"

This wasn’t the first time I had been frustrated with my friend living such a blinkered existence. He had been in the security service for many years, had retired and was now working as Chief of Security for some big tobacco corporation (no names to protect the guilty!).

It gets worse!

Coincidently, I had just put a property on the market a few days before this little encounter. I had recently spoken to the same agents as my friend. He had settled on one in particular, invited them round for a valuation and struck up a deal.

A couple of weeks passed and at a BBQ, whilst waiting for the food, honey roast pork I think, I asked him how he’d got on with the agents?

"Great," he replied. "I’ve done a smashing deal. They were asking for 2.5% and I got them down to 2.25%. I just had to give them sole agency for three months."

"Why on Earth did you do that?" I asked.

"Because that’s how I’ve always sold my houses and that’s the way it’s done."

"Oh really, because that’s how it’s done?" ... Victim mentality, start slapping him around the barnet (cockney slang for head - don’t ask!) with that old stinky fish!!!

Now, just in case you’re wondering if my friend is some sort of masochist, keep inviting ‘old know it all’ round to dinner to get verbally abused - he isn’t, most of our meetings are great fun - I just find it hard to bite my tongue when a small change in attitude could have such a dramatic affect on situations.

"What kind of a deal did you manage to get then Clever Dick?" He questioned.

Now, there is a point to all this and it’s certainly not to say: "look at me, I’m so smart. Na na nana na."

That point is: I go about things differently.

Maybe it’s because I have spent so much of my adult life outside the system, I have no idea how things are ‘supposed’ to be done. As a skipper you spend most of your time problem solving, often your life depends on it!

When The Machine cast it’s net, as it did with regular monotony, it always fell short of where I was standing - or sitting drinking an ice cool beer! I was never drawn in to be served up later as ‘Catch of the Day.’

An d my reasons for putting all this down on paper (or into cyberspace) is that I'm trying to help you understand the fact that there may always be an alternative way of doing things to those widely accepted as being the norm.

Yes, I do some things differently, and I am sure that what I do is not always the best way. But, my way is often better than the way I am 'told' things should be done. If you’re not already, then you must begin to think laterally, begin to think creatively. You need to start manipulating and orchestrating best-for-you situations.

Once you fall into the trap of thinking you should follow a particular system simply because it's there, you're truly thinking with victim mentality. Often those systems were developed only for to benefit the author!

Why?

I learned a different system; a system that will help you, I learned how to ask WHY? Why do you do it like that, why is that system in place, why is that like that, why, how, what, where and when??? I question everything. If something is done in a particular way, is there a better way? Most of the time there is!!! Unless people ‘question’ an action or paradigm before acting, they immediately become subservient and more worryingly, prey. People are manipulated - FACT - and they don’t even see it because they are not asking the questions.

When people conform ‘for the sake of conformity’ their behavior is not the result of their will, but of the wishes of those who stand to gain most from their obedience.

If, after questioning; if there isn’t a better way then fine, that’s the way to do it
BUT, DON’T DO IT MERELY BECAUSE IT’S THE WAY YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT IT ‘SHOULD’ BE DONE.

You need to question incessantly. Questions change the world.

Why did three, yes three (tower 7 also) towers come down on that day?

How do three steel framed towers come down in their own footprint at free fall speed?

How do three steel framed towers come down on that day when, in the history of the world, not a single one had previously fallen due to fire?

How does every single structural support 'naturally' give way at the very same instant for a tower to come down at free fall? then a second? then a third? (which incidentally), was not hit by a plane.

Why was all the debris and evidence cleared away and destroyed from the biggest, most successful terrorist atrocity in the history of the world when, in any other disaster, every scrap is collected and even put back together in huge hangers?

Why did news readers report towers collapsing when they were clearly visible in the background still standing?

How would 'The Government' which is made up of grey people who can't even decide on colour of grass be able to put together such an atrocity?

Why was there an exercise being carried out supposing planes high jacked by terrorists crashing into key building being played out at the very same time real nutters were whizzing about the skies crashing planes?

Why was there an exercise being carried out supposing extremists were simultaneously bombing London transport just as - oh surprise sufuckingprise - real bombers were bombing London buses?

Why did supposed suicide terrorists buy return tickets home???

How did London terrorists travel on a train that did not exist?

Why, if the threat is real, aren't soft targets bombed over and over? That's what worked for the IRA and ETA are working on it! Why don't they go and fire rockets at the Jumbos taking off from the small, unguarded local airports?

What do these supposed new-age terrorists want anyway? I've yet to work out a game plan.

Whose sick fucking joke was it to paste the bill sticker on the side of the London bombed bus - Mi5, Mi6 or just yet another coincidence?

And who or what is monitoring my connection as I type in keywords to research this section???? 'london bus bombings', 'thermite', '9/11', 'Al Qaeda' ... oh look it's just started pissing down!!!

Why was Jean Charles de Menezes, an electrician who was alleged to have worked on the underground shot dead at Stockwell tube station by unnamed Metropolitan Police officers?

Was it because he saw something he shouldn't?

It has been suggested that his very public execution served as a warning to others - who knows, I haven't been shot for writing this ... yet!

But it's all not as initially portrayed:

Menezes was shot dead at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by unnamed Metropolitan Police officers. Initially witnesses incorrectly claimed that he was wearing bulky clothing and that he had vaulted the ticket barriers running from police.

A police spokesman said on the day that, "his clothing and behavior added to their suspicions," and that he ran onto the train after police had issued warnings.

It soon became clear that Menezes did not vault and run from the police, but police did not alter their statement until the correct information was leaked to the press. They later issued an apology, saying that they had mistaken him for a suspect in the previous day's failed bombings and acknowledging that Menezes in fact had no explosives and was unconnected with the attempted bombings.

The officers involved in killing Menezes have not been charged; the jury at the corporate trial of the Metropolitan Police for violations of health and safety law attached a rare rider to their verdict that they attached "no personal culpability" to Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick, the officer in charge of the operation that day.

Where the hell are all those weapons of mass destruction?

And where on this beautiful planet is Osama

And a million other questions ...

Who knows?

Everyday, accepted theories are torn apart because someone chose to ask why? I was taught at school that the ice age killed the dinosaurs, a couple of years ago it was accepted that it was the meteorite. Now it's believed that it was the global changes caused by the impact.

'The norm' is organic, constantly evolving and re-inventing itself and this applies to everything you accept today. 'Why' is the driving force behind the whole of evolution. It's a pretty disconcerting feeling when you realise that all you know is merely 'of the moment', nothing is set in stone and this applies most significantly, when other's stand to gain from acceptance by others in their paradigms.

A victim is only a victim because they let themselves be so!

There is no power in doing what others expect of you.

Let me make something crystal clear here. Our intention is not to become radical anarchists rebelling against anything and everything just for the sake of non-conformity. To go on anti-establishment rallies and destroy the institution, to grow dreadlocks, to buy an old VW and camp in car-parks around the countryside ... OH NO!

To do that would be to conform to the will of those who have an ulterior motives in creating chaos, and we would again be a victim of another’s will - unless of course you felt deeply that lawlessness is the answer!!!

All you need to do is question your place; question the actions requested of you by others and with a bit of careful, skilful maneuvering can you find a more advantageous position?

Rushing out and trying to change the world to suit your agenda will achieve very little ... you won’t be able to do it, in fact, you’ll probably expend all your life’s energy in a lost cause and achieve absolutely nothing.

Much better to establish a preferential, worthwhile niche for you within the institution.

You will only achieve this by questioning what already exists.

The establishment is there so that we can be set free. The last thing we want is for The Machine to be razed to the ground - we need it, we need conformity, and we need the system.

How can we manipulate a good-for-us situation out of something if it doesn’t exist? And we certainly don’t want to be struggling to find an advantage in bedlam do we?

We must question our place within the constitution.

You are asking the simple question 'WHY' in order to get the best possible deal for YOU.

‘Victim mentality’ is The Machine’s greatest asset. If people perpetually comply with how society expects them to act and not question those actions, then they are being manipulated by it’s most powerful tool. Conformity.

Get a job, a mortgage, 2.4 children (unless you happen to be Chinese!) and above all conform.

There is nothing wrong with conforming, it’s human nature, and it’s the glue that bonds us together as humans.

The danger lies in conforming to another’s will and not being able to see it, or question the motive behind it.

Those who conform blindly might as well be worker termites in a termite hill. A worker a termite will never be successful as an individual without questioning its place within the group. The success of the colony lies in a blinkered outlook; no single personality being more important than the community as a whole - total blindness to the big picture is paramount to the continued survival of the social order.

Ask a worker termite what he was building (assuming you can do termite speak!) and he probably wouldn’t have a clue, all he would be able to describe would be his tiny contribution: "Every day I chew up dirt, turn it into mud and spit it out on this wall here!"

This blind contribution is fundamental to the continued prosperity of the colony and it would be devastating if all the workers downed tools and demanded answers as to why they were being exploited. There would be an uprising, anarchy, and a disaster. The whole system would break down.

Now, if just one or two individuals questioned their place as workers and conformists it really wouldn’t make a difference to the rest of the colony.

The few workers with drive and ambition, lateral and creative thinking would maneuver into more advantageous positions and enjoy a more privileged place within the populace.

The big difference between the termite example and The Machine’s control, is that a distinct power group benefit from man’s willingness to do the accepted thing.

You do many things without question because you want to fit in ... everyone of us does, it’s human nature.

You follow fashion because it’s fashionable! You drink the latest alcoho pop, not because you particularly like it, but because it’s the ‘in thing’; you don’t drive a Skoda because it’s not.

Conversely, some people decide not follow fashion because they no longer wish to be a fashion victim, and only because they no longer wish to be a fashion victim.
That is not conforming so as to make a statement as a ‘non-conformist’, and that objective being their only motive.

JOIN THE NON-CONFORMIST REVOLUTION! Remember Punk and The Sex Pistols? The pure irony of punk anarchy was that it was totally manipulated. Individuals: Malcolm Maclaren, Vivienne Westwood and Co, record labels and music gurus did very nicely thank you very much!

Wear fashionable clothes because you want to, and because you like them, not because others expect it of you.

Don’t wear them because you prefer the alternatives, not because another group says it’s cool 'not to be in vogue'. Ask yourself: "are you really so insecure that you need the constant approval of others to feel good?"

You're a leader not a follower! Whoever said that those we seek approval from are right or better or more enlightened anyway?

And that applies particularly so to celebrity worship. People queue for hours just to catch a glimpse of someone 'famous'; people become hysterical after being touched by the latest 'sex symbol' (I get it all the time when I touch people!!!).

These are just people, the only talent most poses is that they generate money! They draw in the crowds for those with the real power. These people who are worshiped almost as Gods are ephemeral, their fame is fleeting and they only bask in the limelight so long as they continue to create wealth for 'The Suits'. And my God do they go out of fashion quickly!

Look back at some of your old photos. Did you look a pratt or what???

I did. I often wonder if some of the clothes designers create fads, bolstered simply by the knowledge that they have the power to do so.

"Hi, I’m Gianni Versace and this year’s hot number is going to be magenta, leopard print, 80 cm, fake fur hemmed, calf length, bell bottoms." And the fashion victim wears them!!!

Does Gianni double up into in fits of laughter every time he sees someone wearing them - who knows - and why are they proudly prancing along the road in his creation?

Because he said it was cool - was he was only joking???

Please, this is not a reflection on you if you have a pair of those crazy pants in your wardrobe - just so long as they are there because you liked them - and wanted to wear them. But if you bought them simply because everyone else was wearing them, and you sought their 'approval then have a think - after all, why aren’t you wearing them now they are no longer popular?

People traipse along through life semi-reluctantly, conforming to The Machine’s strategy because it’s what they were taught is the right thing to do; it’s what they have always done and know.

THEY WANT TO FIT IN - and there's not a man or woman alive who doesn't crave that to a degree - it's how we handle it that matters and the underlying motives of those who create that environment we aspire to, that's important.

We all need the approval of others; it makes us feel good.

We all love to be accepted, even more so, complimented and the more we fit into someone’s template, the more approval we receive from them.

If you fit snugly into The Machine's template you are rewarded by becoming an ‘upstanding member of society’.

Whole nations have been dehumanized by institutional templates. Institutions that take the moral high ground; institutions that exist for the good of the people, institutions that chose to forget they got fat on the back of opium, misery, slavery, slaughter, and suffering.

Institutions with YOUR best interests at heart???

Just ask WHY on every level.

"I wish they’d pass a law which says it’s ok to secure a good-for-me deal on my house..."

"I wish they’d pass a law which stopped people messing me around" ... UH UGH! ... Victim mentality!

People will mess you around if you let them; if you choose to become a victim to their ambition.

People will use an arsenal of weapons to get what they want from you; a whole array of ammunition ready to be called into service at any time.

You have to be aware of The Weapons - Throughout The Omniscience Principle I will expose everything that could be used against you.

My friend would say: "I wish estate agents were a little less mercenary with their fees, and didn’t tie me up in contracts and red tape" ... They will if you let them!

Just ask yourself the question: "is this a good-for-me situation or, a good-for-the-agent contract?"

WHY do I have to sign up with a single agent and pay the fee they set? ... WHY???

WHY should I even pay a percentage commission?

WHY should I pay more to sell my house than the guy down the road simply because it's worth more? You wouldn't expect to get your car serviced and be charged relative to how much it's worth would you?

I don’t!!!

I phoned up five local agents and invited them round to my property for a valuation.

"Yes Lord Trant, you have a beautiful property here in a desirable location and I’m sure we will have no trouble at all in selling it. In fact, we have several clients on our books at this moment crying out for this kind of home.

As you know we are the biggest and most successful agent in this area and have thousands of satisfied customers.

I know there are other agents who would love to have this property on their books but quite frankly Lord Trant, we are confident that we will move this on in no time.

All we would ask Lordy Boy, is a small commission of 3% and as ‘sole agents’ we will do our utmost to get your property sold ... What do you think?" They all closed. (Five agents, five identical bullshit speeches!)

"What do I think? I'll have think ... I've thought about it ... it's crap!

I think that we can do a deal. You say you’re the best agent in the area right?

You say you will have no trouble in selling my house. Then why do you want to tie me into a sole agency agreement for a 3% fee. Have you no confidence in your abilities?

And whilst I'm at it, what gives you the right to charge based on my success; what the hell gives you the right to even contemplate charging me a percentage of the value of my property for the same service you offer every other person on your books ...

Well?"... he paused ...

"That’s the way it’s done!!!"

Did he know whom he was dealing with???

"If that’s the way it’s done then we have no deal ... Fuck off (Yes, I did tell them to fuck off!)

However, if you want to take on the property on my terms then we can do business.

Here’s the deal: It’s the same deal as I have offered four other local agents. You all say you’re the best, and all of you have said that you will sell this house quickly ... Prove it!

If you really are as good as you say then you don’t need to be tying me into long contracts do you?

Go away, do your thing, sell my house and I’ll give you a flat fee based on the level of service you provide, and by the way, stop ripping people off with this percentage crap. Go and work out a series of packages based on what you do for clients ... You bastard crooks (no I didn't say that!)."

They all took the deal! I had five agents in competition with each other racing to be the first to sell my home.

So what deal did Clever Dick end up with?

No sole agency tie-ups and five agents in competition with each other to sell my house for a flat fee. And I am aware that agents in other countries want to charge up to 30% for their services!!!

When I told my friend, he wanted to do the same deal. He got straight on the phone the following morning to his agent but found he was already tied into a three month contract for a high percentage.

Incidentally, he’s now involved in Omniscience!

I have relatively the same conversations with those idiots who call trying to sell me advertising space.

My stock answer is: "If your publication is so good and I'm going to make so much money by placing an advert with you then you must have real confidence in what you're selling right?"

"Of course Lord Trant, just give me your credit card number, I'll sort the paperwork and get your ad in."

"Whooooa, You think it's that easy? I don't know you and I don't know how responsive your publication is, but obviously you do as you're about to take my money.

Let's put in an advert we both agree will appeal to your target audience in the next issue and if I make more that the cost of the quoted price for insertion I'll pay you and book as much space as I can ... wadayathink?"

The arse holes never take the deal; they don't take it because all they want to do is rip me off and get a commission.

To me my suggestion is a win, win deal. If they know their audience then they'd know I'd make money on my advert and book a whole host of space and consequently, they'd earn a fat commission.

It never happens but thousands of people lose money advertising every week thanks to the smart mouth of some advertising rep and because this is how buying advertising space is done!.

Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that is the way for you to do it.

In fact, there is all the more reason to question the motives behind why it has been done that way for so long.

Conformity? Phutt, I spit on conforming when it's simply for the sake of conforming!

Everyone is born with a bomb in their head; a bomb that when detonated will blow away all thoughts of conformist thinking. A bomb that shatters the cast built by The Machine to keep out the light. Everyone has the ability to question; to think laterally and creatively.

Through The Omni- Science Principle I am trying to light the blue touch paper, to detonate your bomb. Some fuses are damp, and when I try to light them there’s an inadequate fizz, splutter, flicker and they go out.

Others are as dry as kindle - Whoosh, Bang, BOOM!!!

Heads explode. The medieval iron maidens of conformity that have suffocated intellect are blasted away. The shackles splinter and suddenly people can see clearly through the haze, understand who they truly are, and where they belong.

It’s like watching the sunrise as she casts her warmth and crimson light across a battlefield. And through the morning dew they can be seen to stand, war-weary, bloodied, yet powerful, tall and strong …Triumphant!

This is what I want from you. You are winning. You are taking control of your own life; your own destiny.

Out of the night that cover me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever Gods may be
for my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud:
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Henley, William Ernest 1849-1903

You are no longer going to say YES simply because everyone else does and it seems the right thing to say, oh no! From now on you are going to question, question, question - and only then, if you think YES is the right thing to say; then, and only then will you agree.

The important thing is that you agree because you firmly believe in what you are saying, not because it’s widely accepted as the right thing to do. Don’t follow - lead.

Surely, it is right to do what you believe is best for you?

QUESTION, QUESTION, QUESTION AND QUESTION AGAIN

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