Life Experiences

What Was It Like To Be In Hiroshima Survivor On August 6, 1945?

September 15, 2021 3 Comments

“The hour was early; the morning still, warm, and beautiful. Shimmering leaves, reflecting sunlight from a cloudless sky, made a pleasant contrast with shadows in my garden as I gazed absently through wide-flung doors opening to the south.

Clad in drawers and undershirt, I was sprawled on the living room floor exhausted because I had just spent a sleepless night on duty as an air warden in my hospital.

Suddenly, a strong flash of light startled me – and then another. So well does one recall little things that I remember vividly how a stone lantern in the garden became brilliantly lit and I debated whether this light was caused by a magnesium flare or sparks from a passing trolley.

What Is It Like To Have An Autistic Child?

September 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

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My daughter is nearly 19, she is the 5th of 5 children and if she had been first there would likely have not been more. She is time intensive and energy draining. She is not adaptive. She is at the higher end of the specturm although she has some very extreme deficits as well.

This past week she told me that she hates my guts, that she never gets enough attention, that is is unreasonable to only get 5 to 6 hours of my attention and conversation a day.

We could never get up and just decide to go to the zoo, because she doesn’t operate on spur of the moment. Everything has to be planned well in advance.

What’s It Like To Be A Hikikimori (Hermit)?

September 13, 2021 Leave a Comment

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I was 16 when I dropped out of public school to finish up online. That is when my prolonged bouts of social isolation started. I had friends, but these friends were people I abused drugs with (to cope with our life circumstances), as they weren’t socially adapted like most people our age.

As time went on I ended up cutting off all contact with them and haven’t contacted them since age 18. I haven’t had a social outing in 5 years. It’s liberating but embarrassing at the same time to be saying that.

What’s It Like To Be Rich?

September 7, 2021 Leave a Comment

Most people think it’s nice to be rich because you can buy whatever you want and eat whatever you want. Want to eat a thawed mammoth? It can be arranged. Want to fly around in a working jet pack or jetski in Shaq’s backyard? That’s possible, too. Want the city to shut down an entire interstate for you and your friends to drive 200 mph on public roads? Done.

But that isn’t really what’s so great about being rich. I could eat a $2 meal in Bangkok, and it would be delicious. There’s no need to eat those $400 meals at Michelin-starred restaurants.

All the other activities I mentioned are fun, but I can have a lot of fun just playing video games with my friends all night long while eating NYC pizza. There’s really no need to spend a lot of money to have a good time.

12 Gunshot Survivors Describe What Getting Shot Feels Like

September 2, 2021 Leave a Comment

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1. Shot in the arm when I was young when I got caught in the middle of a drive by shooting.

You know in the movies where a gun goes off and there’s a sudden look of shock on the victim’s face before he looks at the wound? That’s very accurate. I did not feel any pain or anything. I heard the gunshot and felt a tight pressure in my arm. I looked and saw the wound and how much blood I was losing, and the next thing I know I’m in the hospital.”

The Thoughts And Feelings Of A Cartel Sicario As He Is About To Take Out A Hit

September 1, 2021 Leave a Comment

Confessions Of A Former Mafia Boss

September 1, 2021 Leave a Comment

(photo: Play the Game and Jens Astrup)

Michael Franzese is an American former New York mobster and caporegime of the Colombo crime family, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese. He was heavily involved in the gasoline tax rackets in the 1980s. At the height of his operation, federal authorities claim Franzese generated close to a billion dollars a year in a gas-tax scheme he masterminded. Since then, he has publicly renounced organized crime, created a foundation for helping youth, and became a motivational speaker.

What was the main appeal of joining the mob for you?

I joined to help my day get out of prison. plain and simple. the money and power came for me later on. once i got in, i wanted both.

What is the process of becoming a “Made Man” like?

Very intense. very solemn, very serious. I took an oath with a picture of a saint burning in my hands. My thumb was cut with a knife and blood dropped on the floor. The oath is never to violate the brotherhood of La Cosa Nostra.

What’s It Like To Have An Extremely High IQ?

August 31, 2021 Leave a Comment

What’s it like to have an extremely high IQ?

Years ago, aged eighteen, I joined MENSA. I left after a year, having seen ample evidence to support the old description of MENSA as “The society for people impressed by their own intelligence”. In truth, the whole organization was creepy.

Anyway, when I applied they sent me an IQ test which you sent in to be scored. If you scored highly enough they asked you to attend a monitored exam. I scored 158 on the test at home and 159 when I went to London to be tested.

I have never encountered anything, either at school, university or at work that has been intellectually difficult for me.

The Thoughts And Feelings Of A Nazi SS Guard As He Is About To Execute 23 People

August 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

Felix Landau was a member of the feared German SS. For much of the war he belonged to an Einsatzkommando, a mobile death squad charged with exterminating Jews, Romani gypsies, Polish intellectuals, and a number of other groups within Nazi-occupied territory. Landau operated throughout Poland and Ukraine, slaughtering his way from town to town.

His remarkable diary details his appalling crimes, often in graphic detail. This entry, from July 1941, records his actions in the city of Drohobych in western Ukraine.

The lack of emotion he feels during the killings is typical of SS officers who took part in mass executions.

What’s It Like To Be A Sadist

August 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

I thought about this question for two days before replying. It can be a little difficult to put down in words considering the context. With that said, I would like to warn you, the reader, that what is about to be explained isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s not going to be pleasant. There could be trigger words or situations described that some may consider disturbing.

I have always been a sadist, for as long as I can remember. I have memories of being a small child and fantasizing about holding a knife up to whatever cartoon character I watched on TV that day and watching them squirm underneath my sharp blade. I couldn’t have been any older than 7 or 8 when these fantasies started. But they were not sexual, not yet anyhow. I just enjoyed the incredible wave of pleasure that would coarse through my body when I visualized the fear and panic in this laughably childish scene of torture.