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3 Teens Died After Principal Hypnotized Them
Newser ^ | October 7, 2015 | Michael Harthorne

Posted on 10/07/2015 2:36:52 PM PDT by Aliska

(NEWSER) – On Tuesday, a Florida school board approved a $600,000 payout to the families of three students who died after being hypnotized by their high school principal, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. The bizarre case started in 2011 when 16-year-old North Port High School student Wesley McKinley hanged himself after being hypnotized by principal George Kenney multiple times. Friends say McKinley couldn't remember his own name after hypnosis sessions to improve his guitar playing.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: died; floriduh; hypnosis; hypnotism; principal; teens
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To: Aliska

This just made me remember an amazing show about hypnotism - it is really scary stuff. I really suggest you watch this to see how weak minded, susceptible people can be programmed.

Very creepy stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC9J6O6soHA


21 posted on 10/07/2015 3:03:11 PM PDT by LibertyLA (fighting libtards and other giant government enablers!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“But he kept your money..........LOL!”

Yes he did! But I soon glomed onto his methods, and was able to use them on myself.


22 posted on 10/07/2015 3:10:19 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Aliska

Turning you children over to the public school system puts them at similar mind control risk.


23 posted on 10/07/2015 3:11:09 PM PDT by codder too
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To: LibertyLA
Thank you for the link. There is a lot of creepy stuff going on. I used to dismiss all the alleged alien abductions and crazy stuff as, well, crazy. But now I'm not so sure that something hasn't happened to some of the victims.

And I think our government is dabbling in it but to what extent, I don't know and can't know.

I will watch that video later for sure, have to get supper started before too long.

24 posted on 10/07/2015 3:12:04 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Sopater

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.” - Mark Twain


25 posted on 10/07/2015 3:16:06 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Those who know the least obey the best."- George Farquhar)
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To: Aliska

It is very interesting!

The premise is that some people are weak minded and prone to be easy to hypnotize. You’ll see that they go through a weeding process to find the most suggestible person for the experiment.

We live in an age of vast knowledge and no moral compass!


26 posted on 10/07/2015 3:21:38 PM PDT by LibertyLA (fighting libtards and other giant government enablers!)
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To: codder too
They did this to a teen group years ago when I attended the Methodist Church. Something instinctively told me not to volunteer. I watched the whole thing, some who volunteered were hypnotized and some even in the audience were hypnotized.

The hypnotist warned the audience, especially the front row, would be right in the middle of something, walk over and snap his fingers in front of someone and bring them out of the trance. He also explained post-hypnotic suggestion and the old, can't make you do anything you wouldn't do if "not in an altered state (my words)".

I don't think I ever told my parents and certainly didn't know that was going to happen. It's a common teen group name but I can't remember it.

It would probably depend on the individual and dare I say the status of their spirituality or self-control (possibly). To me, there would be a fine line between outright hypnotism and the power of suggestion.

Even the latter could conceivably be used in an evil or self-serving way; otherwise it could be very positive like a person is worried about something and you counter it with a positive thought or just encouragement.

27 posted on 10/07/2015 3:23:16 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I had a psychologist try to hypmotize me a few times. He came to the conclusion that I couldn’t be hypnotized.

Me neither ... but ... All Glory to the Hypnotoad!

28 posted on 10/07/2015 3:23:33 PM PDT by FredZarguna (A Kenyan appears to have infiltrated the lumberyard.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I didn’t need hypnosis to improve my guitar playing. I heard Danny Gatton, and he lit a fire under my butt!


29 posted on 10/07/2015 3:23:57 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Aliska

That is so weird!


30 posted on 10/07/2015 3:26:00 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Abortion causes breast cancer)
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To: Aliska

In other news . . . students who met tragic ends all ate Doritos over the previous month.


31 posted on 10/07/2015 3:30:40 PM PDT by cizinec (Liberty is the only political "party" that deserves our loyalty.)
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To: Aliska
"Among those who were hypnotized were 17-year-old Brittany Palumbo and 16-year-old Marcus Freeman. Palumbo committed suicide in 2011. Freeman was in a fatal car accident after apparently self-hypnotizing, a technique Kenney taught the teenager, also in 2011."
32 posted on 10/07/2015 3:31:11 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: backwoods-engineer

33 posted on 10/07/2015 3:33:41 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: yarddog

Sometimes I think Obama hypnotized his more feeble minded audience. I read an article that talked about the way he gestured and repeated himself contained some kind of suggestive power. Actually, those who kept swooning over his supposed eloquence makes me think that this is as reasonable an explanation for his success as any.


34 posted on 10/07/2015 3:45:50 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Aliska

Has Hillary ever been hypnotized?


35 posted on 10/07/2015 3:46:30 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: LibertyLA

Wait! This is not the Democrat National Convention!


36 posted on 10/07/2015 3:46:36 PM PDT by Freedom_Fighter_2001
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To: Aliska

I went with some friends to a Comedy Club where Flip Orley was performing. I thought it must be fake until one of my friends got “hypnotized” while sitting at our table watching volunteers from the audience get hypnotized. At first I thought she was faking it to be funny, then realized she wasn’t.


37 posted on 10/07/2015 3:46:42 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I can’t be hypnotized either.


38 posted on 10/07/2015 3:50:22 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Rodamala

bookmark


39 posted on 10/07/2015 3:52:49 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: sockmonkey
Chris Jones: Howie Mandel Gets Hypnotized to Shake Hands - America's Got Talent 2015
40 posted on 10/07/2015 3:57:15 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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