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Kind of reminded me of the Manson family…

Granted, they were not whooping it up on acid all the time, but there are some definite parallels between the two.

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Kind of an ignorant comparison, as they are nothing like the Manson family.

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you obviously know nothing about Manson and his "family" ... the comparison is valid.

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I call BS.

The Manson "family" killed 7 innocent people.

Go back and read about what the Manson "family" did.

The comparison is NOT valid and quite frankly is insulting.

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Oh? The Manson family was about fighting environmental issues and exposing corporate crimes? Did not know that!

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I agree with the op. Manson as his family had samilar characteristics like the whole eating garbage thing. They didn't hue people in a way to retaliate and obviously the Manson family was totally whacked but still in their minds they thought they were doing the right thing.

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There are a lot of people who eat discarded food. Tons of people thought it was right to go in in Iraq too. Most people do what they do because they think it is right, those who don't are despicable.

iiaaarrrggghhhhhhhh... said jesus, trying to blend in!

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Agreed.

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Your logic is skewed.

Saying that they are like the Manson "family" because they ate garbage (BTW, it's not garbage, it's food, food that people like you throw out because you have to eat perfect looking food) is like saying that homeless people who have to eat garbage to survive are like the Manson "family".

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I don't buy it.

Sure there are a few similarities, but the same ones that can be found in most any group.

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.... or The Weather Underground.

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What the weather underground? I liked this movie. I read about the manson family and they actually had people coming and going constantly like ppl in the movie did while they were planing a "jam". Mansons followers also committed acts of terrorism like their creepy crawls or murder, just in what they thought would start a revolution aka helter skelter.

I'd love to talk more about it tho. Or the weather underground to learn more.

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The Weather Underground (2002) (The Weathered Underground (2010) not to the radical group during the Vietnam war) is moving.

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Perhaps you could state your reasons for drawing a parallel between the two? Personally, I don't see it-at all-so it wold be interesting to know your reasoning.


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The PARALLEL comes from the fact that BENJI is a CHARISMATIC CULT LEADER, who also exhibits the same kind of ANTI SOCIAL PERSONALITY TRAITS or PSYCHOPATHIC tendencies as MANSON does.

Here's part of another message where this issue has also been explained in more detail:


Wasn't the compass BROKEN so that it points EAST no matter what direction you turn it in???

Since BENJI also tells her that he and LUCA were the only 2 who knew who and what she really was, and that HE had also been WAITING for her for a LONG TIME, apparently the BROKEN COMPASS that points EAST was also a part of the SET UP that he planned to use to TRAP her so that he could USE HER and MANIPULATE HER into getting him the INFO he wanted about others like who were LIKE HER.

So she also FALLS for the TRAP, and right into the WEB of the SPIDER who wove this WEB with which to TRAP her, by using the BROKEN COMPASS as a way to ENSARE her.



Fortunately, by the end of the story, she also figures out in time that he's not the kind of person that she should hand over the INFO to that she has about the others working UNDER COVER (which was also made EVIDENT to her by the way BENJI didn't give a damn about how the DOC had been arrested ... and he also thought his arrest was justified ... IF she'd also gotten him the INFO that he wanted her to get for him).

In other words, this was also a guy who cared more about HIS MISSION and didn't give a DAMN about the CONSEQUENCES it had for others (which was also made EVIDENT to LUCA who LEAVES and tells BENJI that IZZY meant more to him than the MISSION did).





So basically BENJI also USED the DOC and IZZY, the same way as he does this other girl who is working UNDER COVER.

To put it another way, THE DOC, IZZY, this girl he calls JANE, etc. mean very little or next to NOTHING to him in comparison to HIS MISSION.

They are all MERELY his PUPPETS or his PAWNS that he can MANIPULATE and use to accomplish whatever else it is that he wants to do.

Manson wanted to RULE the WORLD, and he also planned to start a RACE WAR to accomplish that goal by killing RICH FOLKS and putting the blame for their deaths on a MINORITY race.

BENJI'S MISSION is also start a WAR against the RICH and POWERFUL, and like the case was with MANSON, he also USES and MANIPULATES the minds of others as a way to do so and to accomplish his goal.

CONCLUSION:

MANSON and BENJI are 2 PSYCHOPATHIC PEAS or PSYCOPATHIC personalities in the SAME POD.



At least that's the way I see it.



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Well said.

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totally. same creepy pseudo hippy crap. man, the dinner scene for example. that was some creepy cult behavior.
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