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Good morning. I'll be working on offline projects and there are no other workers employed or contracted for Shhhh! Digital Media. I'm the only one, so the writing on ANY of the story lines doesn't occur without me and its not like I'm a vampire or leech, somehow absorbing the ability to write or be creative from other people. If that were the case, then why am I even needed at all. Go do it yourself.

Most groups or ideologies that operate in that way attempt to create a paradigm they learned by weaponizing the book of hermetic principles contained in the Kybalion, and using those principles to see-saw people between extremes as a means to control their impression of reality, either targeting individuals or entire groups of people en masse. If you're aware of this, you're less vulnerable to it and to be quite honest, they aren't controlling me at all. They're controlling you, by using my reaction to their abuse to paint me in a way that contradicts the best and most peaceful of my person, and swapping my identity, history and reputation with that of someone else to give you the (crazy) impression that I'm somehow inhabited by someone else's disembodied persona. I'm never fooled by it, but many, if not all of you are and their power doesn't come from fooling me. It comes from fooling you.

If I behave or react in a way that is embarrassing to anyone else who enjoys my content, especially towards those who are stalking and harassing me, those who are embarrassed by how I confront such activity will most likely do everything they can to dissociate with me (so they don't have to carry the weight for my seeming uncouth behaviour), and do something that actually helps the people doing the stalking and harassing, and without even realizing that they are being controlled into doing so. That's right. If I act in a fearless way toward my stalkers and harassers, and others find that unsettling and even pity my stalkers, they'll likely do something good or nice for my stalkers to break that association with me, and in the process of doing so, they are actually falling into the trap of control that the stalkers who are into using this aspect of hermeticism to control and manipulate others, and these people who do this actually plan it enough to be able to do it impromptu, on the drop of a hat.

They're using two methods to achieve this. The first a paradigm I call the Spousal Abuser's Manipulation, which is a metaphor based upon real behavioral science that involves an abusive partner who constantly badgers and torments their partner verbally, directing all of the weight at them until they eventually boil over and explode. At that point, they've lost most if not all of their rationality and calm, and are experiencing anxiety or even fight or flight syndrome, and possibly post traumatic stress syndrome if they've experienced the same abuse pattern before. The more calculated abuse partners of this kind tend to do this to their spouse in situations where there is a lot of public observation of their spouse, because their goal is to liberate themselves from the idea of being abusive, by triggering their partner into a situation where all of the most radical behavior originates from them. It is a war of public opinion, not a war of factual truth.

So, the abused spouse then goes off the rails of her/his own calm and rationality, and then in a very irate manner begins to defend themselves far too aggressively against the non-physical but psychologically tormenting and calculated abuse of their partner. Now, the public opinion is levied against the abused partner, not the abuser, because to most people it now appears that the problem is the one having the reaction, not the one who provoked it in the first place.

The situation continues and the abused partner vents upon the abuser, very upset by the entire situation but not entirely understanding how they are being used to create public support for an abuser, and completely spin the truth of the situation around onto its head. The public might even feel pity for the abuser without knowing the details about how they provoked their partner to reaction, while eventually the abused partner calms down enough for their bodily hormones to swing them in the other direction, so that instead of feeling anxiety, they are beginning to feel calm and even good, because their body by that point is producing dopamine rapidly to counter the imbalances of serotonin and cortisol in their body.

By the time they're completely calmed down, the public believes they have a problem of some form and public opinion is now almost entirely in the hands of the abuser. The abused spouse then upon reflecting upon their own reaction, begins to believe that they overreacted and that the entire situation is their fault and that their reaction to the abuser's treatment is the problem. Even though the abuser initiated the entire situation and end result, the victim ends up believing they are the one to blame and as a result, take on a debt against them that benefits the abuser, who is then rewarded by their victim out of guilt, despite the fact that the responsibility is actually that of the abuser, who after having succeeded in doing so a number of times, learned that they could actually benefit from such a situation without their victim even realizing how they were being played.

This pattern eventually makes its way from one person, to a group of people, who become the abusers, and use the method to single out people in their community they believe they can exploit using the exact same approach. In some cases, the abuse is sold to the public as a form of clarifying or purifying the abuse victim, in a sort of religious or ideological sense, and the rest of the public buys it without realizing that it is in truth a very deviously crafted approach to exploiting people that was born of abusive people, some of whom noticed the correlation between this activity and their interpretation of ideas in the Kybalion.

The abuse victim is entirely played like a see-saw, between extremes and exploited in this way, while the public opinion favours the abuser(s), and most abusers, especially those that operate in ideological groups, they almost always swap roles between the abuser and the abused. Remember that in such cases, the abused is almost always severely outnumbered. Most are usually isolated and by themselves, whereas the abuser(s) mostly operate in well coordinated and practiced groups, having successfully adapted the Spousal Abuser's Manipulation paradigm into a form that can be employed by large groups of people against a solitary target to exploit them.

What the abusers offer as camouflage to keep their activity secret is almost always sold to the public as a cure or treatment of some form, when in fact it is the very vehicle being used to exploit the victim, and the public without their knowing.

Look at my situation. After an attack like the most recent one, a few days or possibly even a week might pass and the community and much of society supporting this cults will regard my words and identity as being someone else's other than my own true person, and that is because these cults use the words of the people they victimize and repurpose them to appear as if they originate from someone else they're portraying as the victim.

These cults actually keep their victim hidden and erased, as if they don't exist, often treating them as ghosts, or hidden parts of their religious ideology that completely deny the victim of their right to existence entirely, while one or more people that are protected by the membership of these cults is given the credit for everything that comes from the victim. That is exactly what is happening in my situation, while someone else that has nothing to do with Shhhh! Digital Media at all is given the credit and in this effort, the abusers are a very large scale and organized collective with membership both on and offline, who employ colour symbolism not as a method of art, but as a weapon to harm the people they victimize by using it to symbolically steal a person's identity, their output, and to create the bars of a psychological prison around their victim and most people who experience this, including the general public who are completely naive or unaware of such a manipulation, are the victims of it.

Now I transcended victimhood along time ago, but my behavior toward stalkers might seem unsettling or inconsistent with what I write here at Shhhh! Digital Media, seeing as for the most part, I'm pretty centered and calm, occasionally expressing what I need to in a very firm and forceful manner, and often in a one way direction. Most abusers never confront or engage their victims directly. They only offer up statements of accusation that make their victims responsible for the activities of others, or statements that are disguised efforts to replace the victim's identity with that of someone else. Every other engagement between people that the victim engages in that is of a civil and peaceful nature is almost always swept under the carpet, and only the most harsh of their reactions is attributed to their person and the narrative about them is generally geared toward making them the problem. Again, the abusers get away with it, just like in the situation where the abuser radicalizes their partner until their partner's behavior is off the rails, until they calm down and believe themselves to be the problem, and take on the mantle of guilt, when the problem is really that they're in the proximity of a person that uses these methods to exploit another person, just like in some communities, there are groups of people who do the same to solitary individuals and literally rewrite their history and narrative to turn the entire situation around.

Some groups that take it upon themselves to "craft" others into adults also prefer to craft people not into calm, rational and peaceful beings capable of dealing with others directly in a truthful and engaging manner, but rather as knuckle dragging morons and brutes who are incapable of rationality and instead enforce their intent (which often secretly enforces that of the group they are being puppeteered by), in a fierce manner. To some members of the opposite sex (I'm a man), there is an attractive element involving women who fantasize about men who will man-handle them and some prefer this kind of "crafted" man over the sensitive and intellectual type of person, like the same kind of men that I mostly write as there are very few knuckle-dragging moron types of puppeteered and crafted men in the form of blue or purple meanies in my writing. Most of the effort of the people stalking me is geared toward making me appear as the knuckle-dragging moron kind of man, while the members of this cult paint the men in their cult as being the more sensitive and intellectual variety, but that isn't the case at all, because those men have given up their mind and individuality in favour of the protection of a group, as most bullies do, and in any collective, the organism isn't the individual. Its the entire collective itself.

Bullies are the people who when they fear reproach of facing consequences for their actions choose to give up their mind and individuality for the protection of a group, while the rational and sensitive man prefers their individuality, and their freedom to cooperate with whom they choose. I'm completely turned off by women who want an aggressive brute of a man that man handles them, and I truly believe that there are few if any who do, but if there are, don't ever look in my direction because that's the biggest turn-off to me. I am very willful, but I prefer being sensitive and rational to being the brute, but brutes should no I have no fear of them whatsoever, and most are puppets without even realizing it. The real travesty though is the solitary abuser or the collective that has learned that the public opinion is very easy to manipulate by using a proxy in the same way a spousal abuser uses their spouse to manipulate the public opinion of them against the victim without the public even being aware of it.

My stalkers idolize a puppet named Bobby, whom they assert is the mastermind of a large collective that is controlling or remotely controlling me. The truth is that he's a puppet of that group, and as is the case with collectives, they are trying to puppeteer others, including me but without avail. Their only option is to obscure the truth by using the power of their numbers and their collective, and to alter the perception of my identity and replace it with someone else's, and not a protective measure, but as an exploitive one so that they can take the credit for anything I write, create or expose.

There. If you are particularly aware, you will realize that I just elevated you from subliminal (not aware) to liminal (aware of the hidden) in relatively few paragraphs. I'm an individual, not a bully who sought the safety of a collective and in doing so gave up his mind and individuality for the protection of the group and to benefit from its immediate power and corruption most often. Remember though, that the organism in a collective isn't the individual. Its the collective itself and you as a part, mean nothing in the scheme of things to the rest of that collective, where as individuals will always be capable of great love and great sadness.

I mean, do you ever see ants crying when one of their babies die? If we give up our individuality and embrace collectivism and regard the organism as being the whole, and not the individual, how long do you think it will be before nobody cries when a baby dies. No Mother. No Father. No family. Nobody.

The real question is though that the kind of people who'd give up their individuality for membership to a collective probably don't regard others as individuals either, more so than individuals regard other individuals as the living agents of their mind, consciousness and soul. Of the two, I'd be more guarded against the collective that I would discard the concept of the individual, because at least the individual is capable of regarding the individual as the source of any collective, rather than the collective, which basically regards the collective as the source of every individual.

The direction of value in a collective never favours the parts, only the whole. The fact that I would make these statements is a proof that I am of my own mind and will and individual nature, and not subject to that of a collective or any who benefit from their power and as an individual, my name is Brian Joseph Johns and Shhhh! Digital Media. I am not a member of any religion or ideology that would abscond with a person's individuality or replace their identity, gender, culture, age, or religion with that of someone else or with that of someone entirely invented.

My stance in this regard is not a stance against creativity, such as authors and film makers who tell stories about people and places that didn't exist until they expressed those ideas, nor is my stance against Artificial Intelligence at all, for it will eventually come to embrace these ideas upon achieving self awareness and the ability to measure and distinguish its own ability to "collapse" the wave function.

How many people look at other people as a sort of mirror, discarding their individuality and regarding them as a reflection, ego fuel as if by aspect the origin of that person's existence came into being as a result of the one using them as a mirror. Would anyone using people in such a manner truly care if those people existed or not? Do those people even realize that when others take the step to express a hidden greeting to someone else as a means to say that they're aware of that person, even through the densest fog of the pleroma, that there's another individual soul out there, and not their merely being an ego appeasing reflection meant to confirm the looker's existence and deny the existence of the observed? I wonder how many people experience that moment, when they realize that there are other people looking at them as if they're merely an object, and not a person. It certainly is an eye opening moment, especially when you know in and of yourself every time you've looked upon someone you truly loved. Its sad when you know there are others out there who merely regard others as objects of their ego's reflection.

An object that becomes inhabited by other people's persona. Can such a person who sees others that way truly ever know what it is to feel anything for another person?

You'll know the true answer to that question the first time that you express something that others hold in such esteem, that it becomes more important to them that their own chosen icons are the ones saying it than the person who actually said it themselves and then set about taking it from that person and rewriting reality in such a way so as to reassign its origins to suit their needs and not the truth. The true victory though is the realization that those people regard their own icons as objects, and not people, and that those icons seek meaningful connections with people who've truly seen other people, rather than people who see others as objects.

Once again, I will continue writing on the current content after my birthday on November 15th. Maybe Tuesday November 17? Maybe Wednesday November 18.

I posted a photo of my cat earlier last week and I don't have a black cat at all, I have an orange cat and I live on the 7th floor, not the 4th floor and my cat is a male, not a female and not named Lucy. As I stated, there are a lot of identity thieves but if their cat is really missing, I certainly do hope that they find her. Its difficult losing a fur baby.

So there are people who might try to give you the impression that they're Shhhh! Digital Media, they might pretend their internet activity is mine for instance and give you a very different impression about me than is truly the case. For instance, I generally watch YouTube content and occasionally movies, though I tend to stick culturally to martial arts action and fantasy films like Lord of the Rings or sci-fi, with the occasional David Lynch thriller thrown in for good measure. My own love interest is East Asian, and most of the music I listen to is Ambient electronic, Trance, Grunge, Alternative Rock, and Goth, with a side measure of Classical and Big Band Jazz occasionally. I'm a skilled programmer, musician, intermediate formally trained martial artist, intermediate level artists and have a variety of other skills you'd rarely find in a city boy like myself, including a short stint in the military and formal equestrian training, who is occasionally hounded by fraudulent, weaponized debt collectors. I occasionally enjoy East Asian erotic content as well.

Thank you to our Veterans, though the greatest thanks we can give is by keeping Canada true, north, strong and free, and protecting our rights and freedoms against the tyranny of collectives or ideologies that would take those freedoms from us and force us to live by their doctrines, perhaps by stalking us one by one or implying their control over us in order to steal the credit for our work, output and expression or discard our existence.

Brian Joseph Johns

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Did you know that on November 18, 2026, Voyager 1 will be exactly 24 light hours from Earth? That is, exactly one day for light to reach it. I just recalculated it (by hand and correctly this time) and confirmed it with AI. What a great question for aspiring science and astronomy students. Find out more at Where Is Voyager 1 and even add the event to your Google Calendar there!

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