Monday, September 26, 2011

Infection

 I started this as a response to a question by Uriel, but it grew to be too large to be a simple reply. So I made it a post instead.

Uriel said: I Wanted to know more about this Abomination and how people usually get involved in all this.

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This is what I have observed. I won't claim to be a scientist or a psychologist, but I am a bibliophile. heh I read, I learn. Observing... watching the world go by and learning from it, that's just another way of reading to me.

Others are welcome to add to this or disagree. There are already links to theories which go into his origins in the Slender theory section, so I won't go into that here. This post is strictly about how people become "involved" in this.

There are three basic ways that the infection seems to spread. The first and current primary source of infection occurs when someone discovers the videos or a blog and through anxiety or paranoia or some unmeasurable level of awareness attracts the attention of the entity. They then introduce others to it via blog or vlog, spreading the infection. Some have argued and taken steps based on this argument that if runners and proxies were taken out of the equation (IE killed), and all record of the Slenderman's existence erased from the internet and elsewhere, that we could destroy him, starve him. This argument is based on the idea that our awareness of the entity is necessary to its continued existence. Based on first hand experience however, I cannot accept this argument. The possibility of people being helped by the experience of others outweighs the argument of reducing infection through "extreme sanction." At best the murder of the innocent victims of Slenderman become a stopgap measure.

Secondary infection occurs via psychic sensitivity. Some people are simply more aware of spiritual/supernatural activity in general. This causes them to stumble across a "proxy" or the Slenderman himself. Their awareness of the entity draws its attention. It proceeds to haunt them, causing them to act out in various ways which causes the spread of the infection as with the primary source of infection, the blogs and vlogs. This has been called a compulsion by others. Having always been interested in writing and words, I can't say if this is true or not. Prior to the creation of the internet and blogs and vlogs, general public opinion would have been to label such people insane, paranoid schizophrenics.

The rarest form of infection was previously the primary source. Prior to the advent of the internet, this was a "patient 0" type scenario caused either by the individual's sensitivity to psychic phenomena or some unknown personal quality which attracted the attention of the creature. (This is the nature of my own exposure to the creature over 20 years ago.) There are certain types which seem more prone to infection than others however. These are people who have psychic or creative ability, who are highly intelligent or inquisitive. Which is not to say that others are not also affected, but that these specific types possibly are more inclined to enter environments or have contact with items which have a higher possibility of carrying infection. Or again, some quality of their minds, as opposed to the minds of others, attracts the creature's attention, causing it to investigate and infect.

19 comments:

  1. Thank you for the quick response. This being is quite disturbing then.

    Another question: So then, it is possible for someone you know to get 'infected' without the neccessity to hear a word from you about it?
    For example your family and friends.

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  2. Yes, that's now the rarest form of infection given the number of people who can become infected just by going online, but as I mentioned, that is how I came into contact with him when I was a kid, long before the vlogs and blogs. It was only later when I did see them that I realized what I saw was the same.

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  3. Is there anyway reported to avoid this type of 'instant infection'?

    Forgive if I had already asked too much but, Are there any reports of people who actually were able to forget about the abomination and return no their ignorant 'happy lifes' ?

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  4. You know what they say; there are no stupid questions. If you want to know something, ask. If I can answer, I will.

    I only saw Him once when I was a kid, but that was enough. I was already a student of magic and mysticism given my other talents, and so I had an instinctive understanding of the "as above, so below" law of magic. Basically, as in Heaven, so on Earth, macro and microcosm, but it reaches to an even more finite level, to home and body.

    Your body is a temple for your mind and soul, and your home is the temple of your body. If you understand that these are inviolate, you can force him out. But he will take revenge. I suffered from years of depression after I rejected him and almost killed myself on more than one occasion from the "shadow" he left over my mind. Considering the small army he's collected over the last two decades, I think there are worse kinds of revenge he could take against people now.

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  5. Then, thank you for the support, from where I'm we usually give favors back, so if you ever need something dont be afraid to ask for anything.

    And about this men under the abomination's command, Is there a way to 'wake them up'?

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  6. That's difficult... There's been some work done with injecting Kainic Acid directly to the Hippocampus region of the brain to cause amnesia, but that's a mixed bag from from what I've read. It can cause irreparable brain damage, and even when it worked, if they encountered Slenderman again, they were reindoctrinated.

    It seems the only way you can really get them to leave him is by talking them into exerting their free will, and even then, he can rewrite their memories or erase them entirely if he likes and implant a personality of his choosing so that old loyalties are forgotten. Still the only way proxies seem to leave him with any success is voluntarily.

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  7. How often a 'proxi' haves the enough will power?

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  8. That's hard to say too. I mean, we don't even know how many there are, let alone how many defect. Of course, two high profile proxies just did that- Morningstar and Andromeda, and they were considered "mad dog killers" by many. Morningstar is hated by many on both sides and Slenderman just launched an attack on him recently though he "seems" to have recovered. I have a feeling Andromeda (now going by Constance) is yet to suffer her former master's wrath.

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  9. When you already encounter the abomination, and worse, even members of you family had, wich is the best choice to take? ... Resources are not a problem.

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  10. It depends upon the situation. As I said before, so long as you have a home, that is the safest place for you provided you keep vigilant about keeping invaders out, BUT he can take your home away from you using his proxies or by fire. Eventually, you're going to have to run. There's no getting around it so long as he has physical bodies to throw at you.

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  12. Sorry about that, I was doing some changes at my brother's account so that I didn't noticed it.

    One last question:
    Why there is no information out the sphere? I mean, What happens to media and the governments? Shouldn't be there already an organized group that gives support to the victims?

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  13. Well, keep in mind I'm not a fan of government so what I say should probably be taken with a grain of salt. (Our leaders can't possibly be as untrustworthy as I think they are.)

    Governments may start out as the will of the people, but they quickly realize that the will of the people is fickle. So they set out to control the will of the people. Governments like to create paranoia; they like to keep the public rushing to and fro over the latest rumor. But panics such as knowledge of Slenderman would create would be uncontrollable and its outcome would be unforseeable.

    So I don't imagine that are NOT government agencies created to keep the public blissfully ignorant (employing people like Fisk and Redlight), just as there are agencies (MASC) designed to fight the "good fight" without the public catching on. That they are in all likelihood funded by the same people is just one more political paradox.

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  14. Thank you, I think that's going to be enough for now. Once again, you have my gratitude.

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  15. Respects
    Since you helped our brother Uriel once, we would like you to join our noble cause. http://theknigthorder.blogspot.com/2011/11/respetcs-here-we-have-announcement.html

    We will be waiting for an answer.

    -Miguel

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  16. Is a pity, he havent answered yet..

    Sir [tag] this block is quite rich in data, specially for the issue about the investigation of brother Andrel. Some of the Andrel's comments that appeared here are from before his voyage to The Central Library.

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  17. Not as much as we actually need as I'm reading now.

    -Miguel

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  18. I wish I could get involved in this

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  19. But I'm a little excited because I've been hearing, feeling, and seeing things as well. And if I am confronted, I will fight. A life of fighting against this evil is all I've ever wanted

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