[04:17] <@tyryl> what do you think about "hypnosis"
[04:17] <@tyryl> i'm flabbergasted by how dumb people are
[04:18] <@agentsmith> i have always been very skeptical about whether it's a real thing
[04:18] <@agentsmith> but i haven researched it much
[04:28] <@tyryl> lol there's nothing to research
[04:28] <@tyryl> it's just dumb
[04:28] <@agentsmith> well it seems to be this thing
[04:28] <@agentsmith> that is talked about as if it's legit
[04:29] <@agentsmith> which i've always found strange
[04:29] <@tyryl> no shit
[04:29] <@agentsmith> but i haven't looked into it or what it supposedly is about
[04:30] <@tyryl> i was amazed by that
[04:30] <@tyryl> i was reading reddit and went through a bunch of resources because people were universally going on about how it was "scientific"
[04:30] <@tyryl> whatever that means, rofl
[04:30] <@tyryl> i can guaranteed you i could never be "hypnotized"
[04:31] <@tyryl> and yet their response would be
[04:31] <@tyryl> well of course not, with that attitude
[04:31] <@tyryl> because you have to "WANT TO BE"
[04:31] <@tyryl> uhh??
[04:31] <@tyryl> then why call it "hypnosis"
[04:31] <@tyryl> instead of play-acting?
[04:31] <@tyryl> it's not even a thing
[04:31] <@tyryl> it's just unbelievable
[04:31] <@tyryl> but everyone is just fucking stupid
[04:31] <@tyryl> http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/37nz00/guy_makes_his_own_game_and_tells_the_story_as_he/
[04:31] <@agentsmith> some things can be 'hypnotizing' in some sense
[04:31] <@agentsmith> like
[04:31] <@tyryl> i mean look at this SHIT
[04:31] <@agentsmith> the road when you're tired
[04:31] <@agentsmith> or something
[04:31] <@tyryl> apparently this video is HIGH-LARIOUS
[04:31] <@tyryl> there were like 2 comments in that entire thread which said "not funny"
[04:32] <@tyryl> this video is fucking AWFUL
[04:32] <@agentsmith> but that's not the same thing as being "hypnotized" in the way people are talking about
[04:32] <@agentsmith> where someone takes over control of your mind or whatever it's supposed to be
[04:32] <@tyryl> yeah there's never any "mind control" though
[04:32] <@tyryl> that's the thing
[04:32] <@tyryl> so it's a matter of definitions
[04:32] <@tyryl> hypnosis as a term has no use
[04:32] <@tyryl> it means whatever they want it to mean
[04:32] <@tyryl> and the criteria change whimsically