Call of Duty Helps Rabbi Overcome Fear of Nazis

[Samah]

Resident Evil cured my fear of zombies. I think we may be on to something.

That's funny, Left 4 Dead brought my fear of zombies back.

Edit: Last night I dreamed I startled a witch in the middle of the road. She owned me.

 

[Booze Zombie]

The A bomb only helps demonize the U.S in the eyes of the world. Japan was surrendering when they dropped the damn thing, it was completely unnecessary.

Strongly debatable, there were factions within Japan who made a serious play to seize the emperor and prevent any discussion of surrender even AFTER the bomb was dropped. Serious contingency plans were drawn up in detail to fight until the last man on every island, which the military people weren't happy with but hadn't out and out opposed successfully. Either way, the nation was somewhat on the tipping point, but it gave the military commanders an excuse to finally oppose continued action without shame. Not only that, but it gave the world an eyeful of what the things could actually do; if not, it might have been deployed on a greater scale and with less restraint. I have to question anyone who believes the drop to be meaningless; it's simply not the case.

The bomb killed around 200,000 people through direct and indirect means (fire, radiation, explosion), the radiation also was picked up by the winds, probably effecting the rate at which humans world wide experience cancer.

Isn't it odd how before WW2, no one really mentions cancer very much? Then the nuke comes along and our world becomes changed without us even realising.

On my most hated list, the A bomb is right up top.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

This Rabi is made of win.

 

[Antiparticle]

I hope he sticks to the single player campaign, because in the multiplayer mode you sometimes play as the Nazis. Not sure what that would do for his healing process.

 

[karmapolizei]

That's kind of silly.

Now we're gonna start seeing psychologists use video games to help "troubled" individuals.

What do you mean? This has been done for years now, and quite successfully so. Therapists have been using video games to help curing phobias like arachnophobia or claustrophobia by using modded games that place their patients in the middle of their most feared situations. Not exclusively though, it's usually meant as a means to prepare them to the real situation. Seems to help though.

 

[You didnt have to wear an eye patch]

...and the world today think video games destroy our youth and dim our brains, proven wrong! XD

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Mario cured my fear of Turtles.

 

[RebelRising]

Wow. Just the title of this article wins absurdity points.

Gears of War cured me of my fear of Barry Bonds.

 

[jamesworkshop]

Actually most games use the proper title of Axis forces/power rather than Nazi's who were a minority and mostly outside of the german military

 

[Jumplion]

Wait wait wait, am I reading this right?

A rabbi plays games?

What synagogue does he go to, I must play against him!

 

[sneak_copter]

I haven't played World at War yet, so someone clear this up for me: Does World at War show the terrible things that the Nazis did to the Jewish people? If it doesn't, then the game doesn't give a complete historically accurate picture of the Nazis. Therefore, how could this Rabbi be cured of his fear if all he faced was a watered down, inaccurate depiction of his true fear?

It's shows violent, gritty, real life imagery of executions and death.
I think it carries actual moral weight as a game.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Well... Thats... Unique... And yet I feel somehow the media will twist this into something bad about video games...

 

[Edulus]

soooooo.... if we play fallout long enough will we be immune to the shock if we survive a nucleair war.

 

[luckshot]

wait a second, they sent a jew to a camp to get over his fear of what nazis did to his people...at camps....[/tastelessjoke]

i think its pretty cool he played it though

and it may have helped because in the game he wasn't a victim, he was told to fight them and did. the switch that was flipped might be that his subconscious can recognize that it can fight what it fears.

coincidentally wasn't there a post referencing a study that showed gamers don't have nightmares or at least don't experience them the same?

 

[Arbre]

Of course, if it can flip a switch in an old Rabbi's mind... what about a child?


Besides, not only I find this... worrying, but the picture from the original article, showing Alliance soldiers surrounding a disarmed German soldier begging for life and probably about to be shot, and the other with the Reichstag burning again and implying it's cool and epic and good... literally glasses over the fact that the basic soldier was just a random guy on the wrong side of the fence during a time of global war.

Now, cool for him if this helped his mind be alleviated of these horrors, but I'm afraid this game would not exactly represent the reality of the time, and seem to fit more for a one sided Nazi-carnage distressing phantasm more than anything else.

 

[purplegothchick]

Resident Evil cured my fear of zombies. I think we may be on to something.

That's funny, Left 4 Dead brought my fear of zombies back.

Edit: Last night I dreamed I startled a witch in the middle of the road. She owned me.

Oh crap, I was gonna get this game and I'm kinda really scared by zombies. Might have to rethink this "face your fears to overcome them" strategy...

 

[Svenparty]

I can imagine this Rabbi with a huge screen playing Call Of Duty and encouraging his people to "get in on this why don't ya"