STEPHAN STERNS' EMAILS FROM JAIL 2

STEPHAN STERNS continues his forlorn lament from a regular isolation cell in C Pod.

[@PostWokeWorld]

I enjoyed your story about how your childhood brain interpreted “trespasses”. You’re a great story teller.

[@Plingu698]

@@PostWokeWorld thank you. Ah yes, trespasses, the whispery bit in the middle.

[@austrianchicken]

@@Plingu698 That was so interesting! I grew up quite catholic (being Austrian), but I never came across the English version of this prayer. In German, it's just "guilt" (Schuld) which is similar to the word debt (Schulden), so I was also a bit confused as a kid. Cute that your obsession for words started so early!

[@LisaMW]

This wordnerd's heart is so happy! And I LOVE the violins! We can rate his letters as to how many violins we expect! LOL (Thank you!)

[@user-ul8ow6xj3u]

Don’t worry Bob! We LIKE your Videos!!

[@Plingu698]

@@user-ul8ow6xj3u thanks!

[@KristyLeandra]

“Locked in the bathroom”😂😂😂 The violins are so clever!! This video “really”gave me a laugh!! Thank you!!

[@Plingu698]

Hi Kristy! 👋

[@RosieLooks]

I love the addition of the violins!

[@Plingu698]

I'm glad you like them

[@Suse21]

This guy never has owned up to anything he ever did wrong. Such a weak individual, only living in a fantasy world. I love how you broke all this down and adding those violins were genius!! You had me laughing out loud many times 😂

[@Plingu698]

@@Suse21 i'm happy to do that!

[@user-ul8ow6xj3u]

❤ Love your comments on the poor little puppy finishing his tray and getting suicidal because of his dwindling sweet supply … but imagine how daily life must have been with this entitled manipulator.. Also, isn’t a random drug test performed on randomly selected inmates? He really is delusional thinking the world revolves around him!!

[@carolfletcher9939]

Brilliant! You never dissapoint 🔝

[@Plingu698]

thanks carol fletcher!

[@carolfletcher9939]

@@Plingu698 I love your content, it's fascinating. And you also make me chuckle away to myself 🤣😅😂

[@Plingu698]

@@carolfletcher9939 that's the main thing!

[@gillianlaing1073]

You are so funny,you had me in fits of laughter 😂 The dogs names are from starwars, chewy,wookie, he probably loves those films! Don't say nookie,that is sex in uk 😂 I agree with you,hes not taking any responsibility for eating the biscuit, crushing the biscuit biscuit, or destruction of said biscuit!!!!! Hes definitely been reading the bible, trying to make himself, look good! I also used to have to recite the lords prayer at school, I never knew what tresspass meant either!! He hateshis parents poodles, he used to say they were yappy, smelly, annoying dogs!! More please 🙏 What someone tried to kill Trump🎻

[@Plingu698]

Can you believe I have never seen Star Wars? I wouldn't have known that, I thought they were just babyish names

[@gillianlaing1073]

Really!! Starwars is an iconic film, love it

[@ElyseF00]

@@Plingu698Yes the Star Wars character that looked like a big furry dog/human combo creature 😊

[@austrianchicken]

Dar Bob, thanks for the two Email-videos, great insight! I also love your take on the youtube gatekeeping and how it's preventing us from using adult language. I find it very patronizing... I even think this fosters the Stephan Sterns' style weaklings who cannot face facts and the truth.

[@Plingu698]

Hey Austrian Chicken, nice to hear from you again.

[@Plingu698]

@@austrianchicken yes. i am looking forward to so-called Web 3 , where we will have (decentralised) digital IDs. All we will have to do is 'connect ID' when opening social media apps, and those apps will show us the content we are entitled to see. No fear of data theft either because the app will not be able to take any information from the user, apart from the fact that he/she is an adult. Children will not have access to adult content. It does away with the need for passwords too so that is great.

[@AnotherAmy]

I’m so glad to find a channel with a similar outlook to mine. It seems I often have a second conversation going on in my head when I listen to people speaking. Anyway-I would be curious for you yo take a look at the mother’s contributions to this email chain. Months ago, I heard her speaking on a podcast about dog breeding and she played all sorts of violins as I recall. Her health, her lack of money, her marital sitiation. Thank you for bringing the snarky chuckles, and teaching me some things.

[@Plingu698]

@@AnotherAmy hi AnotherAmy, you are welcome. that sounds interesting. What's the name of the podcast?

[@AnotherAmy]

@@Plingu698 If I recall correctly, the interview was from The Poodle People Podcast. 😜 There are clips from it on the KZbin channel Plunder Stephan Sterns’ mom & dad divorce drama. At around minutes 22, 29, 32 etc. It may be of no linguistic interest, but very interesting insights as to the nature of this bunch. I was also thinking of the later parts of the tablet communication where she tells Stephan the whole thing “wasn’t just his fault”, “prison isn’t meant to be pleasant,” etc. I’d love to hear your take on what she says to him, if you’re so inclined.

[@Plingu698]

@@AnotherAmy that is very precise! i'll look it up, thanks.

[@AnotherAmy]

@@Plingu698 also a truly fascinating read is Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel, a LA homicide detective who came to discover his own father most likely killed the Black Dahlia. His father, George Hodel was a prodigy surgeon who was enmeshed with the surrealist movement and photographer Mann Ray. Absolutely fascinating. This comes to mind because of your interest in Zodiac Unmasked.

[@Plingu698]

@@AnotherAmy okay, i'll read it when i get a chance. it sounds good. i recently read John Douglas' 'the cases that haunt us', and he covers the Black Dshlia there. Re: the Zodiac, I watched the 1932 film, 'the most dangerous game' , which is claimed by Robert Graysmith to have been Arthur Leigh Allen's [ a.k.a. the Zodiac's] obsession. The hunter is Count Zarkoff, or just 'the Count' - I am sure that's why Zodiac calls himself 'the' Zodiac. Anyway, have just listened to the Plunder video. i am not sure there is much to say about Sterns' mothers' feet or her unpaid legal fees, but it was interesting to hear Stephan talking to the sheriff on his way to jail.

[@srsly5570]

Very entertaining. 🤣

[@Plingu698]

thanks. i'm glad you liked it

[@wendygraves7129]

With regards to the choice of puppy names - Wookie and Chewie are beings from Star Wars, seems his parents also like science fiction and possibly fantasy

[@Plingu698]

yes, they are peas in a pod, especially Stephan !

[@AWanderingEye]

For anyone interested in homelife background on SS, gray hughes here in YT did some telephone interviews with a couple of men who knew SS in HS years and early years of relationship with Jen. Worth listening to during a drive to get a feel for the dynamic between SS and his mom as witnessed by friend and relayed years later...

[@Plingu698]

Was that his old friend on 'the interview room' ? I did listen to it at the time . I think he said SS's parents were unapologetically racist, didn't he? I'll have to listen again., thanks.

[@personanongrata7976]

"Lead us not...." i.e. we desire that Your blessings may not spoil us, causing us to feel entitled.

[@auntieree]

Not me laughing when you add the violins and the "awww" Stephan is a simple guy. He just needs his mommy and daddy, who he truly despises. He hides a lot of his transgression in his subtle manipulations. I have my own theory about him and his parents. He truly is psychotic and quite terrifying.

[@Plingu698]

@@auntieree i'm not quite with you there, Auntie. Are you saying you don't like the violins?

[@auntieree]

@@Plingu698 yes. I love the violins. They keep his creep factor going. I doubt he'd even understand if you physically handed them to him. He'd probably try to be a good student and learn how to play those, just like he plays his parents. I think they're awful people who tried to live their life backwards, first having a farm and careers, and now figuring out they actually have a child who can't control his urges and really despises them. It's like he raised himself and nobody cared. Now he's taken the life of another child and he has the attention he's always craved, from two more psychotic freaks.

[@Plingu698]

@@auntieree hey, auntie, where did you get the background on his parents from? i am interested to know more about them.

[@auntieree]

@@Plingu698 Call it my sixth sense. It's his level of creep factor combined with the open back-biting comments he made about them in the media and knowledge of how it feels to be ignored or have needs ignored by the people responsible for your safety I draw on. I would put money on they are people who considered Stephan an asset, and it's by pure luck that he made it to adulthood (arguably 🤣) without meeting his demise in a farm accident or an online predator himself.

[@Plingu698]

@@auntieree i don't know anything about his home life. i would like to.

[@personanongrata7976]

Our Father, I don't want to trespass, but as you can see, I have no choice.

[@SamThorpe]

His comments about the dog name are wordplay joke - they have named the dog after Hans Solo’s sidekick in Starwars - but they called it the ‘species’ - ie. The side kick IS a wookie… maybe the dog looks a bit like a wookie… but the wookie is named Chewbaka - Chewy for short - and dogs/puppies chew things… so he is joking that if they called it Chewy it might be more fitting! I think he wants to impress his parents with him wordplay

[@personanongrata7976]

So boring in jail that it drives a man even to reading the Bible.

[@user-ul8ow6xj3u]

Its amazing how he can portray himself as weak and at the same time pushy and manipulative towards others… he will never take responsibility for his actions and he relies on others to make him feel better. The biscuit was just there to satisfy his needs, in his eyes. Isn’t that classic narcissist abuser mentality? I think the dogs names are derived from Star Wars character Chewbacca.

[@bleedingbitzy]

I think that's what they call a covert narcissist. You have it spot on. Extremely manipulative, yet always perceived as vulnerable and the victim but far far from it

[@user-ul8ow6xj3u]

@@bleedingbitzy maybe that’s also the legal strategy he alluded to!

[@Plingu698]

@@bleedingbitzy that's brilliant- i've never understood that term but now i do

[@bleedingbitzy]

@Plingu698 Another great example of covert narcissist at work is in Agatha Christie The final curtain. Poirots last case. The character seems so kind so harmless. Yet manipulates ppl to commit Redrum

[@Plingu698]

@@bleedingbitzy thanks, i'll look it up. i bet there's an old TV production of it on KZbin.

[@MrsSmithtyutgkk]

🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻

[@SigMaQuint]

I think the right word is «denial», not «delusion» when it comes to SS. (Jen might be over the fence to delusion) in my words.

[@Plingu698]

okay!

[@AWanderingEye]

Thank you for the helpful advice: to take responsibility for one's actions, do the thing (whatever the thing is that demonstrates that ownership), and accept the consequences. Simple to write. Difficult to achieve if one's orientation is towards: fear of that process, resentment, belief in one's inability to do the tasks, or any of the multitude of opposing directions leading away from the initial step of ownership. Has Stephan ever owned responsibility for any negative outcome he has generated? If I had a mailing address for you I'd send you a sample of the root beer candy. They are brown barrel-shaped hard candies and last a long time. Strongly flavored, most people either like it or hate it. Starting a Sunday with a video covering a story about trespasses, the Lord's Prayer, and recollections of your elderly neighbor was a real delight. Are you familiar with the periodical "Reminisce"? It's a nostalgia magazine that is written by its readers, (which I believe is only an online version) would be a great venue for your introductory stories. Or, submit them to Reader's Digest. Just a little thought I had for spreading a portion of your product farther afield. I like the addition of the violin symbol, it is a shorthand for your commentary on the purpose of the statement. I didn't realize you were color coding. Thank you also for the stronger statement about deception discernment/suspicion via the McClish/Halliday. I definitely will rewatch earlier videos with a notebook. It is easy to passively sit back and watch you lay it all out. I am reminded that for me, learning requires active engagement (such as notetaking or filing in the blank to questions you present). I think the Chewie and Wookie name thing is a connection to "Star Wars" (Chewbaca and wookies were characters in the films). That would jive with the sort of materials SS is interested in, too. Do his parents share those interests? I have known foster pet owners to name new offspring almost anything, just to be able to id them from each other: Our cat's children were all named after different species of berries, for example. Re: Ol'45, I gave over a good portion of my time yesterday to that whole event and a raging thunderstorm. Today I am very glad to have my mind on something more uplifting (which I find in these educational videos). Before yesterday's storm, I watched a long form in-depth documentary about the play/film/source material for "Cabaret", the rise of fascism in Germany, and the rise of strong man politicians in US/world at large. I can recommend the documentary, it's on the David J Bradley channel and title starts with "Why should I wake up?" On your the reference to the play/film by Alan Bennett, I just saw Patricia Routledge portrayed the main character (!). I'll have to find this version of the production. If anyone is interest in launching their own production, the license is $65/performance which seems a reasonable rate to me. Mr. Bennett made the monologue his specialty and is especially expert at it according to reviews I found. Again, thank you very much, Bob! PS sorry to be so longwinded, hope some of this is useful to you. At some point I will start up a "response" channel on YT and move all my comments there with attached source material.

[@ElyseF00]

👍

[@Plingu698]

@@AWanderingEye hey wanderingeye, thanks for your long comment. what i meant when i was talking about my colour-coding is that there isn't any! so please don't try to decipher that- i always just grab random colours, but should really be more thoughtful about which ones i use and where! thanks for the candy offer, but i don't eat any of that sort of stuff any more. Stephan needs to realise that he can live without it! Re: rise of fascism, have you come across those channels doing AI translations of historical speeches- Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels plus all the Communist ones too, and more modern dictators' speeches too such as Saddam Hussein. What makes them so fascinating is that the artificial voice mimics the tone, pitch, cadence etc. of the original, so it sounds very realistic. Patricia Routledge, yes, that's her!

[@bleedingbitzy]

I noticed with youtube i have in the past written many comments to you, but have been prevented from sending them. Now i know why. Especially with these horrible cases, ive used too many grown up words. I will have to write in code in future, hopefully you will catch my drift.

[@Plingu698]

@@bleedingbitzy that's a pity- i didn't know they did that

[@SigMaQuint]

Protected from the others, or kept from spoiling evidence before trial.. IDK.. Isolation means different things in different judicial systems. I know a person who used to work in jail, He did care about the inmates, although he also had to check on them.

[@Plingu698]

I guess he is a high profile inmate who they need to isolate for his own protection

[@bleedingbitzy]

You talking about the Bible, when it sinks in that he's actually going to spend the rest of his life in there, I wonder how long it will take him to find God. They all seem to. He's not gone full on religious yet. But he will.

[@Plingu698]

@@bleedingbitzy do you think so? i don't know enough to be able to recognise the type but he certainly is starting to use the language, which means he has engaged with the material. I wonder to what extent he was already religious

[@bleedingbitzy]

@Plingu698 I wonder too, or are his parents religious and again he is pandering to them as a Manipulation tactic like with the puppies? I don't know, maybe with time all will be revealed

[@Plingu698]

@@bleedingbitzy let's see. First now, they are doing a good job of keeping out of the picture, which must be difficult.

[@patriciaburns1033]

PS Root beer candy here in UK is called candy twists

[@Plingu698]

@@patriciaburns1033 aha! i still don't know what they are!

[@patriciaburns1033]

@@Plingu698 They are amber coloured very hard sweets with a sort of cough medicine taste

[@Plingu698]

@@patriciaburns1033 they sound horrible. i think i know the ones you mean. they would not be very hard to ration. three would last me my whole sentence.

[@Cykey1111-dv2ty]

I'll venture a guess as to what part of the Bible he's been reading. The book of Acts has two accounts of prisoners being supernaturally released from prison due to the prayers of the apostles and fellow believers. Acts 12:5-11 describes an angel miraculously releasing Peter from prison and "delivering" him from King Herod the night before his trial. Acts 16: 25-34 tells of an earthquake that opens the prison doors and breaks all the prisoners' chains (as a result of their prayer and singing). I'll speculate he has read the book of Acts and has identified with these unjustly accused prisoners. Whether or not he truly believes the stories, he would like others to identify him that way as well.

[@Plingu698]

@@Cykey1111-dv2ty thanks, that is fascinating for two reasons- it would fit right in with Stephan's warped perception of himself as a victim. But more personally for me, those references you make are motifs that occur in the older literature of the Greeks- for instance the imprisonment of the son of God...Dionysus son of Zeus that is! I believe his chains miraculously fell off, and an earthquake destroyed the walls of his imprisonment so that he could escape, if I remember correctly.

[@Cykey1111-dv2ty]

@@Plingu698 Wow! It's pretty much the same story. The Book of Acts was originally written in Greek, and the author and audience would be familiar with that tale. The author of Acts may be claiming a more powerful divine authority for the Apostles by relating an experience similar to that of Dionysus. Paul will not be outdone by a Greek god. 😄

[@Plingu698]

@@Cykey1111-dv2ty that is exactly right.

[@personanongrata7976]

Must I now unpack the difference between temporal and eternal punishment? Temporal punishment is merciful, in that it satisfies justice (up to a point) and is still a requirement even for forgiven sinners, i.e. sinners who are "let off" of eternal punishment. This is the doctrine of Purgatory. I can forgive you for ruining my garden, and still ask you to pay for it to be restored, which you would want to do, if you were penitent. As a believer, I say that some conduct is right, which is not at all the same thing as asserting that my conduct is right. "The law forbids stealing" does not equal "I never steal." So if you catch me stealing I am indeed a thief, but not a hypocrite.

[@Plingu698]

I am not quite following you, Persona. Are you a believer in eternal punishment?

[@personanongrata7976]

@@Plingu698 If I break your window and you "forgive" me, do I still owe you for the window? (Yes, I do. Our relationship is restored, but I must still make (and would want to make) restitution. And yes, of course I believe in eternal punsihment. When God forgives, he abjures my eternal punishment, but to satisfy justice I must stilll suffer in time (temporal punishment, the cost of your (His) broken window)

[@personanongrata7976]

You're not religious? Would never have guessed...lol.

[@Plingu698]

No I'm not religious but I am interested in the Bible as an extremely important cultural artefact that still has enormous influence on us today. In my estimation, it is a reiteration in some respects of Homer, Euripides, Plato, and a lot more. The Bible is by no means to be scorned, but neither should it be divorced from its typological lineage and treated differently from other texts in the sequence.