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Defensive Personalities
« on: December 12, 2006, 02:50:43 pm »
I was thinking about this during my commute to work this morning.

Assuming one of our aims with BIP, etc. is to open minds, how do you deal with a defensive personality?  Or do you?

I'm just thinking you can start an honest and civil discussion with someone about BIP/Discordian ideas, etc.  In general sort of terms of course.

Then, if you are dealing with someone who tends to be quite defensive, you get to that point where something snaps in their head:  "Wait, are you preaching to me?"  or "Are you trying to convert me?" or something along those lines.

Is there a way to diffuse this? 

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Re: Defensive Personalities
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2006, 02:52:46 pm »
I think the best way to do it would be to screen your audience in advance. If you were to know someone was deeply religous, you would be better off not giving anything a name, because it is less scary / disturbing / diffrent that way
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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2006, 02:55:31 pm »
I play it by ear but there are a number of ways to get past a defensive person's metality.  Several of them are, to me, quite underhand and possibly dangerous in the wrong hands, but the most simple advice is to understand their worldview, sympathise with it and work from within that model to undermine it.
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Re: Defensive Personalities
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2006, 02:57:24 pm »
Tone and attitude are two major things to watch out for.

That, and use of buzzwords.

If you can steer a conversation towards BIP concepts, you shouldn't sound preachy, and you aren't trying to "win".  You're trying for self-discovery.  If you sound preachy, or use differnently-defined words (Prison Break, Barstool, Machine™, CoN, etc), your subject won't come to the conclusions themselves, they'll feel they are being fed a crock of shit.

And you can't give them the whole spiel at once, you have to let them digest the small bits of it first, and then maybe they'll be able to see a lager picture.
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Re: Defensive Personalities
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2006, 02:57:46 pm »
Quote from: Cain on December 12, 2006, 02:55:31 pm
I play it by ear but there are a number of ways to get past a defensive person's metality.  Several of them are, to me, quite underhand and possibly dangerous in the wrong hands, but the most simple advice is to understand their worldview, sympathise with it and work from within that model to undermine it.


That sounds suspiciously like Scientology, actually.
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Re: Defensive Personalities
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2006, 03:01:33 pm »
Quote from: LMNO on December 12, 2006, 02:57:46 pm
Quote from: Cain on December 12, 2006, 02:55:31 pm
I play it by ear but there are a number of ways to get past a defensive person's metality.  Several of them are, to me, quite underhand and possibly dangerous in the wrong hands, but the most simple advice is to understand their worldview, sympathise with it and work from within that model to undermine it.


That sounds suspiciously like Scientology, actually.

Dr Heracy passed along a small ton of text files on Scientology to me a while back.  I also have several dozen books on eliciting information from people - from police interrogation techniques to body language to so-called seduction techniques.  All of them come down to the same basic idea, really, though the approaches are different based on context and aim.
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Re: Defensive Personalities
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2006, 03:11:58 pm »
And let's not forget L Ron spent quite a lot of time with Crowley and the Golden Dawn.
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Re: Defensive Personalities
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2006, 03:17:04 pm »
I thought it was the OTO he was more involved with?  Though of course I don't doubt Crowley took most of their useful stuff with him to the OTO.
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« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2006, 03:21:27 pm »
Maybe it was the OTO.

But I do recall a rumor that L Ron and AC tried to create the Moonchild.
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2006, 03:22:46 pm »
And ripped open bloody great holes in the fabric of reality.  But that was this century, so it had to be OTO.
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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2006, 03:33:59 pm »
Gotcha.


Y'know, maybe I should get my Scientologist brother The Book of Lies for Xmas.
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Re: Defensive Personalities
« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2006, 03:38:02 pm »
your brothers a scientologist?

you probably know more about the religion then most of us

i haven't even heard of a scientologist up here
they probably havent pierced this far north
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Re: Defensive Personalities
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2006, 03:41:07 pm »
Where you at?


Scientology seems to be everywhere.
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« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2006, 03:43:30 pm »
Its not too hard to learn about Scientology, actually.  Despite the leadership's paranoia inspired secrecy, alt.scientology, operation clambake and xenu.net all have tons of good information and alt.scientology often puts up text versions of Scientology books and other works for the public to steal.
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« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2006, 03:44:38 pm »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Sudbury%2C_Ontario

honestly havent heard of any scientolgists
pretty sure they dont have a church anywhere up here
though they maybe really underground
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