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The Johnny:
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Like your metaphors are so bad, but i think i know what youre getting at.
What comes to mind is how cults and pyramid schemes if you invest enough of your life and money they let you in on the joke... thats basically what transitioning from a coaching client to a coaching practitioner looks like too... Scientology, Herbalife, coaching, anything with a guru.
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I understood there had to be more to it, but it came off immediately as usual “fuckin smokers” shit I could pick up anywhere else if I so chose. Decided to ask instead of shitting all over the place.
I think the metaphor isn’t very good for easy communication is the problem: it’s such a personal one that it demands more explanation. That last line isn’t the end, it’s the middle of a piece twice the size, you just haven’t written the rest yet.
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--- Quote from: The Johnny on May 02, 2019, 11:45:27 pm ---
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Like your metaphors are so bad, but i think i know what youre getting at.
What comes to mind is how cults and pyramid schemes if you invest enough of your life and money they let you in on the joke... thats basically what transitioning from a coaching client to a coaching practitioner looks like too... Scientology, Herbalife, coaching, anything with a guru.
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Forgot to reply to this also:
I did some research into MLMs not too long ago, and it’s crazy how different the responses are if they don’t think you know the score and when you prove that you do.
In Missouri, I was job hunting and this Vector Marketing place contacts me. I do very cursory research into them, like first google result cursory, and say sure, I’m interested. They send me this questionnaire and it mentions “direct sales” and alarm bells ring. I call them back and say no thanks. They start hounding me aggressively, then I drop “not interested in working for an MLM” and the calls miraculously stop.
Being on the inside is definitely sort of a special thing. Modern mystery cults: they have the answers, and so can you, with just 3 small payments of $9.95 (per month). Act now and get your first mystery (just) before the end of the year!
Frontside Back:
I'm so sorry for offending your cult.
Jokes aside, these were my genuine experiences with nicotine addiction (mostly). What I find interesting is that recently i proved myself I physically have the power to stop, by going cold turkey for a month or so, but for some reason, I still don't want to. Smoking is okay, and I while I get the value of it, it still strikes me as peculiar how the whole social concept of smoking cigarettes makes me want to fuck up my lungs. I mean, it isn't even fun anymore after I got some of the tar out. It fucking hurts. I still keep going.
It clearly isn't the nicotine that keeps me doing that, but the cult(ure) around that.
The Johnny:
I think that its a fringe case when the initiated get in on the joke... like, its counterproductive to the whole if too many of them crossover, the proportion of the exploited at some point makes it so that its not profitable or worth the time. Has to be less than 10% i would imagine.
Discordian texts play around with some Zen master/student metaphors that sort of have echoes of this within them... and while the student is gullible just as any low rank cultist, the hypothetical Zen master is portrayed as his ultimate goal to actually teach or benefit the student, while all cults are just there to exploit people.
Anyhow, I know you didnt ask but, something feels off about this thread... i dont know if its like, low effort, or the tone of the discussion... and i dont say it to discourage you, but your ideas dont come out clearly... like nullified and me seem to be free jazzing with what we associate rather than what it actually is...
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