Re: Psychology at work: How the Bunny-Boiler boils her bunnies - A must see event...

[Lionel <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:16:46 +0545, "Kadaitcha Man"
<nntp.news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Rhonda Lea Kirk <spunky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thou podgy dunce. Thou pox-marked
>mannish coward. Ye gnashed:
>
>> "DaRkAnGeL" <chaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:f0k101$glh$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
><snipped>
>
><to any reader>
>If you are interested in psychology, this is truly awesome stuff. Watch very
>carefully. There is no snippage from this point on to then end of the
>bunny-boiler's mind-magick trick being exposed here:
>
>> And from my point of view, in the absence of the pressure, we'd be
>> fine, I'd be working and we'd be planning my move to Australia.
>
>[^] Take note of the explicit notion of pressure.
>
>>> So, as stupid as it sounds, it seems as though (and again, I don't
>>> have all the facts - I have everyone's perception of the facts,
>>> motivations, and desires - which is all any of you have as well) if
>>> you two could just bloody well forgive each other, you might have a
>>> shot at
>>> reclaiming that love!! At the very least, you could stop giving each
>>> other black eyes on a daily basis.
>>
>> Well, DA, when I was 15, my father beat my face into a hardwood floor,
>> because I told my sister to stay out of my belongings--a typical
>> sibling situation met with violence.
>>
>> I stood up to him. I talked to the social worker at my school, and I
>> was removed from my home to foster care. Although the beating was
>> only the tip of the iceberg, it was sufficient to get me out of the
>> situation.
>
>[^] Step 1. Go back in time to a horrible event. Evoke highly emotive
>            images from said event.
>
>> Since then, I have never hesitated to stand up to anyone who attempts
>> to control me by force.
>
>[^] Step 2. Surreptitiously discard the previous notion of "pressure"
>            and introduce the emotively harsher notion of "control by
>            force."
>
>> I'll do almost anything for love, if I'm asked, but I won't be
>> subjected to force.
>
>[^] Step 3. Conflate the ideas at 1. & 2. and drag the now
>            transmogrified idea across the intervening time spam and
>            apply it to the here and now.
>
>[^] There are two sleights of hand in the entire mind-magick operation. Step
>3 is where the *first* Svengali manoeuvre is actually hidden; the mind image
>at 1 is from the distant past and not related to the present in any way, yet
>the past is now neatly wrapped up in a reference to the present at 2 (qv
>"Since then"), and 2 is the notion that carries the now greatly amplified
>punch that is inherent in the change of the idea of "pressure" into "control
>by force."
>
>> In the case of Rick and me, on top of all the other force,
>
>[^] Step 4: Thus both the real history and the very presence in the here and
>now of the current event are altered by the history of the other unrelated
>event. What remains is an implicit damning accusation that is dropped at the
>feet of the unsuspecting reader that is reinforced with the now altered idea
>of "additional force", (qv "on top of all the other force", note that "all
>the other force" is completely undefined; it is nebulous and inherently all
>encompassing.)
>
>> there was this at the very end:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.psychology.psychotherapy/msg/c3777625043aab93
>
>[^] Step 5: This is the *second* Svengali manoeuvre. While the reader's head
>is busy dealing and coping with the horrible scenery in the mind image of
>emotional and physical abuse, the reader's attention is immediately taken
>from the bombshell that was just dropped and it is focused firmly on yet
>another event.
>
>The switch is very quick and the presumably horrified reader has likely not
>seen the *first* switch at all. Thus while still reeling from taking in the
>devastation of the first mind image, and not having time to inspect the
>whole process for soundness, the implicit damning accusation is left to set
>like jello in the unsuspecting reader's mind. In short, a "fact" has been
>created from two independent ideas and the unwitting mind is left to assume
>a fact.
>
><bows to audience>
>
>Now for the encore... major snippage below; the context is not relevant.
>What is relevent is the impact of the statements and their implicit intent
>in light of the mind-magick trick exposed above:
>
>> You have this almost exactly the opposite of what it was
>
>> The perception you have never happened, just FYI.
>
>[^] Step 6: Question the reader's perceptions just in case the tricks from
>Step 1 to Step 5 are being quietly churned over and analysed in the back of
>the horrified reader's mind.
>
><bow>
>
>"The emperor has no clothes."

Nice work. Given the way Rodenta keeps on spinning in circles &
spewing the same rubbish, the traditional solution is to put together
a FAQ. I think the Bunny Boiler is just about due for one.

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