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

["Rhonda Lea Kirk" <spunky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Lionel" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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
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>>
>> <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.

The matching FAQ will be ready to go. :)

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Rhonda Lea Kirk

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