American Dream » Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:07 pm wrote:Searcher08 » Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:56 am wrote:American Dream » Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:31 pm wrote:Searcher08 » Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:26 am wrote:American Dream » Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:00 pm wrote:Canadian_watcher » Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:27 am wrote:oh for fuck's sake.
who among us are the mind controlled, thought stopped? it's really really really obvious what the answer is at this point, so I'm out. I tried.
No dialog to be had, just an endless game of chase the goal posts.
The thought stopping techniques- for example "He/she linked to somebody who linked to James Randi so obviously the arguments are not worthy of any consideration" are self-induced and/or shared means of avoiding the substance of the argument.
Never entertaining substantive critique is definitely a technique used by the Moonies- this does not mean that everyone here is a glassy-eyed Moonie- but it does suggest that there is a serious problem in David Icke Land.
The key problem is avoiding the substance of the argument.
WHAT I'M RECEIVING FROM YOU IS:
Maybe we need to have a real look at what R.I. is about and really see if Icke is something that should be discussed her at all - as obviously he is a raving fascist with dubious right wing connections and no doubt fascist and White Power and anti-semitic undertones and what is needed to move this forward into the real world is that we need to have a declaration of whether members are Icke supporters in the light of this, and if they say yes, we should ban them as this is an anti-fascist board
Actually what I'm saying is that I wish the defenders of Icke would stop avoiding the substance of the argument.
That is quite the opposite of what you are suggesting.
<takes deep breath>
I'm not aware of ANYONE on this thread or even on R.I. who has what you would call an "Ickean world view" or operates according to an "Ickean ideology".
I certainly dont, slad certainly doesnt, slim doesnt, Willow doesnt, 8bit doesnt, etc etc
There was a real piece of gold I learned from John Grinder in NLP - the idea of seperating the intntion of a communication from it's meaning. The intention is what the sender wants to communicate - the meaning is what occurs in the mind of the receiver as a result...
The meaning of what you are saying and doing is how what you are saying lands in my world - just saying 'that's NOT what I intended' is something I accept in goodfaith - would you be willing to accept in good faith that that is the experience your words have created?
Because when the meaning doesnt match the intention, you have to rely on the sender to create a different message, where his intention and the meaning it creates DO match.
I think the "we're not true believers in Icke" gambit has serves as another dodge, to be quite honest. I said "defenders of Icke" and here we get into the walks like a duck, acts like a duck principle. Though some of the people you mentioned are not necessarily such defenders of Icke at all. Project Willow, for example- I think she has some pretty serious concerns about what Icke has done to propagate disinformational mind control discourse- and possibly how he taints the more verified info, too...
I see a double bind being created here:
I think that you have a test criteria for what is being a in your words "a defender of Icke"
which you are applying this criteria to the "pushback" you are getting from people when you engage in a certain communication pattern.
If you think X is a "defender of Icke" then anything they say, including "I am not a defender of Icke" just provides more evidence that they ARE to you.
You are re-framing
any issue that people have with your communication that they are a 'defender of Icke'
into an evidence procedure that tells you
even more emphatically
that they ARE.
If they say "No I'm not - I dont even think about it mostly"
that is more evidence that tells you
they DO and worse are IN DENIAL or worse LYING
This is congruent with what I said above, about the meaning of your communication being the response that you get, not the intention you sent it with and if the two are in conflict -which here they absolutely ARE - then if you just send the same message the same way, you will get the same result.