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Originally posted by truthmagnet
reply to post by Vio1ion
Imho it would be very useful if truth activists like ourselves could become better at influencing the unwashed masses.
I'd love to learn more about these techniques - and their potential for breaking through most people's instinctive appealing to authority figures.
I haven't found hacker books on social engineering to be very useful to me - because it is very easy for me to impersonate experts in nearly any field - but I am not looking for short term deception of but rather long term influence over targets.
Originally posted by truthmagnet
Imho it would be very useful if truth activists like ourselves could become better at influencing the unwashed masses.
I'd love to learn more about these techniques - and their potential for breaking through most people's instinctive appealing to authority figures.
The Teaman and the Ronin
In feudal Japan, a poor practitioner of chado, the Way of tea, unwittingly insulted a ronin, a masterless samurai. Outraged, the ronin challenged the servant to a duel. "I'm not a warrior," the teaman said, "and I'm very sorry if I offended you. I certainly didn't mean to. Please accept my apology." But the ronin would have none of it. "We meet at dawn tomorrow," he said, and as was customary he handed the terrified teaman a sword. "Go practice," said the ronin. The servant ran to the home of a famous sword master and told him the terrible thing that had happened. "A unique situation," the sword master said. "For you will surely die. The thing I might be able to help you with is isagi -yo ku , the art of dying well." While they talked, the teaman prepared and poured tea. The masterful way he did it caught the eye of the sword master. He slapped his knee and said, "Forget what I just told you. Put yourself into the state of mind you were in as you prepared the tea and you can win this fight."
The teaman was shocked. The sword the ronin had given him was the first he had ever held. "What state of mind?"
"Were you thinking 'I'm a teaman?' " asked the master. "No. I wasn't thinking at all."
"That's it!" The sword master laughed. "Tomorrow draw your sword and hold it high over your head, ready to cut your opponent down. Don't think you're a teaman or that you're a swordsman. Just listen. When you hear him shout, strike him down." The next morning the ronin appeared on the field and the teaman immediately raised his sword overhead, his eyes on the ronin, his ears waiting for the battle cry. For long moments the ronin stared at the raised sword, and the determination in his opponent's eyes. Finally the ronin said, "I cannot beat you." He bowed to his opponent and then left the field.
Originally posted by davidgrouchy
The best book I've found
for the [color=gold]positive and constructive use
of changing someone's psychic perspective is
David Rogers "Fighting to Win"
It's a buisness book written in the 80's
about using the new trendy samurai techniques.
My friends and I have tried and used everything in there successfully.