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Who's The Dummy--Resurrected;  Was  The Miracle of Simplicity

    In light of the silliness of the recent posts issued by Bon
Giovanni, I pulled this old post out of the mothballs.  This post,
titled "Who's the Dummy?" was written for the net newsgroups  in
September 1995. I think readers will find it has a timeless quality
about it.

    To all  who would bash, flame, and  take cheap shots at each other
in these religious forums, perhaps you ought to pay more attention to
"Saturday Night Live" for your truth.
   
   Beliefs separate, Understanding unifies. Why? Understanding 
is wholistic. Beliefs are fragments of something not fully understood;
therefore belief becomes a substitute for understanding to a lazy
mind. It brings on the endless conflict that is linear debate or
argument. The bottom line of such nonsense can be summed up in "I am
right, you are wrong!"  Simple, isn't it?  Yet only a few are able to
transcend that realm.

  Example: Within the past year or so, "Saturday Night Live" had a
skit regarding a ventriloquist and his dummy arguing. One said to the
other, "You're the dummy"; the other said, "No, you're the dummy."
That was all that was said, endlessly, repeatedly, "You're the dummy";
"No, you're the dummy"; "No, you're the dummy"; "No, you're the
dummy", it went on . . . .  

  As time passed, and the one (ventriloquist) split into two (he and
his dummy) became weary from endless argument and getting nowhere, the

ventriloquist  had a  flash as to how to win the argument. He said to 
the other, " I'm the dummy," only for the dummy  to respond,  "No, I'm

the dummy."  This substitution continued on to the fade out of the 
sketch.  This is what happens when the clarity of oneness (nondualism)
is  split into dualism of the one and the not-one (me vs. you; us vs.
them).
 
   I do not wish to insult anyone, but God, truth, and love  are 
serious subjects and require serious dialogue if understanding is to
be. 
 
   Now to the reason for calling up this past post.  Cult leaders are
experts at playing the preemptive game of you're the dummy.  They take
one's word, twist it to the opposite, then attribute their twisted
meaning through a great deal of circuitous misdirection onto the
person they have targeted.  Their purpose is to cause doubt in the
consciousness of the aspirant and onlookers.

   The first step in the cult process is to seduce a seeking mind
through love bombing; overwhelming them with postitive attention,
which leads the searching soul into a feeling of belonging to an
organization that will accept them just as they are.  Then the
conditioning process ensues.  Subtle at first, the seduction is turned
into incremental verbal manipulations of  the psyche through the
technique of turning on the most minute of irrelevant issues to make
one doubt themselves and disrupt the person's balance which was not
very stable to begin with.  In other words, through love bombing they
set up the believer on an illusory, but seemingly secure footing .
When security begins to lull the believer into a state of inattention,
the rug is pulled out from under them, by the traumatic redirection of
the aspirants energy through word twisting and manipulation of
meaning.  The process is repeated over and over again, until the
aspirant has lost their emotional and intellectual balance.  They have
been CULTIVATED. They are now ready for indoctrination.  Such are the
hypnotic techniques primarily used by cults.  It is set up toward
confusing and causing the relinguishment of one's inherent
discriminatory mental processes.   How do you spot  an expert
mind controller.  Look at the direction of the energy behind their
words.  Is the direction expressed through the spirit of  their words
straight, flowing, stable, and clear; or is it circuitous, petty,
convoluted, irrelevant and "binky wonky."  When "binky wonky"  is
passed off as sane, the cult has a willing servant to carry out its
insane agenda.

 This is why I insist on public posts.  There is no question that Bon
Giovanni is a clever wordtwister.  Her/his cleverness will be her/his
undoing.  To step out of the protected realm of cult privacy and  use
such manipulative cult tactics in public is a serious mistake for a
"clever" wordsmith to make.  

   It remains to be seen  Who's the Dummy!

Raymond Karczewski  http://www.cdsnet.net/Business/Ark/