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I don't know the names of the organizations that seek to recruit the weak, lazy, and the "losers" - maybe there are some
Originally posted by Al Davison
I think Masons... fosters increased leadership ability.
Originally posted by AdamJ
well what alot of this seems to be about is image.
The image you present of your group or party.
Very often when there are 'Anarchists' out demonstrating, I know what the paper and magazine front pages will look like over the next few days.
Whether there really was much trouble or not, or whether they were really anarchists or not or whether it was the anarchists who started it or not.
None of those things matter.
Most of the healines will be something along the lines of 'Anarchists clash with police' or 'Anarchists trash city center'
The point is too make them conform to a sterotype. Anarchists sterotype is that they are not very clever or civilized and are often violent and disrespectful. That implies their opinions are wrong
Groups is how you control people. 'control and divide' backwards or 'order out of chaos.' Google 'psychology ingroups out groups'
Seperate people into a group, even false groups like nationality that really are meaningless. You have two groups of people. They do not necessaraly hate each other. Now psychology experiments reveal that bias towards either group creates the opposite effect in the other group.
For example, loving your country automaticaly creates a hatred for those which are not your country. Even if you dont say that, it creates a bias by loving the first group.
So you can program people through their emotions to love or hate others, either by teling them to love those they belong to or by telling them to hate those they dont belong to, either is just as good.
So in WW2, "people in the british group, Love your country', 'serve your country" etc.
At the same time as telling them to hate the other lot, the 'Huns' those evil do'ers, the axis of evil and hatred.
Double whammy, very effective. You cant do it if the groups dont exist in the first place. Divide and control.
Anyway, image is everything in our society. Well almost everything.
Originally posted by crontab
Originally posted by Al Davison
I think Masons... fosters increased leadership ability.
I don't know anything about your masonic orders, and I don't intend to say anything unwarranted. However, "leadership skills" does sound like a eumpehmism for learning how to manipulate people.
Originally posted by crusader
Masons, intresting, alot of f the hogwash that come out of these society nonsense don't really make sense. Alot of the so called claimed powers of the masons probably dion't happen as often before, although they still do happen and very concern, i was browsing a recent book on Masonic lodges throughout the world, can't remebr the name of the book, anyone have an idea what I am talking about?
Originally posted by suzy ryan
Well yes, is a captain is a "leader" but part of the skill of being an effective leader is carrying out the orders of your superior officers.
Flat management structure is a crock that deflects blame and consequence from the "leaders" to the "dumb bunnies".
One of skills a leader needs, is the ability to difflect, divert and reasign blame for their own mistakes or else they won't be trusted enough for their underlings to follow future orders and other associated businesses to keep trading with them.
This is a fact of business masons don't want to acknowledge when they praise themselves for "teaching" "leadership skills".
However, "leadership skills" does sound like a eumpehmism for learning how to manipulate people
Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by SimJazz
The way to control someone is through emotion. If you can control someone's emotions then you're home free.
Exactly, and what is our most easily manipualted emotion? Fear.
All they need to control us is to have us in fear. Fear of criminals, fear of drugs, fear of poverty, fear of ridecule, fear of loneliness, fear of terrorism, terrorism of fear, fear of fear.
Out of fear comes blind patriotism; adulation of your so called "saviour" (government/worship the beast), war, racism, ignorance, apathy, hate, control.
Just the way the elite want it.