Originally posted by earth2
I have a grandfather that I tried to talk to about 9/11.
OMG not a good idea. That man loves Bush and what bush says is the law.
And man did he get mad at me.
There are 100million other people in america just like him. Tell me how to get through to him and make him see the truth and you will convince the
world.
He doesnt believe anything you tell him or show him no matter how proof positive. He only believes Bush the "christian".
His anger is a defence mechanism, he does not want to believe you. start by breaking down his core defence his inner identification with Bush.
Specifically the assumption that Bush is a Christian. You must first seperate his identification so the attack on Bush's credibility will not be
associated with previous attacks he has heard on his Christianity.
First show the obvious contridictions and lies of Bush. This is the strongest information and hardest for desire to overcome. Then go through Bush's
obvious actions that are not in the Teachings of Christ, poverty, kindness, mercy, humility.
After that I suggest Skull and Bones clips showing occult ritual, and Bohemian Grove film by Alex jones. Before showing these explain how the fact
that Bush is just not living up to the teachings of Christ and that as a good christian you would like to point those things out.
These should be followed by examples to anchor that bush is not part of his group, specifically associate him with groups you know he does not approve
of. Elitism is a very good example for this, especially with the hard working older class of people. Bush's lack of self sacrifice in the war.
Things like "you volunteered and served yet he did not, we know that to be true." Also avoid any indication that you are just supporting Hillary or
other groups that he has strong dislike of, (justified in my view). Avoid an either or, or lesser of evils argument. Have an example like Ron Paul
to show him, examples that fits his core beliefs that Bush only fakes.
During this you must watch this secondary defence ego/guilt. This will turn him to defend the issues because of denial of the possiblity that he has
been fooled, ego, and that his prior support of Bush makes him partly responsible, guilt. Try to emphasis that he was good and right supporting Bush,
his trust and support of a persumed fellow Christian, was an honarable thing to do. Then move in with "things have changed" this frees him from
having to feel he made any mistakes, because they were the right thing with what we all knew then. Frame past Bush support as good, but current
support is not. He should make concesions of this possibilty. At that time follow this with positive reinforcement and build on that to eliminate
ego/guilt trap. If the reinforcement is obvious it will backfire, keep it honest and simple, not from a possition that you were right, just, mildly,
highlight the parts of your grandfather that you truthfully respect. A story of some past knowledge he shared with you might work. But not in a this
time I am right way. He his your grandfather, he will want to be the one teaching and showing you the truths of the world not the other way around,
reinforce the past ways he has done this. Some of these things even got me to start looking into Bush.
Basically break Identification, and give an alternate 'out' for feelings of being wrong. If you succeed at this he may be willing to listen to new
information, without first overcoming these hurdles nothing you say or show him will be processed by his thinking mind.
Finally the whole time remember all he has heard is good things about Bush, he is actually correct in his oppinon of Bush from his information set,
you must be add information to his experiance before making any claims of who Bush is. You are wrong about Bush until he hears the things about Bush
like elitism occultism and falseism.
[edit on 22-9-2007 by Redge777]