From: Fractal A. (fractala@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 13:55:32 MDT
John, How do you insure that you always think for yourself and that you are not
being influenced by outside forces of some sort? There are tons of
organizations and people that try to get into ones head to control their
behavior. An excellent example of an attempt at invading a person's thoughts
are public or commercial advertisements. There are also different rhetorics
and persuasions that work to persuade people to change their minds and
consequently their behaviors. How do you maintain your own lines of thoughts
in the noise around you?
:)
Fractal A.
--- John Clark <jonkc@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org> Wrote:
>
> > Extropy is just plain NOT a cult. .
>
> Of course it's not a cult brother, those who say it is are devils! We must
> be watchful of outsiders,we must root out those who think we're a cult
> and drive them from us! We must rid ourselves of such evil thoughts!
> I want you all to stand up now, I want you to place your hands on your
> computer, can you feel it? Can you feel it my brothers and sisters?
> Can you feel the positive energy radiating from the institute? Now I
> want you to say out loud "The Extropian Institute is not a cult"!
> Say it like you mean it , say it so Drexler himself, praise be his name,
> can hear you!
> THE EXTROPIAN INSTITUTE IS NOT A CULT!
> Now I want you to repeate our central commandment
> "I will always think for myself!"
> Again!
> "I will always think for myself!"
> Again!
> "I will always think for myself!"
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35
a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:07:58 MST