METAPHYSICS OF MANIPULATION / MASTER OF MANIPULATION PART TWO

MASTER MANIPULATOR PART 2

1-2-3 MANIPULATE ME!

1 - 2 - 3 Manipulate Me! That's the song most of us UNKNOWING sing!

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, or apparent proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

Dr. Will Rogers, Masterteacher33

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
ROM 8:7

The human mind is a marvelous set of structures and systems. It is a center of consciousness and action. It forms a unique identity. It creates a view of the world. Rich experience emerges from its interactions with the world. It
thinks. It feels. It wants. It apprehends truths and suppresses errors. It achieves insights and fabricates prejudices. 


Both useful truths and harmful misconceptions are its intermixed products. It can as easily believe what is
false as what is true.


It can see beauty in right conduct and justify what is flagrantly unethical. It can love and hate. It can be kind and cruel. It can advance knowledge or error. It can be intellectually humble or intellectually arrogant. It can be
empathic or narrow-minded. It can be open or closed. It can achieve a permanent state of expanding knowledge or a deadening state of narrowing ignorance. 


It both transcends the creatures of lessor ability and
insults their innocence and nobility by its self-deception and cruelty.


How can humans create within their own minds such an inconsistent amalgam of the rational and the irrational?