* I'll occasionally put on an act when trying to get a point
       across. One thing I might do a little differently is I
       occasionally dip down and show, "Hey, look, I'm human here".

       I've been told that I'm "emotionally expressive" online, or
       at other times "refreshing". While I'm not entirely sure
       what that means, I have _some_inkling. For me, the people
       connection comes first and my convincing comes secondarily.
       I don't need someone to agree with me, I need El Che to be a
       friend, with whom it is nice to also have agreement. Since
       you are my friend, there's already a host of agreements that
       come with it for free, even if our reasoning processes,
       hypothesis and conclusions may occasionally differ in their
       expressions. For me, that's the stuff worth living for, for
       I could easily be alone, given some unwanted set of
       circumstances in life. But if I'm made some kind of
       connection, then in some sense, I am still connected in some
       way... if even a word or a sense has jiggled a piece of the
       mental machinery within someone else within them to consider
       me a friend. I've got a 'spot' and with that spot, comes
       influence whether I am there or not. Weird perspective,
       granted, but it's the best explanation I can do at present.
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       [4]Kenneth Udut [5]El Ch* Yeah, I had to learn to decouple
       my emotions starting when I was 11 years old, well, actually
       by 8, but at 11 I could do no more on my own and my mother
       sent me to biofeedback training for a few months once a
       week. I learned to breath through my feet, be a warm bottle
       in the sun, listen to these strange cassette tapes with new
       age (early 80s style... and... new age style really hasn't
       progressed) and breath.

       It was called the "QR Method" which doesn't really exist
       anymore, but the 'gist' of it is as old as the hills.

       I'll be 43 in a couple of weeks, and while I've added
       cigarettes to the breathing method sometimes, just the same,
       I still do it to this day. It works.

       I also have a mental slogan: "You will not emotionally
       manipulate me."

       I wanted to punch Sarah McLaughlin, the ASPCA (or whoever
       did it) for their Arms of an Angel commercial, because I
       know just how MUCH research and psychology goes behind
       emotional manipulation for advertising. And when I felt a
       slight "choking up" feeling in the first commercial, I
       mentally stopped myself, and was simultaneouly impressed by
       their success, (I was like, "You ALMOST got me, you ....")
       and annoyed because of all the millions of dollars they were
       going to rake in by emotional manipulation techniques.
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       [10]Kenneth Udut [11]El Ch* But to be honest, I do not
       support the use of anger, belittling, bullying and hyperbole
       for the purposes of convincing another person about
       something, whether or not one has internal equanimity.

       To me, that is Dark Side. So if you occasionally see me
       being argumentative in this regard, this is why. I don't
       have any trouble with the game-playing, but I prefer when
       the cat eventually lets the mouse go and not continue the
       tease. Or, in some cases I've seen in internet debate, some
       are not satisfied until they've devoured the mouse
       partially, left it a bloody living mess and the mouse runs
       off to painfully lick its torn skin, shattered bones and
       eventually runs off to a corner to die.

       I've never been a fan of excessive cat-and-mouse games among
       humans, honestly. We're not cats. We're not mice. We're
       humans.



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