RE: Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 09:58:29 BST

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    Oooh!!!! Touchy subject NLP (mainly 'coz it's all pants, but saying so
    winds some people up no end).

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: Trupeljak Ozren
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 8:11 pm
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics
    >
    >
    > --- "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> wrote:
    > > Hi Robin Faichney -
    > >
    > > >Are you trying to say that you admit it happens but you don't
    > > believe
    > > >in it?
    > >
    > > No, I'm saying, as I say about gods, some people believe in 'em,
    > > follow
    > > 'em, pray to 'em, but never have they shown 'em to anyone else.
    > >
    > > You can call things whatever you want, but, proofs require proof, not
    > >
    > > simply nomenclature.
    > >
    > > Hypnosis as a behavior is not contestable. It is cultural. But as a
    > > scientific method with a verified mechanism it certainly is.
    > >
    > > - Wade
    >
    > If you want a scientific take on the hypnosis , try cheking out
    > "Neuro-linguistic programming". That is as close to the science of how
    > to hypnothise someone, anyone, as I have been able to find. And they
    > actually do quite a bit of research on lower level (brain structures,
    > etc..) functioning of their techniques.
    > And your previous assertion that you do not believe in hypnosis because
    > you can not be hypnotised reminds me very much of the argument about
    > flatness of the earth....since one could not see the curvature directly
    > (in the past), there is no curvature.
    >
    >
    > =====
    > There are very few man - and they are exceptions - who are able to think
    > and feel beyond the present moment.
    >
    > Carl von Clausewitz
    >
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