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

From: Trupeljak Ozren (ozren_trupeljak@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 08:44:03 BST

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    Really? I have not known that it was so controversial...why? Is it only
    because of the outregous claims they make in their advertisements? Are
    there *any* people who had positive experience with it all? What about
    the clinical establishment?

    --- Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> wrote:
    > 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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    > Transmission
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    =====
    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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