Stargate31 - suggestion, Cygnus "Swan"

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TOOLSET

INFORMAL FALLACY

—It's impossible.

—Little challenges.

—Another one!

—Bad idea.

Moxie's

Disease

Sticking Up for Yourself in Rapidly Changing Situations — These people have more tension than they can handle — Stick to your plans! These are just superficial things. People try to hit you in the imagination when you're right in the middle of things, and we're trying to see what's motivating all this.

NOTES TO MYSELF	PSYCHOLOGICAL AGE	CLASS
[suggestion] - Deep inside, people tell themselves they're bad. All someone else has to do is trigger that self-attack.	The Age of Attention, ages 4-7	Challenges

Exactly what someone said [or did]
... usually not very original.

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The thoughts of a "bad child"
... to free your mind again.

ATTACKS	BRIDGE	SILENT BACKUP
"What's the opposite of 'sublimation'?"	—Little challenges.	—What's the opposite of 'funny'?
"We try to be as dumb as you possibly can be." (–Robert Wolfe)	—Little challenges.	—Normal for a vampire.
"A written response to bullying."	—It's impossible.	—If their mind wasn't that way, would they treat other people that way?
"No matter what I say, you say the opposite."	—Another one!	—Nothing grows.
"Clever little bitch."	—Little challenges.	—Too many little things.
[Someone switching to another doorway when they see you coming]	—Another one!	—It's nicer in a way.
"Do you have a pen?" [Meaning the one in your breast pocket]	—Little challenges.	—You can only give help to someone who doesn't need help.
"Can I borrow your pen a minute there?"	—Another one!	—How did it get to that point? – How many people hide their treasure in the outhouse pit?
"Can I borrow it?"	—Another one!	—I don't know why.
"Can I just borrow your pen? For just a moment."	—It's impossible.	—That's like offering a drink to an alcoholic ... You're lucky I have will power.
"Can I borrow some money?"	—It's impossible.	—You caught me at a bad time.
"Hold still! Now turn around! Hold still!"	—Little challenges.	—I meant to do that.
"Hurry up!"	—Little challenges.	—Time out, mom! – I'm only a kid.
"Are you guilty of murdering your wife?"	—It's impossible.	—Some people can't.
[Someone giving you a counterfeit bill, which you can't legally accept]	—It's impossible.	—Call the FBI.
"I've shown you mine, now let me see yours."	—It's impossible.	—You don't know how funny that sounds.
"Going somewhere like pubs and bars again to try a pickup? Why are you going there? These places are not suitable for you. You will be rejected."	—Little challenges.	[See Icarus and the Gutter Snipe]
"I saw a book at Border's you'd like a lot — It's called, Sex in the Ancient World."	—Another one!	—It's not that often.
"It has pictures of huge stone balls and penises jutting up from ancient statues."	—Bad idea.	—The Christians killed it.
"The law of existence demands uninterrupted killing ... So that the better may live." [–Jeff Weise, Red Lake High School shooter ... his favorite quote, which he attributed to Hitler]	—It's impossible.	—You mean don't go to school and kill people is breaking down?
"I'm starting to regret hanging around. I should have taken the razor blade express last time around. Well, whatever, man. Maybe they've got another shuttle comin' around sometime soon." [–Jeff Weise, Red Lake High School shooter]	—Bad idea.	—Just before you go to sleep, curse them all out in your head.
"I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection." [Finnish high school shooter]	—Another one!	—Why is it bad to hate the world? Why is it bad to trip people and laugh? There's nothing wrong with being angry. There's nothing wrong with burning up. Try to realize.
"Go light a fart."	—Bad idea.	—They always want you to do something they can talk about.
[The secret finger every time they pass you "away from the office," in the form of a Hitler's mustache]	—Another one!	—That's what I think!
"You better hurry up and get it written or someone will beat you to the market."	—Little challenges.	—It's impossible to steal intellectual property because of the maintenance.
"You were too gracious when she said you hit the net."	—Little challenges.	—It was painful.
"Huh? What'd you say?"	—It's impossible.	—All gone!
"I can do anything I want — I could be President."	—Another one!	—You could do it with a sense of humor, too.
"Someone's going to win the Lottery — Just not you."	—Another one!	—NOW you tell me.
[Someone talking to you from the other side of a glass window]	—It's impossible.	—When we're right in the thick of things.
"Did you hear? — USA won the match!" [Someone telling you the score of the game before you've seen your videotape]	—It's impossible.	—You've done this before.
"What are you calling me?"	—It's impossible.	—Like an unfed baby.
"And who are you calling ignorant?"	—Bad idea.	—We don't know — It's all speculation.
"Are you calling me a liar?"	—Bad idea.	—The answer's, no!
"Who are you calling stupid?"	—It's impossible.	—Bad call, dad. You're wrong, dad.
"Well then, are you calling me a jerk?"	—Bad idea.	—If that's so, let me think about it.
[Bureaucrats haphazardly flouting their own rules]	—Little challenges.	—Who wants to stand in line to spend money?
[Someone with bad breath]	—It's impossible.	—I'm getting ready to leave, okay?
[Uproarious cackling]	—Another one!	—Theater.
"I was talking to my friend here."	—Another one!	—Thanks for telling me.
["Who's spending the night with you?"] "My friend."	—Another one!	—One nuttier than the last.
"I couldn't explain to your sister what you were going to do."	—It's impossible.	—You have it good — What are you worried about?
"Maybe you can explain what's so important that you have to do."	—Bad idea.	—What would happen if all these people had nothing to do and nowhere to go?
"Explain that one to me."	—It's impossible.	—I used to remember.
"Will you please explain what you are trying to teach here?"	—It's impossible.	—You'd die laughing.
"You could ALMOST start your own cult."	—It's impossible.	—I'm too young to do that alone.

REFLECTIONS

15-AUG-1999.

Poor Planning on Your Part
Does Not Make an Emergency on My Part

People who can follow rules and be the same as other people usually stay out of trouble and keep good jobs. However sometimes, for no outwardly apparent reason, a person has the right to simply make up their minds about a particular course of action, and to hold to that policy no matter what anybody says or thinks. On the simplest terms, you characterize such behavior as an exercise of will power.

One form of will power is the ability to stand up for yourself right in the middle of a rapidly changing situation when someone is telling you you're going the wrong way. Technically, you are always going your way, which is the right way whether anyone likes it or not. If they tell you you should have turned left at the last corner, simply say,

—It's impossible.

A more difficult form of will power involves the ability to refuse performing a simple favor simply because you decide not to do it. For instance, if a stranger asks to "borrow your pen ... for just a moment," you can hold your breath and say,

—It's impossible.

The world doesn't really change. Nobody dies or anything, and you retain a larger sense of freedom. The real advantage, though, is in fleshing out rats. Ratty people have very few values and almost no insight. They go around copying other people, and resent terribly someone who doesn't. When scratched, they turn on you and curse your decision — proving you right! Aren't you lucky you did nothing for a rat? A decent person likes you or respects you whether you kowtow to their whims or not. Of course, if you exercise your will power from time to time, nobody can ever stick you as a loser.

—It's impossible.

15-AUG-1999.

Will Power

At first, learn to like whatever you're doing.

Then make out a schedule as if you're
your own friend — and stick to it!

You have to do it in your mind with a recognition
that you're not at home, but that you think you are.

It's a matter of force expended (—Inside, not outside).

13-NOV-2007.

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Cygnus
"Swan"

—Another one!