BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Para-moralisms: The conviction that moral values exist and that some actions violate moral rules is so common and ancient a phenomenon that it seems to have some substratum at man's instinctive endowment level (although it is certainly not totally adequate for moral truth), and that it does not only represent centuries' worth of experience, culture, religion, and socialization. ...Any act can thus be proved to be immoral or morally proper by means of such para-moralisms through active suggestion, and people whose minds will succumb to such reasoning can always be found. In searching for an example of an evil act whose negative value would not elicit doubt in any social situation, ethics scholars frequently mention child abuse. However, psychologists often meet with para-moral affirmations of such behavior in their practice, such as in a family with the prefrontal field damage in the eldest sister. Her younger brothers emphatically insisted that their sister's sadistic tre...

IS SOMEONE TRYING TO ETHICALLY OR UNETHICALLY INFLUENCE YOU? CHECK OUT THE INFLUENCE CONTINUUM The following Influence Continuum shows you the method and modes of various influence techniques as a continuum. You will find the various descending techniques for that section. At the top of the Influence Continuum you will find choice respecting tactics that are educative and therapeutic and have their emphasis on the message. In the middle you will find compliance gaining techniques that are persuasive and manipulative and have their emphasis on gaining a response. At the bottom of the continuum you will find destructive controlling techniques designed to isolate you from normal social supports and reality testing. As your review the continuum try to remember people or organizations (friends, bosses, teachers, family, corporate tactics, etc.) you liked and disliked that have been applied to you fromthe various sections of the influence continuum. This is a powerful quick tool to help you...

PORTRAIT IN CORRUPTION A worthless person, a wicked man, Walks with a perverse mouth; He winks with his eyes, He shuffles his feet, He points with his fingers; Perversity is in his heart, He devises evil continually, He sows discord. Proverbs 6:12-14 When I saw this article tonight about Olmert ( or as my friend Chaim at Freedom's Cost calls him 'AllMerde'... I just love that! ) all I could think is DUH!! Of course he is. How could ANYONE see that he just gives pieces of Israel away to terrorists like they are some blue light special? How could he not take swift and immediate action to stop the destruction of precious artifacts at the Temple Mount? How could he NOT be corrupt when he lays down with dogs (like Condi or Abbas)? Where is the man's Jewish pride? Where is his human pride? Those are rhetorical questions because he doesn't have any pride or none of the things happening in Israel would be happening. Annapolis is already a joke. Obviously no one rem...

NEOCONS CREATE THEIR OWN REALITY er... ENCYCLOPEDIA " Imagine that you got up one morning and everything was different . Suppose that your life partner asked you why you were wearing a blue shirt when you knew you were wearing a white shirt and seemed puzzled when you insisted that you saw it as white. Suppose you got to work and your telephone extension had been changed from 4432 to 4435 but everyone insisted that it had always been 4435. Imagine what you would begin to think if you pointed out a new piece of art in your favorite restaurant only to be told by your lunch partner that it had always hung just where it was. Imagine that you began to notice that you experienced a reality slightly but significantly different from the reality other people experienced. What if these sort of oddities began happening day in and day out? The world that other people perceived, understood, and remembered was different from the world you understood. And now suppose that this condition persist...