How am I different?

How am I different from other bloggers talking about mind control and electronic harassment? How am I different from other websites about this subject? How am I different from sites talking about electromagnetic hypersensitivity?

How are we alike?

DIFFERENCES

1. less disorganized and rambling than, for instance, Eleanor White
2. less angry
3. not suffering as badly as some, for instance, aussietargetted
4. not advocating government force
5. libertarian, objectivist, 'simonist', having strong belief systems that are non-mainstream but still respected
6. having an idea of what to do about it
7. less technical than Eleanor White or hightechharassment.com or some sites listed by AJH (tiworld)
8. not 'spiritual' voices that I hear, not paranormal
9. knowledge of skin poisoning and drug residues, and how they affect your response to being attacked, and how they affect moods and behavior and health
10. not all symptoms are directly caused by attacks, although the attackers may be capable of causing those symptoms
11. not as upset, not as afraid or scared, as some sites

SIMILARITIES

1. nothing useful has actually been done
2. still mostly focused on suffering
3. common experiences similar to, for instance, tiworld.blogspot.com
4. the belief that something is wrong with the world, and the mainstream doesn't know about it or is forbidden to talk about it

BELIEF CLUSTERS

1. Use the lingo of the target audience. Use the 'Voldemort is real' or 'He's back' concept, for instance, when talking to Harry Potter fans. Use 'John Galt', 'Galt's Gulch,' etc when talking to Objectivists. Learn the lingo, don't reject it, don't make fun of it. Accept it and use it to mean something similar to your own beliefs. Show them that you have this belief in common, although it goes by a different name. Each belief cluster has its own lingo. 'SHTF' is 'shit hits the fan,' one of the acronyms of the survivalists. Learn these words, acronyms, story characters, and so on. Respect the groups, do not have contempt for them, do not talk down to them. Each belief, each character, each word and phrase, is meaningful to them and important to them. They all feel like this special phrase or idea is theirs alone. The beliefs all have in common: 'Something is wrong with the world, and the mainstream isn't aware of it.' This is common through all the belief clusters I want to target. It isn't on TV, it isn't being taught in our public schools, it's taboo to talk about it in a social situation, and so on.

2. Some of my belief clusters include, but are not limited to: breastfeeding, anti-circumcision, natural childbirth, attachment parenting, Weston Price diet, Feingold Diet, adoption, survivalist, self-reliance, home business, homeschooling, anti-fiat money (or 'real money' or 'free market banking'), objectivist, libertarian, anarchist, julian simon (find others similar to those = many others may not be your enemies), intentional communities, touch deprivation, nudism, drug-free, long hair and natural hair

3. What are 'belief clusters?' Belief clusters are groups of beliefs and practices that tend to be found together on the internet. If you go to a web page of someone who has one of the beliefs, they tend to link to other pages that have some of the other beliefs. Each belief group leads to other belief groups. One example: Libertarians usually list Ayn Rand as one of their favorite authors. But you're not likely to find certain belief clusters side by side on the same web page. You wouldn't find a person advocating circumcision and also opposing circumcision on the same page, although you might find some links to pages advocating circumcision if somebody is arguing or explaining both points of view. I'm talking about someone who actually HOLDS that belief, not just linking to a page to argue or explain something.

I thought it was interesting that one of the Objectivist websites was advocating war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was based on the concept of 'War on evil ideas.' The idea is, we can kill Muslims because they have evil ideas. Everyone in that religion has this evil idea, so we have to go kill them to stop the evil idea virus from taking over the world. So I was surprised to find pro-war and Objectivism linking together. I think it was TOC, The Objectivist Center, but I'm not sure, and I'd have to look again.

4. Which belief clusters might go together? Some examples.

People who believe in attachment parenting might be more likely to believe that something is wrong with society, and they might explain it by referring to their own beliefs about how children are raised. Something is wrong with society because children aren't raised right; that's why there are so many social problems today.

People who like long hair on men might be more aware of gender roles in society, how men are expected to look and behave, and they might tend to be more aware that there is 'something wrong with society' because of this. These people won't be strongly in favor of men going into traditional roles, because in our culture, the traditional man is a short-haired man. If they come from some other cultural background where long-haired men are traditional, then of course they might have traditional beliefs.

(I want retmeishka to *BE* the new tradition (within our group). In retmeishka, the long-haired bearded man is a normal, traditional man. Short hair is a rebellion against retmeishka, or a sign that you are an outsider or from another tribe. And I'm not joking about 'The Rainbow Mohawk Tribe.' The rainbow mohawk tribe is the group of people who are bored with traditional hairstyles and jewelry and clothing, so they too have a feeling that 'something is wrong with society' or 'the normal society isn't good enough somehow.' Some of them will be our friends even though their style is the opposite of ours. These are the piercings/tattoos/exotic hairstyles people, the opposite of my 'all natural' style.)

Intentional communities and touch deprivation might go together. People who want a totally different community sometimes feel that our touch-deprived society is harmful, and they want touch to be a social norm. Supposedly, the United States is a less touchy society than others. I know from personal experience how desperately I want to touch people and how afraid I am that something bad will happen, like rejection, or a sexual harassment claim, or getting fired from my job.

So you use these belief clusters to link to other people who have something in common with you, people who might understand you better than the mainstream, people who might respond to your advertising.

Those are only a few examples. There are hundreds of other links between belief clusters.

5. Which belief clusters should we avoid?

I was thinking about hackers. Some hackers are anarchists in the sense that they hate ALL authority and rebel against it. There are different ways of hating authority and rules. There are some types of rebellion that are more destructive than others.

Some 'script kiddies' on the internet might actually be young children in the real world, and they will do things that are immature and childish *because* they are children.

I'm thinking of Chuck Palahniuk and Project Mayhem. I've been to his website and seen the people posting there. Some of those people might be desperately seeking *something* to hold onto, and they might be good people who just need to see some healthier alternative. Some of them are on drugs. Some of them might be people who really do want to destroy things for entertainment. I want to look at sites like that and get a feel for the people there and the culture and what we might have in common with something that I personally find ... unpleasant. I didn't enjoy looking at that website and I didn't really enjoy reading the books, but all the same, 'Fight Club' made me feel something, and it's the 'something is wrong with society' feeling.

I don't want to encourage the 'angry Christians' cluster. I don't want to be talking about killing large numbers of people or getting vengeance. We're not focused on vengeance, we're focused on problem solving. I don't care about suffering and punishment, I just want the attacks to stop.

Discourage anything having to do with suicide. So I'd be talking about Inception and the 'commit suicide while dreaming' concept, and emphasize that we oppose suicide, and that it will be good enough to die when we're 100 years old, and you can wait till then. Suicide might only be okay for people who are in intolerable, constant pain with some incurable disease, and that kind of thing. But there are too many careless, impulsive, drug-induced suicides committed by people whose problems could be solved with knowledge.

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The theme for the last few days has been 'Nicole is a So/Sp instinctual type.' So they are looking at my political ideas and my sense of the group and my 'dignity'. They are showing more sympathy for the 'social climber' persona because Harry Browne would have been this type, but he was loved by millions of people. He wasn't a 'soulless robot' at all.

So that's why I'm using some of the commonly used Wordpress tags today from their list of tags.  I don't normally use them because I usually feel a rebellion against anything described as 'most common' or 'popular,' and instead I tag my blogs with things like 'mind control' so that they can be found by people who are searching for those terms.  I don't normally use the general terms... but today I will.