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Originally Posted by rkentsmith
God bless all you fine people....
Sorry to have stirred up some.....
Please note the last two lines in the piece....
Blessings
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You mean this part?
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If this makes you mad.....
I bet you do you have inside of you one of them.....
Music Devils....."
I disagree. That would be like you insinuating that many nurses have "medicine devils" and then saying "if it makes you mad you probably have one."
That is a manipulative technique which tries to control a person's response, by telling them what their response means before they are allowed to express it, in such a way that they will suppress a natural and reasonable response because you have connected it to a certain definition. Close, but no cigar.
Has anyone ever said something to you like, "IF you love me, you will ________."? Effectively, if you then choose not to do whatever it is they ask, you are proving
by their prestated definition that you do not love them (even if that isn't true.) So then you will feel obligated to do whatever it is they have suggested in order to prove that you DO, after all, love them.
So you saying "If you get mad, maybe you have a music devil" doesn't really mean much, except that you are manipulating the response to your own writing in such a way as to prevent objection or argument without causing the objector to look bad.
Pretty crafty.
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