Mind Control Techniques

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Disclaimer: Adonai One is actually a really sweet and funny guy, the cutest little thing I've ever had the pleasure to lay my eyes on. When he sleeps he looks like a puppy. Whenever he writes about spirituality online however he puts his super-stern-face mask on. It always perplexes me.

I do the same thing. It's simply because he is exercising control to make sure that what he presents to the world is what he thinks the world wants from him, when in truth he wants to express himself without fear of societal backlash.

Everyone wants to play, it's only our attempts to please societal constructs that keep us from being free.

I agree with what you are saying. I've definitely carefully chosen my words in the past due to these feelings; nowadays I care less.

However, there are also other considerations at play. I for one believe my humor to be so dependent on tonality/inflection/body language that I don't really try to to be funny in my posts. Written text is a step removed emotionally from human to human contact and so some may choose to express the side of themselves they feel that will not be misunderstood. There are numerous times the mods had to get involved because a joke went astray in the written medium of online communication. So it's not inconceivable that some of us put our serious stern faces on when we interact here. '_' (Stern face!!)

All the more reason why homecoming is so important!

With regards to the main topic, as others have said, I think its useful to see negative greetings as an opportunity to find chinks in your armor and balance those distortions. I often tell people that a great paradigm for evolution and balance is to view all causes of discomforting emotion as internal (regardless of whether true or not), and in that way one can begin to work on internal distortions without distraction and/or blame. I'm sure you'll lick these issues one way or another Adonai One - Good luck mate!