Candy...Ahh tis' greatest thing in the world!

I have many plans for holloween myself. ^^ I think I'll watch War of the Worlds tonight and maybe find a scary book to read myself.

Ok... this is weird. You look like my Brit. Lit. teacher. Which scares the heck out of me... cause I don't need another one of him running around...

Well, I'm off to eat candy cuase I'm 17 and want some candy.

Kohaku

Ooh, what was the book?

Ooh, what was the book?

I'm really, really reluctant to give the title, even though it's in your stock, 22.

I'll say that it's a bunch of case studies on emotionally manipulative behavior, and how the reader can practice and exploit it him or herself.

It was recommended by another friend online. (Well, I'd like to call her a friend. No one anyone on BZP knows, I'm sure.) I'm really reading to recognize the behavior in others: my nice streak is too deep to be this under-handed.

But it is unsettling.

-KIE

The Ghoul Nebula.

Emotionally manipulative behaviour, if anything, scares the heck out of me. Not in a nice, Halloweeny way, either. I think that book would have a good chance of infecting me with a case of social paranoia.

Edit: Oh, and your photo reminds me of one of my dormmates. You look smart.

-BC

By "emotionally manipulative behavior", I mean someone is playing with your emotions to get you to do something you weren't doing before. Different from persuasion, this is crossing the line from "convincing you to decide for A as opposed to B" to "you never would have thought of doing A before all this began...in fact you might have been deadset against it."

And making you think it was your idea in the first place.

I will address this later, once I'm done with the book. Either re-commenting here, or a new blog entry all together, depending on how long it takes me to finish and digest.

Just ask Omi: I'm in a "learn the power of the mind" mode. Watch me come out of this being able to bend silverware with my thoughts like that "There is no spoon" kid in the Matrix.

-KIE