TimeTravelActivist
Dimensional Traveler
Who here feels they have a good grasp of what manipulation is and means?
Webster defines it as: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's own advantage; to change by artful or unfair means so as to serve one's purpose.
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Unfair advantage?
Serve one’s purpose?
What do you see in your day-to-day lives that fall under those terms?
It’s everywhere, in the work place, in politics, in the churches, in marriages. Somehow everyone is trying to get someone.
Why?
Because they’re selfish.
They can only think and feel for them selves.
There is a basic need for wanting to have the advantage… for control, for power. To feel that your important and worth something.
Anyone recognize anyone with those traits in your day-to-day lives?
But why do they feel this need to dominate others?
What leads to the inevitable need to manipulate?
Some are good people and some are bad people, some are mean people some are nice people, it doesn’t matter what kind of person it can be, but what does matter is why do they need to manipulate?
Could it be that there is no compassion in their hearts to govern their understanding of the bigger picture?
What drives them to be so narrow minded and want to hurt others? Through careless acts they unfairly alter things to their advantage.
But why? Is selfishness their only motivation? Or is it something more?
Could it be a primitive instinct for survival?
A momentary lapse of judgment where all reason is locked out?
Well to manipulate, you need to reason.
I feel that some how in all my posturing on the subject, I am forgetting something about the true cause of manipulation.
Anyone wanna share their perspectives?
-TTA
Webster defines it as: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's own advantage; to change by artful or unfair means so as to serve one's purpose.
--- --- ---
Unfair advantage?
Serve one’s purpose?
What do you see in your day-to-day lives that fall under those terms?
It’s everywhere, in the work place, in politics, in the churches, in marriages. Somehow everyone is trying to get someone.
Why?
Because they’re selfish.
They can only think and feel for them selves.
There is a basic need for wanting to have the advantage… for control, for power. To feel that your important and worth something.
Anyone recognize anyone with those traits in your day-to-day lives?
But why do they feel this need to dominate others?
What leads to the inevitable need to manipulate?
Some are good people and some are bad people, some are mean people some are nice people, it doesn’t matter what kind of person it can be, but what does matter is why do they need to manipulate?
Could it be that there is no compassion in their hearts to govern their understanding of the bigger picture?
What drives them to be so narrow minded and want to hurt others? Through careless acts they unfairly alter things to their advantage.
But why? Is selfishness their only motivation? Or is it something more?
Could it be a primitive instinct for survival?
A momentary lapse of judgment where all reason is locked out?
Well to manipulate, you need to reason.
I feel that some how in all my posturing on the subject, I am forgetting something about the true cause of manipulation.
Anyone wanna share their perspectives?
-TTA