[UA] Religion

[Radoslaw Galus]

From: Andrew <Andrew at Ducker.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:56 PM


> The same should also be seen in the obsessed and mad, of course -
> brining us vaguely back in the direction of On Topic. :->
> Indeed, having known someone who suffered from delusions, it did no
> good to attack their delusions and try to disprove them head on, they
> defended them stridently and merely labelled the person attackingthem
> as someone not to be listened to.
> How would one try and persuade a member of the Occult Underground out
> of their obsession?  Especially as they would tend to have proof that
> their obsession worked...

Minor spoiler for Fight Club (is there anyone who hasn't seen it yet???)

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I was watching Fight Club the other night (really liked it) and somewhere
half way through the film I thought to myself - "if this guy knew what
would happen, that he'd lose everything and go through all that crazy shit,
he would have kicked that Tyler guy in the balls and ran" (of course I
didn't realise yet that they were one person).

So if it's a gradual descent into madness, one step at a time and the
adept/avatar isn't far along the way it should be possible to make him snap
out of it by showing him what awaits him at the end of his journey. Don't
talk, don't try to persuade him - it will only make matters worse. Show him
a couple of real wackos of the OU - how they "live", how they behave, what
they had lost. It's quite probable he'll come to his senses when he sees
that.

As for the the wackos themselves - the hard-core members of OU, I don't
think there's a way back for them.


- RG

"To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old
pleasure with a new  friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by
writing his name on the wings of a dragon."
                                                           - Chinese Proverb






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