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What is it in human nature to be a controlling force on others?

It's just something I think about and curious to discuss. I've been noticing so many subtle things that we do as human beings without realizing it. What is your view?
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In response to numbbbb0z At 06:57 pm individulsong Said :
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Interesting. I'm going to write that down.
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At 06:56 pm individulsong Said :
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That just....... wow. I don't know what to say to that. That's exactly what I'm talking about!! Jakey, you always have the answers, even if they aren't your own. lol I love you!!!
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At 06:56 pm numbbbb0z Said :
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James Redfield.
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In response to numbbbb0z At 06:53 pm individulsong Said :
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That's so interesting. Who wrote it?
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In response to johnsmith88 At 01:17 pm numbbbb0z Said :
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Yeeaaaaa boi youse a good Sith Lord
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At 01:05 pm numbbbb0z Said :
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*Or if this fails
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At 01:04 pm numbbbb0z Said :
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"If you are a child and someone is draining your energy by threatening you with bodily harm then being aloof doesn't work. You can't get them to give you energy by playing coy. They don't give a damn what's going on inside you. They're coming on too strong. So you're forced to become more passive and to try the poor me approach, appealing to the mercy of the person, guilt tripping them about the harm they are doing.



"If this doesn't work, then as a child you endure until you are big enough to explode against the violence and fight agression with aggression.



"A person goes to whatever extreme necessary to get attention energy in their family. And after that, this strategy becomes their dominant way of controlling to get energy from everyone."



"What would you do if you were a child and your family members were either not there or ignored you because they were preoccupied with their careers or something? Playing aloof wouldn't work. Wouldn't you have to resort to probing and prying and finally finding something wrong in these aloof people in order to force attention and energy? This is what an interrogator does.



"Aloof people create interrogators, and interrogators make people aloof. Intimidators create the poor me approach, or is this fails, another intimidator.



"But remember, there is a tendency to see these dramas in others but to think that we ourselves are free from such devices. Each of us must transcend this illusion before we can go on. Almost all of us tend to be stuck some of the time in a drama and we have to step back and look at ourselves long enough to discover what it is."
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At 12:58 pm numbbbb0z Said :
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Now, here's what each drama is, more specifically, in the next post.
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At 12:57 pm numbbbb0z Said :
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"Everyone manipulates for energy either aggressively, directly forcing people to pay attention to them, or passively, playing on people's sympathy or curiosity to gain attention. For instance, if someone threatens you, either verbally or physically, then you are forced, for fear of something bad happening to you, to pay attention to them and so to give them energy. The person threatening you would be pulling you into the most aggressive kind of drama, what the Sixth Insight calls the intimidator.



'If, on the other hand, someone tells you all the horrible things that are already happening to them, implying perhaps that you are responsible, and that if you refuse to help, these horrible things are going to continue. This person is seeking control at the most passive level, with what the Manuscript calls a 'poor me' drama. Haven't you ever been around someone who makes you feel guilty when you're in their presence, even though you know there is no reason to feel that way?'



'Well, it's because you have entered the drama of a 'poor me'. Everything they say and do puts you in a place where you have to defend against the idea that you're not doing enough for this person. That's why you feel guilty just being around them. So the order of drama goes this way: Intimidator, interrogator, aloof, and poor me.'"
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At 12:47 pm numbbbb0z Said :
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"An interrogator is another kind of drama. People who use this means of gaining energy, set up a drama of asking questions and probing into another person's world with the specific purpose of finding something wrong. Once they do, then they criticize this aspect of the other's life. They suddenly find themselves becoming self-conscious around the interrogator and paying attention to what the interrogator is doing and thinking about, so as not to do something wrong that the interrogator would notice.'



'Think about the times you've been around someone like this. When you get caught u[ in this drama, don't you tend to act a certain way so that the person won't criticize you? They pull you off your own path and drain your energy because you judge yourself by what they might be thinking.'"
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