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Juan Garcia's avatar

Agreed brother. This is why I no longer attend “Church”.

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The Duke Report's avatar

This is "church" Matthew 18:20

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Juan Garcia's avatar

Correct, that’s why I put church in quotes. My wife and I are believers. We have church daily.

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Marc's avatar

You have developed a concise way of translating our everyday experience of life into a method to critically interpret what is happening to us in all areas of life.

With it, we can begin to open ourselves up to looking deeper into the subtle propaganda that is infused in our politics, finance and religious language.

I think your "working theory", if given a wider audience, can be used to save us from the rising technocracy that is about to descend on humanity.

I pray that there will be enough of us who can begin "using λόγος and κρίσις to realign the frame."

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The Duke Report's avatar

Thank you, and thank Jesus.

I assume that most of us don't see language the same way fish don't see water, or birds, air.

I think about this when I read T.S. Elliot's "I should have been a pair of ragged claws

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

e.g. do birds look at us and assume, like fish that we are bottom dwellers like lobsters or crabs?

Bandler's Metamodel reduces 3000 logical fallacies to 10 linguistic patterns. They are not "proofs" of the true/false nature of statements, but a method that allows us to figure that out much faster. Using those numbers, and a finger in the air, 300x faster. If Jesus was teaching people a method to recognize bullshit 300x faster than normies, and he was teaching others to do the same, he had to be stopped by the bullshitters. Once Matteo Morelli showed me the "cause-effect complex equivalence," and I learned to listen (be meek), I couldn't not see it. It's ubiquitous. (Sometimes I call it "if/then=because" or "if X, then Y, because Z"). Thanks for the kind words, spread the λόγος , one or two at a time. 😉

Here's a GPT prompt (if you spot the pattern) that will automagically give you the 14 Dilts SoM reframes (put the CECE between the quotes at the end:

Take the following cause-effect complex equivalency and render 14 sleight of mouth responses:""

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Marc's avatar

I don't see the prompt.

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The Duke Report's avatar

Take the following cause-effect complex equivalency and render 14 sleight of mouth responses:""

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The Duke Report's avatar

Put the cause-effect complex equivalence between the quotes.

Example: https://x.com/thedukereport/status/1853153050661188038

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Marc's avatar

It was the missing " at the start that threw me. 🤣

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The Duke Report's avatar

It's actually really fun to practice with Twitter because it's a CECE shooting gallery.

GPT knows NLP better than Grok, BTW 😉

After a while, though, you realize there is so little thinking going on on Twitter that you'll wind up back on SubStack, where the IQs are a couple of standard deviations higher...

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Peter Wiggins's avatar

Just became a member. Inspired by your article - If This Does Not Challenge Your Faith... it reinforced information I had been contemplating and confirmed to me that seeking the truth and the light is the only worthy cause….

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The Duke Report's avatar

Linguistics (NLP) gave me a lens that cuts through language like a knife. It took Bateson, Chomsky, Erickson, Bandler, Grinder and Dilts 2000 years, to put the pieces together that (I'm convinced) Jesus understood and practiced. The linked articles give that thesis more context, but in any case, thank you for becoming a member!

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Jerry's avatar

I don’t find this challenging at all, Peter. I am a Jesus follower but do not attend a traditional denominational church. Were I Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, etc. all of whom have centralized authorities that determine church teachings, I might be resistant to this message. But because my congregation is independent, the authority becomes God’s inspired word only. And I don’t always agree with the pastor’s take on on certain doctrinal issues. Although he has more formal theological education than I have, I am free to disagree on tertiary matters that are non-salvation issues. Christs message was simple, love God and love people (agape) and accept the only true way to the Father is through the Son. You don’t need to be over-educated to understand that.

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Frank Miscione's avatar

You can be uneducated to understand that this.

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The Duke Report's avatar

Education, or perhaps "knowing" may wind up being a liability in the long run… (as opposed to thinking).

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The Duke Report's avatar

This is good news. Be fruitful and multiply.

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The Duke Report's avatar

The Son is Λόγος (Incarnate)

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