A MINE’99 SMACKDOWN

When I posted my little blog about Phone Game Crap, I was just sharing a little tidbit from my life and my game on a slow news day.  I never thought it’d turn into such a monster thread with the likes of MINE’99 coming on and trying to twist it into some wierd psychological study of my "inner game."  And had I known MINE’99 was planning to unveil a new catch phrase on that post ("They imitate.  I originate.") I’d have given it a place of honor on the blog in the "Humor" archive.

But before I could get to that, someone who goes by the handle "SOME REAL TRUTH" replied to the maniacle ravings of MINE’99 with some major *gasp* logic and ruined that idea.  Go figure.  But I figured it was good enough to repost, so here it is.

Hey MINE’99,

You took the idea of frames DIRECTLY from the work of BANDLER AND GRINDER. What would you have done if it weren’t for using concepts like embedded commands, anchoring, sub-modalities, and …

You imitated. It wasn’t your original idea. You applied it to seduction and claimed yourself as originator.

You took most of your so called concepts DIRECTLY from the book “TRANCE-FORMATIONS”. Patterns like stacked realities …all come form there.

You also took many ideas from their other books, and from other NLP people.

The stuff that Swingcat talks about in his book is not a result of your work. Who said you originated FRAMES? Or prizing, or open-loops, or revealing & concealing, or cold-reading, or qualifying, or…

JUST BECAUSE BANDLER & GRINDER WERE SO BUSY DOING OTHER STUFF AND BECAUSE YOUR MARKET DIDN’T OVERLAP THEIR MARKET DOESN’T MEAN YOU DIDN’T STEAL ALMOST ALL OF YOUR SO CALLED ORIGINAL CONCEPTS FROM THEM.

Mark Cunningham taught you a great deal, e.g. symbol fractionation and now you claim it as yours.

Now you have turned to yoga. I wonder why it didn’t cross your intelligent mind before, to tap into that, and try to commercialize yoga as a seduction tool. Why didn’t you advocate yoga in DC2000?

In a tape you said something in the lines of “if your car in broken down in highway, do you want someone who’ll tell you that the universe is ultimately perfect or you want someone who can get the fucking car running?”

Now in the above metaphor, your SS system DOESN’T get the fucking car running. At least not all on its own.

No wonder your CURRENT top student Vince is clinical hypnotherapist. Talk about applicability of your system by ANYONE, as it is so clearly shown on your site. LOL

Owch.  Man, that was so harsh it even hurt me!  lol.  But I’m sure MINE’99 has a well thought out, polite post ready explaining how this person is obviously a disturbed individual who’s mommie doesn’t love him and his mind has been corrupted by the foul teachings of "Double Your Masterbating," which MINE’99 invented anyway, but that doesn’t really seem to matter.

There is a misconception out there that I am against all things Hypno and NLP, which isn’t true.  I do think that stuff has a certain ammount of merrit, and there are guys I’ve met who have used it with great success.  But you can’t seem to criticize or try to point out any flaws in using these tactics without MINE’99 viewing it as a personal attack on himself, which he’ll return in full by threatening to release personal information you told him in confidence on public forums on the Internet.  But I digress…

Anyway, I don’t view MINE’99 and SS as the same thing.  You can seperate the man from the method.  And the method has some good stuff to offer.