Winning Hearts and Minds

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Weedwacker
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Posted on: January 16, 2011 - 7:03pm

Hopefully I'm not retreading over old territory, but I'd like to know if anybody else on here spends time trying to reach others with the ideas of complete liberty in one on one discussions.  I think it would be constructive to have a thread for comparing notes about what types of responses and reactions you get, what works for reaching people, and what to avoid.  I chaired a tea party group for a year and gave it up as I came to more enlightenment.  I simply was unable to restrain my clashes of opinion to act as a leader for people I don't agree with.  I stayed with the group to try to work within it to see if I could reach people.   

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Weedwacker
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Posted on: February 1, 2011 - 2:31pm #51

I am familiar with the herd mentality.  I guess the struggle is to remain sound in your identity, unaffected by the judgements and definitions of others, while determining how to fit in well enough to proceed toward your own goals in interacting.  Some people go out of their way to schmooze into everybodies heart and be everything to everybody in an attempt at getting what they want, while others live in complete rebellion, doing nothing but terrifying old ladies and baptist ministers with their outward clash with society.   The rest of us fall somewhere in between.

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