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Hi,
I was just reading this:
If you want to stop any game you are engaged in you only have to adopt the
complementary postulate to the one being held by your opponent, and the game
promptly ends. He too, of course, can end it by adopting the complementary
postulate to yours. You cannot force any being into a game who insists upon
adopting complementary postulates to your own.
And it reminded me of a very aggravating situation I was in about 10 days ago.
The CofS had been ringing us persistently for the past 18 months to buy the
whole new Basics Book package. We had told them over & over again that we were
definitely NOT going to buy the whole package in one go & that we would buy one
book at a time in our own time & interest. BUT they just kept ignoring our
reality & pushing it on us, averaging about 3 calls per week in that whole time!
There was no way I was going to adopt the CofS's complementary postulate which
would have been "to must know" (purchase the whole package NOW!). I kept
repeating my SD postulate of "mustn't be known". So finally I said "that's it
- enough is enough - I choose not to play this game (& that if you wish me to
hold even a tiny piece of esteem for the CofS you shall respect my right to do
so). And they have not rung since (my husband says they are just biding their
time & will start up again as soon as they think we have cooled off enough - ha
ha!).
Sooooo .... having a closer TROM look at this result I think my opponent (CofS
caller) decided to adopt a complementary postulate of "must be known" to my own
SD of "must not know" - so am I right to say that he was "overwhelmed" & had to
drop his own SD???
Fascinating fun,
Pru
p.s. still haven't even started Level 5 - been suffering a bit physically, &
thus also mentally!, from the record-breaking extreme heat of our Aussie
Summer. But as it is starting to cool down now I am getting back into it.
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