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A Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush on the Eve of War, 17 March 2003

Dear Governor Bush:

So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more. So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few truths I would like to share with you:

There's a story about an ancient school where the teacher told a class of older students that one of
the new students in the school had already achieved enlightenment at a young age. The other
students went to that young students and said, "We hear you have attained enlightenment. Is it so?"
"Yes, it's so," the young student replied. "Well, how do you feel?" asked the older students? The
young student replied "As miserable as ever!"

So I would ask you about this "awareness" and its relevance to you. Was the "awareness" just a
transient high such as one might experience during a hike through the woods? One that disappears in
the midst of real-world stresses and strains?

My guess is that the enlightened young student in the story still needs to secure food, clothing,
and shelter. He still shits; he still gets ill; he still feels lust and fear. When he is hungry,
he eats, and when he is tired, he sleeps.

If your awareness is more than a temporary high, what exactly have you become aware of? The
distinction between "map" and "territory"? Your willingness to face your worst fears? Your
capacity to effectively interpret the implicit communications of others? That you already have
within you all the resources that you need? Your capacity to interpret events in the world in a
useful manner? Your capacity to take responsibility for the manner in which your
communications affect others, and to inspire others to share your mission? The interaction of
the elements in systems? The advantages of visual thinking? Other NLP presuppositions? Or did you
even reach some kind of gestalt where you could imagine yourself eight months from now, having
already adopted the attitude where anything is possible, where beliefs are just beliefs, while
reality is your playground, where you are skillfully taking advantage of your opportunities
and eager to take on new challenges where you really LOVE life? And from that place where you
had already adopted the attitude and where you were regularly improving your skill in the techniques,
did you look back at the time when you had doubts or were impatient and laugh WITH the miserable
enlightened young student?

My seminar leader pointed out that one doesn't check for love as one might check the weather.
One goes first. I appreciated that perspective. It reminded me of the extent to which that love is
a choice. Then you can just bring the awareness of the choice with you wherever you go.

So if you remember the "well-formed outcome" frame, you might consider, to the extent you have
gained awareness, what is it you are creating in this life you have been blessed with?

Am I "practicing NLP"? You can judge that by your criteria. We have only just met, and not even in
the flesh and blood, so please do not share with me anything you are uncomfortable sharing. Be
sure to be comfortable about the things you choose to share with me. And if my comments seem
confusing or over-the-top, please let me know. If they are helpful, all the more reason to!

I discovered analyticalq.com in Yahoo, my favorite directory. I am requesting that you create a link from analyticalq.com to my client's web site if you feel that their content is in some way related or complements your site. In exchange, I'll post a link from their site to yours. Exchanging links will help bring in more business for both your web site and my client's. An added benefit is increased search engine traffic because the search engines rank sites higher that have a good number of relevant links. This is not a free-for-all link exchange, I don't waste my time with them and you shouldn't either. I am only linking to related web sites so that all my links are relevant to my site. I would like to send you my client's web address, so that you can review their site. My client's hydraulic torque wrench, hydraulic nuts, and bolt / stud tensioners are the fastest and most efficient tools in the world. Please let me know if you are interested in exchanging links. I'll send you more details once I hear back from you.

analyticalQ reply: Your client would be happier if you surfed through analyticalQ to discover what analyticalQ is all about.

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Enjoy a chamber music recital and supper in the historic Drapers' Hall. The acclaimed young violinist So-Ock Kim and pianist Tom Blach will perform their musical magic.

The programme will include:
Beethoven Sonata in G, op.30 no.3
Prokofiev Sonata no.2 in D op.94
R. Strauss Sonata in E flat op.18

"Music in the City" A Chamber Concert
Drapers Hall
Throgmorton Avenue,
London EC2
Tuesday 15 April 2003, 6:30pm
Supper will be served following the concert.

Use the form to book your place £30 (concert and supper).

Organised by the Broad Street Ward Club in London

You may know this already - but it might trigger new ideas: Promoting your site

Search engine notification
One of the most important means of promoting a site is by notifying search
engines of its existence. The vast majority of search engines provide a
very simple interface for notifying them. It usually consist of a form
which asks for details about yourself and the site to be registered: what
it is about, who it is aimed at and what keywords would describe it.

Once the form is filled in the search engine will visit your site and
catalogue it in a database that it keeps in order to respond to search
queries. The mechanism whereby it catalogues your site will differ from
search engine to search engine. Some search engines will look at
significant words on your home page and others will look at the keywords
that you have inserted into special HTML tags known as meta tags. An
example of two meta tags is shown below:

<META NAME = "KEYWORDS" CONTENT =
"Java Links Resources Advice Tutorials">
<META NAME = "DESCRIPTION" CONTENT =
"This is a resources site for programmers new to the Java language .. ">

Here the first tag specifies the list of keywords which describe the site
and the second tag provides a description (not all the description is
shown).

Once a search engine has visited your site it will add a listing of your
site to its database and associate the site with a series of keywords. When
anyone types in a selection of these keywords your site will become one of
those retrieved.

There are other ways of submitting a site to a search engine. The first is
to use a multiple submission service. This is a Web site which will
automatically submit your site to a large number of search engines using
the same form. These sites use a variety of revenue earning methods ranging
from full charging to encouraging you to use the service of the banner
advertisers found on the site.

Another option is to use companies who will do the submission for you; not
only will they carry out the submission process but they will also try and
ensure that your site will come close to the top of the list of sites
retrieved by a search engine query. They will do this by carefully
constructing the contents of the metatags and also rewriting the home page.
Usually such companies charge for this service.

Developing key words
One very simple way of deciding on the keywords which describe a site
is to type in a number of queries which you think users might use for
finding the site. Then, count up the occurrence of each word and try
to ensure that each word appears on your home page and in the meta
tags. You will find it quite difficult placing all the words onto the
home page, so ensure that, as a minimum, those which are the most
popular are placed.

Best of the Web listings
There are a number of Web sites which have titles such as 'Best of the
Web', 'Hot Links', 'Cool Site', 'Hot Site of the Day'. These feature Web
sites which are superior in either content and/or design. You should always
try and submit your site to such showcase sites.

Links from other sites
Another way of attracting visitors is to ask the owners of other sites to
include a link to your site in their site. It is surprisingly easy to do
this: one of the reasons for visiting a site is to obtain information, and
the more links a site has the more visits to the site will occur. Sometimes
the site which you ask to link to your site will ask for some reciprocal
link to be included in your site. It is important that you only contact
sites which are relevant: it was no good my contacting the owners of sites
which concern themselves with the works of William Shakespeare to ask them
to include a link to my link checking site.

Using specialised indexes
Throughout the Web there are a number of sites which are devoted to a
particular topic and which contain thousands of links to resources relevant
to that topic. They are often known as specialised search engines; since
the quantity of material they refer to is so large they provide special
search engine facilities for visitors to the site. Since such sites live or
die by the quality and quantity of the resources they link to, you will
almost invariably get a positive response when asking the owners of the
site to include a link to your site.

Using newsgroups
There are a number of newsgroups which are devoted to commercial
announcements such as a new Web site becoming live. It is worth sending a
message to any of the newsgroups relevant to your Web site. A word of
warning though: sending a commercial announcement to the vast majority of
newsgroups is frowned upon by the members of those groups. If you do send
an inappropriate message to a newsgroup, particularly if it contains some
commercial content, then, at the very least, you will receive some nasty
e-mails.

Using the print media
Users of the Web often forget that magazines and newspapers are the main
media whereby people obtain information and news, even those who use the
Web. It is well worth writing to magazines in the area of interest that
your Web site addresses in order to advertise it. For example, the Internet
magazines often mention Web sites which are relevant to webmasters and
history magazines, say, often contain mini-reviews of Web sites which are
devoted to a particular historical topic.

I appear to need a user name and password to submit comments to Advanced Guestbook otherwise I get "Error - Your message contains some invalid words. Please correct and submit" I tried setting myself up with a username and password but it still gave me the same error Also I couldnt go back to the page I had written in either by IE backspace or using Back to submit form link - doesnt allow you to submit urls.

I was having difficulty on the Sign the Guestbook page. I filled in all fields except Homepage, which I left totally blank It doesnt appear to allow me to copy in URL hotspots into the Message text area as I have now successfully submitted a comment without any URLs - just thought it would be useful to be able to place links in there as much for feedback to you as for pushing links to surfers.

10 March 2003
N. Virginia

Dear journal
Regarding "Bon Journal at analyticalQ 17 November 2002 The pilot's wife by Anita Shreve" at http://www.analyticalq.com/journal/j021117.htm

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The presuppositions are possible beliefs that you might try on to offer you more choices in your evaluations of the world. Your contradictions are not "truth" either; they just might prevent some choices from occurring to you.
> 1. The mind and body are one system.
> How do you explain the common phenomenon that the head wants one thing, > but the heart another? That logic or rationality of the head doesn't always agree > with the feelings or the emotions of the heart?

You are absolutely right. And the significance of this statement has more to do with the times when the body's condition affects the mind, or when mental shifts manifest themselves in body changes. Cheer up and you also might straighten up; straighten up and you also might cheer up. Also, in the context of your observation, ONLY when one recognizes that the head and heart are parts of the same system (you) can you resolve the apparent conflicts between logic/rationality and feelings/emotions. "Ultimately I will make a decision that accounts for the logic of my situation and my feelings." And are "logical" decisions (your or others') purely rational, or are they somewhat dependent on "feelings"?

> 2. There is no failure, only feedback and renewed opportunities for learning.
> But surely acknowledgement and acceptance of failure is a sign of maturity!
If IBM does not hire me, not acknowledgement and acceptance of the fact of IBM's not hiring me is surely a sign of immaturity. And evaluating the encounter as a "failure" suggests I have hit a brick wall. Evaluating the encounter as "feedback" might inspire me to figure out what I neglected to do, or otherwise what I can learn from the encounter to perform better next time.
> 3. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've
> always got. So do something different!
> That is, if you want to get different results, of course. I pointed out that most
> people do what they're trained to do. And they surround themselves with > people who do the same kinds of things. To break out of this re-enforcing loop > means to go against the tide. It takes a lot of courage to do so.
> 4. In interactions, the person with the greatest flexibility will control the > outcome.
> I tend to agree with this.
> 5. A person cannot NOT respond.
> This is saying that we are constantly communicating or reacting, whether > verbally or nonverbally. Exception: if you don't see or hear it and the other > person is expecting you to respond.

"This communication did not get to me in a manner that allowed me to respond" would be the message you are sending to them. If they adhere to this presupposition, they have more options to continue the communication.
Even if you mean, for example, a letter that was not delivered properly and somehow never reached the recipient's conscious awareness, if you interpret the failure to respond as a response, you might consider what you might do to get the response you want, i.e., re-sending the letter.
> 6. The meaning of your communication is the response you get.
> Again, if you don't get a response, it could be that the previous presupposition > doesn't work.

Or it could be that you did get a response that said more about the context of the communication than the opinions of the person who the message is communicated to.

> 7. The map is not the territory.
> Do not judge a book by its cover. All that glitters is not gold. This could also be > reworded to "Just because you have the map, doesn't mean you own the > territory."

Actually it goes beyond cases of wild excitement or politics, and extends to banal judgments about day-to-day events. The same things can happen to two people and for one it is a "bad day" while for another it is a "good day."

> 8. Every person lives in their own unique model of the world.
> But some people have absolutely no clue.

If you feel you lack the desire or the power to clue in the clueless, you are right. And if you demonstrate your appreciation of the extent to which their model is valid, you might be able to open up their model a bit.
> 9. Every person has all the resources they need to solve all their problems.
> If that's the case, why does everyone I know have problems?

If these same people had a greater appreciation of the tremendous resources they have within their mind-bodies, they might find ways of making themselves (and others) more fulfilled and even excited to take on the challenges in their lives. And new challenges will still be there even after the old ones are addressed, but at least they might not take on the rather unproductive view that they are "stuck" in a "problem."
> 10. If one person can do it, anybody else can.
> Why not? provided he has all the resources (presupposition 9) and the correct > model of the world (presupposition 8).
> 11. Every behaviour has a positive intention.
> Even murderers, rapists, and other bad people? Yes, according to my teacher. > In their own unique model of the world, that was the behaviour to get what they > want.

Your point that what seemed "positive" for them is not necessarily positive for you (or even for them) is correct. But to the extent you care to prevent people from doing bad things, you might be interested to explore what their motivations are, and how to satisfy them in a more mutually beneficial way. "Zhiji zhibi baizhan baisheng."