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Postulate versus counter Postulate Any such game when it is for an important goal will include a decline in the tone scale of the participants so that there is enturbulated emotion in the middle of the game. If you have ever been sued or robbed or threatened by a bully you have experienced exactly what I am talking about here. For instance... you are at the beach and a bully comes by and kicks sand on you. He sneeringly laughs with that look that dares you to get up and do something about his boorish behavior. This is postulate versus counter postulate with antagonism, anger, fear, grief and apathy. Now the interesting thing I want to point out here is that the "counter postulate" of the other guy is only apparently HIS postulate. I am finding that in most cases it is a counter postulate to my postulate but I am the one generating the counter postulate. Here is an example. I am sitting in a waiting room near a window. I see a co-worker walking by outside the window and I smile and wave at him. To my amazement he does not respond in any way. Not even looking at me and nodding his head. I immediately get irate. What a jerk, what could have changed his attitude, as he had been friendly the last time I saw him. I immediately have my postulate to be friendly opposed by his postulate to treat me with contempt. In serious anger at his behavior I decide to upbraid this unfriendly behavior by confronting the jerk. I rush outside, which takes me by the same window I had just been looking out of only to see that it has a mirror finish on the outside. The fellow could not see me and had no idea I was on the other side of the window. Therefore the whole game existed in my head. The postulate versus counter postulate and misemotion were entirely mine and mine alone to resolve. Keep on TROMming Pete _______________________________________________ Trom mailing list [email protected] http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
