What? No, that’s how you look after the viral information in the subliminal CDs has taken control of your brain. Imagine a tionól of such pipers, turned as they are into programmed and benumbed thrall-pods. All excellent at what they do…but they can no longer even know it. Beware, I say.
Back when I was a linguist by profession, I sometimes came upon this sort of thing by happenstance, because of the coincidence of NLP as both “Natural Language Processing” (my field) and “Neuro-Linguistic Programming”.
I also once spent a long plane ride with John Grinder, the founder of NLP, who happened to be seated next to me. A very interesting man, not at all a crackpot, and NLP has some reasonable science behind it. But like a lot of therapeutic movements, it’s subject to abuse. One step over the cliff, and voilà: “Bagpiping for Zombies, The Greatest Hits”.
My favorite:
“WARNING: You should not listen to these psychoacoustic brainwave entrainment CDs while in a car or while operating machinery due to the mood-enhancing and mind-altering effects of brainwave entrainment technology.”
Police: Sir, please step out of the vehicle.
Me: I swear, officer, it’s just this CD I’m listening to. Ooooh, wow, your badge is so shiny!
Police: Sir, please step out of the vehicle.
When I clicked on the link I was notified that I had to log in or register to see that particular listing. I’m pretty sure I clicked before and it was just the usual open-to-all-comers shop-'til-you-drop generic everyday deal. In fact, I’ve never even encountered private listing on eBay before (but like you, MTGuru, I don’t exactly hang out there so I don’t know the “culture”). Kinda suspicious, if you’re into paranoia and conspiracy theories and galactic domination like I am. Especially when you consider that the seller’s pushing mind control…
The banner notifying a private listing just threw me, is all. Thought it was a sign-up-or-so-sorry sort of deal. I only just now realised I had to scroll down a ways (which doesn’t exactly account for my first viewing of it…so much for memory). Man. That’s some lo-o-o-o-ong webpage.