Befriending

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   It's not real difficult to make enemies.  It can even happen accidentally.  Sometimes it happens without being noticed until you find a former friend walking toward you with a smile while holding a knife behind their back.

   There's most often a very good reason someone becomes an enemy though.

   You might be wondering what the simplest, most direct, and only way to convert an enemy to a friend (a real friend, not a fake or sunshine friend) is.

   Don't expect an immediate or overnight change, but here's an opinion:

• Take everything on record, in possession, marked secret, super secret, or top secret that pertains to your enemy.
• Leave nothing out whether good or bad.
• Leave nothing out whether it reflects poorly, badly, extremely badly, or even criminally on you.
• Do not do anything with those things that might put yourself in a better light or draw attention away from you to someone else.
• Do actual due diligence that you have everything - don't just accept everyone's assurance you do.
• Actually go forth and find all places records are stored, secrets kept, rugs where things are swept under, closets where boxes are tossed, and warehouses.
• Require someone whose job depends on it done

Have you ever passed someone you didn't know and for a moment they seemed to have a strange knowing or amused smile?  Maybe it was someone you knew well enough to ask what was funny and get a truthful answer.

   You've probably seen enough who-dun-it movies to know those smiles can give away entire movie plots.

   In the real world we're not supposed to read that far between the lines.

   And the plot lasts only until you're finally told:

• You don't know me as well as you think you do.
• You see what you want to see.
• You don't know what you're talking about.

   There's a problem with those responses.  A very significant one and it relates to honesty.

   Assuming your question was:

• "What was that smile for?"
• "What did that mean?"

   Were you aware that none of those answers pertained to your question?

    In every way that should be considered backwards.

   Re-read them carefully.  They can seem like perfectly good answers for the question you asked but they're not.  It could be due to poor communication.  That can happen but also be straightened out quickly enough.

   These are the 2 things you don't want for the reason:

• You're conversing with a pathological liar.
• The person you're conversing with isn't allowed to give you the answer - they probably don't even know what it is... consciously.

   You might be wondering what point I'm trying to make with the 2nd reason.

   It almost sounds like paranoia talking.  It hints at seeing ghosts where there's nothing.

   You should definitely be wondering what kind of proof exists it can happen or has been done.

   For the time being I'm asserting it can happen and is actively being done.  Someone is using what amounts to a haunted house to force hypnosis on people in the St. Louis area.

   If you're wondering what it takes to fake a haunted house it's the same toolset to force behavioral modification on a person's mind:

• Oscillating magnetic fields (an AC magnetic field with an oscillation added)
• Oscillating waves (an RF wave with an oscillation added)

   So is my apartment haunted?  Seems unlikely.

   Is a building just off Jefferson Street downtown haunted?  That also seems unlikely.

   Unfortunately... that only leaves behavioral modification.

   Which isn't very amusing.