Gary Patton's List: Communications

• recent psychology studies do provide a scientific insight into how to get paid more

  • The book: "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini is a classic and also very helpful in the art of persuasion.

• The book: "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini is a classic and also very helpful in the art of persuasion. - Gary Patton on 2011-08-05
• If you don't ask, you won't get." is a foundational persuasion concept. It's a paraphrase of the Bible from James 4:2-3:
  "2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. " (New International Version (NIV)) - Gary Patton on 2011-08-05

• What does Jesus think about Homosexuality?

  • Jesus may never have spoken about the issue of homosexuality. And He never spoke about the "man at the Gate Beautiful", either. But the Son of God died so that both the blind men and homosexuals might be healed.
    
    Jesus didn't speak about homosexuality. But as Emmanuel ...God with us, the Divine in flesh and bones... He knew what the Old Covenant clearly stated.
    
    Nonetheless, this article raises some challenging issues for religious people who lean towards justice rather than love in their attitudes to homosexuality.
    gfp (2012-04-28)
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• Is homosexuality a sin?

  • I believe it is ...just like pride, and gossiping and unforgiveness! God hates them all. And sent Jesus to die so we pratitioners can be reconciled with our heavenly Father DESPITE our sin!
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• Jesus was especially known for loving the very people that the religious people of his time had condemned and cast out

  • "Religious people" rather than "lovers of all humankind" have hated Jesus throughout the ages. That's why He had to die!
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• Regardless of where we stand on the rightness or the wrongness of being gay, none of that matters much when people are dying. We can argue over what the Bible says about homosexuality, but one thing is utterly clear: Jesus clearly teaches us to love people, not to hate them, not to make them feel hated, and not to stand by while that is happening.

  • I dislike the word "gay" because of what surveys of homsosexuals say about the multiplicity of homosexuall relationships and their relatiobship problems.
    
    But I say "Amen!" to the author's conclusion here.
    
    I don't believe the proclivity towards or the practise of homosexuality will keep a person from heaven. It's a sin no different than any other.
    
    The extant to which the practise disturbs one's fellowship with Father is up to God. But He is clear on the only thing that can affect Jesus' blood-bought relationship with homosexual and it's not that practise.
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• “The law commands that she should be stoned to death, what do you say?” Jesus bends down and draws with his finger in the dirt, and then says to them “Let the one who is without sin throw the first stone.”

  • Muslim Shariah Law promotes this ancient, Jewish practise still.
    The simple Biblical story, to which the author refers here, clearly demonstrates for me why the Muslim "Isa" of the Qur'an CANNOT be the Jesus of the Christian Bble.
    Jesus' historical existence is documented by non-Biblaical sources. Isa's is no where mentioned, and the strange things the Qur'an says He did, now where except in the Muslims own Holy Book.
    Because of Jesus' "Good News", not Isa's, Jesus' Followers suffered terrrible persecution and died for their belief in Him ...just like they do now in Muslim countries all over the world. Who ever suffered torture or died proclaiming their faith in Isa?
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• So again, even if we think homosexuality is wrong, we know what Jesus would do in our shoes. He has drawn a line in the sand, and we need to decide what side of that line we will be on. Will we be on the side of Jesus and the one who is being condemned and threatened? Or will we stand with the religious accusers on the other side of that line?
• Jesus never says a word about homosexuality, but there was one kind of sin that he spoke out against all the time. There was one kind of sin that got Jesus really mad. This was the sin of religious people who shut out those in need of mercy.
• What this all comes down to is we, as Christians, acting like Jesus. It’s about discerning what Jesus would want us to do right now, and the answer is clear: We need to change our priorities and focus on the critical issue of communicating love and acceptance to people–especially the very people our society so often ostracizes, condemns, and rejects. Because that is exactly what Jesus did.

  • Amen!
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• Because as long as our priority is in looking moral rather than in showing compassion and grace to those on the outside, we simply do not have the priorities of Jesus.

  • "Looking moral" is the driving priority of many religious people.
    Jesus Followers driving priority is to allow Jesus to live His life out through them ...moment to moment, every day. (Galatians 2:20)
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• Now you may have noticed that I didn’t ever say what I thought about whether homosexuality was wrong or right. I didn’t say because this is not about me and what I think. It’s about us as Christians learning to care about what Jesus cares about. This is not about gay rights. It is about about human rights, and that starts with the least. It is about us having the courage to stand with those who are vulnerable. It is about us saying “no” to hate, even when it is done in the name of God–no, especially when it is done in the name of God. It’s about having the guts to draw that line in the sand like Jesus did. Even when that means facing that mob ourselves.

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• 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You

  • Mr. Wheelan, a prior commencement speech writer, shares ten key things you won't hear at a commencement.
    
    His advice offers relevant tidbits to both recent grads and those that tossed their graduation hat years ago.
    
    It's a bookmark-worthy article in the Wall Street Journal.
    gfp (2012-05-01)
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• Three Degrees of Separation

• 10 Powerful Body Language Tips

  • Studies show that observers have greater success judging a person’s real emotional state when they can see the entire body. Here are 10 other helpful tips for improving your relationship engagement.
    gfp (2012-05-07)
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• simply holding your body in expansive, “high-power” poses (leaning back with hands behind the head and feet up on a desk, or standing with legs and arms stretched wide open) for as little as two minutes stimulates higher levels of testosterone
• focus on those who are speaking by turning your head and torso to face them directly and by making eye contact. Leaning forward, nodding, and tilting your head are other nonverbal ways to show you’re engaged and paying attention. It’s important to hear people. It’s just as important to make sure they know you are listening.
• Physical obstructions are especially detrimental to collaborative efforts
• Even during a coffee break, be aware that you may create a barrier
• Touching someone on the arm, hand, or shoulder for as little as 1/40 of a second creates a human bond.
• A genuine smile not only stimulates your own sense of well-being, it also tells those around you that you are approachable, cooperative, and trustworthy.
• mirror other people with intent, it can be an important part of building rapport and nurturing feelings of mutuality
• incorporate gestures into their deliveries, I consistently find that their verbal content improves
• legs and feet are left unrehearsed, they are also where the truth can most often be found.
• Studies show that observers have greater success judging a person’s real emotional state when they can see the entire body.
• when stating your opinion, use the authoritative arc,
• sat with unfolded arms and legs, they remembered 38% more
• see your audience exhibiting defensive body language, change tactics, take a break, or get them to move—and don’t try to persuade them until their bodies open up

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• All warfare is based on deception.

• New lunacy from the race-baiting fanatics at OISE

  • This article and, particularly its links, demonstrates the lie-beral craziness coming out of the pseudo-education bureaucrats at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
    
    For at least the last 50 years, OISE terrorists working with the lie-beral elites in the Ontario Government's Ministry Education has released one hair-brained so-called education advancement after another on the youth of our Province.
    
    The result: decreasing literacy and an inability to think in many leaving our Universities as our so-called "leaders of the future"!
    
    Yo can read about one current insanity being pitched by OISE's "Professors" and graduate students below.
    
    GaryFPatton (gfp '42™ 2012-08-05)
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