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Saturday, 08/05/2006 3:48:41 PM

Saturday, August 05, 2006 3:48:41 PM

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The greatest problem of stock specific boards for gathering truth is a factor of groupthink. Robert B. Cialdini pointed out five key factors of influence. One of them is "liking." People like people that are like them and do things like them. They don't like mavericks. Then people want to be liked by others. Now, this may be obvious, but it is rooted by unsuccessful people NOT being able to deal with criticism. Hey, no one likes to be criticized. However, the way that successful folks deal with it is on the other end of the spectrum of the losers.

Thus, the saying: don't confuse me with the truth. Jesus said that people hate the truth because their own deeds are evil.

Therefore, to step out and post truth, different than the accepted board groupthink, will automatically result in being the recipient of hate posts.

"When in doubt, empty the clip."

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