The wisdom of Jesus, the ancient and silent art of persuasion | The Primal Persuasive Power of Nature Part VI
This is Kirito's 566th tweet on "Negotiating Thinking."
The full text is 2155 words long and takes about 3 minutes to read.
In the Bible, the Gospel of John, there is a story about Jesus.
One day, a group of Pharisees escorted a woman to jesus.
They told Jesus that the woman had committed a morally immoral sin and deliberately said to Jesus,
Master, this woman was caught doing immoral things, and according to the Law of Moses, she should be punished with stone, you see?
You know, this Pharisees' words set a dilemma for Jesus;
On the one hand, according to the Law of Moses, the woman was indeed punished by "throwing stones";
But on the other hand, by this time Balestan was already under Roman occupation, and the Law of Moses had ceded power to the ancient Roman law, and this cruel criminal law was inappropriate.
If Jesus had agreed to deal with the matter with the Law of Moses, he would have been convicted of "inciting the masses to restore the old law."
And if Jesus chooses to deal with the current Roman law, then he will be also named "disrespectful of ancestral traditions";
In any case, the Pharisees would have caught jesus' handle.
What an insidious move!
How can the great Jesus turn the tide?
We are still in the series of tweets on "Nature's Primal Persuasiveness", whose way of thinking was inspired by Oxford's experimental psychology.
"Jane", "Lee", "Odd", "Faith", "Love".
The five-word recipe of "negotiation second kill" shows a strong "persuasive power".
Jane - simple, clean and tidy
Benefits - benefits, personally related
Odd - surprising, unexpected
Letter - Confident, solid and reliable
Empathy - empathy, empathy
In this series, we introduce a lot of the ghostly designs that nature has done in living things;
And these five words of design and "second kill" have the same magic.
For example, animals and plants are born with "key stimuli", "mimicry", "duality" and so on.
The "key stimulus" (the "begging purr" imposed on the owner by the domestic cat, the instantaneous warning of the pigeon to the shape of the predator), embodies the superb "simplicity-simplicity".
"Mimesis" (the "eyes" on the wings of moths, the liars in the green tree frogs, the "four-eyed bird" with two sides, the gray butterfly with its head and tail on its head, the maverick big wood spider, etc.), embodies the superb "affection-empathy".
"Duality", (the baboons and lobsters of Junjie by the timekeepers), embody the superb "Odd- Surprise".
(Details of "key stimuli," "mimicry," and "duality" can be found in the first five tweets in this series.) ）
I don't know if you have found that these things that show great persuasiveness have nothing to do with our human language.
And this is completely contrary to our common sense.
Think back, if you were going to "convince" someone, what would you do?
Definitely going to "say"!
Yes, we humans seem to know how to "persuade" in our own human language.
However, the supreme persuasiveness contained in nature is silent.
It is an ancient, silent art of persuasion.
Let's move on to the beginning of the story.
Jesus was caught in a dilemma, and the Pharisees devised the traps so perfect that nothing could be done right.
How did Jesus respond?
It is written in the original text of the Bible,
Jesus did not speak immediately, but chose to crouch down, curled up, and wrote on the ground with His fingers as if he had heard nothing.
When the Pharisees asked the question again, Jesus stood up and replied:
"Those of you who have no sin, first throw the first stone."
With that, he squatted down again, curled up, and continued to write on the ground with his fingers.
These Pharisees listened to Jesus' words, were shocked, and began to recall the sins they had committed;
Slowly, these people started with the oldest ones and left one by one until they were gone.
In the entire text of the New Testament of the Bible, there is only one passage about this story;
There is no clue in any of the texts as to what Jesus wrote on earth.
Bible scholars around the world relished this and began to speculate and discuss it boldly.
Some say that it is written "the crimes of these Pharisees themselves", while others say that it is written "the names of these Pharisees";
Well, no way to know.
But I think the question that is more worthy of our consideration is not what he wrote, but why did he do it on such an occasion and at such a time?
Isn't that logical?
If you are questioned and coerced, your first reaction is to "crouch, curl up, and write"?
You know, however, that Jesus was a great man known for his great lobbying power, and he always had excellent persuasive and negotiating powers.
Perhaps, his secret lies in his act of "writing" itself, rather than in specific words?
Let's try to interpret this story from the point of view of "negotiation second kill".
When Jesus was first questioned by the Pharisees, he did so,
Crouch down, curl up and write on the ground with your fingers.
How will we feel?
strange! Do you have?
No one could have imagined that Jesus would respond in such a way.
It's really "unexpected"!
What else is there besides "odd"?
Can you understand that Jesus is expressing a kind of "weakness"?
He "squatted", leaving his body far inferior to these Pharisees, being "condescending";
It's a "no-defiant, let's be killed" posture, and in our last tweet we described such a strategy in nature is known as the "principle of duality";
When you want to appease the other party, hope that the other party will recover from the "anger", the most direct and ingenious way is to use the "dual principle" to do the "dual" behavior with the "anger" emotion, that is, "yield".
Then, when the Pharisees asked for the second time, Jesus did this,
Stand up, say the words of wisdom, then crouch down again, curl up, and continue to write with your fingers.
What do we see?
letter! Do you have?
"Stand up", what a confident and reliable look.
And the wise words, "Those of you who have no sin, first throw the first stone," fully embody "affection-empathy" and "profit-benefit."
What could be more intriguing "empathy and resonance" than such rhetoric?
Who can be free of more or less crimes?
Should I throw this first stone under the pressure of my conscience?
This is a pros and cons that cannot be weighed in the minds of every Pharisees present!
In terms of Jesus' coping approach as a whole, is it "simple-concise"?
Neat!
How persuasive was Jesus?
Raw and powerful.
It should be said that in this story, Jesus did not use only human language to persuade the other party.
He also used a second language, an ancient, silent original language.
"Negotiation second kill", we are still continuing.
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Here is "Negotiation Thinking"!
"The Primal Persuasive Power of Nature Part VI" To be continued
--- Platycodon