Thank you ALL once again for helping me.. Below is the full story if you choose to comment that would assist me greatly I would love to have your reaction to both part story v the full story - all comment good, bad, great and ugly will help me to get this right Please remember this is only about me learning something new and finding the best way for me to be able to incorporat it into my life (hopefully if I get the handle on this I will start posting stories so they make sense to other people and not just me) from Thread - A Story - experiment NLP

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I know its a bit hard to read, I had the origianl bits underlined , but it did not copy and paste well, Once again THANK YOU!

Again, Wow. There is a definite difference between the two. Taken apart, they have totally different contexts. The first one had me wondering why Ryu hated his teammates so much. This one answers that, but its not his teammates he hates. Actually, I'd like to see more of this second one.

Thanks Becky Rock! I'm slowly rapping my head around the whole thing, especially when I look at old story fragment I've written, I knew what I wanted to say, but they never read back that way, now I'm begining to understand why - not enough content and fleshed out story It is definelty making me look at advertising and the news with new eyes, my reaction to what I see and hear vs when I know more information (subliminal messages may be banned, but they certainly know how to push our buttons to get the response they want) I am going to look at expanding this story either from were I left off or from when they went into " protective custody"

This was a very interesting and different read from what I read the first time, LW. I would really enjoy reading more about this. I would tend to continue from where you left off, seeing as I would lke to know your take on what they do now that their stint in the war is over, but flash back occasionally to how they came to land in "protective custody."

I vageuly remember a fic where the team ends up being executed because they're questioning the real purpose of the war and their usefulness has been deemed to be over by Nambu. They get Ken and Joe first as they're the most dangerous. Does enyone else remember something like that?

There was Rose-Colored Glasses by Shana Gardner. Rather a disturbing piece in its implications.

Advertising is designed to create a need in consumers, or to convince them that the need they already acknowledge will be filled by a given product. Successful advertising hits all the right buttons. The NRA still sends out 'They're trying to take our guns!' letters because those apparently work at increasing membership (although I have concerns about the quality of those members). SUVs are marketed to parents trying to prove they aren't old fogies. Stocks are advertised with the idea that the investor can either get rich or make a nice investment nest egg. Of course, we don't share the same concerns. The NRA probably turns off many potential members with its seeming emphasis on government villainy. Some parents aren't so vain as to think they need an SUV to reassure themselves that they aren't codgers. (And the Cracked site has entire articles devoted to advertising that failed or was more WTF? than anything else.)

LW ... like the others I've seen quite a difference between the first one you sent and this second one! In a way I'm quite relieved since I couldn't imagine Ryu with such an ardent anger against his teammates! This second, more explanatory description of the situation definitely makes more sense to me and answers many questions left unanswered in the first one! Even if it's quite disturbing on its own, albeit surely not totally impossible, since I like to picture Nambu, together with his respect and love towards his Team, differently! As disturbing as the fic mentioned by Becky and UW seems! I might try to look it up some day, though, hoping that curiousity doesn't kill me! But, it's always so utterly interesting to explore other possiblities, as improbable as they might be! I too would so like to know more about this story which you've started, LW! You see things in such a unique way that you just fascinate me!

LW, That was great! Reading that piece left me with the same feeling I had after watching STNG episode " Measure of a Man."