The Twenty-Seven Strategies of Don Juanism

[rgeere]

Twenty-Seven Strategies of Don Juanism
Based on "Thirty Six Strategies of War in Ancient China" By Sun Tzu
http://www.creativeresistance.ca/toolkit/action-36-strategies-of-war-in-ancient-china.htm


Strategy 1: Eliminate Desire to Nurture Normalcy
Strategy 2: Kick Her Down to Raise You Up
Strategy 3: Use Her Friends Against Her
Strategy 4: Use Her Weakness To Pull You Up
Strategy 5: Snap A Picture To Tear It Down
Strategy 6: Make A Move While It Last
Strategy 7 Hide Your Will Behind a Smile
Strategy 8: Sacrifice the Pain To Endure the Pleasure
Strategy 9: Seize Opportunities While Granted
Strategy 10: Beat The Bush To Avoid Beating Around It
Strategy 11: Reinvent Old Tricks
Strategy 12: Deflate Her Ego to Bloat Your Own
Strategy 13: To Catch Something, First Let It Go
Strategy 14: Toss Out A Stone To Attract Gold
Strategy 15: Retreat In Peace
Strategy 16: Capture the Moment To Prevent a Memory
Strategy 17 The Last Shall Be First And the First Shall Be Last
Strategy 18: Break A Back For Your Own Support
Strategy 19: Passive Exposes Active
Strategy 20: Take Away Her Options
Strategy 21: Minimize Weakness to Maximize Strength
Strategy 22: Look Like a Chump to Act like a Champ
Strategy 23: Beautiful Women Breed Trouble
Strategy 24: Act Like it's No Big Deal
Strategy 25: Fake Meekness to Entreat Warmth
Strategy 26: Enact Fluency To Maintain Substance
Strategy 27: If Given No Other Option Break It Off


Strategy 1: Eliminate Desire to Nurture Normalcy
Stalking, hiding, or bluffing will obviously creep a woman out. To lower the womans shield
you must act in a state of normality while appearing to not care about the outcome of the
situation; focus on the things and time at hand.

Strategy 2: Kick Her Down to Raise You Up
When a woman is beautiful and feminine, then note her dearest qualities. Kick her off of her
pedestole by teasing her and picking on the things she cherishes most.

Strategy 3: Use Her Friends Against Her
When you find a woman impossible to approach, then use those who can; influence her
friends to coherse her into coming out to you.

Strategy 4: Use Her Weakness To Pull You Up
When a woman becomes insecure from personal or interpersonal problems, when she
becomes sick or ill, when she feels that no one likes or loves her, she will lower her
standards. Persue her if you want.

Strategy 5: Snap A Picture To Tear It Down
Use the element of surprise to your advantage. Even when she can clearly and
intelligently see who you are and what you are up to, surprise can still be employed
by what she least expects. To do this you must either allow, fool, or prompt her to
make assumptions and expectations about you, your actions, or your character
in her mind that you do not intend nor have any real basis in reality , then easily
show them up.

Strategy 6: Make A Move While It Last
Creating too many false impressions will cause a woman to become flakey and hesitant,
lest you make a move on her quickly while her shield is down.

Strategy 7 Hide Your Will Behind a Smile
Use natural charm to distract the woman and earn her trust, then make your move.

Strategy 8: Sacrifice the Pain To Endure the Pleasure
To gain true happiness and enjoy life consider the long-term pleasure and not the short
term pain, lest you find short-term pleasure and long-term pain. Learn to make sacrifices.

Strategy 9: Seize Opportunities While Granted
While carrying out your plans be flexible enough to take advantage of any opportunity that
presents itself, however small, and avail yourself of any profit, however slight.

Strategy 10: Beat The Bush To Avoid Beating Around It
When you don't know how a woman will react to something do it briefly anyways just to
see her favorable or unfavorable reaction.

Strategy 11: Reinvent Old Tricks
Use old, worn out and forgotten techniques for your own purposes, molding them to the
situation at hand through revival and reinterpretation.

Strategy 12: Deflate Her Ego to Bloat Your Own
Don't directly approach a woman who has been spoiled with attention, rather draw her
out to spoil your attention.

Strategy 13: To Catch Something, First Let It Go
Women who feel trapped in a relationship will feel desperate to get out of it. To prevent
this allow the woman breathing room for doubt. Her desire to flee will be dampened by her
level of interest and curiosity. When she realises she can't escape from your strength and
security her moral will be defeated and she will submit.

Strategy 14: Toss Out A Stone To Attract Gold
Prepare a trap then lure your enemy into the trap by using bait. In war the bait is the
illusion of an opportunity for gain. In life the bait is the illusion of wealth, power, and sex.

Strategy 15: Retreat In Peace
When you think you are going to get rejected and forced to look elsewhere, then use tact to
leave silently, peacefully, and without further conflict. Give the woman a means to escape.

Strategy 16: Capture the Moment To Prevent a Memory
If you know you have the chance to date a woman do so bringing the introduction process
to a quick and lasting conclusion. To not persue an interested womans plants the seed for
future complications, but if she runs away before you can ask her out be wary of persuing her.

Strategy 17 The Last Shall Be First And the First Shall Be Last
When you first meet a woman you have interest in cause her to feel inferior by teaseing
and flirting with her female friends; once they have been compromised make your intentions
known to the woman in question.

Strategy 18: Break A Back For Your Own Support
Do not hesitate for a moment to challenge the way others perceive things or should work, to
disregard the rules that society has placed, to act contrarily to others and to write your own
set of rules. By these actions you will remove the means of control that others have previously
thought to have had over you.

Strategy 19: Passive Exposes Active
Those who find themselves in a position to manipulate, or are incapable or have difficulty
directly approaching or comfronting someone may use a bulk of branded hints or comparisons.
A Woman may cunningly use these passive approaches to communicate her own feelings or
to discover the intentions of a man by the means of action or inaction; no escape from these
inquiries are possible without revealing his true intent to her or the exact opposite.

Strategy 20: Take Away Her Options
Get the woman onto your territory and seperate her from others; she has little or no choice
other than to trust and rely upon the terms of your own familiarity and endurance.

Strategy 21: Minimize Weakness to Maximize Strength
Forever seek to diminish and improvise your weaknesses to appear well rounded and over-all
healthy

Strategy 22: Look Like a Chump to Act like a Champ
Pretend to cooperate, submit, or act humble, just be sure to sarcastically make fun of her the
entire time by exagerrating her own weaknesses.

Strategy 23: Beautiful Women Breed Trouble
Never underestimate the accompaniment of a beautiful woman to complicate matters and
cause problems.First, don't allow a woman to cause you to neglect the things you have or
want to do or you will lose focus upon the important things and life will lose meaning.
Second, expect that other men will become envious causing ruin to co-operation and friendship.
Third, other women will find you that much more attractive.

Strategy 24: Act Like It's No Big Deal
When a woman is superior in feminine beauty and countenance act like it's no big deal.
Unless she knows you well she will wonder about the lack of motive and could be disuaded
from rejecting you..

Strategy 25: Fake Meekness to Entreat Warmth
Pretend to be much less agressive than in reality to not appear dangerous, this causes
her to lower her shield. You can also pretend that you have ought against someone to
win her favor.

Strategy 26: Enact Fluency To Maintain Substance
Use a variety of tactics simultaneously to keep the flow of the relationship going.

Strategy 27: If Given No Other Option Break It Off
If it becomes obvious that you have no chance with a woman just find another one.

 

[rgeere]

There you go guys, hope I translated everything correctly.

Comments welcome...

By the way, it's 27 because some of that I couldn't figure out how to apply to DJism. Feel free to give it a try if you come up with something translatable.

 

[comic_relief]

very nice but this sounds sorta like tips.

 

[waldo]

Yeah great, well written. Probably should be in the tips forum though.

 

[So pimp its scary]

Good post... I'd give it 4 stars but thats a different section

 

[rgeere]

I went ahead and took the equivalent for your own comparison. I might rewrite some of these in the future to make them more clear. Parts of these strategies seem to sounds tangled and hard to understand to some people for some reason or another,

 

[rgeere]

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Strategy 1: Eliminate Desire to Nurture Normalcy
Stalking, hiding, or bluffing will obviously creep a woman out. To lower the woman’s shield you must act in a state of normality while appearing to not care about the outcome of the situation; focus on the things and time at hand.

Strategy 1: Fool the Emperor to Cross the Sea
Moving about in the darkness and shadows, occupying isolated places, or hiding behind screens will only attract suspicious attention. To lower an enemy's guard you must act in the open hiding your true intentions under the guise of common every day activities.
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Strategy 2: Kick Her Down to Raise You Up
When a woman is beautiful and feminine, then note her dearest qualities. Kick her off of her pedestal by teasing her and picking on the things she cherishes most.

Strategy 2:Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao
When the enemy is too strong to attack directly, then attack something he holds dear. Know that in all things he cannot be superior. Somewhere there is a gap in the armour, a weakness that can be attacked instead.
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Strategy 3: Use Her Friends against Her
When you find a woman impossible to approach, then use those who can; influence her friends to coheres her into coming out to you.

Strategy 3: Kill with a Borrowed Sword
When you do not have the means to attack your enemy directly, then attack using the strength of another. Trick an ally into attacking him, bribe an official to turn traitor, or use the enemy's own strength against him.
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Strategy 4: Use Her Weakness to Pull You Up
When a woman becomes insecure from personal or interpersonal problems, when she becomes sick or ill, when she feels that no one likes or loves her, she will lower her standards. Pursue her if you want.

Strategy 5: Loot a Burning House
When a country is beset by internal conflicts, when disease and famine ravage the population, when corruption and crime are rampant, then it will be unable to deal with an outside threat. This is the time to attack.
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Strategy 5: Snap a Picture to Tear It Down
Use the element of surprise to your advantage. Even when she can clearly and
intelligently see who you are and what you are up to, surprise can still be employed
by doing what she least expects. To do this you must either allow, fool, or prompt her to make assumptions and expectations about you, your actions, or your character in her mind that you do not intend nor have any real basis in reality, then easily show them up.

Strategy 6: Clamor in the East, Attack in the West
In any battle the element of surprise can provide an overwhelming advantage. Even when face to face with an enemy, surprise can still be employed by attacking where he least expects it. To do this you must create an expectation in the enemy's mind through the use of a feint.
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Strategy 6: Make a Move While It Last
Creating too many false impressions will cause a woman to become flakey and hesitant, lest you make a move on her quickly while her shield is down.

Strategy 7: Create Something From Nothing
You use the same feint twice. Having reacted to the first and often the second feint as well, the enemy will be hesitant to react to a third feint. Therefore the third feint is the actual attack catching your enemy with his guard down.
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Strategy 7: Hide Your Will Behind a Smile
Use natural charm to distract the woman and earn her trust, then make your move.

Strategy 10: Hide Your Dagger Behind a Smile
Charm and ingratiate yourself to your enemy. When you have gained his trust, you move against him in secret.
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Strategy 8: Sacrifice the Pain to Endure the Pleasure
To gain true happiness and enjoy life consider the long-term pleasure and not the short term pain, lest you find short-term pleasure and long-term pain. Learn to make sacrifices.

Strategy 11:Sacrifice the Plum Tree In Place of the Peach
There are circumstances in which you must sacrifice short-term objectives in order to gain the long-term goal. This is the scapegoat strategy whereby someone else suffers the consequences so that the rest do not.
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Strategy 9: Seize Opportunities While Granted
While carrying out your plans be flexible enough to take advantage of any opportunity that presents itself, however small, and avail yourself of any profit, however slight.

Strategy 12: Seize the Opportunity To Lead a Sheep Away
While carrying out your plans be flexible enough to take advantage of any opportunity that presents itself, however small, and avail yourself of any profit, however slight.
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Strategy 10: Beat the Bush to Avoid Beating around It
When you don't know how a woman will react to something do it briefly anyways just to see her favorable or unfavorable reaction.

Strategy 13: Beat The Grass To Startle The Snake
When you cannot detect the opponent's plans launch a direct, but brief, attack and observe your opponent reactions. His behavior will reveal his strategy.
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Strategy 11: Reinvent Old Tricks
Use old, worn out and forgotten techniques for your own purposes, molding them to the situation at hand through revival and reinterpretation.

Strategy 14: Borrow a Corpse to Raise the Spirit
Take an institution, a technology, or a method that has been forgotten or discarded and appropriate it for your own purpose. Revive something from the past by giving it a new purpose or to reinterpret and bring to life old ideas, customs, and traditions.
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Strategy 12: Deflate Her Ego to Bloat Your Own
Don't directly approach a woman who has been spoiled with attention; rather draw her out to spoil your attention.

Strategy 15: Lure the Tiger Down the Mountain
Never directly attack a well-entrenched opponent. Instead lure him away from his stronghold and separate him from his source of strength.
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Strategy 13: To Catch Something, First Let It Go
Women who feel trapped in a relationship will feel desperate to get out of it. To prevent this allow the woman breathing room for doubt. Her desire to flee will be dampened by her level of interest and curiosity. When she realizes she can't escape from your strength and security her moral will be defeated and she will submit.

Strategy 16: To Catch Something, First Let It Go
Cornered prey will often mount a final desperate attack. To prevent this you let the enemy believe he still has a chance for freedom. His will to fight is thus dampened by his desire to escape. When in the end the freedom is proven a falsehood the enemy's morale will be defeated and he will surrender without a fight.
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Strategy 14: Toss out a Stone to Attract Gold
Prepare a trap then lure your enemy into the trap by using bait. In war the bait is the illusion of an opportunity for gain. In life the bait is the illusion of wealth, power, and sex.

Strategy 17: Toss Out A Brick To Attract Jade
Prepare a trap then lure your enemy into the trap by using bait. In war the bait is the illusion of an opportunity for gain. In life the bait is the illusion of wealth, power, and sex.
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Strategy 15: Retreat in Peace
When you think you are going to get rejected and forced to look elsewhere, then use tact to leave silently, peacefully, and without further conflict. Give the woman a means to escape.

Strategy 21: Shed Your Skin Like the Golden Cicada
When you are in danger of being defeated, and your only chance is to escape and regroup, then create an illusion. While the enemy's attention is focused on this artifice, secretly remove your men leaving behind only the facade of your presence.
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[rgeere]

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Strategy 16: Capture the Moment to Prevent a Memory
If you know you have the chance to date a woman do so bringing the introduction process to a quick and lasting conclusion. To not pursue an interested woman plants the seed for future complications, but if she runs away before you can ask her out be wary of pursuing her.

Strategy 22: Shut the Door to Catch the Thief
If you have the chance to completely capture the enemy then you should do so thereby bringing the battle or war to a quick and lasting conclusion. To allow your enemy to escape plants the seeds for future conflict. But if they succeed in escaping, be wary of giving chase.
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Strategy 17: the Last Shall Be First and the First Shall Be Last
When you first meet a woman you have interest in cause her to feel inferior by teasing and flirting with her female friends; once they have been compromised make your intentions known to the woman in question.

Strategy 24: Borrow the Road to Conquer Guo
Borrow the resources of an ally to attack a common enemy. Once the enemy is defeated, use those resources to turn on the ally that lent you them in the first place.
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Strategy 18: Break a Back to Support You Own
Do not hesitate for a moment to challenge the way others perceive things or should work, to disregard the rules that society has placed, to act contrarily to others and to write your own set of rules. By these actions you will remove the means of control that others have previously thought to have had over you.

Strategy 25: Replace The Beams With Rotten Timbers
Disrupt the enemy's formations, interfere with their methods of operations, change the rules in which they are used to following, go contrary to their standard training. In this way you remove the supporting pillar, the common link that makes a group of men an effective fighting force.
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Strategy 19: Passive Exposes Active
Those who find themselves in a position to manipulate or are incapable or have difficulty directly approaching or confronting someone may use a bulk of branded hints or comparisons. A Woman may cunningly use these passive approaches to communicate her own feelings or to discover the intentions of a man by the means of action or inaction; no escape from these inquiries are possible without revealing his true intent to her or the exact opposite.

Strategy 26: Point At The Mulberry But Curse The Locust Tree
To discipline, control, or warn others whose status or position excludes them from direct confrontation; use analogy and innuendo. Without directly naming names, those accused cannot retaliate without revealing their complicity.
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Strategy 20: Take Away Her Options
Get the woman onto your territory and separate her from others; she has little or no choice other than to trust and rely upon the terms of your own familiarity and endurance.

Strategy 28: Lure Your Enemy Onto the Roof, Then Take Away the Ladder
With baits and deceptions lure your enemy into treacherous terrain. Then cut off his lines of communication and avenue of escape. To save himself he must fight both your own forces and the elements of nature.
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Strategy 21: Minimize Weakness to Maximize Strength
Forever seek to diminish and improvise your weaknesses to appear well rounded and over-all healthy.

Strategy 29: Tie Silk Blossoms to the Dead Tree
Tying silk blossoms on a dead tree gives the illusion that the tree is healthy. Through the use of artifice and disguise make something of no value appear valuable; of no threat appear dangerous; of no use, useful.

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Strategy 22: Look like a Chump to Act like a Champ
Pretend to cooperate, submit, or act humble; just be sure to sarcastically make fun of her the entire time by exaggerating her own weaknesses.

Strategy 30: Exchange the Role of Guest for that of Host
Defeat the enemy from within by infiltrating the enemy's camp under the guise of cooperation, surrender, or peace treaties. In this way you can discover his weakness and then, when the enemy's guard is relaxed, strike directly at the source of his strength.

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Strategy 23: Beautiful Women Breed Trouble
Never underestimate the accompaniment of a beautiful woman to complicate matters and cause problems. First, don't allow a woman to cause you to neglect the things you have or want to do or you will lose focus upon the important things and life will lose meaning. Second, expect that other men will become envious causing ruin to co-operation and friendship. Third, other women will find you that much more attractive.

Strategy 31: The Strategy of Beautiful Women
Send your enemy beautiful women to cause discord within his camp. This strategy can work on three levels. First, the ruler becomes so enamored with the beauty that he neglects his duties and allows his vigilance to wane. Second, other males at court will begin to display aggressive behavior that inflames minor differences hindering co-operation and destroying morale. Third, other females at court, motivated by jealousy and envy, begin to plot intrigues further exasperating the situation.
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Strategy 24: Act like It's No Big Deal
When a woman is superior in feminine beauty and countenance, act like it's no big deal. Unless she knows you well she will wonder about the lack of motive and could be dissuaded from rejecting you.

Strategy 32: The Strategy of Open City Gates
When the enemy is superior in numbers and your situation is such that you expect to be overrun at any moment, then drop all pretence of military preparedness and act casually. Unless the enemy has an accurate description of your situation this unusual behavior will arouse suspicions. With luck he will be dissuaded from attacking.
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Strategy 25: Fake Meekness to Entreat Warmth
Pretend to be much less aggressive than in reality to not appear dangerous, this causes her to lower her shield. You can also pretend that you have ought against someone to win her favor.

Strategy 34: The Strategy of Injuring Yourself
Pretending to be injured has two possible applications. In the first, the enemy is lulled into relaxing his guard since he no longer considers you to be an immediate threat. The second is a way of ingratiating yourself to your enemy by pretending the injury was caused by a mutual enemy.
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Strategy 26: Enact Fluency To Maintain Substance
Use a variety of tactics simultaneously to keep the flow of the relationship going.

Strategy 35: The Tactic of Combining Tactics
In important matters one should use several strategies applied simultaneously. Keep different plans operating in an overall scheme; in this manner if any one strategy fails you would still have several others to fall back on.
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Strategy 27: If Given No Other Option Break It Off
If it becomes obvious that you have no chance with a woman just find another one.

Strategy 36: If All Else Fails Retreat
If it becomes obvious that your current course of action will lead to defeat then retreat and regroup.
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[suavedave]

Excellent! Appreciate that -- I welcome all sources of ancient asian wisdom. :> I got curious after reading that; those quotes, btw are not from Sun Tzu ("The origins of the Thirty-Six Strategies are unknown. No author or compiler has ever been mentioned, and no date as to when it may have been written has been ascertained." )... but they are an excellent addition to our DJ repertoire.

 

[rgeere]

Really? He must of just compiled them then. Well, whoever made them they are excellent implications towards the dj philosophy, I agree.

 

[Six-String Samurai]

I personally feel this is a BIBLE WORTHY post!

 

[DJ_Dork]

dj dork's seal of approval *bump*

 

[Ricky]

Marked for future reading...

 

[biker_gixxer]

Strategy 13: To Catch Something, First Let It Go
Women who feel trapped in a relationship will feel desperate to get out of it. To prevent
this allow the woman breathing room for doubt. Her desire to flee will be dampened by her
level of interest and curiosity. When she realises she can't escape from your strength and
security her moral will be defeated and she will submit.


My favorite and oh so true.

 

[Stackthestyles]

bump... hardcore biggest bump in the world.

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This thread deserves a bump in the ass